FIVE MINUTE FICTIONS: the sign

Here's another little writing prompt to tickle your imagination if you're feeling stale.


Write five hundred works of something, anything, inspired by this sign from a beachside rest room. You could play with the meaning of the word "sign" and write about some revelation or epiphany, or you could build on its more literal givens: kids and dirt, youth and authority, control or freedom.

For extra credit, write something that does not involve either child characters or characters with children, yet still uses the sign in some significant way.