It’s story time. Here is your new challenge: can you tell a story in 59 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- PSYCHSOMATIC
- CANCEL
- ACCOUNTANT
- FLUFF
- REGGAE
- NEEDLEPOINT
The previous challenge was to write a story in 34 words using the following three words in it somewhere:
- STORM
- BOOKWORM
- LIMBO
Here are your creative stories:
The wind and snow raged outside her bedroom window. Twelve-year-old Cecilie hardly noticed as she disappeared into her novel. She was in limbo, caught between a calm Caribbean beach and a New England storm.
Susan Batten:
Despite the raging storm yesterday, renowned sports coach, Runem Ragged, condemned notorious bookworm, Avida Reader to a lonely limbo outside the library in the rain.
He just said, “Words? Humbug!”
Joel watched Jessica limbo in the rain, but when it turned into a storm, he snatched her up and ran to the car. He drove to a bookstore to feed the bookworm in them.
Tony:
Critical Missing
… Under the storm, the bookworm suddenly disappeared, caught up in the limbo of the collapsed library; by morning, only his annotations were still whispering truths that no one dared understand, that obscure silent night …
Mob Ignorance
Alvin is a bookworm. He rolled his eyes at storming protestors outside keenly aware of historical human mob ignorance grabbing his noise-cancelling headphones. His opinion, for now, within the limbo of withholding militant certainty.
The storm rolled in, worse than expected. Everyone was in limbo, but not the bookworm. She pulled out her beloved books and was comforted by the words on the page.
Everyone thought he was a bookworm, but waiting for his transcripts he felt in limbo til they arrived. He spent his free time at the library where there was always a storm of books.
The bookworm Charlie Dudley took the limbo world by storm when he managed a two inch how low can you go.
The storm trapped the quiet bookworm in a strange limbo, pages fluttering like frantic wings. With each thunderclap, the story she read shifted, rewriting itself, until she no longer knew which world she belonged to.
In the midst of the gales of Storm Drang, the 83rd Cornish Limbo Championships (sponsored by ‘The Bookworm Chomps’) continued unabated.
The organisers were determined to make this the best championships yet – bar none.
No Problemo
The storm of drones had immobilized the entire city (including the library’s elevator), leaving him in a silent limbo. He didn’t care. He was a bookworm, stuck between floors, thinking, “Bring on the silence!”
Outside a violent squall was brewing.
Inside a stressed bookworm was stewing
About some overdue books in limbo
And the weather too rough to go
Brave the storm to stop the fines from accruing.
She’d always been a bit of a bookworm, so when the storm struck, settled down with her latest paperback. Three hours later she furiously threw it aside as the ending left everything in limbo!
Murray Clarke:
Leon had always been something of a bookworm – devouring every crime novel he could lay his hands on. His first published book: “Lingo” took the world by storm, and became an instant best seller.
The raging storm made the drive impossible. As she pulled over and waited in limbo for it to pass Pam noticed a little bookworm crawling across the cover of her recently purchased used book.
During the storm, the bookworm sat in limbo between chapters and thunderclaps. Each lightning flash turned pages silver, as if stories themselves were weather, waiting to break and drench her in brave beginnings.
Prospero’s Revenge
A well-versed bookworm prided himself that he could weather any storm. He kept tempting his fate with words from The Tempest. Until a cat’s paw pulled him out and he was dangling in limbo.
There was a little bookworm
He was so cute and neat
When the storm came ‘aroaring
Made mish mash of the street
Little wormy was left in limbo
As his bookish house went soaring.
Squirreljan:
In limbo land, fierce winds and nail head rain hammered down incessantly. Frustration pervaded all who were stuck there apart from the bookworms and dear old Freya who, at ninety-two, finally learned to read.
After the violent storm knocked out the power, the bookworm sat in candlelight in his den, suspended in limbo between chapters and thunderclaps, waiting for the storm to end and the lights to return.
Storm troopers from the Empire flew over the bookworm’s lair. But the force sent them into limbo until the Jedi could deal with them…
Luke and Leia worked together to remove their fearsome powers.
Reading Time
It seemed like forever to get there. Slow and steady wins the race. The storm didn’t help. The bookworm made its way into the library doing the limbo under the crack of the door.
The bookworm stood teetering on the balcony in the quiet library in limbo about dropping her book two stories below when the lightning storm startled her. The book fell, echoing with a thunderous clap.
Lou by the Sea
Metamorphosis
The storm stole my electricity rendering mobile phone juice unavailable. What to do? A state of limbo. The strange objects with pages beckoned, metamorphosing me into a bookworm. See my redundant phone forever dead?
Transformation
The bookworm waited in limbo as the thunder and lightning storm raged, pages unturned. When silence finally came, she discovered the library had been transformed and every book magically rearranged into new, incredible stories.
The loudspeaker crackled. “The library is now on emergency storm lockdown. You won’t be kept in limbo. Updates will be provided.” A loud cheer came from the Bookworm Club meeting in the back corner.
Low Bar
Confusing Carla was never a bookworm. An observation concluded when they recovered all her belongings carried off by the windstorm, and there weren’t even enough paperbacks to stack to hold her cherished limbo bar!
Jenny was in limbo between jobs. A bookworm, she was reading a book in the conservatory when a storm unexpectedly arose. A huge tree fell. The conservatory shook and began to crumble. Jenny screamed.
Reginal Longfellow and the Potential Afterlife
Reginald was a bookworm but also a know-it-all snob. Contemplating whether he should leave the library, wait out the thunderstorm, or be hit by thunder put him in a worrisome state of limbo.
Rall:
a bookworm reads theology
purgatory
limbo heaven or hell
none of them had appeal
she wondered how noah’s ark weathered the storms with all those animals on board
couldn’t find it in the book
Local library
Dry and warm
Seeking shelter
From the storm
A bookworm
Sitting. Reading. Dreaming.
Life is here. Or so it’s seeming
Past and present. Future next?
She’s held in limbo by the text
Inside Your Sky
amidst the storm
the bookwrm
swallow thunder
like a swollen river
babbling between
commas
while i –
in limbo
float haplessly
a cursive heartbeat
pulsating
inside your sky
– tonight
only raindrops
will count
the seconds
During the storm, a timid bookworm named Clara waited in the library basement, trapped in anxious limbo, listening to thunder drum above, wondering whether stories could shelter her better than walls ever had outside.
The Saga of Tom and Joe
So thankful my grandchildren were bookworms and engrossed in their new Junie B. Jones books, the plane ride from Memphis to NYC was in limbo because of a sudden storm. Tom marveled at them.
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Esther Chilton 
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