Can You Tell a Story In …?
For Esther’s challenge:
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Tell a story in 30 words with these in it somewhere:
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Bright ideas don’t always come with a lampshade over the bulb. Note to self, don’t be a dodo and try to ski when there is no snow. Crash and burn!
(30 words)
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© 2025 BS
Can You Tell a Story In …?
For Esther’s challenge:
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Can you tell a story in 55 words using the following words in it somewhere:
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When in a strange city you should be very wary of the characters you meet. For example, there may be a cruel looking driver at the wheel, that will take you into a labyrinth of shady streets, and will soak you for all your money. Think twice before calling on the Yellow Crab Taxi services.
(55 words)
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© 2025 BS
Esther’s Writing Prompt – Blue
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This is from a poetry writing challenge in 2015.
Today for writing a poem, we were given the suggestion to think of our favorite color, or a memory of a color, that has meaning for you. Mine is sky blue. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved looking up at the sky, in all it’s wonderful shades of color. From midnight’s inky darkness, with moon and stars shining, to fabulous sunrises and sunsets, painting the sky with flames, of orange, and red, all are fascinating to me. I take pictures…lots of pictures of the sky. Each one is different…each time you look at the sky, it is changing, from moment to moment.
Here are a trio of Haiku poems, honoring the sky…
SKY BLUE
Enchantress of space
Gaze into the sky of blue
Universal Peace
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Incandescent sun
As above you burn sky blue
Breathe…refresh your soul
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Ever-changing sky
Blue azure sea above us
Ever-lasting love
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Looking out into the sky of blue with clouds, from airplane.
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© 2025 BS
Can You Tell a Story In …?
For Esther’s challenge:
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Esther asks:
Can you tell a story in 50 words using the following words in it somewhere:
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Dan the Man, owner of Spiders ‘R Us, reflexology parlor, swore out a vendetta on the murderers of his cousin, Sly. Wheezing as he kneaded the legs of his customers like dough, he kept his cool as he imagined how to rub out his enemy. No joke, this means war.
(50 words)
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Spider spider on the wall
Vowing vendetta on them all
Not doing reflexology
Giving him no apology
Bake a loaf of bread dead
Laying down your weary head
Dough rises like a ghost
Wheezing when we burn toast
No pretending – we’ll not be cool
Just rubbing out that lying fool
(50 words)
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© 2025 BS
Can You Tell a Story In …?
For Esther’s challenge:
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Can you tell a story in 31 words using the following words in it somewhere:
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With a sound like nails on a chalkboard, the turkey’s feet scraped the side of the canoe as he mimed falling in the water. Only he wasn’t pretending this time … ker-splash!
(31 words)
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© 2025 BS
Can You Tell a Story In …?
For Esther’s challenge:
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Esther asks:
Can you tell a story in 18 words using the following words in it somewhere:
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He scribbled gobbledegook onto a cardboard, then ‘Sign For Sale’. There he sat … the chair-man on the corner.
(18 words)
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© 2025 BS
Can You Tell a Story In 40 Words?
For Esther’s challenge:
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Can you tell a story in 40 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story:
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Teacher asked the class to write a sentence using the list of words. One student wrote: As the playboy relaxed in his hammock an alligator came and bit him in his tender place, which made him scream like a bassoon.
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© 2025 BS
Forgotten Phrases # 5 – Dig
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These are short phrases (or micro fiction) that I wrote years ago.
This one I wrote for a writing challenge back in July of 2016.
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Subject: Farming
DIG
Dig, hoe, rake, plant
Dig, hoe, rake, plant
Jim Bob felt like an automaton, now, just like everyone else.
Dig, hoe, rake, plant
Straight rows, down the line, even spaces, he was not allowed to stop.
Strange voices, weird food, sickening smells…just keep going.
The plants talk to him, chanting…
Dig hoe, rake, plant
The aliens look on, and revel in their take-over of the Earthlings.
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© 2016 BS
Forgotten Phrases # 2 – Stars
These are short phrases (or micro fiction) that I wrote years ago.
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Subject: Stars
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Light years away, a star died.
Radio frequency picked up it’s death cries –
A sadder sound you’ll never hear.
It’s heartrending death cries only reaching us now in
The still dark night.
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© 2020 BS
Tell the Story Photo Prompt = cupcake
https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/job-search-flash-194/#comment-14259
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I was tagged by Paula, of Light Motifs, to write something about this photo. Thanks, Paula!
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cupcake
confection
cupcake
connection
keep a cupcake in a box
do not feed it to your fox
cupcake cupcake such a teaser
wants to be your tastebud’s pleaser
cupcake frosting icing yummy
cupcake makes a happy tummy
eat a cupcake every day
makes you jump around and say
Yay cupcake!
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My name isn’t Alice, but I could swear there was a vibe coming from this little frosted delicacy that screamed, ‘eat me’.
I shouldn’t …I can’t … I want it…I won’t …
Looking left and right, I reached out my forefinger, taking a tiny swipe of the sugary topping. Be strong, don’t put it in my mouth…uh-uh…I’ll die if I do.
My mouth watered, my stomach growled, my breathing was fast. Thoughts swirled around my mind, just as the icing swirled around the contours of the cupcake. Just one tiny taste won’t hurt anything. I inhaled a faint strawberry and vanilla essence. mmmm so good.
No resistance left…I tasted…
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They found me the next morning, dead…but, a happy smile on my sugared lips.
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Now, I’m not tagging anyone in particular, as I never know who likes to do these, but here’s a photo if you’d like to write something about it. 🙂
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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️
© 2019 BS
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