Day Twenty Four: Write a short story

For this challenge we used my book 'I Like to Write,' which is basically a child's book but I love it. It's got lots of different little writing projects in it, such as a peculiar picture with the task of writing a related story, or a set of speech bubbles to write an interesting conversation. We had to write a story that included the following things: walk, computer, cat, armoire, and temple. We were limited to nine lines. Here it is:

Silas stared suspiciously across the street. His whiskers twitched as an incredible scene unfolded before his eyes. Into the imposing facade of Lord Westonfield's Emporium disappeared a diminutive figure dressed in a cloak so long it trailed on the floor. Through the vast windows, Silas saw a flash of light, reflected in an antique armoire, which appeared to be emanating from a small Tibetan temple carried protectively under the arm of the be-cloaked man. The stunned shopkeeper barely had time to look up from his computer before everything around him turned to diamond-dust. The man in the cloak walked away, leaving a stunned silence behind him, but little did he know that Silas had witnessed the whole thing. 

As a teacher, I would level this writing as a high Level 4, which is about average for Year 6. Well done us. Good use of ambitious vocabulary, correct use of commas and dashes, interesting sentence openers and good connectives. Next steps: write a little more and don't be so weird.