Can You Tell A Story In…

Hi there! It’s time for a new story challenge:

Can you tell a story in 39 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:

  • CHAOS
  • KNITTING
  • ISLAND
  • GRANDAD
  • PLASTIC
  • CHERRY

Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 28 words using the following words in it somewhere:

  • PILLOW
  • LOOT
  • SLIME
  • BALLROOM
  • SACRED

Here are your entertaining stories:

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

The snail slime was on his pillow again! “Sacred ballroom” bed and breakfast was not worth the money. He would have to save loot on his next visit!

Kim Smyth:

He retrieved the loot for donation from under his pillow, and headed for the ballroom. There he attended the sacred Nickelodeon tradition, leaving happy, but covered in slime.

Murray Clarke:

With green slime oozing from every pore of his oily skin, Monster Pillow slid across the polished floor of the sacred ballroom in search of the hidden loot.

Tessa Dean:

Ronald stuffed the sacred loot in pillows in the ballroom. His hands were covered in slime, as he had searched the pigpen for the loot according to Ralph.

Nicola Daly:

As soon as my head hit the pillow I fell asleep, dreaming of the time we slithered through slime across the sacred ballroom to loot the glitterball cabinet.

Squirreljan:

Rotting slime covered the abandoned ballroom floor. I stashed my loot, the sacred trophy, into a pillowcase, as I danced into the magical arms of Len Goodman. “Seven!”

Olaf Sturlasson’s Poetry Corner:

Anton waltzed into his sacred ballroom to find a thief stuffing his dancing trophies into a pillow case. He tripped him by using slime and recovered the loot.

Treehugger:

Green slime ran down the walls of the sacred old building. With the robber’s pillow full of stolen loot, he ran across the dilapidated ballroom to safety.

Ann Edall-Robson:

Admission into the ballroom hosting the Loot Conference is not an easy accomplishment. Arrive with a pillow filled with sunsets and sacred slime, you get in like Flynn.

The Bag Lady:

Surveying the loot—pillow to rest on, container of sacred brown slime, and knew my task—spread it on the ballroom floor, where my competitors would be dancing. We’ll win!

Wilfred Leahy:

He sat on the pillow that covered the loot he stole to rebuild his sacred ballroom and rid it of slime.

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

  1. Grandad’s island holiday started with a plastic cherry floating in his rum and coke. It ended in chaos as he fell and broke his hip. Now in hospital. Grans’ knitting had tripped him up! She always was a menace!

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    1. It’s always the grandma’s fault 😂

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      1. Oh sorry to steryogrsn

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  2. I love the entries from last week and can’t wait to see the stories for this week!

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    1. Thanks Kymber. They are so good!

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  3. My knitting had become chaos, so I called my grandad, grabbed the cherry pie Mom baked for us and we headed to the island. Once there, we ate our pie with plastic forks. We both thought it was absolutely delicious!

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    1. I love cherry pie 😋

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  4. Amid the chaos on the small island of San Rio, Grandad, put his knitting down on the white plastic table beside him. He picked up a handful of cherries and ate them, following it with a can of soda.

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    1. Sounds perfect!

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  5. Grandad taught me the art of knitting while he spit cherry pits into a plastic bucket. He believed knit one, pearl one, was the best way to deal with the chaos that surrounds us like water around an island.

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    1. That’s just hilarious!

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    SexagenarianScribbler

    Chaos reigned  in the kitchen, with Nan sitting at the island doing her knitting and getting in everyone’s way, and grandad managing to stab himself trying to  push a plastic cocktail stick through a cherry.

    What a bloody mess….

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    1. Ha! Really funny 😆

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        SexagenarianScribbler

        Thanks Esther

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    squirreljan

    Grandad was clicking away with cherry coloured wool. Then chaos! He dropped a stitch, lost his temper, and chucked his knitting across the kitchen island, destroying his 98th birthday buffet. I knew we should have given him plastic needles.

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    1. That’s great, Janice 🤩

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