It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s your new challenge.
Can you tell a story in 20 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- APOCALYPSE
- PINEAPPLE
- EXUBERANT
Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 28 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- BEDRAGGLED
- MASK
- VODKA
Here are your hilarious stories:
The bedraggled mask lay discarded in the corner of the ballroom. It watched the partiers making fools of themselves. “Vodka does that to humans,” whispered the sequinned feathers.
After a night of vodka and grapefruit juice, I took off my eye mask as I rose, bedraggled and drooling, and went in search for coffee. And water!
She shouldn’t have drank the entire bottle of vodka before she put on the avocado facemask. She screamed when she awoke to a bedraggled monster in the mirror.
Jane handed Brian the book, **The Mask of the Bedraggled Vodka Wizard**.
“It looks stupid,” Brian said.
“But it’s by The Mask itself, Brian!”
“My point exactly.”
‘Look at the state of you. You’d need a mask, hide that bedraggled face.’
‘Bedraggled? I drank Perrier. You should see me after a night on the vodka.’
The woman looked at her bedraggled self in the mirror. Too much fun last night, too much vodka. She hoped the coffee would mask her breath at work.
The Bedraggled Masked singer decided to drink Vodka before the show. But she struggled to swallow it through a funnel because of the costume. No singing, just gargling!
The Halloween party was a bad idea. The mask didn’t help much! His ex-girlfriend found him and the vodka made him bedraggled! The bathroom! The great escape zone!
Even through her self-imposed vodka-mask of drunkenness, he still looked too bedraggled to be draggled into bed – best to leave him lying in the dog’s basket.
Murray Clarke:
Looking decidedly bedraggled, Algernon woke up with a pounding headache – too much vodka the night before! He peeped out from behind his eye-mask. . . and promptly fell asleep again.
Christie stumbled, bedraggled, into the bar. Her mascara was smeared beneath her cracked mask of makeup. Hands trembling, she ordered a vodka neat, just before passing out cold.
Sylvia walked up to the bar and ordered a vodka martini. The bedraggled bartender looked up slowly.
“Vodka preference?”
“The best you got!”
“Take off your mask first.”
After my bedraggled crawl to the freezer for an ice cold belt of breakfast vodka, I threw on the mask of worker and headed out.
The bedraggled kitten’s face was a mask of comic confusion.
Trying to stand, it wobbled and fell on its nose. Someone had put vodka in the water bowl!
The heavy makeup mask could not hide the bedraggled woman’s night of risqué activity. Her reputation had routinely fallen by observers of table dancing caused by Absolut vodka.
Nicola Daly:
After one too many vodkas my mask had slipped and was looking a little bedraggled. This undercover lark isn’t as easy as they make out on the TV.
Bedraggled and lost, she stumbled into the storm, clutching a cracked mask. Lightning split the sky as she whispered goodbye, sipping stolen vodka under the weeping willow.
The mask is faltering and fragile
It could slip at any time
But her bedraggled appearance provides the ultimate disguise.
Like vodka in a screwdriver, she has hidden strength.
The break-in was not a success. The bedraggled thief’s vision was restricted by his mask. To his dismay, he had stolen a bottle of squash instead of vodka.
Kate in Kernow:
“You been drinking Vodka, our Dafydd?”
“Course not, Mam-gu, I’m only twelve.”
“You’re the biggest fibber in Bedraggled. Your Mam’ll go spare, suck this, it’ll mask the odour.”
“Now that was a brilliant idea and I’m feeling much less bedraggled, too! Those damn useless cucumber eye slices belong in a vodka martini, not a facial mask!”
Utahan15 just left off the vodka:
bedraggled and lament
the mask dropped off
wolf lupine supine and dipped
in the vagrancy
of being empty
and in need of so much more!
***
Esther Chilton 
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