Esther Chilton

Your new story challenges is here. So let’s get stuck in: Can you tell a story in 85 words using the following words in it somewhere:

• SHARK
• CONGA
• LUXURY
• BUS
• FOUR
• TOWEL
• UMPIRE
• SOUNDTRACK

The previous challenge was to write a story in 41 words using the following four words in it somewhere:

• WARLOCK
• LANYARD
• ROCKET
• CROCHET

Here are your amusing stories:

Lou by the Sea:

Pink Powers

I’m currently practicing crochet to make a floppy warlock with softened pink powers. I’ll hang him around my neck as a lanyard, hidden under my space suit. If the rocket ever reaches Mars he’ll be my constant companion, just in case.

Therapy Bits:

The warlock wore a lanyard woven in crochet, whispering spells as a rocket streaked across the sky, carrying secrets he once tried to forget, until fate circled back and demanded answers from his trembling hands beneath starlit silence tonight alone again.

Help From Heaven:

Supernatural Power

Ethan could crochet, making him seem docile. But he had rocketed to the top too fast to not be a warlock, using powers that were a little evil. His lanyard read “vice president,” but everyone knew he ran the show.

Graeme Sandford:

His lanyard said, ‘Senior Warlock: Spells, curses, knitwear, fireworks!’

‘Knitwear’ threw me, but his black crocheted cape made it all clear. 

I hired him immediately, but received a rocket up the b******e as it was for my wife’s Lamaze class. 

Nicola Daly:

So, I found the Wool and Ewe tavern, squeezed my rocket between a barbie pink Land Rover and a tractor, only to get turned away at the door by the infamous woolly warlock because my lanyard was crocheted and not knitted!

Tony:

Onirism,
At the drunken dawn of the worlds,
a warlock dragged a fire lanyard.
A rocket tore the teenage skies,
delivering his horrible shadow crochet.
The stars were bleeding, and the soul,
dazzling, was lost in an impossible escape from the light.

Sillyfrog’s Blog:

A New Age

Norman preferred business to ancient warlock culture. Most dwelled-on spell-making but he loved merchandising!

Selling “magic” could lift his kind out of the shadows. His assorted “collectable” crocheted lanyards (each with unique enchanted usefulness) flew off the store shelves like rockets.

Teleportingweena:

The heavy metal band, Warlock, had special ID tags made up to hang on the crew’s lanyards. It had a photo of a rocket ship, for their number one hit song. In their down time, they all learned how to crochet to relax.

Susan Batten:

Unfortunately, our local warlock caught his beautiful crochet lanyard in the tail fins of his new rocket. Last seen Tuesday.

Annette Rochelle Aben:

Live Evil

He wore an Armani suit, and the word warlock was on his lanyard. While the nursing home residents were told to expect a visit from Corporate that day, if they could crochet a rocket to get him out quicker, they would!

Fandango:

The warlock, wearing a frayed lanyard, muttered charms as his rocket sputtered awake. He’d spent decades trying to escape this realm, yet tonight he paused, admiring the beautiful crochet star his daughter made, and wondered if leaving was still worth it.

The Bag Lady:

Hegatha rushed to the rocket ship launch. She had forgotten to pack her warlock husband’s lanyard. She spent hours weaving the evil talisman with only a crochet needle. The talisman, as well as identity and nefarious plot had to remain hidden.

John W. Howell:

For the witches and warlock convention, Sebastian’s partner decided to crochet a custom lanyard for his credentials. So impressed was the gathering that she was busy for a year filling orders. The product was named The Rocket Lycanthrope Lanyard. There fixed them all.

Pictures Imperfect Blog:

The Elfin Warlock

The elfin warlock was hanging from a frayed lanyard, circling like a tiny rocket in orbit. He was indeed rather tiny so he was only given tiny errands by Beelzebub such as tangling the yarn Granny used for her crochet projects.

Pensitivity101:

Crochet had been his wife’s passion, and the lanyard he wore round his neck was testament to her skill. Woven into the links were tiny rockets and stars, which as a warlock, he could animate at will to entertain the grandchildren.

Murray Clarke:

Doro Pesch, the female singer in the 1980s German heavy metal band Warlock, often wore her lanyard ID around her neck during performances. Fond of crochet in her spare time, her lifelong ambition was to travel by rocket to the moon.

The Afterlove Voice:

The warlock wore a frayed lanyard holding keys to forgotten doors. By night, he’d crochet small charms, soft as starlight, to steady his hands. When a rocket split the sky, he whispered courage into its trail, and waited for magic to return.

Christine Mallaband-brown:

Warlock Jeremy sat twiddling his lanyard. He’d been in trouble all day at the magic conference and his “Big Boss” had warned him he would get the rocket if he made another mistake.

His crochet spell had better go well! Abracada!

Lily’s Corner:

Misunderstanding

“You what? You had a war with your lock?” replied Sassy’s friend. “No, I have to write about King Author’s warlock for class,” mumbled Sassy as she twirled her lanyard. “I hoped to crochet this evening and eat some rocket candy.”

poetisinta:

Wizard Waldo

The warlock’s memory was diabolical, so he started wearing a lanyard to remember his name. His wife, crocheting, looked up –

‘You need a rocket up your jacksie – conjure up a memory spell, numpty!’

Yes, Waldo was not the brightest of wizards!

iMartist:

That Time a Warlock Bought from Jessica’s Creations*

As a warlock, I just couldn’t conjure up a crocheted rocket! But I guess I’m not a very good one, so I bought an admission to a craft expo, threw on my lanyard, and set out to buy one instead.

*The Author’s Wife

The Elephant’s Trunk:

The Prophecy

The warlock clutched his lanyard – the ancient seal of his order – as the rocket of celestial fire tore open the sky. Around his wrist, a crochet of shadow and bone tightened. The prophecy had begun. There was no unraveling it now.

Kim Smyth:

I was about to crochet a lanyard for my husband’s nametag when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a rocket fall to Earth. A warlock emerged. He approaches me, eyes the yarn in my hand and poof!

Done!

Ann Edall-Robson:

The ornate lanyard around the neck of the warlock identified him as the Rocket Master, leader of his people. He’d have to renounce his position if they learned he had crafted the neck strap and not his mother the Crochet Master.

Rall:

so pretentious

wearing a crocheted lanyard

to church

so attention seeking

singing the hymns so loudly

wth clipped staccato phrasing

sounding like rocket fire

from a drunken warlord

dont’ like her chances of

joining the choir

although her audition

should be interesting

Treehugger:

The witch sat crocheting a lanyard for her warlord. Bubbling away on the fire was her recipe to give her warlord strength for the encroaching battle -sheep’s brain, garlic, toad’s foot, and crow’s eye, flavoured with a handful of wild rocket.

Utahan15:

played by maurice

the tv warlock wore a lanyard

to find endora his witch wife

he would rocket into the scene

then poof!

carom and crochet

to sachet

until a later season

ratings the main reason

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