Here’s this week’s story challenge for you:
Can you tell a story in 28 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
- DYNAMIC
- MOULD/MOLD
- SPOON
- VIDEO
Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 39 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- ICON
- DROOL
- PENSION
- ROCKET
- COUCH
Here are your super stories:
Linking People 2003:
On his worn-out couch, an icon of his youth, Grandpa watched a rocket soar skyward. With drool on his chin, memories mingled with his dreams! Though his pension was frugally limited, his adventurous spirit soared, reaching beyond earthly bounds!
He whipped them out and popped them under the couch. Eating rocket salad wearing false teeth was impossible. Immediately he began to drool. Now a wrinkly pensioner, nobody would have guessed he was a rock icon in his day.
Dave sat on the couch looking at his laptop icons. He liked how the rocket represented his pension fund’s rapid ascent. Suddenly the cat jumped on his lap! He moved the laptop for fear it would get drooled on.
I’m no rocket scientist,
but neither do I drool.
I once was an icon––
valedictorian in my school.
Living on a pension,
spending most days on my couch,
I’ve kept my sense of humor
and not become a grouch!!!
Drooling over the perfect paintwork on this iconic car. Deciding it’s too good for Dad, he just watched tv and got fat on his pension. I was going to drive this like a rocket, even if it killed me.
On his couch, Henry drooled over the iconic rocket launch on TV. With his meager pension, dreams of space faded. Yet, in that moment, he felt like an astronaut, soaring through the stars, free from earthbound worries.
The rocket scientist, looking forward to retirement and his pension, rested on the couch. In his mind’s eye, the beverage which was an icon for his weakness caused him to drool in anticipation of the rest of his life consumption.
Rocket Man clicked on his dashboard retirement icon – five hundred billion – a hefty anticipated pension fund upon landing on Mars. The rocket shook. He woke up from his nap on the couch and wiped the drool from his face.
“What? Drool on my new couch? I spent half my pension on it! You may think that dog is an icon of loveliness, but if she gets on that couch again, I will launch her outdoors like a rocket!”
Murray Clarke:
Although Arthur was living on a pension, sitting on his comfy sofa all day, he was rapidly becoming a couch potato and needed a rocket up his arse to stop him drooling over his soap icons on the television.
He’d been an icon once. Now on a pension lying on the couch all day was a reality and it would take a rocket to shift him. The dog began to drool watching the sandwich slip from his grasp…
He’d been an icon on screen and TV, women used to drool over him as he flew rockets in sci-fi movies. That would be his pension when he sat on his couch in the old people’s home (possibly drooling).
Squirreljan:
What an icon! She’s in a rocket to space whilst I’m on the couch, checking my pension to see when I can retire and watching Life on Mars. Who doesn’t enjoy a bit of drool time over Gene Hunt?
On pension day, the town’s elderly gentlemen made their way to the Drool Bar and Grill. The reserved sign sitting on the rocket shaped couch was for them. They sat on the icon telling tales. Some true, some not.
My nickname was Pocket Rocket. I would drool over my icon, Steve Cram, and his achievements. I only achieved county level.
Nowadays, I have a pension to buy chocolates, relax on the couch and watch the Olympics in style.
“And didn’t I give ‘im a rocket, too,” he said, rocking to and fro on the couch, his pension book waving in my face, as I tried to ignore the drool. Some icon. I don’t wanna get that old.
Musings from the couch….
Trump an icon? How any woman can drool over him is beyond me. The sooner
they pension him off the better. Or even better still, stick him in a rocket and launch him into outer space!
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Esther Chilton 
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