Friday, March 13, 2009

Wordzzle

The words for this week's ten word challenge: sugar bowl, cotton, wizard, fund-raising, Ben Hur, salmonella, luke warm, telescope, bank, walk-a-thon
and the Mini Challenge: challenge, sparkling cider, melancholy, snail mail, master carpenter

Sugar Bowl Botulism and her best friend Sunny Salmonella were fierce competitors in the Blackwater fund-raising challenge. None of that silly walk-a-thon nonsense for them. Traditional fund-raising was like drinking luke-warm sparking cider that had gone flat. Why use snail mail when you had access to Twitter? Why wear cotton when silk felt oh so good against your skin?

Sugar Bowl and Sunny hated taking part in the challenge. The idea of poor people made them melancholy but Sugar Bowl had promised her father they would do it. He needed the positive publicity for his Congressional campaign.

In addition to being a master carpenter Sunny’s older brother, Ben Hur Hernia, was a technological wizard. Since he had a huge crush on Sugar Bowl he eagerly agreed to help the girls win their challenge. All he needed to do was calibrate the miniature telescope lens in his pants and make sure he was at the bank when the vault was opened.

He would capture the security codes and Sugar Bowl’s heart.



Stop by RAVEN’S for more Wordzzle.

18 comments:

Raven said...

Oh, my! Skulduggery (sp?), romance and great names! You were so proud of being early but you forgot to add your name to Mr. Linky.

Akelamalu said...

You always make up the best names Dianne! :) Well played.

Dianne said...

raven - I could have sworn I did lol
it was late ;)

akelamalu - thanks, I appreciate that :)

Dr.John said...

I just love those names. This was very, very creative.

Cherie said...

Oh the intrigue. What fun! But, "miniature telescope lens in his pants"? Is that code for something? LOL

Richard said...

A story with infectious names and optical trouser trout; who could want any more? Loved it.

Travis Cody said...

That was wacky!

bettygram said...

I loved the names, and the story.

Anonymous said...

Great story. Do you know if Sugar Bowl marries Ben Hur, then she will be Sugar Bowl Hur.

Bobkat said...

He has what where?!!!! LoL I nearly spat my drink across the room! :D

Thom - - Dr. John said...

Luke warm cider, GACK!

Well played.

Schmoop said...

Ha. Very good, Di, and I really identified with the miniature telescope in the pants. Cheers!!

Anndi said...

Heh!!

Hi Mamma!!

**smooch**

OldLady Of The Hills said...

LOL, LOL...A Very Good One, my dear.....You always come up with the BEST Story's....! I like the way you got them all in---using names! Very Very Clever!

Vinny "Bond" Marini said...

Love your characters...

Melli said...

Oooo! Good one! You are sO good with the names! One of these weeks I'm going to get back around to wordzzles...

Carletta said...

Loved the names and loved the story!
Why wear cotton when silk felt oh so good - oh if I could afford silk. :)

Anonymous said...

lol I wondered why he was calibrating a miniature telescope in his PANTS! HA so I was glad to see he was headed to the bank. This was fun. When is the next installment?