Thursday has come round so quickly this week. Here’s your new story challenge.
Can you tell a story in 54 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- GERBIL
- WONDERLAND
- ZIP
- AFTERSHAVE
- BANSHEE
Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 26 words using the following three words in it somewhere:
- ORGANIC
- CATERPILLAR
- SUDOKU
Here are your super stories:
The caterpillar was successful when he finished the suduko last night. He moved over to the organic compost pile where he read his corpus of poetry.
Rall:
Not a happy little vegemite today. Found a caterpillar in my organic salad and I read that science has discovered that sudoku players are unimaginative simpletons.
Pete:
Reconciling my checkbook was an unpleasant sudoku puzzle back in the day. I would load up the hookah with organic caterpillar and smoke cipher woes away.
Finding A Balance Between Humans And Nature
Completing his sudoku game, John noticed a caterpillar larger than usual. He realized the organic fertilizer used on his flowers was not good for the wildlife.
‘Despite vegetables being good for the brain,’ said the caterpillar, eating a leaf of organic kale, ‘I still can’t work out how to play this sudoku.’
“Nine numbers?” queried Caterpillar.
“It seems so,” answered Millipede.
“And it’s called ‘Sudoku?’ asked Caterpillar.
“And we can recycle it forever?”
“They said it was organic.”
Nicola Daly:
After a leisurely morning completing the ‘Times’ sudoku, Colin the Caterpillar had a snooze and then crawled to his vegetable patch to tend his organic cabbages.
Built It They Will Come
When she wasn’t participating in organic gardening classes to teach children how to plant flowers for butterflies, Calidora caterpillar was cocooned in her lair mastering sudoku.
Mom was working on her sudoku puzzle.
A caterpillar crawled across her newspaper.
Her toddler son grabbed it and swallowed it.
“It’s okay, Mom, it’s organic!”
The caterpillar was smart. Crosswords were for sissies, sudoku much more challenging. He crossed all eight pairs of his legs and chewed on his organic supper.
Murray Clarke:
Lord Anthony Bamford, chairman of JCB, and a keen player of sudoku, boasts his excavators are superior to his rival’s Caterpillar – especially when lifting organic vegetables.
Some People Just Aren’t Cut Out For The Job
Mr. Miller spent time in the garden doing the latest sudoku. Unable to complete it, he spits out his organic smoothie and steps on a caterpillar.
The Must-have For Some Enthusiasts
The caterpillars were lazily munching on some leaves while the professor watched his newest creation solving sudokus: The “organic AI” – the perfect brain in a butterfly.
The caterpillar crawled across the suduko square in an organic way.
Suddenly, a butterfly emerged, the magic result of completing the puzzle. It fluttered away happily.
Tom and I were walking under my umbrella to Sudoku Club. We spotted a caterpillar hanging out with us. Our eyes and lips organically met.
Non-organic Spring 2020, with caterpillar volumes unimpeded by human activities, produced more numbers than a sudoku tournament! Fattened birds later walked South avoiding Autumn butterfly traffic.
My pet caterpillar is fed only organic jasmine leaves which is why he is a big help at finalizing my sudoku puzzle.
Sudoku, the voracious caterpillar, munched on all the leaves he could see. As a vegetarian he only preferred the organic kind, free from pesticides of course.
Caterpillar’s Bash
A caterpillar threw a bash,
Sudoku, organic pancakes – what a splash!
Magicians danced free,
Till the pancakes exploded, such debris!
So it’s sticky chaos for tea!
Slow Math
Underneath the organic overgrown steps I found the dice and a blank sudoku. This will take awhile as my math is as slow as a caterpillar.
An organic farmer paused her work to watch a caterpillar inch across a cabbage leaf. Later, over tea, she solved a sudoku and smiled—balance restored.
On Matters Of Life And Death
Sitting in the morning sun
Doing the Sudoku
A caterpillar in a tree
Gets eaten by a cuckoo
Part Two
It goes to show, that’s how things go
When everything’s botanic
Round the bend, that’s how things trend
In the end we’re all organic
The End
Squirreljan:
The caterpillar entered the sudoku maze, numbered gates opening as he wriggled through correctly. Finally, he reached the grass. Yuk – humongous effort and it wasn’t organic.
As I watched the caterpillar munching on my organic cabbages, I resisted reaching for the bug tweezers and sat on the swing, calmly solving my Sudoku puzzle.
Feed Your Head
A neon green hookah-smoking caterpillar enjoyed solving sudoku puzzles under the sun, its colorful segments aligning like numbers in an organic game of life and logic.
You Are What You Eat (whatever that means)
One guy: “I swear on my grandmother’s bible… I saw a caterpillar working a sudoku!”
Other guy: “You need to quit eating all that organic crud.”
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Esther Chilton 
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