Postcards

I looked at postcards of secrets from a book as a way to find inspiration for a short story. The postcard i chose to look at said "I don't want to go to college, i want to grow shit" and had pictures of vegetables.

From this i wrote the outline to a short story:

Henry was a hungry caterpillar who hated school. Henry couldn't wait to become a butterfly and didn't see the point in school. He found a special recipe to make a potion to help him evolve into a butterfly quicker. He had to grow the ingredients himself and live at the bottom of a tree. Henry left school and made the potion, but when he drank it nothing happened, so he had left school for no reason and had no chance of becoming a butterfly now.

In my opinion this story carries quite a strong moral, that cheating with things doesn't get you anywhere and you should do things properly. This story would be unrealistic to create as it is based on insects.