Well, another week has almost come to an end. Before it does, here’s a story challenge for you:
Can you tell a story in 46 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
- DEADBEAT
- CAT
- FIESTA
- SEPTIC
- BATTERY
The previous prompt was to tell a story in 39 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- INJUNCTION
- FLUFFY
- TRACTOR
- PYRAMID
Here are your fabulous stories:
There was an injunction that he shouldn’t use his tractor! So off he went to Egypt to see the pyramids! The sand there felt like his dog fluffy! Oh, it bought back memories of his half century tractor again!
Squirreljan:
The sheep’s fluffy bodies were spread out in a pyramid shape, blocking the tractor. It went to court, and the sheep were awarded an injunction against the farmer. He was banned from entering the field and removing their food.
Brian wrote, “The tractor moved the fluffy pyramid.”
“That makes no sense,” his critical mind responded.
“I know, but I’ve got to squeeze in `injunction` as well using only 39 words.”
“What does `injunction` mean anyway?” his mind wondered.
Jack Fluffy, the farmer, took his tractor to the pyramids. He wanted to pull them down, saying he hated triangles. There was an immediate injunction to stop him. “I’ll be back!” farmer Fluffy swore.
John used his tractor to clear the fluffy snow off of his long driveway. But when piled the snow he removed from his driveway in a giant pyramid blocking my driveway I called my lawyer to issue an injunction.
Murray Clarke:
Judge William J Wannamaker, part-time farmer, arrived at the court riding his bright red tractor. He issued an injunction against the defendant, Joe Moneypenny, accused him of fluffy thinking, and ordered him to stop his pyramid selling business immediately.
I skimmed the document. “What?”
The lawyer’s lips curled around crocodile teeth. “It’s an injunction against…”
“I don’t own a tractor.”
“Your pyramid scheme to…”
“Also false. Tell Frank to stuff it.”
“Which brings us to the fluffy chew-toy…”
Difficult night on building site
Tractor ceased to function
Workers hid from pyramid
Council forced injunction
Fluffy bed, where I rest my head
Feeling no sense of sorrow
Utterly sick of brick after brick
Pharaoh can wait till tomorrow
Fluffy, my Angora goat, frequently wandered into Farmer Jones’ yard. The farmer, with tractor built a pyramid of straw bales to keep him out. Fluffy, undeterred, surmounted it.
Exasperated Farmer Jones applied for an injunction against the wily goat.
The tractor waited by the pyramid, fluffy dice hanging down from the rear view mirror. The Injunction read the pyramid must be demolished. It was made of glass and metal, like the one by the Louvre. “No,” said Trump!
They’d tried to get an injunction to stop it, but failed. This was no fluffy protest as the tractors rumbled towards Whitehall. The pyramid effect of destroyed livelihoods was evident, but the presence of the tanks gave it clout.
Old farmer Joe drove his tractor right up to the pyramid shaped building’s door. Joe was not exactly your fluffy old grandpa. He received an injunction against his property, and he was going to talk to those bureaucrats, face-to-face.
Fluffy clouds drifted past the moon. Perfect lighting to deal with the equipment destined to demolish the historic hamlet, Pyramid Roofs. They’d lost the injunction, but not the fight. Tractor fuel cap removed. Salt added. High fives all around!
Injunction junction – what’s your function?
That was the song snippet from, “Schoolhouse Rock”, that the landscaping worker was singing as he plowed a pleasing design in the fluffy sand around the pyramid with his state of the art tractor.
Ah, writing a short story’s harder than hoicking a stubborn mule onto a tractor. I got an injunction against run-on sentences, but my fluffy ideas piled up like a word pyramid. Forty words? Drat. Time to edit…
Listen up, team. Last week Fluffy, the Bichon Frisé, chased her doggie tractor into my pyramid of kibbles. We need an injunction to keep her off our property – or, we could just eat her and call it a day.
Here are a couple of shorter ones. Well done for using all the prompts in so few words!:
The injunction forbids moving the giant fluffy cotton candy pyramid with my tractor. I wonder what is says about eating it?
Wilf Leahy:
Nicknamed Fluffy she started a pyramid selling group. A farmer lost all his money and his tractor, so he put an injunction on her.
Therapy Bits wrote a story for the previous prompt using the words hullabaloo, queue, slug, beam, and waffle:
At the amusement park, a slug caused hullabaloo, prompting a queue to form, while a bright beam spotlighted the culprit, nearby vendors selling crispy waffle treats to the entertained crowd.
And for the prompt before that teeth, password, honk:
The dentist’s warning: “Brush your teeth!” A car horn, a loud honk, startled me. I forgot my password! Another checkup, another set of new teeth.
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Esther Chilton 
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