Hi there. I hope you’re having a good week. Here’s a new story challenge:
Can you tell a story in 70 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- SCAB
- PILATES
- TEAPOT
- GLADIATOR
- PLANK
- DOVE
- VELVET
Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 28 words using the following three words in it somewhere:
- EAVESDROP
- SPACE
- BURGER
Here are your super stories:
“But they’re planning a burger night,” wailed Desmond, snuggling into the space next to his mum.
“That’s why it never pays to eavesdrop,” replied the wise cow solemnly.
The Martians came to eavesdrop on the Vegan Society meeting. They couldn’t understand the fuss surrounding their burger-shaped UFO. Because, in space, no one can hear vegans scream.
Nicola Daly:
I have a cunning plan: if you hop to the burger van on your space hopper, they’ll be watching you and won’t notice me in my eavesdropping hidey-hole.
Millennial Musings: Facebook is so annoying. I miss MySpace. Tom never eavesdropped on me when I got drunk and ordered three Smashburgers, fries, and a diet coke.
Did you tell her?”
“Yes.”
“This’ll teach you to eavesdrop!”
He flipped me like a burger, out through the airlock.
“In Space no one can hear you scream.”
In a quiet diner near spaceport nine, I bit into my burger, pretending not to eavesdrop on two aliens plotting something strange—“Earth’s ketchup reserves,” one whispered.
In the space of two minutes I dropped my burger as an unintentional eavesdrop revealed a bank robbery plot. I called the police, they thought I was nuts.
I was at Wilson’s Space Café munching a burger and eavesdropping on my neighbors when Katie burst in.
One glance said it all.
How’d she figure it out?
Gladys, our nosy neighbor does not know what personal space is. She is always eavesdropping on others and invited herself to our burger party to hear more gossip.
Pete:
Our knowledge of space is pure speculation.
On the fringe stands The Evesdrop Inn.
Best burger for lightyears.
Their motto is:
To Serve Man
Sometimes we cannot help but eavesdrop, and in the space of two minutes, I found out what had gone in my burger and I pushed it aside untouched.
Jenna found a space below the neighbors’ window to eat her burger while eavesdropping on them. They are determined to make her move because she is a foreigner.
Murray Clarke:
I’ve been told that, in space, no one can hear you scream, or eavesdrop on your conversation. Bet they won’t spot me slinking off for a tasty burger!
Stanley hadn’t intended to eavesdrop, but at the next space at Burger King he overheard the teenage girl say, “Tonight’s the night I’m going to lose my virginity.”
Jerry stopped at the Space Burger. In the course of lunch, he couldn’t help but eavesdrop on whispered words behind him. “Where’d you hide the body?” Jerry left.
Ron:
She asks if I could write her a 28-word story using the words eavesdrop, space, and burger. I tell her I can’t. She frowns, walks away, weeping silently.
We pulled into a space at the burger shop and took advantage to eavesdrop on their conversation while we waited for our order. He was my sister’s ex-husband.
Vented space, leading to the diner’s kitchen, offered first-time-customer Bob a most fortuitous eavesdrop.
“I told ya rat meat doesn’t look like hamburger.”
“Add more bouillon then, Dumbbell!”
I was at Susan’s for burgers. Whenever Susan spoke, her Mom appeared to eavesdrop. We seemed to have no space or privacy. What’s her problem ? Leave us alone!
Don’t eavesdrop on them! Eat your cheese burger Mom told me. Use the space between your ears to think about life not gossiping! You know? she was right.
“No eavesdropping in outer space, there is no sound!” Jade scoffed sipping his astronaut-burger-puree.
“We’ll see!” Jim answered and suddenly opened the hatch. Nobody heard their silent screams.
–
The ghost sneaked into the kitchen for a burger before starting his summer job in the castle. Eavesdropping he realized nobody believed the place was haunted.
“Just wait!”
–
They were eavesdropping on their parents: Self grown veggies at the new place instead of burgers and icecream.
They shrugged.
And no internet.
Their eyes widened in horror.
Gravity-free Lunch
In outer-space an astronaut tried to eat a burger. Unbeknown to her, she was being eavesdropped on by an alien, who couldn’t resist saying, ‘…want fries with that?’
“What could go wrong in space? Not packing my lunch in my cool white case. That’s what!”
Beep! ‘A burger joint ahead.’
Nosy fellers eavesdropping on me?
Cooking burger in barely-there kitchen space
I eavesdrop on ghost of Mr Whicher ~ my darling, kindhearted love~~
must hurry, slip back to 1800s before he marries Mrs Piper!
Space Burger Drive In, the place where popular teenagers ate, and the waitress on roller skates could eavesdrop. Convincing herself it wasn’t gossiping, she retold the titillating conversations.
On the spacecraft I eavesdropped on a fellow astronaut, stating he had accidentally dropped his burger down the hatch. Now it must be in orbit around the moon.
Mary liked to eavesdrop;
she overheard that the diner’s new cook
was a space creature.
No wonder everything he made was
‘out of this world’ –
especially the burgers!
Sanny M:
She climbed into the van. “Budge up so I can eavesdrop too.” She handed him a burger. This job as a spy was not exactly what she’d thought.
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Esther Chilton 
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