Hey there. I hope you’ve had a great week so far. Here’s a new story challenge for you:
Can you tell a story in 29 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
- THUMB
- MOSAIC
- CHAMPAGNE
- STUDENT
- VACUUM
Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 50 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- VIDEO
- FORTY
- NOSE
- TRICK
- COFFIN
- DISCO
- BARK
Here are your fabulous stories:
The vampire rose from his coffin to the sound of disco 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?
Carol Miers:
“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.”
Nicola Daly:
‘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.’
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.
Mark took me to the disco for my forty-fifth birthday. I would rather watch a video about vampires in a coffin than attend a disco party.
Rudy barked as we taught him a new trick. Mark let him out as I held my nose at the smell of his dinner.
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.
‘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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Esther Chilton 
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