Hello, all. I hope you’re having a good week. Here’s a new story challenge for you:
Can you tell a story in 50 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
- VIDEO
- FORTY
- NOSE
- TRICK
- COFFIN
- DISCO
- BARK
Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 48 words using the following word in it somewhere:
- MURDER
- BANANA
- PEACOCK
- TICKLE
- PRICE
Here are your laugh out loud stories:
“Mrs. Peacock in the drawing room with a banana!”
“Banana? Get serious!”
“Clue serious? Say that again and I’ll tickle your toes!”
“Serious!”
“Sometimes you must pay the price to play!”
“Mom, make Lizzy stop!”
Cathy Wattam:
Honestly, the price you pay for stealing the last banana! When children are the Judge and Jury – picture getting tickled by a Peacock feather whilst trying to watch the penultimate episode of “Murder, She Wrote”.
“Don’t kill me please!”
“But murder is what I do,” he said while attempting to tickle her with a peacock feather.
“I’ll pay any price!”
“No.” He shoved the the banana way down her throat.
Carol Miers:
Easier to balance on a banana skin than to hold peacock pose as her back was giving her murder. But whatever the price, she could – that is, until she felt a tickle under her nose.
Deborah was provocatively unpeeling a banana .
Gary felt a tickle under the table.
‘It was Mrs Peacock, with the candlestick in the library,’ Dr Price declared smugly.
‘I could murder a cuppa,’ announced Mrs Price.
We hadn’t even discussed price, but as we lay there panting she tickled my naked shoulder with a peacock feather.
“Can I get you anything?” I asked, suddenly in love.
“I could murder a banana.”
MURDER – a crime of passion?
BANANA – Fruity. Enough said. Your imagination can do the rest.
PEACOCK – a posing, preening, pleasing creature born to love.
TICKLE – slap and?
PRICE – oh, please don’t spoil this with economics.
Nicola Daly:
‘Tickle me pink – those fancy-dress costumes! The peacock eating a banana is fantastic.’
‘Look, here’s the tea tent. My feet are killing, and I could murder a cuppa.’
‘But have you seen the price? Shocking!’
“Murder!” Shouted Ms. Peacock. “That’s a serious charge, Inspector Price.”
The inspector stood fast, cufflinks in hand. “ If you would have eaten the banana rather than tickle it, the charge would have never been entertained.”
Murray Clarke:
‘I could murder a banana, I’m so very, very hungry!’ moaned the petulant peacock.
‘Whatever tickles your taste buds,’ replied his friend, the pigeon. ‘But have you seen the price these days? Extortionate, believe me!’
“Murder, banana, tickle, price, serious,” the ex president rolled off the words to prove his mental ability.
“But it was man, woman, TV, camera, giraffe,” said his aide trying to recall the correct sequence, incorrectly!
Look at me, it’s murder dressed like a peacock for my kid’s school play. And the tickle when I bend over! Still it’s better than playing a banana! Then again, if the price is right…
He disturbed the peacock asleep in the tree, which alerted the household. Using a banana to threaten ,no intent on murder, the careless burglar paid the ultimate price when he was shot by Mr Tickle.
Squirreljan:
His price was a banana. Gorilla Gus, realising how much Hyena Henry laughed, sneaked up behind Peacock Percy, pulled a tail feather and began to tickle Henry. He died, happily, from laughing. The perfect murder!
I picked up the thin book and was tickled by the title. Mrs Peacock Used a Banana to Murder Her Neighbor. The price of the book had me dropping it back onto the shelf immediately.
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Esther Chilton 
The vampire rose from his coffin to the sound of dico music. Curiously, he walked through the dungeon, and hearing a bark, called to his dog and made him perform a trick before petting his nose. Then he watched the video-”Forty Year Old Virgin”. What a weird scene, right?
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Ha, ha. It certainly is 😂
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The video switched on when the dog barked! Weird thought the forty year old man…. Then the disco ball started twirling. He scratched his nose, this must be a trick? The dog barked again and a hole opened up in the floor…. Welcome to your coffin! Said the video voice….
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Love how you’ve made that an eerie story!
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Such random words x
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‘It’s the latest craze for anyone over forty. You have to bungee jump from a disco-ball while barking ‘Old MacDonald had a Farm’ – the trick is not to nose-dive into the coffin underneath.’
‘Is this for real?’
‘Absolutely. I saw it on a TikTok video so it must be true.’
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That’s hilarious! 😂😂
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Thanks, Esther!
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Sorry this is a bit sad. And it cheats, but I wanted to do something !
“Her cough was more of a bark, in fact she couldn’t stop ‘coffin’, her inflamed nose felt like forty needles. Snot trick(ling) onto her hands, empty,
Her head was spinning that song like some disco beat, all to save her life from being a sick video replay.”
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I enjoyed it and that’s fine – it’s not cheating!
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This is good!!!
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Nice to meet you
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Nice to meet you too!
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The circus clown’s new trick was to hide inside a coffin. His dog must find him and put his nose to the spot and bark. The clown’s assistant videos the act, adding disco music. They have practised it forty times and still the dog has no idea where his master is.
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That’s a fab story!
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‘I’ve watched the video forty times, nothing! Is this some trick?’
‘No! Smith, use your nose! The suspect was seen sitting on a coffin at the cemetery. He then went to a disco and left at 1am. Witnesses say his voice sounded like a bark as he hailed a taxi.’
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That’s so clever! Thank you, Sharon.
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Thanks Esther! It was a tough one!!!
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