I hope you’ve had a good week so far. One more day until the weekend. Here’s a new story challenge for you.
Can you tell a story in 18 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- GOBBLEDEGOOK
- CHAIRMAN
- SALE
Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 38 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- OPERATION
- ATTRACT
- VANILLA
- PRAM
- QUACK
Here are your fabulous stories:
Smuggling the pram wheels past Vera without attracting attention was a delicate operation. But they made a splendid go-kart. Vanilla choc-ice in one hand, David sped towards the pond, crashing amidst a flurry of feathers and indignant quacks.
Since the operation Marge thinks she’s British. You know, lorry, not truck; pram not baby-carriage. To not attract attention to this peculiarity, when she talks I loudly quack or shout “Vanilla Wafers!” Now I’m scheduled for that operation…
Nicola Daly:
It was to be a delicate operation: Dodgy Dave would quack like a duck to attract the attention of that virtuous goody-two-shoes, Verity Vanilla, whilst Lily Lightfingers stuffed the swag into the pram. What could possibly go wrong?
The big attraction of icy seductions
Operation “Vanilla” started when grandma left to see her quack. They took some pocket money, put their little brother in his pram and headed off to the ice cream parlor. “Just attract no attention!” Jules told his sister.
The doctor pushed the pram exuberantly towards the park while sipping a vanilla pineapple milkshake. His twins were the bait to attract a mate before the apocalypse came. Too bad the doctor was a quack. One never came.
Super cookies
After Dr. Quack’s brain operation on me, I smell vanilla on full moons. I attracted Harry on a midnight walk and imagined sugar cookies as he bit me. Now, on certain days, we keep the pram canopy closed.
Operation Quack, was used to attract the prize ducks from the pond. When vanilla beans didn’t worked, the pram was loaded with breadcrumbs. The poachers sat quietly, waiting for the Drake to come and dine inside their trap.
Operation Vanilla wasn’t supposed to attract attention.
Unfortunately, they hired a quack to pull it off.
Even the baby in the pram noticed.
The man stood on his soapbox, gesticulating with his top-hat at the nearby pram, full of vanilla fudge cake.
‘Leave it, Albert. The man’s just a common quack. He couldn’t attract for a haircut, let alone an operation.’
At the park, I pushed the baby in the pram, and sprayed vanilla water on us to stop attracting bugs. Maneuvering the buggy around the ducks was a major operation. The baby laughed at them, and tried to quack.
Shhh! This secret operation is on a need to know basis. Here’s the deal – buy 38 vanilla candles, put them in a pram to attract the subject. Shhh! Here he comes now! Quack Quack! Ah-hah gotcha you silly duck!
Squirreljan:
Snoopy was pushing Daisy in a pram, both disguised as ducks. As they headed towards the ice-cream van, he quacked, “Rum and Raisin?”
She quacked back, “It’s Operation Vanilla, you twit. Keep it plain or we’ll attract attention.”
Snoopy Dog and Daisy Dollops are my two rescue dogs. They would do anything for an ice-cream and they love being in my ‘stories’. They told me so!
Vanilla ice-cream always attracts my attention. The operation of the ice-cream machine twisting the milky substance into the waiting cone. Watching mums give their children the sticky treat dripping into prams. Ducks quack as they eat the wafers..
“What kind of an operation is this?”
“A quack and a charlatan – the worst kind.”
“Is that cologne?”
“No, Vanilla essence, I’m economising.”
“It’s so alluring, I’m finding you… attractive.”
“Will I need a pram?”
“No, I’m covered.”
Murray Clarke:
Doctor Skelington was a vanilla kind of a quack who, after performing a dodgy operation on a newly-born baby in its pram, was soon to attract a great deal of unwanted attention from other doctors in his profession.
Vanilla skies softened the hospital’s harsh lights. Outside, a duck gave a solitary quack beside a forgotten pram. The operation was successful, but her smile—small, unsure—seemed to attract more hope than the sunrise ever could.
In a covert operation, the detective wore a duck costume, quacked loudly, and handed out vanilla candies to young kids near the park’s pram parking area. His mission: attract and apprehend the leader of a baby snatching ring.
“Listen up. Operation PRAM* will begin at 06:30. We will be wearing vanilla scent so’s not to attract the attention of the guard dogs. The pass code is ‘duck’ and the co sign’s ‘quack.’ Everyone got that? Now get some shuteye and good hunting.”
*Proceed Right After Me.
“Operation Quack” was strictly top secret so as not to attract attention.
Vanilla pods were used to tempt the ducklings out of the nest, then gently gathered up and taken to safety with their mother in a pram.
Not the man for the job
“This is an extremely complex operation.” He said, his voice dripping with contempt. “To succeed will take technique and skill, finesse and flair, all of which you, so clearly vanilla, lack. Go back into your pram, you amateur.”
In their operation, the cons used a pram to attract attention to the cute baby, while they stole orchid Vanilla Planifolia cured pods. They were quacks who made alternative remedies to feed fantasies of desperados. They got away.
Gypsie’s Wonderful World of Words:
Operation Quack was in place, the team at the ready. The baited pram expertly modified to attract any vanilla, non-chocolate perpetrators within. This sting was set and would work, this time. Investigator Donald blew his duck whistle.
“Go!”
As Betty pushed the pram along the riverside path, a sudden quack startled her and she dropped her vanilla ice cream. The operation to attract the duck with the lettuce from her shopping bag, made the baby giggle.
A young woman needed an expensive operation. She filled her baby’s pram with vanilla-scented flowers to sell, hoping to make money to pay the quack doctor. Sadly, all she did was attract the police who shooed her away.
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Esther Chilton 
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