a creative writing assignment on of this gender:  a memoir, a personal essay or a prose submission (fiction or non-ficton), a creative story containing a beginning, a middle and a end. make sure to use literary elements such as metaphor.

I was thinking of a story about a young black man who grew up with no money in a neighbourhood full of drugs, violence and bad influence. the only thing that was motivating him was his favorite sport, basketball. one day, on a September 30th, when he was 14, he lost his best friend who got killed and it showed him how cold of a world we are really living in. that day changed his life as he understood that nothing was guaranteed, that he must live in the present. (Does not necessarily need to stick to that)