Writing Prompt: Describe an ordinary house hold item from the perspective of an alien. They don’t know what it is.

The creature holds up a long black string that runs from a small bag with a hard mouth on it. It is heavy. The mouth is hard like armor and the bag is soft and deflated, but feels filled with something.  (Maybe this is alive?) The creature thinks as he drops it. (But it appears dead. Or maybe it is edible…) The creature tries to eat it, but its sharp teeth find no purchase and slide off of the thing’s hard mouth and the creature spits it out. (Yuck! More likely it is a weapon.) The creature swings the bag by the string and hits the wall. The bag breaks off of the hard mouth and its contents spills everywhere. (Blegh, what is this stuff?) The creature pokes at the contents spread about. (Looks like half eaten discarded debris. Maybe it really was alive at some point… this is boring) Another creature approaches the first. (I know what to do with that!) The second creature takes the long black string and attaches it to the wall. All of a sudden, the mouth comes alive and jumps around on the floor. (Gah! It’s still alive even though it is missing its body!) The two creature move cautiously back from the jumping head. (That was not a good idea.) The first creature says to the second. (Eh.) The second creature yanks on the things tail and it dies again. (Perhaps it is best as a crude weapon, but otherwise it is simply not useful. Let’s look to see if there is something else more useful.)