The Fox, so-called for his cunning mind, shook the dust of his shoes and walked into the Insomnia Café in the small seaside town of Scopello in Sicily. He stood directly under the cool fan while he watched a ginger-haired woman passionately swirling around with … Continue reading Sicilian Challenge
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 … Continue reading Heartbreak of a literary ragman
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. Can You Tell a Story in … 37 … Continue reading Inspired by Mark Twain and Terry Pratchett
The sounds of a lonely violin wafted over the packed square. The audience was spellbound, watching the tightrope walker who danced a slow waltz high in the air. A real person would have been squeamish but Lottie, the mannequin dressed in gothic garb, just sank … Continue reading The Free Woman
The groom wasn’t going to be upstaged by his best man’s flawless tuxedo. He blew his whistle and his bride obeyed and brought a bucket of water. He dunked a sponge in and threw it at his best man. All he could do was jump … Continue reading Run, girl, run!
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.
Can You Tell a Story in … 40 words including duel, trampoline, iguana, and croissant.
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Lars had always wanted to be a helicopter pilot, his squint wouldn’t stop him! But in the prevailing job market it was hard to find a job even doing his own cheerleading with pompoms, so to speak. In the end, he found a position with … Continue reading A short career
Henry the eighth cat of Frederick York lounged in his diamond studded chair (which the staff considered a travesty but nobody asked them). He dictated a carefully worded letter about the declining quality of the local bakery’s mouse pies. Every meow was taken down on Henry’s private stationery before it was burned to ashes by his secretary.
Can You Tell a Story in … 57 words including cat, diamonds, chair, stationery, travesty, and pies.
The final scrabble match had begun. The Police and Deep Purple were present for the punishment of the loser – being thrown into lake Geneva and kept underwater until.
Can You Tell a Story in … 28 Words including scrabble, police, and underwater
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Maxine Smart was a spy with a special zeal. In her career she had installed microphones in teapots, snail shells, in villas and cottages. But this was the ultimate undercover case. She would expose the agent from Botswana, rescue the former president of SWAPO from Namibia and with one foul swoop secure a year’s production of diamonds from Orapa. It would make her immortal!
Can You Tell a Story in … 64 words including zeal, microphone, snail, cottage, immortal, teapot
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