It’s story time. How long does your story need to be? Well, this week I’m looking for two stories. You can do either challenge or both!
Challenge one:
Can you tell a story in 7 words? You must use the following word somewhere in the story:
- IMPOSTER
Challenge two:
Can you tell a story in 50 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
- COAT
- PIE
- QUALIFY
- LATIN
- AUNT
- MAZE
The previous prompt was to tell a story in 35 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- YETI
- BURGER
- ZOOM
- TABOO
Here are your fun stories:
Niki Daly:
‘I’ve just had the weirdest Zoom call with my yeti friend.’
‘What was weird?’
‘He told me it’s strictly taboo for yeti to eat burgers but has got a new job in McDonalds!’
‘Huh. Weird.’
Zoom is my pet yeti that loves to be online. His hobbies include being in a taboo group that meet once a week to discuss things they do, where he eats a cheeseburger in paradise.
His last Sherpa guide disappearing into the strengthening blizzard, Mark collapsed.
“Why?” he moaned to the Himalaya peaks surrounding him.
His mind zoomed back. He knew.
He regretted that taste of the taboo Yeti Burger…
A yeti burger should have been taboo, and yet, we found the idea quite appealing. Though just like the indistinct images you have to zoom in on to ‘spot’ one, the burger was similarly questionable.
A yeti walked into a bar.
“Gimme burger, zoom.”
“You want a ‘room’, Ricky?”
Ricky nodded.
“It’s unlawful to serve imaginary critters in these parts, but take the room on the left.”
“Taboo.”
“You’re welcome.”
“I know it’s not your fault you’re a yeti but try to at least control yourself. Walking in here chewing on a burger while I’m on a Zoom call to a client is strictly taboo.”
I was on Zoom in a meeting when I got peckish. I looked at my co-workers tattoo and saw it was a himalayan ape. I suddenly realised I wanted a yeti burger. Yum! Really exotic.
The mere mention of meat was taboo in her house yet they zoomed towards her buffet table just as she announced the creation of the Yeti Burger: so near, and ‘yet’ so far from beef!
The yeti, long a taboo subject, suddenly appeared on a Zoom call. As the world watched in astonishment, it ordered a burger, breaking the internet and challenging all myths about its existence.
Murray Clarke:
“From the summit of Mount Everest, the yeti made a Zoom call to Burger King. With no errant climbers to eat that day, he was hungry. However, consuming humans was a taboo subject in Nepal.”
Don’t zoom past the Taboo Burger Diner. It’s located in the middle of nowhere, shrouded in legends and lore. Stop, eat, hike the trails. You might be one of those who sees the elusive yeti.
I met a yeti and invited him to join me for a burger. He declined, saying that would be taboo because he’s vegan. But he’d be happy to meet me online via a Zoom call.
Yonnie the yeti was eating a burger for lunch. While taboo, he had to munch something quick before his Zoom meeting with the boss. Oh well, maybe he will be forgiven his sickening, egregious sin.
A yeti on roller skakes
was especially taboo for the area;
perhaps no more so than one
delivering burgers at a drive-in.
People got their food with a zoom.
Afterwords they needed to be groomed.
I zoomed in on my camera. My pet yeti was munching on a burger. Meat is taboo. He knows the house rules, but he is too big to argue with. He does as he pleases.
My parents were dead set against me
marrying my boyfriend, Yuri the Yeti;
they screamed “TABOO!”
But one taste of his yummy barbecued
yak burgers and they were on Zoom
bragging to all their friends.
Yeti’s love meat! Burgers especially. So, imagine how taboo veganism is among them. Unfortunately, Albus doesn’t have to imagine. Every day, he’s pelted by snowballs while he zooms by on his bike for his choice.
Here are a couple of stories inside or outside the word limit but using all the prompts:
It was a taboo to talk about yeti in their Orthodox Buddhist household. Burgers and fast foods were restricted! But zoom calls were allowed for him to attend online classes, not so fun!
he was a yeti
and unsure if she was ready
as per morris taboo to love!
as time went further rather a burger with shrooms and onions!
and listening to zoom from and by both jeff lynee and the commodores!
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Esther Chilton 
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