Week 5 Writing Homework
Writing Prompt: Create a compelling narrative with this ending line, crafting a sophisticated twist that surprises your reader.
Your Starting Point : “And when the lights came back on , the trophy was gone”
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- Due Date : August 30, 2025
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And when the lights came back on, the trophy was gone.
A hush fell over the grand ballroom. The mayor’s Century Trophy, the city’s most prized artifact, had vanished in an instant. Guests froze, staring at the empty pedestal as if their eyes could summon it back.
Detective Lilly scanned the crowd. Twelve seconds of darkness—not enough time for anyone to run out unnoticed. No smashed glass, no broken locks. Whoever had taken it hadn’t just acted quickly—they had planned this down to the last detail.
She crouched near the pedestal. A faint shimmer of dust trailed toward the ceiling. Not ordinary dust, but glitter. She remembered the performer earlier, tossing confetti for the opening act. Too deliberate, too precise.
Her gaze drifted upward to the chandeliers. Tiny hooks and ropes glinted where no one had noticed. The thief hadn’t left through the doors—they’d lifted the trophy into the rigging hours ago. The blackout had been nothing more than a curtain, a distraction to make the audience look elsewhere.
Now the question wasn’t who had done it, but who among them was still standing in plain sight, smiling, waiting for the applause.
The hall was alive with panic, but Lilly’s mind was already unraveling the elegant design of the heist. Somewhere in the crowd, the thief was watching. Somewhere in the glittering lights, the trophy waited.
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5-Nanqiao YU
The Robbery of the Trophy
The Robbery of the Trophy
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5-Jeff
And when the lights came back on, the trophy was gone.
For a moment the hall was as quiet as a library. Everyone stared at the empty table. Just seconds ago the gold trophy had been sitting there, shiny and bright. Now there was nothing, only a dusty circle left behind. My heart thumped so hard I thought people could hear it.. I scanned the crowd. Then everyone started talking at once. Chairs screeched, kids whispered, and I even heard someone gasp, “It’s stolen!” I felt my face grow hot. I looked around quickly, hoping to spot something the others didn’t.
I scanned the room. Liam was standing closest to the stage. His fists were jammed tightly into his pockets, and his face was turned down to the floor. He wouldn’t meet anyone’s eyes. My chest tightened. Could it be him? Then I noticed Mia. She had swung her schoolbag onto her lap and was holding it firmly, like it was a precious treasure. Her eyes darted to the side whenever anyone looked her way. Ruby also seemed jittery. She twisted her braid so hard I thought it might snap, her foot tapping against the wooden floor in a nervous rhythm. Everywhere I looked, someone seemed guilty. A cold shiver ran down my back. My chest felt heavy, and my hands were getting sweaty. One of them has to have it, I thought.
I stepped closer to the stage, my ears straining. That’s when I heard a faint scrape, scrape. My heart jumped. The sound was coming from the curtains. The red fabric shivered a little, like someone was hiding behind it.Then, clang! A sharp sound echoed from the corner. We all spun around. The curtain rippled. My pulse hammered in my ears.The curtain swayed again. I slowly pulled the curtains apart.
My jaw dropped.There was Sam, crouched low, the trophy clutched tightly in his arms. His face was bright red.“I wasn’t trying to steal it!” he burst out before anyone could speak. His voice shook. “I just wanted to hold it. I wanted to know what it feels like to win something… for once.”The whole hall went quiet. No more whispers, no more giggles. Everyone just stared at him.I stood there frozen, the truth sinking in. I’d been so sure it was Liam, or Mia, or even Ruby. But it wasn’t them. It was Sam, quiet Sam, the one nobody noticed, hiding in the shadows with the trophy he wished was his.
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5-chasenew
“And when the lights came back on, the trophy was gone.”
The prized pure gold trophy was gone. There was an open hatch in the ceiling, possibly meaning burglars from the hatch in the roof. Faint footsteps from outside the community hall got slightly louder as President Bob stepped in. A faint squark was distinguishable from the deafening silence, as 2 bald eagles swooped in to carry a spider out for dinner. There were microscopic fragments of gold on the floor, presumably from the trophy. President Bob called out loud “If you have the trophy, please return it now. If you’ve seen any suspicious activity, please report to the council immediately.” as he walks towards where the podium used to be. It was 7:04PM. President Bob gasped. “What did you see?” a voice called out from the group of shocked and paralysed people. President Bob replied with “Come see it yourself.” A group of people swarmed down like a swarm of bees until they had reached the place where President Bob was standing. “A SPIDER WEB?!?!?!” a bewildered person cried. Many bugs, presumably from the spider web, scuttled into the darkness. “Any of you people in here reached a conclusion yet?” President Bob called demandingly. A detective in the hall shouts out a conclusion: spider webs from the spider were holding up the prized trophy, but when the blackout happened, all the creatures from the web went crazy and broke the web. The trophy came crashing down, shattering into pieces. President Bob nodded his head. “Presumably. All those creatures must’ve thought the spider was going to eat them and wriggled, breaking the web. I was always saying to Council Leader Joe how the pedestal wasn’t stable, and something was holding it up. But he always laughed and said “If it isn’t stable, how is it standing right now?””
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5-Caspar Luk