Esther Chilton

Thursday means it’s story time. Can you tell a story in 62 words using the following words in it somewhere:

• LASSO
• IMPERSONATE
• SHRINE
• VIDEO
• JANITOR
• CONGEAL

The previous challenge was to write a story in 37 words using the following four words in it somewhere:

• PROPHET
• DUNGAREES
• SWAGGER
• CASTLE

Here are your clever stories:

Nicola Daly:

Wearing figure-hugging dungarees, the prophet swaggered across the sand, sat, and built a sandcastle.

‘I’m the all-seeing One and I’m here to save you all,’ he chanted. ‘And glug-glug-glug…’

Shame he didn’t see the wave behind him.

Graeme Sandford:

The mighty prophet stood upon the castle battlements, his back held straight – and was cast off… like an old pair of dungarees. No more would he swagger about the place. His fall from grace was truly spectacular.

Crystal:

I once had a prophet in dungarees ask me to marry him and when I said yes he had more swagger than any man should but that’s OK because he took me to live with him in his castle and treated me like a royal queen.

Squirreljan:

The devil in blue dungarees loped towards the castle, a swagger in every step. He held out a ring. “No,” I said before ducking. His fist cracked against the wall. Thank goodness I’d heeded the prophet’s warning.

A Jeanne in the Kitchen:

The young prophet was not what we expected. He swaggered up to the castle in dungarees, a sweatshirt and flip flops. His look was casual, but his message profound.

The Bag Lady:

Strolling into the castle with his usual swagger, a young man dressed in dungarees and shirt with an obscene photo of the old prophet, emblazoned in bright 3D print, led his fellow objectors in a loud protest.

Therapy Bits:

Inside the castle a young prophet in dungarees walked with swagger, warning villagers of change as storms gathered beyond the walls and destiny unfolded beneath ancient stones and trembling banners tonight under fading twilight sky burns.

Lou by the Sea:

Poor Performer

She was an unusual prophet, donning oily dungarees and had a swagger like Brando . She lived in the castle and held court with those who would listen. The castle burned down. She was crap at her job.

Sillyfrog’s Blog:

Modern-day Acclaim!

Sir Jeffrey-a “modern-day” ancient prophet-walked with a swagger and wore “futuristic britches” centuries later to be called “dungarees”.

Today considered “the first-ever re-moat” truth-teller from being tossed off bridges by castle guards so many times!

Wilfred Leahy:

Dressed in his dungarees and with a cocky swagger he moved towards the castle to confront the prophet.

Fandango:

He called himself the People’s Dungarees Prophet.

He traveled the countryside, preaching to the peasants, riling them up to revolt against the monarchy by storming the castle.

Turns out, though, that he was more swagger than substance.

The Afterlove Voice:

The prophet, dressed in muddy dungarees, strode with quiet swagger through the crumbling castle gate.

Villagers mocked him until thunder split the sky exactly as he’d warned.

By sunset, laughter vanished, replaced by uneasy respect and wonder.

John W. Howell:

The prophet in dungarees brought the castle swagger guy in the Armani tux to tears with his philosophical words.

Pictures Imperfect Blog:

Inspired by Mark Twain and Terry Pratchett

The dark castle loomed above the Valley of Holiness where hermits and prophets had pitched their tents. Dearil peered down until he saw him: a tall, painfully thin figure in worn-out dungarees walking with a restrained swagger.

Kim Smyth:

The prophet in blue jeans tried to warn me…oh, that’s dungarees to you “Let go of your pride!” Yet I had such swagger, on the climb to my castle stairs that I fell on my face.

Rall:

The prophet wearing dungarees swaggered into the castle where the king was counting out his money. The maid was in the garden wearing no clothes when up came the black bird and nibbled on her toes.

Pensitivity101:

A stranger entered the castle with a swagger but tripped, falling head first into the ornamental pond.

A fish leapt out of the pocket of his dungarees.

The prophet, having foretold of a fisherman said, ‘Close enough.’

Murray Clarke:

The renowned prophet, Moses, cut a ridiculous figure in his blue denim dungarees. Struggling under the weight of the heavy stone tablet, he swaggered across the castle drawbridge and handed over The Ten Commandments to the king.

Susan Batten:

The flamboyant influencer known as “the Prophet” told us our beloved Castle Club would be discredited and abandoned in just two months – who could believe a man who walked with such a swagger in his glitzy dungarees?

Lily’s Corner:

Contest

Bob entered the contest to win gym membership to get back his swagger. The contest included dungarees and dinner at Szechuan Castle. He knew the chance of winning would be one in a thousand minus a prophet. 

poetisinta:

The Prophet of Swagger Castle

A prophet wearing dungarees,
Recited the future to bumblebees,
At Swagger Castle later that day,
He taught three pigs to dance ballet, 
He then took a shower in a sack, 
And seven white mice scrubbed his back!

Fiona Brown:

The gentleman strode past with a swagger, having purchased the last brolly at the Castle Fayre. The Prophet wished he’d heeded his own advice and bought it himself. These dungarees won’t be much help in the shower!

Blind Wilderness:

Ted put on his dungarees . Freda watched him swagger. They were to visit Lincoln castle that day. Neither of them was a prophet but they knew the day was going to be hot. And so it was.

Ann Edall-Robson:

“The job is yours. The dress code is sandals, cotton shirts and dungarees.”

He sauntered toward the door. 

“Hold on.”

He stopped. 

“Resident prophet of the castle must be taken seriously. I suggest you lose the swagger.”

Teleportingweena:

Swaggering out of the castle doors, the prophet was sure styling in his new dungarees.

“Let it be said,” said the prophet, “I decree everyone one in this village must wear dungarees. Furthermore, everyone must now swagger.”

Dawgy Daddy Responds:

If man doesn’t change we’ll never get to Mars, our swagger will lead us to destruction first. If we do colonize Mars there will be red stone castles occupied by false prophets dressed in mid century dungarees.

The Elephant’s Trunk:

Inheritance

Granddad’s dungarees hung stiff on the hook. Nobody touched them.

The swagger of the man who’d built his family’s four-room castle from nothing had made him a prophet in his own quiet way.

The legend lives on.

***

Image credit: Pinterest