Can You Tell A Story In…

It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is:

STARE

So can you tell a story in five words using the word STARE in it somewhere?

Your word last week was CALORIES. Here are your CALORIE stories:

Terveen Gill:

Buttery kiss, no extra calories.

Keith Channing:

Air frying to save calories.

Chewing consumes a few calories.

Do calories in takeaways count?

Fifteen hundred calories? No way!

Double espresso has no calories.

I don’t obsess about calories!

Kim Smyth:

Don’t count calories, change sweeteners.

Work off calories by walking!

Drinking water adds no calories.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

This Mascara has 2000 calories?!

My calorie controlled diet died!

Crying over an extra calorie.

The calorific value was massive.

Calorie? No, her name’s Carol!

Cake, my favourite calorie indulgence.

Ritu:

Cake ingredients state no calories!

Ruth Scribbles:

Cookie crumbs are escaped calories!

Lance Greenfield:

Calories explode like popping candy.

Crack competitors consume countless calories.

Counting calories is hard work.

Hard work burns many calories.

Kal-el Reece: the Welsh Superman.

Oooh! These calories taste great!

Anil:

Make love and burn calories.

Val Fish:

Broken biscuits have no calories
( so I’ve been told ).

Who’s counting calories? Not me…

Whoever invented calories wants shooting…

Calorie counting abandoned for Christmas.

Alcohol; wasted calories. Who cares!

Linking People 2003:

Fruits and vegetables lower calories.

Slow deep breathing burns calories.

Curtail wrong foods, less calories.

Stetching on bed consume calories.

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35 responses to “Can You Tell A Story In…”

  1. He stares at her constantly.
    Staring is a rude action.
    If I stare, he’ll know.
    Is watching people called staring?

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    1. quick 4 sentences. wow 👍

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    2. I like your answers very much.

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  2. Don’t stare,unless you want reciprocation!

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    1. that’s nice 🤗

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    2. I like it, but it’s six words!

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      1. Dang, it was early and maybe my thinking cap wasn’t quite awake yet! 😂

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    3. I can’t help staring at somebody who dares to break Esther’s rules, Kim. Sorry!
      Feel free to stare back though. 🙂

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      1. Haha! 🤣
        Yeah, I wasn’t on my toes this morning, obviously 🙄

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  3. Stare at your own peril !

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  4. Lingering stare. Beginning or ending?

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    1. Oooh, you’re so good at these!

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  5. Hi Esther, I found your post this week. I’m trying to work out what damage i can do…

    I stared at the stars.
    For hours I stared up.
    I will outstare you.

    Have a great weekend 🙂

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    1. Very good, Simon 😊

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      1. Thank you 🙂😁

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  6. Rude to stare- so peek!
    Mr Stare glared at him
    Contorted stairs made me stare!
    Hypnotised, he stared at walruses
    Star trek costume, many stares!
    Texas state star, lone stare?

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    1. So funny. Where do you get your ideas?!

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      1. My mind is strange, I have no idea x

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  7. The ostrich stared me down.
    I stared, nothing came.

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    1. You gotta watch those ostriches!

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      1. I sure don’t want to mess with one…

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  8. Snake’s soporific stare secured sleep
    Ginger danced with a stare
    It’s hard not to stare
    Your beauty merits my stare
    Sparkling stares in their eyes
    Time to stop and stare?
    Narcissus stared into the pool
    I stare because I’m curious

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    1. Love the first one! Very good.

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  9. The meme at the end gave me a jolly good laugh.

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    1. Glad you liked it 😊

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  10. The stare, not to be climbed.

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    1. That’s really clever. Though it’s 6 words. Could you make it 5?

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      1. Sorry, maths was never my strong point.

        “The stare not climbed.”

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  11. Sorry again.

    “The stare was not climbed.”

    Got there in the end, old age and incompetence, well something like that.

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    1. I know how you feel!

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