Scrabble Prompt

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

Write a short story using all the words on the Scrabble board :)

[Carol Clark]

Barb-

What a great and challenging prompt, Wow. I will definitely have to give this one a shot.
Hopefully be back with something soon...
Carol

[Frank]

To use all the words and make sense - is that the goal here ?
LIMN - looks like a tough one
Frank

[Frank]

This my scrabble attempt - Frank

“Limn ? Are your sure ? Let me see that.” Sue grabbed the list out of my hands. “Sheet!” she said at the top of her lungs, “What the hell is a LIMN ?”
“And more importantly, where do we find one ?” I said stating the obvious, which I do a lot because I think it is funny to do so and I am known as the joker of the group.
“We are so screwed,” added Jane, the blue-eyed doe of our gang. Thinking was not her strong point, so if she could figure this out, it must be as obvious as a green wig on a supermodel. (Jane had other assets besides her brains, thank God, ones that made men touch their zippers and think of sex.) Jane was our procurement specialist. A wink, a giggle, and some cleavage is all she needed to get whatever she wanted and so far we had gotten everything on the list (for free which was how we had to do it) -

fart cushion and toy ax from the joke shop (the clerk got her cell phone number)
imported citrus juices from the KwickE mart (I am not sure why they are imported but it said on the label ‘imported from Spain’ so that was good enough for us) (this clerk got a land line phone number)

a towering (and I do mean towering) cd rack (actually Sue, the muscles of the group, found this in a dumpster)

a dog raft from the petz R us store (that clerk got a peck on the cheek and downward peek, so to speak)

a tin of minty chewing tobacco from the cigar store (the tin said minty rather than mint or mint flavored - no one knows why) This was totally free, well, Jane had to promise to come back for a private smoke. I was curious so I put a dab between my cheek and gums - minty, yes - good, no.

Oh, and if this wasn’t the strangest scavenger hunt, I had ever been on, it soon would be. (what a weird way to fight the boredom of a dull Saturday, maybe it would have been better if we just loafed today like we almost always do). Jack, our brain geek boy, was deep in thought. It seems he had to mull over our next step and do it quickly before Sue’s stewing became a rage.
At that moment in time for no other reason than I was tired of waiting for Jack, I wandered off and began looking at nearby store windows. And then the lightbulb went on in my head and I knew how to solve our crisis. I went back to the group and made my point and that point was pointed at the ad in the drug store’s window, the one with the blue hue, the one that proclaimed the benefits of the new diet drug LIMN. Yes, I was the real hero this day, the one who helped us finish this hunt before the drug store clerk checked her LIMN bin and found one missing and before the other clerks found out the phone numbers they had been given were of the local public library, police hotline, and Jack’s mother.
We finished but we only got second place.

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

Bravo! I'm certainly not going to challenge whether or not you used all the words - it sure seems like you did - and I'm smiling and thinking how great it is to have another great writer here at CCS whose stream of consciousness flows in delightfully mysterious ways ...

Kudos, Frank!

[Frank]

I bolded the words but when I transferred it to here via cut and paste - it took out my bolding. Trust me they are there - I was too lazy to reBold them.
Frank
Limn was the hard one. What does that mean ?

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

ah ... don't ya just hate having your bolding taken out? bolded, bolding, reBold ... sounds like a new entry for the CCS Weird Words Dictionary over in the Random Chat group :)

[Anne Westlund]

Cool story, Frank! We'll probably never know what that word means.