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Five Word Build-a-Story
The "screams" of the people caught in the fire were so "extreme" that the people in the building across the street could hear the screaming from their "lanai". They thought it was arson and started to "perceive" that the local fuzz should "apprehend" an arson firebug.Snort
Snicker
Snip
Snoop
Snag
It was suspious that the man standing in the alley would 'snicker' at the fire. A 'snip' of the baggie and the strange man could 'snort' his stash. The police decided to 'snag' him and 'snoop' into the backpack he was carrying.Wonderful
Eye
Push
Continue
Resistance
As the stranger snorted whatever was in his stash, he started on a "wonderful" trip (or tripping as the hippies used to say). The police accidentally stuck a "push" pin into his "eye". He offered little "resistance" while the pin was stuck in his eye with little squirts of blood trickling down his cheeks. How long will this story "continue"?mayhem
midnight
destruction
marshmallows
rocks
The story will continue as long as there is "mayhem" and "midnight" hours when destruction can occur in the dark, sometimes with "rocks" being thrown, sometimes with "marshmallows" being consumed around a campfire.....Fiery
Fetid
Fetus
Fernando
Flip
As the "fiery" building slowly crumbled to the ground, "Fernando" came upon a dead cat "fetus" which smelled very "fetid" and appeared to be slightly consumed by a wild dog who quickly ran away, performing a "flip" in the air as it ran to his destination.scream
terror
teeth
tiger
water
Don't worry, it was just our friend Joe who was having a nightmare and he let out a "scream" of "terror", thrashing around so badly that his "tiger" "teeth" necklace broke away with such force that his "water" bottle broke.Blood
Butter
Belle
Bastard
Beanie
that bastard Beanie and his blood smeared belle had been smeared with butterdrunk
wither
slight
detective
snoop
During the time the bars are closed the "drunk" appeared to "wither". The "detective" found the drunk on the ground and thought it would be ok to "snoop" in his pockets. He had a "slight" surprise when he pulled something out that he couldn't identify. Carriage
Ambrosia
Handsome
Squid
Mead
Meanwhile, our old fried Joe was now hallucinating about a "handsome" "carriage" filled with fruit salad (aka "ambrosia"); when he hoisted a glass of "mead" in greeting, he noticed there was a "squid" floating around in his glass and it wasn't mead after all. Darned drugs.Stable
Staple
Stinger
Stress ball
Slingshot
Joe began to imagine he had a "staple" lodged in his finger and frantically tried to claw it out. It should have been no surprise to find it was actually a "stinger" from one of the hornets nested near the "stable." He never should have shot them down with a "slingshot." "where is my 'stressball' when I need it?!" Joe wondered as the drugs began to wear off.
Sandra wrote: "Joe began to imagine he had a "staple" lodged in his finger and frantically tried to claw it out. It should have been no surprise to find it was actually a "stinger" from one of the hornets nested ..."Sandra - will you do the next five words.
Is it ok if I add the next 5 words?Going
Grab
Glove
Gross
Grand
Joe was "going" to "grab" a "glove" to put over his sore hand, but the one he found was "gross", even though he found it buried in a "grand" of dollar bills....Hickey
Hornet
Hash
Horrible
Heated
< and sandra, you can put in my 5 words if you get an itch, just lemme know when you want to plug them in! >
The "hornet" was scared and gave Joe a large "hickey" the size of a quarter on his finger. Isn't life just one big "horrible" adventure Joe thought to himself. To comfort himself, he "heated" up some nice corn beef "hash" which he bought from Dollar Tree.storm
snake
why
what
who
T wrote: ""< and sandra, you can put in my 5 words if you get an itch, just lemme know when you want to plug them in! >
(that goes for me too)
"Who" decided that it would be a good idea to have a "snake" for a pet anyway? "Why" would you let it roam around the Dollar Store free? "What" if it "storms", the store floods and the snake floats away?
Rain
Hallucinate
Package
Police
Sordid
As usual, Joe began to "hallucinate". The "police" confiscated his "package" of drugs. As "rain" started falling and leaking through the Dollar Store ceiling, Joe again thought of how "sordid" and depressing his life had become.fangs
poison
psycho
rose
tunnel
Was Sheila's snake real or was Joe a "psycho" case again? No matter, the snake was real to Joe, and he saw "fangs" filled with "poison", and blood droplets the color of a red "rose" appeared as he sought out an escape "tunnel".Morbid
Massive
Missive
Motor
Mouse
Sheila had long accused Joe of "morbid" obesity, but his argument was that only his thighs were "massive." As he opened that day's "missive" from the debt collection agency, Joe "motor"ed up his leaf blower. It was time to do some damage to that "mouse" nest out back.kidney
blanch
callipygian
mayonnaise
frenetic
Poor Joe, hallucinating again....this time he wondered how it would taste if he were to "blanch" the "kidney" and smother it in "mayonnaise".....This he pondered as he began a "frenetic" work out to maintain his callipygian backside, much to the delight of the neighbors. Blackmail
Postal
Prenup
Olfactory
Insipid
As Joe went over his and Sheila's "prenup," - Sheila's demand that he watch a minimum of six hours per week of CSI with her he found "insipid" - Sheila telephoned. She was going "postal": Barb, Joe's coworker at the "olfactory," was "blackmail"ing them, threatening to post photos of Joe's ass on her Facebook page. For this reason, Joe had left the "olfactory" and gotten a job at the new factory.excrescence
tumult
bonhomie
jibberish (gibberish?)
corncob
In real life, Joe's "bonhomie" usually served him well, despite the "excrescence" attached at his left pinky finger. His sidekick, the one with the "corncob" pipe dangling from his mouth, usually spouted "gibberish" and often incited a "tumult" whenever he was smoking potpourri.Blood
Collar
Disemboweled
Esophagus
Feral
While destroying the mouse house, Joe came upon a "feral" cat with his "esophagus" sticking out and the cat also appeared "disembowled". When Joe was happily using his leaf blower, dead cat's blood drops blew onto the "collar" of his shirt.kleenex
glasses
dirt
fun
depression
He used a "kleenex" to wipe the blood off his "glasses". It wasn't much "fun" but he decided he should bury the cat. He made a "depression" in the "dirt" and laid him to rest. Farmhouse
Frosting
Foundling
Frustrated
Frisk
At the farmhouse frosting coated the foundling frustrating all efforts to frisk him.Candy
Mist
Lost
Amazed
Dog
Through the mist Candy saw what she thought was her lost dog Ralph but she was both amazed and terrified when the she wolf bared her teeth just before it ripped her throat out.blood
curdling
spine
itch
whisper
Joe heard a "blood" "curdling" scream that stopped him in his tracks. He was ready to run as fast as he could in the opposite direction but he thought he heard a "whisper" in the wind. He had to find out what happened, it was like an "itch" he couldn't scratch on his "spine". Monday
Monthly
Mobster
Muffler
Massive
"Monthly" every "Monday" the "mobster" came back to collect his money from poor old Joe. The whisper now turned into a loud roar as the mobster's car needed a "muffler" repair. Joe may suffer a "massive" heart attack due to all the stress.pain
jog
heel
smell
see
Even while in "pain", Joe attempted to "jog" despite his sore "heel", thinking he'd better go "see" and double check that the "smell" was from the mobster's exhaust, not a decaying body that the mobster might have left as a threat.Judicious
Jaundice
Jailbait
Jambon
Jinx
A "judicious" use of whipped cream meant that Sheila still had enough left to use on her "jailbait" neighbor, Todd. She tripped over Joe's hunting rifle on the way out the door and hoped that wouldn't "jinx" her roll in the hay. Todd had a touch of "jaundice" and was simmering a "jambon" when she got there.celery
pompous
weft
bungled
nuclear
"you put celery in the soup, you pompous fool!" she screamed. She deftly weft knit the rope around his body. "you've bungled for the last time! I warned you!. He sobbed, "why must you go nuclear whenever I make a change in your recipes?"Neighbor
Animals
Weather
Necklace
Shoes
The "neighbor" put on his "shoes" and stormed next-door to see what was going on. "You sound like 'animals' over here." he shouted. Up the walk came Lily wearing her best all-"weather" jacket and a diamond "necklace". Freeze
Frieze
Flounce
Floozy
Fluffy
Fluffy slinked into the living room and then he stopped abruptly. "You floozy! Freeze right there! How dare you flounce in MY house and spray MY couch!". Kitty sniffed. "It's only righteous payback, brother. You tagged MY frieze. From now on, stay off my patch and I'll stay off yours." With that, Kitty twitched her tail and sauntered out of the house.Airplane
Ground
Music
Flag
Coat
Joe hit the "ground" running, throwing on his "coat" as he went, when his "music" was drowned out by the sound of an "airplane" overhead. He hoped to "flag" the pilot and get him to drop more cat litter for Kitty & Fluffy.Dead
Ditch
Dupe
Dingo
Dastardly
Lily looked drop "dead" gorgeous as she came into the house. "Hey, Joe were you trying to 'ditch' me. The "dastardly" "dingo" you sent after me didn't do his job very well, did he." The guy that sold him the dingo "duped" him again. Appeal
Boulder
Champ
Doughnut
Excel
"You have all the appeal of a boulder!" she snarled. "Get out of my face!" she determinedly turned around on her barstool and faced her girlfriend. They snickered. He went back to his table and sat down, disconsolate. His friends exchanged glances. "well, champ, let's say we blow this joint?" He sighed. "I guess I should lay off the doughnuts." "nah," his friend whispers, " she mixes up her words all of the time. She mean't you are The Rock." He immediately brightens up. "Yes, you're right!, he says, rising fom his chair to try again. His friend hurriedly stops him. "Her loss, right?" They look at each other. "You excel at being my friend," he says. "Hey. The next one is on me."Choose
Store
Animal
Fright
Misogynist
Down at the other end of the counter was the resident "misogynist", whose hair was such a "fright" that no human or "animal" would "choose" him anyway, not even if he was given away for "free" at a store.Perky
Porky
Pretty
Protuberance (keep it clean!?!)
Pitiful
Porky pushed the protuberance down. Not for the first time he wondered what the heck it was. He guessed he was pitiful since he refused to see a doctor about it. He hoped, as usual, that his perky expression and his pretty eyes distracted people from noticing it. It was probably a mole, anyway. Except sometimes.....there! As he stared in horror, it cracked open. Eight tiny legs wriggled quickly into the light of day.Spring
Perception
Crick
Second
Invisible
In the "spring","perception" tends to become hazy. The "crick" in his neck is the "second" one this week. Must be that "invisible" workout he has been doing at night.Calculator
Claim
Collect
Cacaesthesia
Crash
By Joe's "calculator", his "claim" to "collect" on damages from the "crash" was based on his "cacaesthesia" - he swore you could actually SEE his skin crawling as if a mass of bugs were just under his skin and traveling here and there in a little bug pack.....Tepid
Tingling
Tookus
Timorous
Tantalizing
The tepid tea started a tingling in Alice's derrière. In a timorous voice, she asked to use the facilities. Her aunt, a boisterous person, hollered, "are you feeling something in your tookus area? This tea affects some people like that." Scandalized, shy Alice asked her aunt why'd she serve such a tea. "I find it tantalizing!" screamed her aunt.Dreadful
Hail
Wit
Moon
Werewolve
The "hail" falling was "dreadful". It would take a quick "wit" to avoid being pummeled without some sort of shelter. Not only was it dangerous out because of the hail, the "moon" was full and everyone knew the woods were full of "werewolves".Canine
Hyperthermia
Yank
Plastered
Rewire
Joe's "canine" teeth were in need of a good "yank" he thought, or maybe it's "hyperthermia" or being "plastered"....Hmmm...maybe his braces just needed a "rewire" job....Corrupt
Coincide
Coin
Castrate
Canny
Kitty who was very canny tossed a coin, hoping for heads. If it landed heads she had decided to castrate the bastard. She had figured out it was Fluff, the local leg-breaker with the ethics of a corrupt politician, who had set up the phone call to coincide with the firebombing of her house. It was heads.Danger
Dollar
Damage
Disgusting
Dole
She put the "dollar" back in her pocket, after all it was a silver dollar. She decided she would have to "dole" out some serious "damage" to that "disgusting" slimeball. He was in some serious "danger" now.Jabberer
Jacuzzi
Jamboree
Jazzman
Jejune
< you guys are getting too good at this! can we make it a little more challenging for you? can you continue the story line instead of creating a new story? >
I guess the story line is still about Joe and his girlfriends and crazy relatives and running away from the police?When Joe was confronted by the police, he began talking about "jejune" subjects. He became a professional "jabberer". He fantazied about taking a rest in a hotel "jacuzzi" and then later going to a "jamboree" performed by a famous New Orleans "jazzman".
coffee
shack
shake
sorry
death
Instead, Joe found himself trying to order a cup of black "coffee" at a "shake" "shack", where the counterman made him so "sorry" about misordering that he worried if the local law would put him to "death" for daring to be so bold.Corrupt
Cart
Civilized
Central
Cameo
Joe wondered if Kitty and Fluff would put in a cameo appearance and share a pastry from the cart, but he knew if they did things would stop being civilized since their issues were central to their conversation and inevitably revolved on which of them was most corrupt.iPad
Apartment
Epicenter
Perilous
Anarchy
Extreme
Screams
Lanai
Apprehend
Perceive