Currently, in our lessons we deal with literature, reading and its importance in the life of young people. After my students had read different books and prepared a presentation about them, I decided to dedicate two more lessons to teach them how to write a story in the first place and what principles they should follow when writing. The second half of the lesson was focused on the development of creative writing skills by writing a story on their own. The task was to write a one-paragraph-long story in groups (it could be also longer), each group receiving the same random words (ghost, potato, sock, saucepan and capybara) but a different genre (romantic story, horror story, adventure story, mysterious story, sci-fi and historical fiction). Despite the fact that the words had nothing to do with each other, I was positively surprised by the outcome of their work. They demonstrated a rather big amount of creativity and imagination that I would like to acknowledge by sharing a few of their stories with you.