We’re over halfway through the week and counting down until the weekend. Here’s your new story challenge.
Can you tell a story in 50 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- VENDETTA
- COOL
- DOUGH
- WHEEZE
- SPIDER
- REFLEXOLOGY
Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 40 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- CURL
- POTION
- ROBIN
- UNI-CYCLE
- BOMBAST
Here are your fabulous stories:
Her long hair was soft and had one single curl over her brow.
She used some type of potion from the feather of a Robin.
She rode her uni-cycle to the store and cared less about others bombast of her!
“Drink THAT?”
“It’ll curl the hair on your chest.”
Katie laughed but downed the potion.
“Nothing yet… Oh my goodness!!!”
With all the comedic bombast of a hippo on a unicycle Katie did an interpretive dance.
“See?” Robin said, laughing.
The Robin and the Curlew watched as the gulls bombasted the holidaymakers, who refused to share their food.
“Did that large one say ‘Vegan-Option’ or ‘Magic-Potion’?”
“Neither! It told them to ‘make like a uni-cycle and scoot!”
A girl with golden curls named Robin rode her uni-cycle past Pete’s house every day. He tried to talk to her, using bombast in his language, but she ignored him. Pete wished he had a love potion!
Curling her palms around her usual potion, Robin tried to seal her ears to the bombastic recitations of the exploits of the geriatric uni-cyclist seated on a barstool to her right. Friday afternoon club was less fun in one’s seventies.
The circusmaster’s bombast announced Robin as the world’s best. But backstage, a dizzy Robin sorely regretted downing so much secret potion. Nonetheless, he fluffed his curls, adjusted his leotard, and peddled his unicycle through the curtain and into the ring.
Nicola Daly:
‘It was that PC Bombast who arrested me. Caught me pinching the front wheel of a Robin Reliant for my uni-cycle. Ever so nice about it, he was. Even gave me some potion to perk up my curls.’
‘Oh Grandma!’
Robin peddled his uni-cycle around the Artistic Butter portion of the factory. Taking particular care scrutinizing his favourite station, flowers; especially the creativity of the petal curl. His caustic critiques and theatrical gestures had earned him the nickname Bombast.
Moving a curl from her eyes, Robin pronounced with a bombastic cackle the ancient curse over the potion:
“When you drink this you shall be
a uni-cycle. He – he – he.”
Darren swallowed it all like a fool.
Nothing happened.
After stealing Batman’s selection of natural oils and devising a lotion to make his hair curl, Robin sped away on his uni-cycle, leaving Batman to simply stand there while mouthing unheard bombast and waiving his fist at the wigged wonder.
Riding a uni-cycle around town, wearing a hat with a robin perched on top, hollering, “Come one, come all … Buy my energy potion!– it will curl your hair and your toes!” Well, the townspeople just laughed at his bombastic claims.
Kate in Cornwall:
Celebrated French athlete, Monsieur Robin Bombast, took gold in the 2024 Olympics with his crowd-pleasing triple-curl uni-cycle feat. However, he was stripped of his medal when it emerged he had taken a performance enhancing potion to keep upright. The dope.
That day, I wore a robin blue dress, my curls tied up. After my daily practice, I put my unicycle away and pulled out my potions. I spent the rest of the day creating a potion for my bombastic ex-husband.
The other day, I was riding my uni-cycle when I was bombasted by a flock of robins. I went into the house, grabbed my magic healing potion. Afterwards, I curled up with the latest novel by Esther Chilton, The Storm.
Curly sat on the uni-cycle. He wanted to try and ride it. But his bombastic teacher Robin wouldn’t help him. Curly remembered the potion his friend had given him. He dropped it in Robins water and was soon happily cycling.
Murray Clarke:
Robin was a very talented young individual who joined the circus and performed amazing tricks on his uni-cycle that would make your hair curl! After first downing a lethal potion of prescription drugs and alcohol, he’d descend rapidly to bombast.
Robin, a redhead with a curl was a clown. Another clown, who rode a unicycle, loved Robin. He found a witch who, with much bombast, brewed a love potion for him to give her. But she refused to drink it.
After the latest influencer bombast there is no surprise in seeing a girl named Robin on a unicycle chugging a potion that she says will likely curl her hair.
Time to curl up on the sofa and let the sleeping potion get to work.
She dreamt of robins singing on unicycles which soon became overbearing bombastic chanting.
She woke up screaming and threw the witch’s brew in the bin!
With reckless bombast, Robin rides a motorized unicycle. Crashing into a bowl to join a birdie bathing bacchanal, which Robin hadn’t been invited to. A party where illicit potions were being served that would curl their little dirty birdy feet.
Unicycle-riding clown Rolling Robin made a tragic error in judgement. He believed beguiling Wizard Bombast when he said drinking his potion would allow Robin to perform a perfect tightrope curl. Bombast was lying, of course, and now Robin feels miserable.
I call my uni-cycle Bombast. My favourite trick is to drink a home -made potion to improve my balance, then cycle around with my pet robin on my head, hoping he wouldn’t get his claws stuck in my curly hair.
The robin in the tree watched the old Mr. Bombast whom nobody liked as he massaged a potion onto his huge bald head. A moment later a young red head with curls jumped onto his uni-cycle and took off grinning.
Robin rode her uni-cycle through the misty forest, clutching a curl of ancient parchment. With bombast, she chanted a spell. The potion shimmered. Trees bent in awe. The air split—magic returned, and the forgotten world woke again.
Robin blasted down the street on her unicycle, curls bouncing in the breeze. She swerved out of her lane, and a driver yelled at her with bombast. She didn’t care. The potion was more important.
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Esther Chilton 
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