Assess students' ability to compose an original 1,200–1,500-word short story that employs an unreliable narrator, non-linear chronology, and intertextual allusion; require deliberate use of symbolism, irony, and syntactic variation to explore themes of identity and memory. Evaluate narrative voice and reliability, control of temporal structure and transitions, effective use of allusion, purposeful symbolic and ironic devices, sentence-level variety and coherence, thematic development, and adherence to word count and conventions.