Here’s the setup. I will roll nine dice with pictograms on them. I’ll have 30 minutes to write a fictitious story based off the pictograms that I rolled. I’ll give myself 15 minutes to proofread and edit it. I can use the pictograms in any order to make the story flow more organically. I’m going to set a word limit of 300 to 500 words.

Dice I rolled.

Here’s a more organized view of the dice.

Boon’s Wish

Boon set the book he was reading down onto the table. He
let out a long sigh. The librarian shushed him. I guess that was louder
than I thought. Boon was reading a western about an Apache girl name Aponi
who was kidnapped from her teepee in the mild of the night by
some bandits. Boon wished that there was more adventure in his life. He didn’t
want to be kidnapped like Aponi, but he wished something would happen.

Just then he heard a crash, and the sound of glass spilling onto the
hardwood floor of the school library. A flaming arrow embedded
itself into the long table Boon was sitting at. “Fire! Fire!” The
librarian shouted. The students ran from their tables and chairs in panic and
rushed for the front entrance, but the door would not budge. Boon saw that
there was no way to get out of the front, so he ran for the back door. He tried
the handle, but it was locked. The heat of the flames started
to grow more intense as the library’s many books caught fire. Boon eyed
a decorative brass axe in a glass case. He picked up the glass case and smashed
it on the ground. Boon picked up the brass axe and started chopping a whole in
the wooden door. The smoke choked him. One of the other students saw what Boon
was doing and pointed in his direction, “There! He’s
making a way out!” The student yelled. Boon chopped the doorknob off the
door and the door flung open. He ran through the exit and found himself on a
battlefield. An airship flying high above shot more flaming
arrows at the ground in front of him. Boon rolled out of the way and landed in
front of the municipal theater. Just my luck. I wish for adventure and war
breaks out.

Well, what do you think of the story? Tell me in the comments. If you’re curious about the story cubes. They’re called Rory’s Story cubes. I picked them up at Barnes & Noble or Amazon ages ago. I didn’t use them as the directed on the box, but either way I think they help get the creative juices flowing.