CREATIVE SPARK #19: Ugly is as Ugly Does

What's so ugly it's cute? A puppy? Your little brother or sister?

Describe something that's ugly - on the surface. Now define the one redeeming quality that makes that same thing beautiful.

As for Ugly Face (my resident sneaky opossum), I'd personally like to see those massive toenails of his painted cherry red. Just for spunk. :)

CREATIVE SPARK #18: Oinkers

Imagine this: you are driving down a rural highway in North Carolina, and the big truck full of piglets that's coasting along next to you hits a bump in the road. A big bump - so big that the door keeping them captive bursts open.

In a squeaking, oinking, wriggling moment, a thousand piglets pound the pavement on a mad dash to freedom.

Write about what you would do first - snatch up a little porker and give it a hug? Or speed dial 9-1-1- and try to explain what you are witnessing?