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Never An Honest Word

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Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In…..?”
#287 – exactly 40 words using the five required
prompts: ‘curl’, ‘potion’, ‘robin’, ‘unicycle’ and
‘bombast’. In 40 words, this is my story.

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Unicycle-riding clown Rolling Robin made a tragic error in judgement. He believed beguiling Wizard Bombast when he said drinking his potion would allow Robin to perform a perfect tightrope curl. Bombast was lying, of course, and now Robin feels miserable.

NAR©2025
40 WORDS


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30 thoughts on “Never An Honest Word”

    1. I once knew a guy who rode his unicycle to deliver the daily newspaper around his neighborhood. A photo of him doing exactly that was the newspaper’s headline story one day. It must have been a slow news day but he got his 15 minutes of fame!

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