My week has flown by – I don’t know about yours. I hope it’s been a good one. Here’s a new story challenge for you. Can you tell a story in 61 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- SPONGE
- WHISTLE
- CAROUSEL
- GROOM
- BUCKET
- UPSTAGE
The previous challenge was to write a story in 40 words using the following four words in it somewhere:
- DUEL
- IGUANA
- CROISSANT
- TRAMPOLINE
Here are your creative stories:
As I ate a croissant for Breakfast I went and jumped on the trampoline for a while then all of a sudden I went to park to see my friends duel then I walked to the pet store and bought an iguana.
Lou by the Sea:
Just Desserts
Two iguanas, Iggy and Ian bounced onto the trampoline and challenged each other to a duel. Weapons of choice were a croissant and a brioche. Both weapons were effective. Both reptiles won.
Pastries choke greedy boys.
Nicola Daly:
Once the question of who could bounce highest on the trampoline had been settled with a duel, Iggy, the winning iguana, treated himself to the leftover croissant and then added notes to his bestseller: ‘How to kill off your opponent’.
In Need of Translation
Mom wasn’t good at “toddler-talk”.
Tony was loudly dueling with her while eating his breakfast croissant.
He kept shouting, “IGUANA!” at the window frazzling Mom close to tears.
That’s when I translated that “HE WANTED” to try the neighbor’s trampoline.
Duelling by igloo
Upon a trampoline
Those Eskimos are much better
Than the best that I have seen
He landed first in Chile
Where he met an Iguana
The next bounce was in Africa
Where he ate a nice banana
The iguana challenged dawn to a duel, perched beside a forgotten trampoline behind the bakery.
I arrived clutching a croissant, expecting madness.
Instead, the creature bowed politely, bounced once, and vanished into sunlight—leaving crumbs, laughter, and one impossible memory behind.
It was a duel between the iguana and the trampoline. The iguana wanted the croissant so badly, but everytime he tried to get it, it bounced off the trampoline. Who won? We may never know.
Restaurant ad – You’ll jump for joy on a trampoline for the dueling tastes of our newest croissant – Iguana/strawberry. It’s savory, it’s sweet – a real breakfast treat!
“Are you brave enough to try it?”
“Sure, it’ll go great with Lizzard Blizzard.”
The time and the date were set.
The duel between the iguana and the croissant was scheduled for early morning of the next day.
Weapon of choice was trampolines at twenty paces.
Unfortunately, being breakfast-time, and the iguana being hungry…
I decided to call out the iguana for a duel for eating my croissant. He respectfully declined,but challenged me to a trampoline competition. The winner is the one with the most flips. I think he’s done this before.
Duelling Scholars
Guaio and Collauda were fighting the cutthroats’ school duel purely as an aptitude test. While hopping on a trampoline, the combatants would throw iguanas bent into croissant shape at each other, intending to cut the opponents throat, obviously. Collauda won.
The iguana challenged the lizard to a duel using croissants as weapons.
“I accept!” the lizard declared, “provided we do it on a trampoline.”
“Crumbs to the victor!” they shouted, each fighting to get their croissants out of the wrapper.
Murray Clarke:
Not many people know this, but my great-grandfather, Lord Algernon, once challenged a Mexican iguana to a duel whilst bouncing about on a trampoline. To make it even more challenging, both contestants had to hold a croissant between their teeth.
Iguana Story
How quickly the houses had popped up in Mr. Iguana’s once small habitat.
As he pondered, he came upon a croissant lying by a trampoline, when, from behind the pole, Sammy appeared. “No croissant for you! Duel or jump!”
“What?”
The Cool One
They stood in awe of the one who called himself Iguana, purported to win every duel and was king in the trampoline.
But when his mother picked him up, feeding him croissants as snack, he was just another 5-year old.
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The Cool Ones
The Iguanas frustratedly left earth by speeding up their croissant shaped rockets on trampolines when some people foolishly claimed they were dangerous shapeshifters. In reality they were very peaceful beings, always avoided duels and had come from planet Pax. Duh!
During the duel behind the bakery, Marvin dodged expertly, bounced from a trampoline, and onto a picnic table.
An iguana hissed from beneath the wreckage while a croissant sailed into the fountain, drifting like a tiny boat beneath the moonlight.
Bounce of Honour
The duel began at dawn. Sir Reginald wielded a stale croissant while an iguana watched judgmentally from a trampoline.
One bounce later, both warriors collided midair, surrendered immediately, and opened a bakery instead. The iguana became regional manager, mostly because nobody questioned him.
Iggy Iguana was challenged to a playful morning duel in the garden. He took the quickest route, with Timmy Tortoise, out the kids’ bedroom window onto their trampoline. Throw misjudged, apologetic, little Cody’s toys both landed on mum’s breakfast croissant!
Monsieur Sebastien
An old grump iguana named Sebastian McQueen,
Did backflips all night on a squeaky trampoline,
Later he munched on a snail followed by a chocolate croissant,
Then decided to fight an duel d’honneur with his aunt – how very nonchalant!
Summer Solstice marked the town’s annual trampoline competition. Teams representing their businesses entered from around the country.
“The championship duel will be between the Croissant Nibblers Bistro and the Blue Iguana Pub.” Announced the loudspeaker. “Let the bounce off begin!”
Two iguanas were vying with each other to retrieve the croissant left in the tree house. One had the bright idea of using the nearby trampoline to jump up and snatch it. The other, slowly climbed the tree.
A duel of minds.
Rall:
iguana sultana manana
the chief of police sang by the light of the moon
jumping naked on the trampoline
waving a sword having an imaginery duel
too many croissants laced with
who knows what
presented to him
from the prison cooking class
To the Death or Brunch, Whichever Comes First
The “Iguana” had challenged me to a duel. I scanned the perimeter to make a hasty exit on a trampoline near a fence, made a mad dash and took a leap, luckily landing on a table of freshly baked croissants.
Duel at Dawn
Jerry, the frilled-neck lizard, challenged his nemesis, Iguana Pete, to a duel at dawn.
The stakes: one buttery croissant.
They faced off on the trampoline, bouncing furiously.
Jerry lost his balance first.
Iguana Pete ate breakfast alone, victorious and smug.
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Esther Chilton 
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