Here’s this week’s story challenge for you:
Can you tell a story in 30 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
- DENTIST
- ELEGANT
- TROUT
Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 41 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- TRICK
- CALORIE
- SNAIL
- MARATHON
- ROAR
Here are your clever stories:
Here’s the trick. Calories in, calories out.
Calorie deficit.
It’s not a sprint. Not a marathon. Not even a race. Snail’s pace will do.
There is no finishing line and no roar from the crowd. The roar must come from within.
SW:
Monty emitted a thunderous roar. The shell shattered underfoot. Warm slime oozed around his hairy toes. Damn snails. There must be easier ways of burning calories than a barefoot marathon. He needed to find a trick for dealing with race-day gastropods.
Nicola Daly:
‘He tricked me!’ roared the woodlouse. ‘That sneaky calorie-counting snail tricked me.’
‘How?’
‘He told me I need a marathon under my belt. I’ve run flipping miles. And look!’
The cheeky snail rustled a Marathon and stuck it under his belt.
It’s a marathon, not a sprint. said the snail to himself, that’s the trick. Slow and steady win the race. (now where had he heard that before?)
Emerging the victor, he let out a snail sized roar.
Calories burnt a bonus…
Here are some tricks to help you eat fewer calories:
Use smaller plates to eat protein rich foods such as snails, first, while watching marathons of race cars roar around a track. Drink water before meals. Eat breakfast and eat mindfully.
Poetessadeilibri (in only 15 words):
I was roaring for a trick
sweets were everywhere like snails
a marathon of calories
The trick to winning the marathon is to watch every single calorie before the race and in your mind’s eye imagine the roar of the crowd as you pass the last place snail near the finish line.
The scale’s no friend to Marjorie. Her marathon low calorie diet went nowhere. Not mastering the trick of jogging on a treadmill, only walked at a snail’s pace. Two months later she got on the scale and roared, “I’ve lost weight!”
Murray Clarke:
The snail-like mouse was determined to take part in the marathon. The trick was to consume one calorie of cheese every minute for over an hour. He subsequently ran in the race and won, turning his tiny squeak into a roar!
It was a marathon like no other, the roar of the crowd urging him on to success.
It was no trick and they stood in disbelief. The snail had beaten the slug over the finishing line! They demanded a calorie recount!
At the creatures athletic competition each animal talked about their races.
“The trick,” said the snail, “when sliding a marathon race, is to use as few calories as possible. The best bit is hearing the crowd roar as I won gold!”
Squirreljan:
The trick was counting every calorie and walking every day. My weight dropped and my snail pace quickened until I was roaring and running like a lioness in pursuit of the next meal. The metaphorical marathon had ended in success. ROAR!
The roar from the crowd signalled the end of the eating marathon. No one could believe the snail was the top calorie intake winner. He was quoted as saying, “The trick is to eat all of the time, and I do.
Gene:
“Ready for lunch?” Lizzy asked, adding, “I’ve taken into account your pledge about your daily calorie consumption sweetie.”
“Thanks!” her husband responded with an enthusiastic roar, adding, “that’s the key trick to running a marathon at more than a snail pace.”
The snail roared triumphantly as she crossed the finish line, taking second in the Boston Marathon. Steve bent down, plucked her up, and swallowed her whole. The trick to cheat days, Steve said, “is getting the most out of your calories.”
“Don’t you see,” she said, “slimming isn’t burning a calorie here or there. It’s your diet. Look at the French, with their marathon snail-eating dinners with litres of Bordeaux.”
“Yes,” he replied, “I’d roar too with all that on my stomach.”
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Esther Chilton 
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