TASK DEFINITION: In this task, five ordered key facts are given. All the given facts are expressed in natural language. Your job is to generate a story 100 to 1000 words long, that includes all the facts given as input in their order of appearance while expanding upon them to produce a broader, yet coherent, narrative.
PROBLEM: Fact1: story is told through eyes of Zoe, Fact2: Cloe is frustrated with inability to do travel to Vancouver to see Beatles, Fact3: catalyst for change for somewhat stagnant lives arrives in form of Anne-Marie, Fact4: Anne-Marie takes up residence in local cottage, Fact5: new teacher 's progressive ideas shake up little school

SOLUTION: The story is told mostly through the eyes of Zoe, the younger Kingswood daughter. The Kingswoods seem to live a happy life, though teenage Cloe is frustrated with an inability to do things, like travel to Vancouver to see the Beatles. A catalyst for change for their somewhat stagnant lives arrives in the form of AnneMarie MicheleBarbara Pelletier, Zoes new teacher at the school where Hal Kingswood is principal. AnneMarie arrives late on her first day of work with all of her belongings packed into her Volkswagen bus and takes up residence in a local cottage. The new teachers progressive ideas shake up the little school, much to the irritation of Hal the staid and stodgy principal. Zoe and most of her class are immediately delighted with the lovely and vivacious young AnneMarie who teaches them through song and art. One evening, AnneMarie invites Zoe over to her little cottage. As AnneMarie bathes in her woodfired, outdoor bathtub, she gives Zoe a book of spells, which is ostensibly the mechanism through which change comes to the sleepy little island. Change is relatively mild at first  Cloe gets her first boyfriend, Dwayne Spittle, and Zoe learns how to make the wind gust. Real change comes to Galiano Island when Hal discovers thanks to Zoe that his long dead father hasnt been dead for decades, as previously presumed, and only recently died his ashes were shipped to Hals mother. Hals father abandoned Hal and his mother, Flora Frances Hyland, when Hal was a child. Hal is rocked by the revelation of his fathers abandonment, the fact that his father was alive, and his mothers lies. The combination of the shock of Hals fathers death and Hals anger leads Flora to suffer a stroke. Hal is in a tailspin. When he chances upon AnneMarie crying in her bus, he takes a moment to learn more about her, discovering that she abandoned her fiance at the altar and that her mother calls her every morning to remind her that she is a disappointment. As AnneMarie talks of wanting to sail away to Mexico, Hal joins in and the two of them share a kiss, which scares both of them. As fall sets in, Hal gets closer and closer to AnneMarie while Cloe gets closer and closer to her new boyfriend, Dwayne. After Halloween, Zoe and her friend, Jo, see Hals car parked in front of AnneMaries cottage and decide to take a closer peek. They discover the two lovers kissing passionately and quietly sneak away. Zoe attempts to curse her teacher with limited success. In the meantime, Cloe and Dwayne break the news to Cloes parents that Cloe is pregnant and they are not getting married, leaving Hal and Diana reeling. When Diana Kingswood discovers that AnneMarie has no plans for Christmas, she immediately insists she have Christmas dinner with them. Its all too much for Zoe and she bolts from the dinner table. When Hal follows her up to her room, Zoe confronts him about his affair with AnneMarie. Soon, everyone at the table knows. Diana kicks out Hal and burns his boat to the ground. Unexpectedly, Hals mother, Flora, passes away. Diana and Hal embrace at the funeral. AnneMarie is confronted by her students about her affair with Hal and soon resigns. AnneMarie leaves town and is replaced by a young male teacher.

PROBLEM: Fact1: Sarah Lawson visits Robert Harmon Undergoing messy divorce, Fact2: alcoholic playboy and writer is in relationship with professional singer, Fact3: Robert forced to take care of eight-year-old son, Fact4: Robert 's son begs to be taken home following overnight trip to Las Vegas, Fact5: Sarah tries deal with own depression and divorce

SOLUTION: Undergoing a messy divorce, Sarah Lawson visits her brother Robert Harmon, an alcoholic playboy and writer who is in a relationship with a professional singer. Robert is visited by his exwife and forced to take care of their eightyearold son, whom he has never met before, for twentyfour hours. Roberts son is terrified by the hedonistic and decadent world of his father, and begs to be taken home following an overnight trip to Las Vegas. After dropping him off, Robert is beaten up by the boys stepfather, after which his son testifies his love for Robert. Fleeing the scene, Robert returns home to take care of his sister, his best friend. Sarah tries with some success to curb the nihilistic selfdestruction of Roberts life and simultaneously deal with her own depression and divorce, while Robert struggles between his intense desire to protect his sister, and the challenge of accepting her freedom as the necessary cost of love.

PROBLEM: Fact1: Beth is becoming bored with life in Florida, Fact2: dad tells her to follow dream of moving to Las Vegas, Fact3: young woman named arranges for Beth to meet Dink Heimowitz to lay big-money bets for him, Fact4: young journalist from New York meets Beth in casino, Fact5: Gambling is illegal in New York and Dink worries about Beth

SOLUTION:
Beth is becoming bored with her life in Florida, doing stripteases and lap dances for private customers. Her dad, Jerry, tells her to follow her dream of moving to Las Vegas, where she seeks honest work as a cocktail waitress. A young woman named Holly, who lives at the same Vegas motel, arranges for Beth to meet Dink Heimowitz, a professional gambler who follows the fastchanging odds on sporting events and employs assistants at Dink, Inc., to lay bigmoney bets for him. Beth is intrigued and it turns out she has a good mind for numbers, easily grasping Dinks system and becoming his protegee and he views her as his lucky charm. When Beth begins expressing a more personal interest in her mucholder mentor, Dinks sharptongued wife, Tulip, lets it be known in no uncertain terms that she wants Beth out of her husbands life. As a result from pressure from his wife, Dink lets Beth go. A young journalist from New York, Jeremy, meets Beth in the casino and they immediately hit it off and she makes plans to move back to New York with him, having nothing left in Las Vegas to keep her there. She is hooked on the excitement and income that gambling provides and backs out suddenly whenever Dink, facing a heavy losing streak without his lucky charm, asks her to come back to work for him. Whenever Dinks losing streak continues even with Beths return, he has a meltdown and fires everyone in his office. Having enough, Beth goes to New York to be with Jeremy but accepts a similar job for a rival bookie called Rosie. Gambling is illegal in New York and Dink worries about Beth. Rosie then sets up a legal operation based in Curacao and Beth goes down to help run the betting. Rosie and his men are more interested in drugs and hookers and Beth wants out. A New York gambler, Dave Greenberg, is in debt for sixtythousand dollars and may be working for the Feds. Dink and his wife Tulip come to New York to help out Beth and Jeremy. They strong arm Greenberg and he gives them a hot tip on a New Jersey basketball team. The team wins in the last second by one point and everyone clears their gambling debts. The movie is a true story based on Beth Raymers memoir who in real life goes to college and becomes a writer.