Write your own story inspired by this

Bernie and Martin are members of a model aircraft club. One day Martin’s helicopter crash lands in a nearby field but because Martin has trouble walking his friend goes in search of it. He doesn’t find it but what he does find changes Martin’s life forever.
Read the example story, especially written by Johnnie Young, to your class to inspire their creative imaginations and then ask them to write their own story where someone loses something (could be anything, anywhere) and they search for it without success. What they do find though is incredible.

The Missing Model Helicopter.
“It’s got to be here somewhere, surely. Is that it? Yes, I think it is…No…no it’s not! That’s just a piece of foil flapping in a bush! Now where could it have gone?” Bernie was getting quite agitated now. His friend Martin had been flying his remote controlled helicopter at the Titans Model Aircraft Club when it had crash landed somewhere in a nearby field.
Martin couldn’t walk very well so Bernie had offered to go and search for it but it was proving to be very elusive. He carried on searching. Over two hours now. He knew that Martin wouldn’t be able to afford a replacement. “Ah,” he thought, “maybe that is it…over there…” But when he got to the suspect object he found himself looking down on a well dried out cow pat without a model helicopter in sight.
CONTINUED OVER 900 WORDS