Assess students' ability to write a 600–800 word multi-perspective short story that demonstrates narrative craft: include at least two clearly distinct unreliable narrators, use deliberate sentence‑structure variation to shift tone, and integrate four literary devices (metaphor, irony, foreshadowing, symbolism) to develop a clear central theme. Require a separate 100‑word author's note explaining how narrator choices, syntactic shifts, and devices shape reader understanding. Evaluate voice distinction, coherence of perspective shifts, effectiveness of tone changes, purposeful device use, thematic clarity, and succinctness/insight in the author's note.