Can You Tell A Story In…

How’s your week been? Busy, I expect. Life just seems to be jam-packed, doesn’t it? Here is a new story challenge for you to squeeze in:

Can you tell a story in 38 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:

  • HULLABALOO
  • QUEUE
  • SLUG
  • BEAM
  • WAFFLE

The previous prompt was to tell a story in 15 words using the following words in it somewhere:

  • BUCKET
  • MESSAGE

Here are your clever stories:

Nicola Daly:

When he realised that the bucket leaked, Robinson Crusoe sent his message in a bottle.

Frank Hubney:

Ryan noticed that the message in the bucket said, “Don’t read this.”

So, he didn’t.

Kim Smyth:

My bucket list will never be crossed off until my message to repent is delivered.

John W. Howell:

Stranded on an island with no bottle. The message went out in a bucket.

Lisa A Paul:

Standing on a bucket for height, he could shout his message to the crowd.

Murray Clarke:

It has always been on my bucket list to send a message in a bottle.

Tessa:

In a bucket of sand, a message read, “For a good time, call Bambi 555-555-5555.”

Kytwright:

No I didn’t receive the message, and no I didn’t realise the bucket contained acid.

Squirreljan:

I put my message in a bucket and sent it across the stormy sea. Oops!

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

Message in a bucket? I should have used an envelope instead. Won’t fit through letterbox!

Eme:

I looked in the bucket, He’d put a message of how much he loved me.

Pensivity101:

Ah, bucket art. These were our efforts on the boat.

No message in a bottle.

Therapy Bits:

Beneath the old oak, a forgotten bucket held a message: “Love always finds its way.”

Christopher Farley:

He didn’t know the lyrics. At the pub karaoke he sang Message in a Bucket.

Ann Edall-Robson:

Water poured from holes in my bucket. The message was clear – should’ve been named Liza.

Wilf Leahy:

What do you mean the bucket is the message? You want me to fill it.

Sexagenarian Scribbler:

It seemed she’d simply kicked the bucket. The message on the mirror said otherwise.

’Bitch!’

The Elephant’s Trunk:

Stunned cow leaves message
in farmer’s bucket:

“Hey, buster! Next time warm your damn hands!!”

Utahan15:

bucket list

chuck it off

kissed good bye

and that is why

no more said

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

  1. […] Esther’s “Can You tell a story in. . . . ” Challenge,  the challenge […]

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    1. It’s fab! Thanks so much, Judy.

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  2. Brian listened to the news.

    The hullabaloo came from a queue when a slug tried to beam up a waffle.

    Brian thought. Not that he thought a lot.

    He was used to the news. He turned it off.

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    1. You’ve had fun with that! Thanks, Frank 😊

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  3. Did you see that great, big slug

    with that full-tooth beam on his ugly mug

    and spouting loads of waffle?

    2 deep and 10 yards long

    was the queue for the loo

    and the slug causing the hullabaloo

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    1. Excellent! Love that 🥰

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      1. Thanks Esther!😊

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  4. A long queue was waiting to see the entertaining hullabaloo at the liquor store around the corner. A man took a slug of James Beam bourbon and then took a waffle covered in whipped cream to the face.

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    1. Very funny. Thanks, Tessa.

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  5. Standing in an endless queue some guy way up front flashed a beam of light. He created a hullabaloo with those of us who wanted to sleep off the bourbon waffles. The infernal slug.

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    1. That’s very clever. I like that, John.

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      1. Thank you, Esther. 😊

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  6. There’s a Hullaballoo about the queue for slug waffles. The crows beam with their big beaks as they imagine worm sandwiches for tea.
    Meanwhile the Robins are waiting for their grubs! Only seagulls ate the vegitarian option… Chips!

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    1. That is so funny and so clever. Love it!

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    1. I always look forward to reading your responses 💗

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  8. The detective’s breakfast of a waffle and bacon had been interrupted to attend this hullabaloo surrounding a shooting at a concert queue. Then he saw the slug from the gun lodged in the beam. “UP THERE!” He bellowed.

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    1. I really enjoyed it. Thank you.

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  10. I was standing in the theatre queue waiting to see ‘Hullabaloo on Broadway’. On sitting down the beam from the usher’s flashlight lit up a slug crawling up my trouser leg. She pointed excitedly and started to waffle.

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    1. That’s really funny. Thanks, Sheila.

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