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There were some great submissions to my stock photo challenge last week. You can check out their stories at these links:

Story Board – By Jo Hawk; New Beginning – By Michele Jones; Nanotech to the Rescue by Frank Prem, Changing Times – By Robbie Cheadle

I’m going to see if there are more responses this week as I post the fifth installment in this writing challenge.

Here is a review of the rules:

• Write a story, poem or other type of prose of 100 words or less and post it on your blog.
• If you leave the link for your blog post in the comments of this post, I will share it on my blog.

Here is the photo for this week’s Stock Photo Challenge

Origin by Dan Brown
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I am now finally convinced there can only be one Da Vinci Code. In my opinion, the last few books after his masterpiece and my favorite book have been slowly sinking lower. This book didn’t have all the clues to lead on a scavenger hunt through the city to find the final clue and save the day.

Another pet peeve of mine, why doesn’t Robert Langdon ever get the girl? I don’t feel like I’m giving anything away here because all of Brown’s books are the same (at least since the Da Vinci Code).

This was a good read and interesting. However, it’s hard to come up with another Da Vinci Code and once you have written a masterpiece what do you follow up with? I will recommend this book even though I was split between giving it a 3…

J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world.

J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school’s enigmatic founder as their father. J’s peers are the only family he has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know—and all they are allowed to know.

But J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he’s beginning to ask questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them?

Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J’s, a girl named K is asking the same…