Can You Tell A Story In…

It’s Thursday and time for a new story challenge, so…

Can you tell a story in 31 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:

  • CONSPIRACY
  • TICKET
  • WALNUT
  • CHALK

Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 19 words using the following words in it somewhere:

  • GOALKEEPER
  • PARADISE
  • KITCHEN

Here are your super stories:

Nicola Daly:

If you were the world’s best goalkeeper, we’d sip Paradise cocktails while planning our new kitchen. But you’re not.

Sexagenarian Scribbler:

‘Goalkeeper saves the day’ the headline read.

Stood in  the kitchen, reading the glowing article,

Bobby was in paradise.

Murray Clarke:

Ronaldo was the local goalkeeper. His idea of Paradise? Spending all his spare time cooking in his well-equipped kitchen.

Kim Smyth:

My little goalkeeper was in the kitchen listening to Paradise by the Dashboard Light as I fed her pancakes.

Tessa:

 I had dreams of paradise. I woke up in the kitchen. Now, off to my position as a goalkeeper.

Lynn Chapman Writer:

Johnny Kitchen finally made it into his local Ice hockey team. He is a goalkeeper for the Paradise Panthers.

The Bag Lady:

Playing soccer was her paradise, but the goalkeeper was always late. She found him in the kitchen chugging Gatorade.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

Goalkeeper saves match! paradise team ready for Cup. Listening in the kitchen I crumpled in despair! My team lost!

Ann Edall-Robson:

“BRAIN. You…are…an…idiot!” She yelled to the goalkeeper of all her thoughts. “This kitchen is NOT paradise!”

Christopher Farley:

Busy kitchen, angry chef and flying saucepan.

‘Thanks, Harry. If you weren’t a goalkeeper, I’d be in paradise now.’

Squirreljan:

I’m in the kitchen with a coffee, watching my dog play goalkeeper in the kids’ football kick about. Paradise!

Sharron P:

In the kitchen we argued about best goalkeepers. I fell asleep, dreaming of a paradise island with David Seaman.

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

  1. Conspiracy was where the largest Walnut tree grew. I bought a ticket on the local coach service and waited, hours later we had gone nowhere. Puncture, chalk it down to experience.

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    1. Very well done with those words 😊

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    squirreljan

    The ticket said, ‘bring a walnut’, but Stanley Squirrel was ejected because his had vanished. “Chalk it up to experience,” Owl Wiseman said, but Stanley vowed to crack the ‘nut’ conspiracy.

    Meet two of the wild garden residents! And sorry for the puns – I can’t help myself sometimes.

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    1. I’ll let you off – they do work well!

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  3. The conspiracy involves black walnuts, so I bought a ticket home. My dad had one in the back yard that I could poach from. My chalk outline was drawn somewhere there.

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    1. That’s funny. Thanks, Kim.

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      1. Thanks but it was supposed to be dark 😂

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  4. She grabbed her bus ticket, sure there was a conspiracy afoot. 

    She stopped under the walnut tree and watched the children in the street use chalk to make a hopscotch board.

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    1. Well done, Tessa. Great story.

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    nikidaly70

    What a conspiracy! It was that awful Walnut Agency – said there were no tickets at first and then charged us quadruple!
    Well, chalk it up to experience, you’ll know for next time.

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    1. I’d love to know what the Walnut Agency is about!

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        nikidaly70

        Me too! Whoever they are, don’t touch them with a barge pole, I’d say. Well dodgy!

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  6. Wasn’t it 19 words?

    I almost bought the ticket. I almost fell for the walnut conspiracy, but can chalk that up to experience.

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    1. Last week’s challenge was 19 words. This week’s is 31 words. I try and mix it up. a bit.

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      1. I barely know 31 words!

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  8. Intriguing or maybe a conspiracy. The walnut tree marked with chalk was supposed to be hiding the winning ticket .Someone had already claimed the prize and heading off into the sunset.

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    1. You’ve done something different with that. Great!

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  9. “I’m here to share a conspiracy theory dubbed, Walnut Recipe Exchange.”

    A woman’s face turned chalk white before fainting. Her folder of recipes swirled to the floor.  Ambiguous ticket advertising triumphs.  

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    1. That’s excellent, Ann!

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