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: Sammy Rice is British scientist working with specialist back room team in London during Second World War, Fact2: military scientific research is being managed incompetently, Fact3: use of alcohol as analgesic has led to alcoholism, Fact4: Stuart dictated earlier in day notes, Fact5: Rice returns to London restored by success

SOLUTION: Sammy Rice David Farrar is a British scientist working with a specialist back room team in London during the Second World War. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain from his artificial foot. The painkillers he has been prescribed are ineffective, and his use of alcohol as an analgesic has led to his alcoholism. His girlfriend Susan Kathleen Byron puts up with his selfpitying, selfdestructive behavior as long as she can, but finally breaks up with him, telling him that he lacks the ambition to better himself. Rice is brought in by Captain Stuart Michael Gough to help solve the problem of small boobytrapped explosive devices mines being dropped by Nazi bombers, which have killed four people, including three children. They receive some useful information from a critically wounded young soldier Bryan Forbes in his debut. Two further mines are found at Chesil Beach: they look like common thermos flasks. Stuart is first on the scene but has difficulty getting Rice on the telephone in his flat because Rice is alone following his breakup, angry, drunk and destructive. Rice quickly sobers up, and travels to Chesil Beach only to find that Stuart tried to defuse one of the mines and has been blown up. Rice sets to work on the second mine after listening to the notes Stuart dictated to an ATS corporal Renee Asherson during his effort earlier in the day. He discovers that the mine has two booby traps, not one, and manages to defuse them both. When Rice returns to London, his selfesteem somewhat restored by his success, he is offered an officer commission as of head of the Armys new scientific research unit. He accepts. Susan returns to him and they return to his flat to find Susan has repaired everything he damaged while drunk.

PROBLEM: Fact1: boxer dies in accident, Fact2: Cooper locates him in remote town, Fact3: fishing lodge with brother, Fact4: Tommy avoid criminal element, Fact5: corrupt manager Larry Ellis arena owner Max Maxwell and gambler Sam Lattimer sink hooks into kid

SOLUTION: Before a boxer dies in an accident, he mentions that he should get lost like Joe Kelly to sportswriter Ken Cooper. Now curious what became of Kelly, a former contender, Cooper locates him in a remote town where Joe runs a fishing lodge with his brother, Tommy. Carol Smith, girlfriend of Tommy, immediately urges Cooper to help Tommy get into boxing. Joe is adamantly opposed to this, causing friction between the brothers. Joe finally relents, warning Tommy to change his name and avoid a criminal element. Al Taylor, an honest trainer, handles the promising Tommy at first, until corrupt manager Larry Ellis, arena owner Max Maxwell and gambler Sam Lattimer sink their hooks into the kid. Tommy begins winning fights and making enough money to buy Carol an expensive engagement ring. He becomes disillusioned only after being told that all his fights were fixed, and that he is expected to deliberately lose the next. Cooper helps the police expose the racket. When one crook doublecrosses another, Lattimer loses 60,000 betting on Tommy to lose. His thugs beat up Joe and kidnap Tommy, preparing to kill him until Cooper and the cops arrive. Coopers expose in the newspaper clears Tommys name, freeing him to marry Carol.

PROBLEM: Fact1: Rosy Ryan is bored with life in Kirrary, Fact2: Rosy falls in love with village schoolmaster, Fact3: Major Randolph Doryan arrives to take command of army camp, Fact4: Charles accompanied by woman 's in sand beach, Fact5: entire village turns out to help rebels with Ryan wading into breakers repeatedly to salvage boxes of weapons and explosives

SOLUTION:
In August 1917, Rosy Ryan, only daughter of the local publican, widower Tom Ryan, is bored with life in Kirrary, an isolated village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The villagers are nationalists, taunting British soldiers from a nearby army camp. Tom Ryan publicly supports the recently suppressed Easter Rising, but secretly serves the British as an informer. Rosy falls in love with the village schoolmaster, widower Charles Shaughnessy. She imagines, though he tries to convince her otherwise, that he will somehow add excitement to her life. They marry and settle in the schoolhouse, but he is a quiet man uninterested in physical love. Major Randolph Doryan arrives in October 1917 to take command of the army camp. After winning a Victoria Cross on the Western Front, he has a crippled leg and is suffering from shell shock. When he visits the pub where Rosy is serving alone, he collapses under a flashback to the trenches and is comforted by her. The two kiss passionately until they are interrupted by the arrival of Ryan and others. Next day, the two ride to a forest for a passionate liaison. Charles becomes suspicious of Rosy, but keeps his thoughts to himself. Charles takes his schoolchildren to the beach, where he notices Doryans telltale footprints accompanied by a womans in the sand. He tracks the prints to a cave and imagines Doryan and Rosy conducting an affair. Local halfwit Michael notices the footprints as well and searches the cave. Finding Doryans Victoria Cross, he pins it on his lapel and proudly parades through the village, but suffers abuse from the villagers. When Rosy comes riding past, Michael approaches her tenderly. Between Rosys dismay and Michaels pantomime, the villagers surmise that she is having an affair with Doryan. One night in January 1918, during a fierce storm, IRB leader Tim OLeary – who had killed a police constable earlier – and a small band of his men arrive in Ryans pub seeking help to recover a shipment of German arms being floated from a ship towards the beach. When they leave, Ryan tips off the British. The entire village turns out to help the rebels, with Ryan the most outwardly devoted to the task, wading into the breakers repeatedly to salvage boxes of weapons and explosives. OLeary is overwhelmed by Ryans devotion, and the villagers are ebullient. They gleefully free the rebels loaded truck from the wet sand and follow it up the hill. Doryan, waiting at the top with his troops, captures the men and arms. OLeary makes a break, but Doryan climbs atop the truck and brings him down with a single rifle shot. Then he suffers a flashback and collapses. Rosy presses through the crowd in concern, outraging the villagers. Charles tells Rosy that he had let her affair run its course, hoping that the infatuation would pass, but now wants a separation. Rosy says the affair is over, but that night she leaves their bed in her nightdress to meet Doryan. In dismay, Charles wanders in his nightclothes to the beach, where the parish priest Father Collins finds him. The villagers storm into the schoolhouse and seize Rosy, convinced that she informed the British of the arms shipment. Ryan watches in shame and horror as his daughter takes the blame for his actions. The mob shears off her hair and strips off her clothes. Doryan walks along the beach and gives his cigarette case to Michael. In gratitude, Michael leads Doryan to a cache of arms, including dynamite, that was not recovered. After Michael runs off, Doryan commits suicide by detonating the explosives. The next day, Rosy and Charles leave for Dublin, enduring the taunts of the villagers as they go.