Can You Tell A Story In…

It’s Thursday, so how about a new story challenge? Here you go:

Can you tell a story in 21 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:

  • SHAVE
  • PASSWORD
  • MICROPHONE
  • RECYCLE

Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 13 words using the following three words in it somewhere:

  • STRING
  • ELEPHANT
  • MOUNTAIN

Here are your hilarious stories:

Ritu:

Can you string along a lazy elephant to climb up a steep mountain?

Trent’s World:

Here comes Hannibal over the mountain at the head of string of elephants.

The Wandering Empath:

Red strings tied the elephants even though they were blocked by high mountains.

Lance Greenfield:

Hannibal’s first mountainous expedition failed due to elephant wearing a g-string.
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Christine Mallaband-Brown:

An elephant tight rope walking on a string between mountains? Can you believe?

Darlene:

The elephant struggled up the mountain, how long is a piece of string?

Treehugger:

Violin strings soothed his nervous elephant as Hannibal coaxed her over the mountain.

Val Fish:

A string of disasters left the unfortunate elephants stranded at the mountain top.

Sharron P:

The hungry elephant ate the stringy grass as it walked up the mountain.

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

  1. To shave some time before the recycle arrived, Ella grabbed the microphone, sat at her desk, and shortened her password. Ready!

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    1. Excellent, Kim! Nice one ❤

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      1. Aw, thanks, Esther! I didn’t think it was that good but I’m glad you liked it!

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  2. Your microphones on! Shave a letter off your password and recycle it, MI5 will hear us if you are not careful!

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    1. Hilarious! Love it 🥰

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  3. “Leave the Wensleydale! Microphone open?.”
    Nods.
    “Restart the computer. Recycle the password. Working now?”
    Nods.
    “That was a close shave, Gromit!”

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    1. Oh, that’s brilliant. I love Wallace and Gromit 😁

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      1. Thanks Esther.
        And who doesn’t? 😉 (Apart from my wife … philistine! 😀 )

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    1. That’s so kind of you 😍

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      1. Pleasure. Have a great weekend.

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  4. Yul Brynner recycled his mobile miniphone and microphone passwords thus:
    Shave4KingAndI01, Shave4KingAndI02, Shave4KingAndI03 . . .

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    1. That’s very, very good 😊

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      1. Thanks Esther.
        I took a few liberties but I was pleased with the result.

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      That’s clever

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      1. Thanks Val. It just sprung to mind as I walked the dog. The craziest thoughts often come that way.

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  5. […] challenge on Esther Chilton’s website was to write a story in 21 words, of which the following 4 had to be included: password; […]

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    SexagenarianScribbler

    Recycle an oldie, shave to fit word count, job done!
    ‘Don’t tell them your password Pike!’, he yelled into the microphone.

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    1. Really good, Val. Made me smile.

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    2. That line is a true classic, British comedy moment.
      Well used in your little story.

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  7. Close shave as I dived into the recycling skip to reach a computer and microphone. All I need is the password.

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    1. That’s very clever! Well done 😁

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