From the first one of these I did I loved doing them, they are fun, creative and really force you to think about how to fit it all together. Some just drop into place with ease others are like a 5,000 piece puzzle of a cloudless blue sky.
Use each of the 5 words within a 50 word count:
diving board, cemetery, encyclopedia, granite, leather
My leather jacket stiffening in the cold air I forced myself forward as if off a diving board into the mist drifting through the cemetery. The granite headstone in the shape of a giant encyclopedia loomed darkly in front of me. Here lay my first and best teacher, my father.