It’s Thursday, so it’s story time.
Can you tell a story in 41 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- MIRAGE
- DUNK
- QUIBBLE
- VAULT
- WORM
Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 30 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- DEVIOUS
- BRICK
- CHICKEN
- TUNNEL
Here are your laugh out loud stories:
Niki Daly:
That devious chicken – he’s only bricked up the tunnel to the wine cellar so I can’t get any red wine. And I was so looking forward to coq-au-vin for dinner.
A fried chicken sat like a brick in the pit of my stomach. Entering the tunnel of intestinal intrigue, it left me seeking devious ways of seeking relief for myself.
With a brain like a brick and tunnel vision eyes, Brian, the know-it-all, asked with a devious smirk, “Why did the chicken cross the road?”
No one cared.
‘Twas a devious trick
to throw a brick
while I tried to catch
a chick-en
for lunch
So I had to catch a gunnel
and eat it in the tunnel.
Sent to prison to spend my days
All bricked up for my devious ways
Stole a chicken one moonlight night
Crossed the road through a tunnel tight.
Wasn’t worth it.
Tony:
In a tunnel, a sneaky thief was running away with a full bag. A brick fell, he tripped. Suddenly the bag opened… a chicken escaped, rumbling towards his cherished freedom.
The cave had a brick entrance and a narrow tunnel you had to crawl through. I didn’t want to go, but they called me chicken, my devious so-called friends.
The chicken pecked at a brick of the wall in the tunnel. “Bertha! Concentrate!” His devious plan to find the hidden entry was suddenly endangered by a stupid buzzing mosquito.
John W. Howell has done it in 24 words:
The devious chicken made her escape by digging a tunnel and knocking poor farmer brown out with a brick when he tried to stop her.
Mr. Pluckmenot, devious chicken plucker, entered the tunnel secretly. ‘Twas a trap for innocent, naive fowl looking for safety. After they assembled, brick fences lowered and record breaking plucking done.
The devious fox placed a brick by the chicken tunnel under the street, it waited and as the fowl crossed the road it knocked them out before feasting on them!
Having recently graduated from a red-brick university coop, the chicken was well able to see that the light at the end of the tunnel was just another devious illusion.
Meet Scraggy, our last chicken to pass through the rainbow tunnel to the next life. Her plumage was brick red, and she was pretty devious when it came to food!
Murray Clarke:
Sly Sam and his mate Slippery Sid hatched a devious plan to steal a chicken from its coop. The idea involved the construction of a brick tunnel under the farmyard.
Paul’s devious plan was to throw a brick through the butcher shop’s window to steal a chicken or two and then to escape through a tunnel at a nearby park.
That hick was devious for crawling through the tunnel to my chickens. I hit him with a brick before he could steal their eggs. I know they’re expensive, but really??
Squirreljan:
The devious chicken entered the tunnel which went under the yellow brick road. This way, she managed to cross it peacefully, without being constantly pestered about why she wanted to.
Godfather, forgive me. Devious acts delayed me at the tunnel when a brick was thrown through my windshield. Thank God, your favorite chicken parmigiana, homemade by me, was not defiled.
He could see over the brick pile at the tunnel entrance to Chicken Road. Memories flooded back—drag racing, parties, loud music and devious planning that made it all happen.
A devious chicken, armed with a brick, dug a tunnel beneath the barn. It emerged, triumphant, into the farmer’s pantry, snatching crumbs while the farmer slept, unaware of the heist.
A couple of great stories over the limit:
The brick oven was a tunnel. Any second now the whistle will sound and the precious cargo will be delivered to my stomach, thought Terry. “Woooooot!” At last! The crisp, golden, chicken pizza! Nevermind how devious the ingredients are!
Utahan15 was slightly over the limit:
it is of course a devious day
cos devil in details brick way
harms way!
a maze a rats trap
and that is fact flat world
bereft the tunnel
that was home
chickin am i
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Esther Chilton 
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