I hope you’re having a great week. It’s now time for your new story challenge. Can you tell a story in 52 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- PIROUETTE
- COMIC
- EGG
- WRESTLER
- SYLLABLE
The previous challenge was to write a story in 38 words using the following four words in it somewhere:
- CHAMPAGNE
- TOWER
- OVERDRAWN
- DIPLOMA
Here are your very clever stories:
Despite her account being overdrawn, she purchased a bottle of expensive champagne. Taking it up to the top of the tower, she removed her diploma from the envelope, popped the cork and drank a toast. Well done me!
At graduation night, her diploma trembled as the champagne tower collapsed, applause turning to laughter; by morning, celebration faded, accounts were overdrawn, yet she smiled, knowing beginnings wobble before they rise, and perseverance builds steadier towers tomorrow anyway.
I cared not that my account was overdrawn as I went to the tower to sip champagne in celebration of getting my diploma. Luckily, I managed a glass before it was discovered that I had no money left!
A Simple Solution
There is a simple solution to every problem. Now he would prove it. With champagne tastes on an overdrawn bank account and a college diploma just a dream, he stepped to the edge of the tower and jumped.
Dem Wuz Da Days
It’s all over.
Despite my (PhD) diploma, and even though I’m sipping my (last) glass of champagne in my luxurious tower home, my account’s overdrawn and I can’t even afford to write a story in exactly 38 words.
As she stood on top of the tower with her diploma in one hand and a glass of champagne in the other, it suddenly hit her that her bank account was beyond overdrawn and there was no money.
Ralph was a tower of strength to Cheryl with her champagne couloured hair. He even got overdrawn at the bank to help pay for her diploma. He didn’t know Cheryl was going out with Tom behind his back.
Overdrawn, Overdressed, Overeducated
At graduation, my overdrawn wallet toasted champagne dreams atop a tower of regrets; the diploma smiled, knowing success begins when humor survives debt, gravity, and relatives applauding the wrong person while I bowed, confetti fell, pants split, oops.
Purchasing Pride
The Ivory Tower most certainly has turned champagne colored. Only the wealthiest elites are able to buy a diploma. Degrees have no value to most but for ruining their credit for life and keeping their accounts perpetually overdrawn.
Safely tucked away in the hotel’s finest tower suite, the new bride and groom sipped champagne from gold-trimmed flutes, while staring at the groom’s newly acquired diploma from Harvard University. Alas, if only their bank account wasn’t overdrawn. Well, that was fun!
Standing on the tower edge atop his building, poured the champagne over his diploma, realizing it was only a worthless piece of paper. His job was gone, his family gone, accounts overdrawn, so stepping off, he was too.
Wilfred Leahy:
I had only received my diploma yesterday but here I am standing look up at the tower block.
Entering the penthouse, there on the table a glass of champagne and a cheque for my overdrawn bank account. “WHO?”
It was Posh Day at Oil-Drum Lane,
Albert had arranged the Champagne Tower (going overdrawn in the process), and Harold was counting… the cost.
It took no Diplomat to work out that things could only go terribly wrong.
Susan Batten:
I nearly choked on my champagne when I saw how much I was overdrawn. They’d awarded me a diploma for my Tower Complex design, but as yet they hadn’t paid me a bean.
In studying for her diploma in economics, it was ironic she was well overdrawn at the bank, but she didn’t care.
Champagne flowed like water down the tower of glasses as she toasted her success with her family.
Murray Clarke:
Having successfully achieved her Wedding Planner Diploma, Sheila began to design a stunning Champagne Tower, with sparkling wine overflowing into the tiers below – a costly affair, guaranteed to cause the bride’s father to become overdrawn at the bank.
Overdrawn at the bank and restless, she climbed the old tower at sunrise clutching her diploma. A stranger popped champagne, celebrating an unplanned reunion. Between laughter and bubbles, debts seemed trivial, dreams rekindled by fresh air and unexpected joy.
A Diploma Regained
The tower was surrounded by a moat allowing access only via a hopelessly overdrawn drawbridge. “Champagne! ” hollered the guard dangling off the railing inside the wrong side of the gate. He had just revived his suspended diploma!
Nicola Daly:
I signed up to do that diploma course where you turn empty bottles into a model of the Tower of London. Only problem? I chose champagne. And now I’m overdrawn. That’s not my only headache – pass the Alka-Seltzer.
‘I’m overdrawn,’ Lily exclaimed at the atm machine, her new diploma in her hand.
‘I’m skint! What about the celebrations?’
‘This way,’ said Rosie, dragging them into a wedding nearby, picking glasses from the tower of champagne!
‘Cheers!’
I was in the Champagne region of France when I saw the tower. I got my sketchbook and used an overdrawn technique. This would be good for my art diploma, it made a great illustration the landscape thesis entry.
The bartender’s diploma said he was a master at mixing drinks. However, his specialty was stacking full champagne glasses into a tower. The crowd cheered him on, but he was overdrawn by one glass. Splash! Down they fell.
Living alone in an ivory tower
Gold-plated toilet
Champagne shower
Awards on wall. Fake diploma
Winter is in Athens. Summer in Roma.
Overdrawn at the bank
Find it funny
With passion in the tank
And Daddy with money
Starting Today
An overdrawn bank account, a champagne-coloured dress and matching heels that made Jill tower over her classmates are all that’s left from her graduation. Today marks the day she puts her diploma in business finance to good use.
High in Dubai
Axl’s film school diploma promised Hollywood glory.
His debut: King Kong climbing Burj Khalifa while balancing a champagne tower.
The ape costume rental left him overdrawn.
Critics called the movie “abysmal”.
Still, it got more views than “Cats”!
The winning Rural Words Diploma had gone to a city dweller. A contradiction in his mind, or had his overdrawn expectations failed him. With an unsteady swat, the tower of submission papers toppled over. Champagne could fix anything.
To Stand Out Can be Nice or Painful
Once again his gestures were overdrawn: Smashing the magnum bottle of champagne on the dance floor to celebrate his diploma was stupid and sadly showed that the giant, big as a tower, still did not fit into dwarfland.
Having studied hard for my diploma. I had achieved my dream and the champagne flowed. My parents had been a tower of strength and now I had to admit to them that I was overdrawn at the bank.
Squirreljan:
So, I’m a traitor. Well, I’ve got a diploma in it so I must be. Forget the champagne and the last supper. Just lead me to the block in the Tower and don’t let the process become overdrawn.
Celebraciones!
A lad got his Art diploma in Spain,
he wanted to toast his success with champagne,
But alas he was overdrawn,
All his money was gone,
To the rescue, came his mum a tower of strength – once again!
towering champagne
lions with their pride s mane
overdrawn on the fear and emotion
the king rex rey
both tomorrow and today
gets the diploma for ruling
fast and furious
true and also spurrious!
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Esther Chilton 
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