After playing with various ideas of innocence and experience, I would like you to dramatize them in a series of short stories.

Write a series of three stories that follow a character at three points of their life. The stories need not be centered on this character, but the must use him or her.

You should separate the years in which you write. You may have the character at age 7, age 12 and age 21. Any other significant separation of years is appropriate.

In addition, there needs to be one metaphor that is constant between all three stories.

I will be grading these stories on creative thinking, application of innocence/experience, and use of appropriate writing tricks.

The first story has the following guidelines.