It’s time for a new story challenge. Here are your words…
Can you tell a story in 44 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- TRIATHLON
- DOLPHIN
- STYLISH
- ARISTOCRAT
- TOFFEE
Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 24 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- THESPIAN
- GOAT
- WONKY
Here are your fabulous stories:
Nicola Daly:
‘Friends! Romans! Countrymen!’ he bleated.
‘Look at him thinking he’s some great thespian,’ she snorted. ‘He’s just a silly goat with a wonky doo-dah.’
Esmerelda, performing a wonky skit with a goat, had her sanity questioned
“I am a thespian!”
A misunderstanding got her the Pride Day gig.
Murray Clarke:
Known as the “Wonky Donkey”, Gertrude the goat, was renowned for her lopsided grin, and her long grey beard like an old Shakespearian thespian.
Act 4, Scene 1
SD Raddicio enters pursued by a goat.
Rad: Oh, Thespians of Tyre, rather
a wonky donkey
than a ghastly goat.
Helen Northey:
Sophocles, a Greek pygmy goat with thespian tendencies, fell off a wonky stage and died. Tragically (yet suitably dramatic) ending his short life.
You may be a performer, of sorts, Billy Goat, with that wonky walk. You may even consider yourself an entertainer but a thespian? No.
Pete:
“haiku pebbles fall
like rain causing ripples
on upside down void”
Wonky the orator goat
Stomped cloven hoof
Took a thespian bow
Went “Poof”
Slumped on his wonky chair, Nigel knew his thespian career was over. Rejected again. Not even good enough to play Billy Goat in panto.
The thespian’s words seemed serious and dignified until a wonky goat prop collapsed on his foot. This led to snickering, then all out laughing.
Academy Award?
Won’t you give me your vote
This veteran thespian
Is acting the goat
Eyesight’s shot
Got wonky knee
Isn’t life
a comedy?
The old wonky goat got up on the stage. It had always had thespian tendencies. Today he was playing the hunchgoat of Notre Dame.
He thought of himself as a renowned thespian of the theatre. Reviews for the Wonky Old Goat suggested his career paralleled the play’s title.
The thespian’s costume went wonky mid-performance. A goat, escaped from backstage, stole the spotlight. The audience applauded, thinking it was avant-garde brilliance.
The young thespian’s big debut was ruined when his emotional monologue was upstaged by a wonky goat chewing the set’s curtain during his soliloquy.
Sanny M:
“Lovies we need a donkey not a goat,” the thespian exclaimed.
“This production is getting more like the wonky donkey story than Shakespeare!”
His parents felt rather wonky when their 8 year old thespian, having forgotten his line as wolf, started calling the 7 little goats names.
Julie, the thesbian, had no use for her wonky hip and knee. She rapped on the Magician’s door, screaming, “Heal me, you old goat!”
The thespian in goat coat balanced on a wonky tightrope. He tipped to the left and the right, and flew off to his dreamboat.
“I’m telling you, Frank. If you had seen the drunk thespian from New York City playing the part of a wonky goat, you would have wet your pants.”
The thespian wasn’t impressed when asked to portray a goat in the play.
The wonky set collapsed underneath him and all the kids laughed.
In Midsummer Night’s Dream, my character was a bit dubious. Puck’s goat- like head was decidedly wonky but as a thespian I carried on regardless.
One Bad Actor.
The thespian’s wonky lines were carved deep — a pentagram. He spoke the words. The goat was sacrificed. The devil rose. “My soul for fame.”
“I am the G.O.A.T!” the thespian proudly proclaimed to all and sundry. Her audience demurred. “She would be if her diction wasn’t so wonky.”
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Esther Chilton 
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