help with writing short stories

a man is mowing his lawn. he hears a knocking. its comming from the ground. he pulls back the grass he is cutting only to find......

............ a rather abrupt pumice stone

a man is born with very big hands. he spends the day trying to find a very big pair of gloves

boy meets girl. they get eaten by a whale. the whale gets attacked by japanese fisherpeople. they boy and girl get out safely and join a campaign to save the whales.

Crap Chess player aquires black set of peices based around the creatues from the underworld of Greek Mythololgy. Cerebus,Persephone,Medusa,Hades etc... He can't lose if he plays with these black peices, but there is a price. The Devil's Gambit? Corny enough, might do it myself.