Your Thursday story challenge is here. Can you tell a story in 52 words using the following words in it somewhere:
- GODFATHER
- TOFFEE
- APP
- RECYCLE
- STEALTH
The previous challenge was to write a story in 71 words using the following seven words in it somewhere:
- CAPTAIN
- LEAPFROG
- BAKERY
- PRESCRIPTION
- WIDOW
- SHAMPOO
- ANAGRAM
Here are your funny stories:
Captain Morgan entered the sleepy town where a leapfrog tournament was underway outside the bakery, while carrying a prescription for the widow who owned it. She had asked for shampoo and a coded note that turned out to be an anagram. The message revealed a secret about the town’s history involving missing coins hidden behind recipes at the bakery counter. The captain decided to investigate further at dawn again carefully alone.
“Captain Margana, the bakery is alight!”.
“I am busy!”.
“Can’t your game of leapfrog wait?”.
“Sadly not, I have the widow O’Shampo on prescription.”.
Flora Peg and Alf Grope looked back at the burning bakery, as ‘Oomph!’ went the dough ovens. .
A Mr. Agna was earlier seen at the scene by a Mr. Sam Pooh.
Police, in the form of PC Tania and Inspector Rip, were searching for a Mr. Agna.
The captain of the yacht was playing leapfrog with his crew and eating pastries from the only bakery surrounding the marina and the best part about the bakery is you can also get your prescription and shampoo there too which makes it convenient for a widow who likes to do things all at once just like the widow likes to do an anagram.
The captain of the leapfrog team took the winners to the local bakery for a treat. While the team was enjoying their delicious victory treats, he popped into the pharmacy next door to pick up the widow’s prescription and some shampoo. But he left his credit card in the bakery and had to use his debit card instead, which made him think of the anagram about a debit card = bad credit.
The captain leapfrogged over rain puddles as he checked “bakery” off his shopping list and headed for the pharmacy. He had the widow next door’s prescription to pick up, as well as his own favorite shampoo, as well as the daily paper with the anagram puzzle in it. If only he’d thought to bring his umbrella, he thought, as he ducked into the store, shaking water from his full pants cuffs.
Squirreljan:
Captain Happy hated waiting. He’d queued in the bakery, and now he was stuck behind a woman waiting for her prescription.
“I’m a widow, you know.” She held out a bottle of shampoo. “You should try this. It will do wonders for your mood.”
“It’s called Slime,” he said.
“Silly me, mind you I do love an anagram.”
Desperately he tried to supress a giggle, but her smile was too infectious.
After completing the anagram in today’s paper, I drove down 87 to pick up my prescription. While there, I also grabbed dandruff shampoo for the captain of my heart. His job’s a dangerous one by the way. I hope he doesn’t make me a widow soon. One chore seems to leapfrog over another and now I’m late preparing lunch. Once I eat, I need to go to the bakery for cake.
Lou by the Sea:
Freedom
After the funeral, the widow proudly announced her ‘new me.’
“I am The Captain of my own destiny,” she exclaimed boldly. “ I am free. Out with cooking, washing, cleaning, shopping, sexual subservience and prescription drugs. In with bakery treats thrice weekly, shampoo and set every Friday, leapfrog and other sexual performances with Tom, Dick and Harry every Saturday.
Taking it easy with anagram quiz show on Sunday. Some things never change.”
The hidden security video betrayed the janitor. He didn’t merely clean the crime scene; he built a shrine to the dead girl. I watched her blood congeal on the tile while he held the golden lasso. To escape, he tried to impersonate a beat cop, but in this rainy city, the truth is always sticky and dark, staining everything that it touches.
The captain burst into the drugstore like he’d been playing leapfrog over another customer. “Ta da,” he said laughing.
The merry widow behind the drug counter handed him his prescription and smiled about the anagram, “Panic tan,” he’d used. “That was the best one yet, Captain,” she said.
Then he went to the bakery aisle for some cookies and cake and he picked up a bottle of shampoo before he left.
The widow carried a prescription from the bakery by mistake.
The captain laughed, suggesting they play leapfrog instead of worrying.
She bought shampoo, solved an anagram, and discovered the labels had been swapped.
Everyone cheered as fresh bread and proper medicine finally reached their rightful owners, proving kindness often rises unexpectedly with laughter, patience, and hope shared freely every single day thereafter together always, smiling brightly again at last home safely.
All in One
“Come here, Captain!” Julie saw her big companion, a Newfoundland, leapfrog over the counter and sit in front of the pharmacist, who often gave Captain treats. Julie, waiting to refill a prescription at Costco, must have loosened her grip on the leash. Since becoming a widow, Captain was her constant friend and protector. Julie shopped for everything there because it had special dog shampoo, anagram puzzle booklets, and even a bakery!
Tom as cricket captain, left Brenda a widow. She joined the community club. She prided herself on winning anagram of the week many times. She loved to watch her grandchildren playing , especially leapfrog. It reminded her of her youth. She was often at the bakery buying cakes for them. She spied a shampoo guaranteed to bring back a youthful glow. Her hair remained dull and there was no prescription for that.
The captain and a widow looking in the bakery window made a leapfrog from chocolate eclairs to prescription cholesterol drugs. Their paperwork was carelessly written on the back of an anagram. The pharmacist said “No Dice,” so they bought shampoo instead.
Heartache of a Literary Ragman
A ragman was dozing in the stormproof pergola where he was trying to write a love song. He woke up from his nap, which was nothing more than a catnap, with a jolt when a band marched past with loud, boisterous oompahs. He concentrated again on the criterions pretty enough for the widow whom he wanted to serenade. Oh! His achy breaky heart! He could not find an anagram for her.
Rall:
The captain leapfrog’d down to the bakery with excitement.He did this almost every day because he fancied the widowwho was working there. Her name was OliveHe shampoo’d his hair and wore his best anagram t shirt”Olive u” She wasn’t impressed”Time to get an new prescription “she said.” Your meds aren’t working”
Deflated he ripped off his tshirt and headed off down to the Delicatessenwhere Rosita worked
They were kids again as the captain and widow played leapfrog behind the bakery when they thought no-one was looking.
Tommy having gone to collect a prescription for his mum and some posh shampoo for his sister, was intrigued by the giggling coming from the yard.
They told him they were looking for Gropleaf, a herb for bread.
Tommy laughed and asked if he could help look, not recognising the anagram.
Murray Clarke:
Not a lot of people know this, but “Old West Action” is an anagram of Clint Eastwood! Not even Captain Kirk, or the wizened widow who works down the bakery on Thursday afternoons! (She’s the one who never washes the shampoo out of her wet hair – which is hardly a prescription for success!) She also likes playing leapfrog with her twelve grandchildren on a Sunday – but that’s another story!
Susan Batten:
On my way to the Captain’s Widow Hair Salon and Quality Wig Emporium (my usual shampoo and set), I popped into the Make It Shape It Bakery for our weekend doughnuts. Then I hurried to the chemist’s to pick up my new prescription, guaranteed to cure persistent leapfrog and anagram addiction.
Bart and the Merry Widow
Captain Black Bart met a merry widow one dawn,
She giggled, ‘Your parrot’s a little withdrawn,’
The parrot just grinned and winked back at him,
Shampoo made Black Bart’s beard shiny bright,
His prescription declared, ‘Everything’s alright!’
They leapfrogged past the bakery door,
Where laughing gnomes demanded more,
An anagram transformed ‘ship’ to ‘pish’ –
So they sailed away on a wish,
The moon applauded, the sea sang low,
And nonsense blossomed and continues to grow.
The captain of the Black Widows leapfrog team, had a successful prescription for winning these fun but competitive jumping games. Before the game, each participant had to shampoo their hair with Oompahs, which was the copycat shampoo lather anagram It had a fruity aroma and was also their battle cry. After winning, they were treated to bakery sweets.
Yes, that game day ritual always did the trick. Oompahs for the win!
Ram’s Blue Pills
The sheep was there for all to see
Shopping at the bakery
Bought a croissant, bought a brew
Fleece so shiny (fresh shampoo)
Her plan was just to nag a ram
(that’s my token anagram)
As a widow (sad position)
She planned to leapfrog opposition
Have some fun? She’d have a ball!
Just waiting for the Captain’s call
Saw a ram that matched description
Leaving chemist (fresh prescription)
Captain Nag Mom and the Cake Catastrophe
Captain Morgan walked into Mrs. Henderson’s bakery one Tuesday afternoon. She handed him a prescription for industrial shampoo, insisting his pirate odor definitely qualified as a medical emergency.
He suggested they play leapfrog to settle their ridiculous dispute. Instead, she rearranged his name into an anagram: “Pirate Nag Mom.”
He left utterly offended, slipped on soap residue, and crashed right through an entire cake display. She snorted buttercream laughing hard.
Pie-rates and the Widow
Captain Jack was seated outside of the leapfrog Lamination awaiting the grand opening. He was early for the event and was scribbling on a notebook when widow Jones sat down beside him. He glanced over at what she was holding in her hand and noticed it was a prescription for medicinal shampoo. As they passed time awaiting for the bakery to open Captain Jack continued to work on his anagram puzzle.
The Widow’s Recipe
The captain’s widow ran the small bakery on Elm, rain or shine. Nobody ever questioned her prescription for grief: flour, heat, quiet repetition. Her daughter played anagram games on the flour-dusted counter, leapfrogging letters into bright new words while the good bread rose. Tuesday mornings, the widow washed her hair, plain drugstore shampoo, the same brand he’d always bought. Then opened the door, turned the sign, and fed the whole town.
Hot Date
The Captain had a hot date, headed to the bakery to pick up a fresh fruit tart. His lady was a widow named Holly Pickers.
He knocked at her door, she said “Come on in” then shouted “leapfrog me” as she leapt about in front of him holding a bottle of shampoo and her prescription.
“If my name was an anagram* it would be Psycho Killer”, she said with conviction.
* Note Holly Pickers is in fact an anagram for Psycho Killer
The detective scowled at the word on the scrap of paper pinned beside the shampoo prescription on the whiteboard.
Was the death of the pickleball champion and the widow who found him at the bakery in Captain Square a coincidence?
He wrote the words LEAPFROG and WIDOW across the top of the board. Adding Anagram? Rumoured name for the new field house? Suspect?
It was going to be a long night.
Calenture
Captain Sheridan visited the Widow Culbertson on Leapfrog Way every Tuesday. She always served fresh bread from the bakery next door.
He arrived with a jar of honey, muttering to himself. When she asked what he muttered, he tapped his head and said, “Solving anagrams… prescription drug names and brands of shampoo, mostly.”
She smiled, sliced the bread and thought “This one’s been at sea too long. He’s off his rocker!”
the captain surely tempted fate
when he took the clear bait
to leapfrog in a non leap year
shampoo tho there is only subtle stubble a top there!
after all the widow s peak is not the mite
the presciption is to ingest
before the inquest
an anagram
of success!
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Image credit: Pinterest
Esther Chilton 
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