The other day for class we had to write a fairy tale (modeling a writing prompt for a student). Here is what I completed of mine in the time allowed...I was the only one to not work with a person for a character.
Once upon a time a motorcycle lived in a garage, quietly, waiting.
Outside of the garage light tried to peek under the door and see the motorcycle silently waiting in the dark dust. Outside sounds revved and roared. Sounds potatoed-potatoed-potatoed, and whirrrred. Yet inside, secure, under a blanket of dark dust the motorcycle waited.
The motorcycle tried to remember a time before the dark, or even a time before the dust. However, the motorcycle could no remember anything besides the timeless waiting in the dust and dark of the garage.
Just thought I'd share...I never went back and finished it...