Esther Chilton

It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge:

Can you tell a story in 23 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:

• HERO
• LEATHER
• NOTES
• TRIANGLE
• AUBERGINE

Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 47 words using the following words in it somewhere:

• TOFFEE
• RESIGN
• HOUSEPLANT
• FLING
• TABLET
• LADDER
• SLOGAN

Here are your super stories:

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

‘We need a slogan for houseplant sales,’ she said. ‘If I don’t get it right I will have to resign. The ladder of promotion is greasy. Fling all of the information we have at it. In the meantime get me a toffee latte and an aspirin tablet!’

Kim Smyth:

The slogan of the day-according to my tablet- was “Eat your toffee, water the houseplant, and fling the ladder aside.” After doing all of that, I resigned to finish my knitting project. It was a total mess, however, so I resigned to set the ladder back up.

Tessa Dean:

The toffee next to the houseplant called my name. I resigned myself. I was breaking my diet. 

I flung my tablet next to the charger. I had to work on slogans for class. I had hopes that this class would help me climb the ladder at work.

Squirreljan:

I decided to resign after my disturbing fling with the boss. Before whistleblowing to the tabloids, I placed a heavily watered houseplant on top of my expensive tablet, climbed a ladder to the billboard where I defaced the company slogan with chewed up toffees spelling out ‘crooks’.

Therapy Bits:

As she prepared to toffee herself a cup, Emma felt a sudden urge to resign from her stressful job. She grabbed her houseplant and decided to take a break, using the ladder to reach the high shelf where she kept her old tablet. She flinged open the device, only to find a motivational app with the slogan “You’ve got this!”

Ann Edall-Robson:

MEMO: You will be expected to resign should the due date for the slogan advertising the houseplant flavoured toffee not be met.

Panic ricocheted within his brain. Corporate ladder climbing and his fling with the lady VP would disappear. Creativity and the tablet screen sprang to life. 

The Bag Lady:

Chomping on a toffee, breaking a tooth, Julie slipped on the ladder, causing her to fling the houseplant down. The epithet slogan usually used jokingly, came out in painful anger. She climbed back down from the stepladder, took a pain pill and resigned herself to her tablet.

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