We’re nearly at the end of another busy week. I hope you’ve had a good one so far. Here is your new story challenge: can you tell a story in 64 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- NURSE
- TABASCO
- INVISIBLE
- SPIDER
- WINDMILL
- MOUSTACHE
The previous challenge was to write a story in 56 words using the following five words in it somewhere:
- HYENA
- CHEMIST
- MOBILE
- JIVE
- CHEESECAKE
Here are your witty stories:
Lou by the Sea:
Progress?
Once he’d finished his cheesecake for lunch the chemist considered his next experiment – to mix the DNA of a hyena with a 1950’s rock-a-billy. This brought him great success as he created the world’s first jiving hyena. The chemist celebrated by turning the jungle drums into mobile phones. It was another sad day for the world.
“Let’s take it from the top!”
“Hahaha, Felicity.”
“Really, Topper – it’s not a laughing matter.”
“Well, Felicity, call me a hyena, and nibble my cheesecake!”
“What?”
“I looked it up on my mobile’s Improv App.”
“That’s quite random.”
“You’re not wrong. The other suggestion was, ‘Get me to a chemist and jive my ass off!’”
“Hmm.”
Nicola Daly:
Laugh? We laughed like a bunch of hyenas. Never thought we’d see old Bossy Boots Brown dressed like a cheesecake doing the jive with the chemistry teacher. Who knew she was so mobile – all she ever does is sit in her office giving out detentions. Pity she’d confiscated my phone else I could have recorded it.
Tony:
In my delirious kitchen, a critical Hyena applauds while a serious chemist whips the sauce as if defusing a butter bomb. My mobile plays a heroic jive. I imitate Jamie Oliver’s English comic version, laughing at a too perfect cheesecake. Magical result, slightly suspicious, but oddly delicious.
A recipe in fifteen minutes to die of laughter…
Diabolical Jive
The chemist decided to hide his experiment in cheesecake!
Jive’s hyena laugh shook the basement’s cobwebs as he maneuvered his wheelchair toward his laboratory.
Although he wasn’t mobile, he could still CONQUER the WORLD by diabolically altering human DNA. There’d be no charge for “Sweet Salvation”, and he’d label it “Safe, All-Natural and Lactose-Free … Supplies limited”.
Hyena Hattie, a jive talking short order cook, drove around in a mobile cheesecake truck. Using her chemistry knowledge, she experimented with the recipe, and the result was a big inedible mistake. So she gave up making desserts, and began a photography booth – for glamour and cheesecake photos. This time her mobile truck was a hit.
Susan Batten:
The chemist zapped through the web sites on her mobile, looking for her favourite cheesecake recipe, but all she could find were “how to jive” videos and footage of mating hyenas.
The doctor stared at Charlie, the hyena. The veterinarian/scientist was waiting for Charlie’s reaction to a treat of cheesecake for two tasks the hyena had completed. It was a rare occurrence for the mobile veterinary chemist to see such a reaction, but chuckled as Charlie began to dance the jive, showing his appreciation for the treat!
The mobile chemist was heading to the Cheesecake Factory to deliver a Zoloft prescription to the head chef. Reaching for the radio dial to turn off the song “Jive Talking,” he had to swerve to miss a Hyena in the road laughing at him. He figured the chef would not miss one pill.
The chemist had a secondary mobile business as a novelty cake maker.
His latest request was for a cheesecake in the shape of a hyena for a seven year old.
This proved to be a challenge.
His first effort looked more like the jive bunny, but practice made perfect and the child was thrilled with it.
Murray Clarke:
The chemist shop was heaving. The queue for prescriptions snaked back to the door. Alfie, an elderly gentleman with a walking stick, was shouting abuse into his mobile – occasionally laughing hysterically like a hyena. The others regarded him with great suspicion. An octogenarian lady, jiving like a jitterbug, munched on a slice of cheesecake. Utter madness!
Did you ever see an elephant fly?
Well I seen a horse fly
I seen a dragon fly
I seen a house fly
But I’ve never seen such a mobile laughing hyena jive, so we’ll just have to put it down to either a very sugary cheesecake or a very talented but somewhat legally dubious chemist.
Kate in Cornwall:
“Which legendary dancer invented the jive?”
“General knowledge? Seriously?”
“Leonard! Put your mobile down. Question 46: when did legendary chemist, Emil Fischer invent the cheesecake?”
“Bloody ridiculous.”
“Leonard! Phone! Question 47: Which legendary zookeeper bred a cross between a hyena and a…Leonard!”
“Here’s one for you – why did the legendary Leonard just book an Uber?”
The night-shift chemist watched a hyena video on his mobile, trying to stay awake. Outside, rain tapped the windows while a radio played old jive music. A late customer arrived, trading laughter for a slice of cheesecake. Strange how the quietest nights mix the oddest things into unexpected comfort.
Harry the hyena ate a peanut butter cheesecake and it was so delicious, he jumped up, did a shuck & jive, yeah man, he was really mobile!
Then a chemist was given the same and he analyzed the structure as he tasted its creaminess and declared it was created perfectly.
The Cheesecake Factory went viral immediately afterward.
A hyena stood at the top of the hill. It howled and laughed at the moon.
A chemist sat in a dark tower and plotted to create chaos.
A mobile cafe had opened and it’s owner was making jive cheesecake.
She succeeded in feeding it to the hyena and chemist. They all lived happily ever after!
A Piece of Cake
The chemist report landed on her desk. His mobile lab; makeshift, brilliant, untraceable.
Torres brought cheesecake to the interrogation room. A calculated move.
He laughed, that hyena sound she’d heard in her nightmares.
“Don’t try to jive me, You need something.”
“A name,” she said. “Your next victim.”
He took the cheesecake. “Sit down, Helen.”
Laughing like an hyena, Snidely Whiplash sat on a park bench eating strawberry cheesecake while surfing on his mobile phone. He had just quit his job as an assistant chemist at the Dudley Do-Right chemical plant. As Bullwinkle walked past he started talking jive to the moose about some bear named Yogi and a picnic basket.
The Wrong Snack Choice?
As a chemist he should have known that an unrefridgerated cheesecake was like poison. He was not doing the jive, but writhing in pain in the middle of nowhere in the bushes. The mobile had no reception, truckers did not stop for a mess like him. Only a hungry hyena seemed very interested in his fate.
Safari
My next stop was to see a majestic lion, not a hyena, I told my friend, the food chemist. I’ve got the coordinates punched into my mobile. I hope you’re done eating your cheesecake and ready to jive to my tunes! My friend didn’t hear a word because he was on the ground studying a plant.
No Laughing Matter
Chemists Meridith and Sheila were out to lunch. Meridith has been jonesing for some strawberry cheesecake despite Sheila jiving her about the caloric intake and noting that continuing to eat like this could affect her mobility. Unfortunately, the waiter said it was low-selling and removed from the menu. Sheila looked at Meridith and just laughed hysterically like a hyena.
Weird Science
An unkempt chemist discovered a unique isotope.
He decided to go mobile by testing it in the wild but a hyena appeared and drank his sample.
Suddenly the hyena cackled, started talking jive, and performed an incredible moonwalk.
The chemist cheered “Bravo!”, before realizing the beast had also devoured his only slice of celebratory cherry cheesecake.
The menu was set and the suppliers sourced. The vehicle that had once sounded like a laughing hyena when the motor turned over, now hummed. All that was left to make the dream of a mobile food truck into reality was a paint job and choose the right name. Would it be Cheesecake Chemist or The Java Jive?
Rall:
jiving about
in full swing
laughing like a hyena
a tipple too many methinks
having fun at the partythe chemist was mobile again
laid low for several weeks
after a bout of food poisoning
surprised he was eating the cheesecake
Stick a Fork in it
Naturally, when the pickings were slim in the jungle, Jose hyena, needed to seek employment elsewhere. With a family to care for, he tried working behind the counter at Java Juice and jive for a bit. But the creative chemist in him needed more. In less than two months, Jose rolled out his mobile cheesecake pop-up!
Dancing, prancing, so alive
Feeling like a winner
Thumping, pumping, jumping jive
After cheesecake dinner
Whirl and twirl with pretty girl
Screaming like hyena
What a body! Mobile hips!
Gosh! You should have seen ‘er!
But cheesecake be, alas you see
A chemistry disaster
Pretty girl too much for me
No way I could outlast ‘er.
Jive Talking
The chemist dropped his mobile into his tea
A hyena laughed loudly, ‘Hee-hee-hee!’
‘Let’s jive,’ cried the chemist, ‘there by that door!’
He replied, ‘OK, just watch me slide across the floor!’
So they danced eating cheesecake,
Until their bones did ache,
Said the hyena, ‘Now, I feel daft –
So I’m off to have a good laugh.’
At midnight a wandering hyena slipped into a city lab where a sleepy chemist guarded a glowing mobile reactor. Music leaked from the radio—old-school jive. The chemist bribed the beast with stolen cheesecake. They danced, improbable partners, until dawn, when the hyena laughed, pockets sugared, and vanished into traffic. No one believed the security footage later.
The Chemist
The mobile chemist pulled up in that terrible white van, cackling like a hyena. I hated that jive turkey. He thought he was a loved member of our community; thought himself sweet as cheesecake. But he was rotten, bitter and a tad sour. No better than any snake oil salesman. I’ll be glad when he’s dead.
the shuck and jive
mobile and alive
a hyena jackal
wolf wants
the cheesecake
beefcake medium well
do tell!
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Esther Chilton 
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