Microfiction | Humour

Sheri’s 10-Word Story Challenge Takes on a New Guise

A stunt waiting to happen!

Carolyn Hastings
The Brain is a Noodle
3 min readAug 30, 2022

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Two female acrobatic clowns performing on a multicoloured floodlit stage.
image constructed by author in Canva using images by Wolfgang Eckert from Pixabay (performing clowns) and Julia Schwab from Pixabay (stage lights)

It’s taken six weeks of star-studded performances and a full circuit of the Medium circus — I mean, stage — make that, platform — for Sheri Jacobs’ daring 10-word story challenge to take on a new guise.

Last week, Jim McAulay🍁 invited me to an exclusive front row seat for a premiere performance at Illumination Mirror — what a great name for a circus! 🎪 😆

Curiously, his act was called, A 10 Word Story Challenge! I settled myself into my seat expecting another of Jim’s fun puns.

I should have known better!

The life buoy was a give-away!

What was so special about Jim’s act?

Jim introduced his act by explaining that he’d been ‘led to create a version of the 10 word story and a new challenge’ after reading my 10-word-story response to Shereen Bingham’s 10-word stories — are you still with me?! 😜

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Carolyn Hastings
The Brain is a Noodle

Well-practiced speech pathologist now practicing to be a children’s book writer — emphasis on practicing.