Can You Tell A Story In…

Well, it’s been a bit warmer this week, so are we done with the snow and ice for this year? I’m sure it’ll be back, but for now let’s make the most of the above freezing temperatures. Here is a new challenge for you:

Can you tell a story in 21 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:

  • FIEND
  • YOGA
  • PARROT

The previous prompt was to tell a story in 30 words using the following words in it somewhere:

  • SCORCHING
  • IGLOO
  • HERBAL
  • CAT

Here are your entertaining stories:

Kim Smyth:

Afraid as I was of scorching my herbal tea, I took it off the fire and carried it into the igloo. Once seated, my cat joined me on the couch.

Dawna:

We complain about the scorching heat. Bundle up and pray for sun when our homes feel like an igloo as we drink herbal tea with the cat on our lap.

Treehugger:

Florence, my pet cat sat stretched out on her fluffy mat in our igloo, enjoying a freshly caught salmon, whilst I enjoyed a large cup of steaming hot herbal tea.

John W. Howell:

The scorching sun made me wonder how long that igloo would survive. “Fear not,” said the cat. Taking a sip of his herbal tea, he explained. “It’s AI.”

Murray Clarke:

In an attempt to escape from the scorching sun, the parched cat dived into the cool igloo, popped the kettle on, and relaxed with a nice cup of herbal tea.

Tessa:

I drank my scorching herbal tea, while scratching the cat’s ears, which she loved. I shivered as I looked at the picture of the igloo’s in Alaska. Must be freezing!

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

Scorching igloo herbal cat? What is a herbal cat and why scorch your igloo? Could this be a Shakespeare spell? The three witches stirring up mayhem. Bang, crash, wallop, smash!

Pensivity101:

In the scorching heat, all you need is herbal tea and a cat nap. Ah, the igloo is absent in my tale. Maybe that helped to make it iced tea?

Sexagenarian Scribbler:

Lapland was freezing! Back from visiting Santa in his igloo, with a herbal tea in front of a scorching fire, a purring cat by my side, I’m in heaven!

Christopher Farley:

Shame the day wasn’t scorching when I spat my tea and melted a hole in the igloo thanks to making herbal tea with the cat’s catnip instead of my camomile.

Ann Edall-Robson:

The simmering herbal tinctures added to the scorching heat in the kitchen. Time to follow the cat into the igloo room. The AC hummed. Icy droplets formed with every breath.

Richmond Road:

Robert, the herbal zen cat, emerged from his mystical igloo into the scorching furnace of reality before falling, with reverence, into deep meditations upon the alarmingly conceivable existence of Dog.

Sharon’s Writers Tidbits:

Cat was livid from the scorching argument with her sister Jane. Sipping a herbal tea Cat plotted her deadly revenge! She would then bury the body in an igloo. Hah!!

Several words over 30, but still good:

Adarsh G:

The only way left to live upon in this adverse weather is to be intact in Igloo, scorching fuel from the woods, having a herbal tea for a better immunity and giving extra care to my sweet pussy cat always playing around me. To never let me feel alone around the corners.

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

  1. I tried on my new yoga pants but that fiend of a parrot whistled and said “Who’s a pretty boy, then?”

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    1. Ha! That is clever!

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      1. Jacqui my dear, I thank you. 😊

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    2. That’s brilliant! I can just imagine that 😂😂

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      1. I’ll send you a ph… no, actually, better not.🤣

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  2. The yoga fiend wanted to parrot a tall tree.

    He stood on one foot. He raised his arms.

    He fell down.

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    1. That’s very clever. Thank you, Frank.

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  3. Skip that yoga studio.  Screams from a hellish fiend broke out whenever we did a downward dog.  They have a parrot…

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      1. Thanks, Esther 🙂

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      2. I forgot to mention – I have a parrot and there is no sound on Earth as blood curdling as a parrot that is being ignored…

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      3. Oh, Trent, that made me laugh.

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  4. The parrot finished his yoga and decided that a fiend howl would be a fun wake up call at three AM.

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    1. That’s put me off parrots 😂😂

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      1. Yeah, you have to be careful.

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  5. i could parrot

    not ape

    yoga mat

    laundry tat

    rags to richs

    and them exes

    we ditches

    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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    1. Thank you for joining in, Utahan

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  6. She looked like an angel but she had black wings and a rusty halo, reminiscent of a witch in a book.

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    1. Witch was meant to be fiend 🤦‍♀️

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      1. I knew what you meant! 😆

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    2. I like that very much, Robbie.

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  7. What a fiend! My pet parrot ate all his fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds and pellets while I was doing my yoga.

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    1. Thank you for your fab story, Tess 😊

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  8. Let’s do yoga, let’s do yoga, my parrot kept repeating. He’s been such a fiend since I broke my hip.

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    1. That’s really funny. Thank you for joining in, Darlene.

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  10. That fiend pet parrot of mine squawed at me the whole time I was doing my yoga. I couldn’t focus! Relax…

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    1. Very good, Kim 🥰

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    1. Thanks, Joanne. Glad you enjoyed them.

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  11. So much fun, Esther. I get such a kick out of these.

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    1. I’m really glad you enjoy them.

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  12. Fiend (a strange horrific monster) Parrot, (a multi coloured noisy bird yoga

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    1. Very good response to the prompt.

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  13. Fiend (a strange horrific monster)
    Parrot (multi coloured bird)
    Yoga (note to follow parrot)
    Which will bring us back to Fiend!

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    1. I’ve trashed your other one. This is brilliant!

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      1. Had to try a different tack!

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    1. Thank you so much for joining in 🥰

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  15. The parrot sat on his perch in the yoga studio. When the instructor said, “Breath” the bird squawked, “you yogi fiend.”

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    1. That made me laugh. Thanks, Ann.

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  16. Blackbeard was a cruel fiend .He made his parrot dance the hornpipe on as yoga mat to earn a juicy apple.

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    1. That’s so funny 😂😂

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  17. ‘I’ll show you yoga, you fiend!’ the parrot hissed. ‘Let me out of this cage, before I create a real racket!’

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    1. That’s fab. Thanks so much for your story 😊

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    Practising my yoga whilst trying to watch Sleeping Beauty on the tele,
    the parrot squawking ‘Fiend, fiend!’ at Maleficent isn’t helping!

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    1. A great story! Thanks, Val.

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        Thanks Esther

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    1. Thank you so much for joining in.

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      1. Always a challenge and a pleasure, Esther!

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