Hi everyone. I hope you’ve had a good week so far. Here’s a new story challenge for you:
Can you tell a story in 41 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
- MAZE
- QUIT
- CABBAGE
- REFEREE
- POETRY
- HOSPITAL
Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 29 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- THUMB
- MOSAIC
- CHAMPAGNE
- STUDENT
- VACUUM
Here are your entertaining stories:
I prepared the champagne as my graduate student finished the mosaic. But where the planet should have been, only vacuum. Rule of thumb – don’t count those chickens quite yet!
Murray Clarke:
“Detective Sergeant Thumb surveyed the crime scene. The champagne bottle lying on the mosaic floor would reveal the student’s prints – if the vacuum cleaner hadn’t beaten him to it!
The student stuck his thumb in the bottle of champagne to stop it frothing, the vaccum held it in place, he smashed it into a mosaic of bloodied glass
Carrie ran her thumb over the broken mosaic pieces before she vacuumed them up. She was going out that night to visit a student and share a champagne toast.
I’m a student of my own dating history – a sad mosaic of failures featuring, as a rule of thumb, myself vacuuming down champagne before shedding both inhibitions and clothing.
As an art student, my priorities did not include the vacuum cleaner. I created abstract mosaics and thumbs up with a glass of champagne if they impressed my tutor.
Nicola Daly:
The sozzled student sucked the champagne from his thumb. Now he had to vacuum up all the broken glass – and after he’d made it into such a pretty mosaic.
‘A student won this year’s competition with Thumb Print: A Mosaic. It’s excellent as there’s a vacuum of young artists. Champagne please! A toast!’
Richard Felix:
The mosaic shattered, shards slicing the student’s thumb as champagne sprayed. A deafening vacuum roared, consuming dreams alongside red droplets.
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Esther Chilton 
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