DD9 has really been going above and beyond with these short ("a few sentences") expository prompts she gets at school. I loved this one:

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The woman stared at me with her dull eyes. She came closer, then whispered to me in a very tiny voice. She waved her shriveled hands, telling me the story of herself. Her stringy gray hair fell into her strange eyes, and I shivered. Finally she clapped her pale hands, and walked off.