Can You Tell A Story In…

Happy Thursday! Here’s your new story challenge:

Can you tell a story in 40 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:

  • MURDER
  • CASSETTE
  • TEAR
  • RICE

Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 25 words using the following three words in it somewhere:

  • SPADE
  • OPERA
  • HORSE

Here are you entertaining stories:

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

He stuck the spade in the ground carefully. A new opera house was due to be built…. Oh no, the sign said “New Opera HORSE”!

Lance Greenfield:

“Your pony’s hooves look like spades!”

“He’s a rare breed: Aussie Singing Digger.”

“Can he sing?”

“Yes.”

“Wow! What’s he called?”

“Sidney the Opera Horse.”

Kim Smyth:

He knew a spade from a spade and told her to get off her high horse and join him at the opera! She said, “No!”

Ann Edall-Robson:

On the way to the opera in the horse drawn carriage, the horse spit the spade bit from his mouth, resulting in a run away.

Darlene:

After the performance, she took her spade to the Opera House and started digging. She decided it would take a horse to move the body.

Treehugger:

A spade is a spade.

I can’t dress up the fact that I would rather go to the horse races than to the Opera.

Linking People 2003:

In an astonishing twist, a spade-wielding horse named Greenburgh sang opera, mesmerising the crowds with its deep voice and unique talent, becoming an overnight legend!

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

  1. I was listening to a cassette tape playing music by Tim Rice. He wasn’t my favourite musician, but it was the kind of music I could work out a plot to….
    My latest murder mystery with a musical jealousy theme…

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    1. I like this very much, though there’s no ‘tear’.

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  2. “This tape will self-destruct…”
    The cassette flashed then smoldered.
    Who would murder the diplomat? There wasn’t a tear at the funeral, so could be anyone.
    The radioactive rice pointed to the Russians, but…
    I won’t chose to accept this one…

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    1. Don’t blame you! Very good, Trent.

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  3. The Wedding

    As the bride and groom emerged, the guests threw rice as they headed to the car. A murder of crows flew overhead, as a tear slipped down her face. Ignoring them, she plugged in the cassette and drove.

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    1. Very nicely done, Kim 😊

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      1. Why, thank you, ma’am! 🤗

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  4. Oh I misread tear for tape! Shortsighted mistake!

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  5. These are always so much fun! ❤

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    1. Glad you enjoy them 😊❤

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  6. The sound of rice pouring from the tear in the bag reminded him of his first job, and the music that had played on the vintage cassette player. It was probably the simplest of any murder contact he had taken.

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    1. Very dark! I love it!

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  7. Blood found on the cassette. Definitely the murder weapon. What had gone wrong between the perfect wedding ceremony, bride in tears and the police examining the hotel room,the groom lying in a pool of blood mingled with grains of rice?

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    1. Ooh, I like that very much!

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    All she could manage to eat was rice cakes. She’d listen to audiobooks on our old cassette recorder, she loved Midsomer Murders. Then, nearing the end, I would sing to her, hoping she could hear me. ‘Tears on my pillow…’

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    1. Very well crafted, Val.

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