Mad, Mad Words: The Sparkly Barnacle's Journey Part I

     Here's another story we wrote using a Mad Libs word list.  For more details about how we came up with our story, see our original Mad, Mad Words post.  I've included our list below.  Feel free to try writing a story of your own using them and let us know what you come up with, either by posting in the comments below or by emailing me at hathaway.amber@gmail.com.

Word list:
*Sparkly
*Soda
*Cats
*Nine
*Icy
*Swims
*Green
*Owl
*Ottoman
*Cupcake
*Gopher
*Jumps
*Tree
*Pretty
*Book
*Calculators
*Grim
*Toaster

     There once was a sparkly barnacle.  It lived on the side of a soda bottle.  The soda bottle had once been owned by an eccentric old man who had been the caretaker of famous cats.  He had nine such cats, in fact.  However, there was no old man nor were there cats in the icy depths of the ocean.
     As the barnacle's memory of the old man faded, it watched as an eel swam past it.  As the eel passed, the barnacle saw a flash of green light.  The bottle was lifted into the air by an owl wearing scuba diving gear.
     After they reached the surface, the owl and barnacle were hoisted aboard a ship and the owl placed the bottle on an ottoman.  The owl took off her scuba mask and started munching on a cupcake from the tray beside the ottoman.  A gopher dressed in fanciful captain's attire approached the owl.  Feeling a presence behind her, the owl jumped.  She jumped so high that she landed on the tree branch that was the mast of the ship.
     "My, what a pretty view I have from here," she said as she regained her composure.
     The gopher began to flip through pages of a book, searching for something.  He picked up a calculator from the mound of calculators neighboring the ottoman.  As he punched numbers into the calculator, a grim expression crossed his face.  "This thing you found in the ocean is too small to be the toaster of prosperity," he said.

To be continued . . .

Mad, Mad Words: The Blue Raccoon's Adventure by the River

     Brian and I both enjoy Mad Libs and as we were playing the game the other day, Brian suggested writing a story using the words that we fill in for the Mad Libs, including at least one of the words per sentence.  I thought it was a neat idea and so we gave it a try.  This is what we ended up with.  I'm including our word list as well.  If you feel inclined to try writing a story using these words yourself, I'd love to see what you come up with.  Post your stories in the comments below or email them to me at hathaway.amber@gmail.com

Word list:
*Blue
*Mirror
*Cod fish
*Ugly
*Crimson
*Killing
*Mauling
*Fluffy
*Silly
*Hatchet
*Bananas
*Spleens
*Naughty
*Chevy S-10
*Apples
*Pickles
*Crayfish
*Worms
*Crossly
*Hat

     Once there was a blue raccoon who loved to look into a lake that had a mirror-like reflection.  One day while staring into the lake the raccoon saw a cod fish.  The cod fish looked up at the raccoon and said, "By golly, you're ugly!"
     The raccoon pointed a crimson claw at the cod fish and said, "That's not a nice thing to say.  You would probably look unkempt too if you had been out killing all day long."
     The raccoon was fibbing, for the only thing she had been mauling was a red paintball.  The raccoon, like a fluffy streak, dove into the water.  She proceeded to make silly faces at the cod fish.  The cod fish, in a moment of terror, pulled out a hatchet.  The raccoon reached into the water for something to defend herself with and pulled out a bunch of bananas.  The bananas reeked like spleens that had been sitting out in the sun for ten days.
     "Naughty codfish," said the raccoon, "Did you leave this perfectly good food in the river?"
     As the cod fish began to answer the raccoon, a Chevy S-10 drove by, muffling the cod fish's reply.  Several apples fell out of the back of the truck.  Then a jar of pickles floated by.  A crayfish swam to the surface after the pickles, shouting, "Hey, come back here, my lunch!"
     The cod fish yelled after the crayfish, "Hey Jim, you got those worms you promised me yet?"
     The crayfish glared at the cod fish and said crossly, "Can't you see that I'm busy?"
     The raccoon thought to herself, "This is getting weird" as she grabbed her hat and slowly backed away.