Writing challenge: Write a creative paragraph using the five provided words.

[Louanne Learning]

Do something with these words!

Write a creative paragraph or two that uses the five words provided in the previous post.

Don’t forget to end your post with five random words that provide the prompt to the next poster.

First five words (which I got by opening my dictionary and choosing the words my eyes first fell upon):

Ballet
Cork
Duck
Knuckle
Remind

 

[Louanne Learning]

Ballet
Cork
Duck
Knuckle
Remind

Julius always tried to impress. First, he took Helena to the ballet, then he brought her back to his Fifth Avenue apartment. He produced a bottle of Marquis de la Mysteriale Cuvee de Grand Esprit, and prepared to pop the cork. “Duck,” he said.

The cork shot and ricocheted and hit Helena smack dab in the knuckle.

It reminded her of her rough-and-tumble childhood. “Hit me,” she said.


Next five words:

Cheek
Embryo
King
Shoulder
Ungodly

 

[Rath Darkblade]

King Karl Augustus Schlechter XXXVIII of Baden-Baden was always known among his people for his Ungodly virility, having sired at least 600 illegitimate children. And therefore it came as an embarrassing disappointment to him that his only legitimate child was a stillborn Embryo, a fact that struck the king as an act of Cheek on behalf of his wife, after which he gave the poor woman the cold Shoulder.

(I based him on Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, who by all accounts fathered at least 9 legitimate children and between 360 and 380 illegitimate ones. Some people really need a hobby ... like tennis. Or philately).

Next five words:

Real
Life
Fantasy
Reality
Nightmare

 

[Louanne Learning]

Real
Life
Fantasy
Reality
Nightmare

Scooter gawked. “Are these real?” he asked. “Never seen anything like it in my life.”

“Get them away from me!” Junebug screamed.

On a balmy autumn evening, on a sidewalk under a street light, they stood paralyzed as a phalanx of mice scurried around their feet, circling them, like so many flying rodents.

To Scooter, it was a fantasy. To June, it was a nightmare. “Wait,” Scooter said.

“What?”

“They’re just fallen leaves.”

“What?”

“Damn acid … messing with our reality.”

***

Next five words:

Biopsy
Fission
Liturgy
Predatory
Stork

 

[Luxuria]

Next five words:

Biopsy
Fission
Liturgy
Predatory
Stork

The Religion of the Stork never questioned the past or the future. It was merely the present that mattered. The daily liturgy began telling the story of the metal stork that fell from the sky- the fission of the elements within changing the world forever. Even now, no biopsy could explain the predatory survivors who roamed the earth in search of flesh to consume.

Next Words (from the current song I am listen to 'Crazy=genius by Panic at the Disco'):
Genius
Fire
Arsonist
Learn
Dream

 

[Rath Darkblade]

The other night, I had a Dream about a dragon that's been flying around and flaming everything, like an Arsonist. I asked a lady in the dream if she saw the dragon, and she said "It was terrible. He breathed Fire on me. Believe me, I got it straight from the dragon's mouth!"

So, since I've been writing song parodies since finishing high school and had lots of time to Learn how (although I'd never call myself a Genius), I sat at the piano, played the chorus of "American Pie", and toyed with an idea of Julius Caesar confronting the dragon -- and wrote these lyrics:

"Oh my, my,
Roman General Guy,
Meet the dragon,
don't be braggin',
or your bones it'll fry..."

Ah, it'll never work. Never, never, never! *bangs head on piano* =(
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Next five words:

Virgo
Leo
Scorpio
Aquario
Tauro

 

[CatrionaGrace]

On their Zodiac Tour Company expedition to Rio de Janeiro, Leo (a Scorpio) and Tauro (a Virgo) visited Aquário Marinho da América do Sul.

Bring
Gadget
Dog
Electrocution
Dingbat

 

[Stuart Dren]

It was hard. It had been lunch time for hours. We cooked it but didn't do the other thing. Time passed, and Pol tried to a start a vapid conversation topically beached somewhere between impermanence and unity, until I told that dingbat to shut the hell up. He obliged right back to staring at the eggs going rubber in the pan, staring like a hungry dog, but I didn't tell him he couldn't eat, no one told him he couldn't eat. It was hard. We had to take a break from lunch to bring in more cigarettes. Tonnie stomped on the trash bin's foot to empty the ash tray, girl with a purpose, then announce-mumbled to the wall how she was going to take up painting. We stared her down until she went all rubbery, which was about right, just like the food. She sat down, leaned forward on the back of the chair again, cursed, told us we were worthless pieces of shit. We were shitty, but we were also the wound up gadget, supercharged electrocution of the human condition, double-plus-neo beatnik, Indiana freaking jones of the generational frontier. We just needed that spicy spark, maybe some kind of drug or a good old book. We needed something that would set us off like cluster bombs and turn all the heads.

Combination
Deserve
Cousin
Acute
Cheese

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Cousin, I am experiencing an acute need for a pizza made from a combination of fine pepperoni and exquisitely ripe cheese. Don't argue with me: I deserve this.

Ineffable
Dormant
Vista
Lazy
Chinchilla

 

[Stuart Dren]

The ranks of dormant war machines enclosed Chinchilla on either side. Each one, monument to the Masters' ineffable sins, reached deep into the sky. A kilometre down the road it all gave way to an apparently unmolested plains vista. He stopped and preened. The fact that he, an ostrich, had been granted enough sapience to comprehend these ghosts must have been the punchline to a lazy joke. No that wasn't right, he thought. Not lazy: cruel.

Constituency
Deteriorate
Apathy
Gallery
Bitter

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Gazing up at the visitor's gallery at a Congressional hearing, Senator Martha May watched her constituency deteriorate into bitter apathy.

notion
graduate
renegotiate
bamboozle
fluffy

 

[Louanne Learning]

notion
graduate
renegotiate
bamboozle
fluffy

“I’ve a notion to quit school.”

“Don’t you want to graduate?”

“What good will it do me?”

“Give you a cushy and fluffy life.”

“School’s nothing but a big bamboozle.”

“How so?”

“I deserved A’s and B’s, but they only gave me C’s and D’s.”

“Maybe you can renegotiate.”

“What?”

“Do your homework, and show them.”

“Humph … I think you got something, there.”

***

New words:

bleary
enchilada
lactation
parrot
sample

 

[Rath Darkblade]

The alarm clock rang, and I opened one bleary eye and glared at it. My stomach demanded a breakfast enchilada, but porridge will probably have to suffice.

The kid in the downstairs flat had stopped screaming, so his mum was probably engaged in the act of lactation. "Good morning! Good morning!" The other neighbour's parrot was squawking its head off. How I'd love to wring its silly neck.

Just a sample, my friend, of living in flats in the big city.
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New words:

taxman
silly
demand
return
greedy

(It's tax season here. Can you tell?)

 

[CatrionaGrace]

The greedy taxman made a silly demand for me to return to his office for an audit.

Loganberries
fringe
rooster
deprivation
clinical

 

[Louanne Learning]

Loganberries
fringe
rooster
deprivation
clinical

I knew my addiction to loganberries put me on the fringe, but there was no clinical diagnosis for it. My pet rooster, Hooter, set me straight. “Enjoy!” he crowed. “Deprivation is for the birds.”

New words:

blow
evaporate
malign
perpetual
tattoo