Hi! 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:
- WILLPOWER
- GUITAR
- TAX
- SLIP
- GOOSEBERRY
- EAGLE
- CAMERA
Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 33 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- TOUPEE
- HICCUP
- MASTERMIND
- CRUMBLE
- SQUIRREL
Here are your hilarious stories:
I was watching Mastermind and was convinced a contestant had a fluffy orange toupee? Just then the question master hiccupped. The audience crumbled into laughter and a squirrel jumped off the contestants head!
Chris Page:
The mastermind who had invented the anti squirell bird feeder back in the nineties was seen to lift off his toupee and then crumble. He realised there was a hiccup in the design.
Brian sat eating his blackberry crumble trying to mastermind a plan to get rid of the pesky squirrel. He hiccuped and adjusted his toupee. He prepped then the trap with peanuts and waited.
I adjusted my toupee. A hiccup caused me to lose sight of the squirrel. What kind of mastermind loses sight of their quarry during a hiccup? I felt the plan crumble before me.
He was kicking the cabbage around like a football. The referee remarked it was like poetry in motion, but when he wanted to kick it around the maze, his friend told him to quit or he would end up in hospital.
Nicola Daly:
‘I’m a criminal mastermind,’ said the squirrel sticking the toupee on his head as disguise. Just then he gave a loud hiccup. ‘Oops!’ he said. ‘That’s what comes of eating too much crumble.’
I hiccupped straight bourbon. Yes, my case against the mastermind of the crime of the century crumbled on a word, becoming as useless as a toupee on a squirrel. I poured another shot.
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He thought himself a mastermind, his merest hiccup a stroke of genius, his real ideas god-like in meaning. When the squirrel tore off his toupee, his façade crumbled briefly, and I took advantage.
Squirreljan:
The plan he’d masterminded had gone without a hiccup. He’d screeched, scaring the man so his toupee fell onto the bird table. The squirrel ran off and the magpie scoffed all the crumble.
Carol Miers:
The criminal mastermind walked away in broad daylight, the cash squirrelled away, a successful heist. Until there was a hiccup, when her toupee slipped, the disguise crumbled, then the Police chase began.
Cathy Wattam:
With my new phone, I tried to video the squirrel wearing a toupee but there was a slight hiccup. I’m no mastermind with technology and instead, deleted Auntie Susan’s prize apple crumble photo.
One hiccup and off shot my toupee. Unfortunately I was camping in the woods and a squirrel carried it off up a tree. I crumble at the thought of appearing on Mastermind hairless.
Richard Felix:
The mastermind squirrel perched, eyes glinting, plotting his heist. A hiccup interrupted his thoughts, causing his toupee to shift. As plans began to crumble, he realised: even genius has its moments of folly.
Burt was a dating mastermind. A new toupee, the works! But, she didn’t call back. Maybe it was because he hiccuped and sprayed her with crumble at desert. He felt like a squirrel!!
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Esther Chilton 
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