Bribery

FIXER arrived to fix the
TOTAL chaos I had caused. He offered me a
CARAT (so I heard) to use him again when it came to cleaning my
TUNIC.

ouch!

HURRY! I said in a
NASAL whisper as we
CREPT along. Then my toenail caught on the
PRONG of a fork fallen in their flight.

And so it goes

SNOWY outside; the wild wind blows, the
OCTET practices for its next shows. The wind
EMBUEs their sound with aural glows; the
GROUP consists of eight banjos.

Twice Hitched

HITCHcock, the director, with suspense in mind,
SLYLY inveigled his main characters
ALOFT the Statue of Liberty. One would pay the
PRICE of his misdeeds in a splattering fall.

On the other hand…
James Stewart, in HITCH’s
film, Vertigo, also found himself ALOFT,
fell, and paid the PRICE
in madness, deluded by a SLYLY murderous couple.     

Bullying

aBUSED I was as a kid, I was never
AGILE enough to get out of the bully’s way. A
MINTY was the upside, a sweetener, once I’d
DRIED my eyes and wiped my nose.

[I just couldn’t bring myself to use the US spelling of BUSSED…BUSED looks like FUSED, to me!]

Fatherhood

‘Are you both soch coddly EVOKEs?’ –
meaning Ewoks – THEIR
mispronouncing DADDY
night on night requests. His twin sons’ PUPILs
sparkle.

Quordle dance

A SCOT said, I know there’s a dearth of words on Quordle, but
‘CIRCA’ three times in a month seems a bit extreme.
QUOTH the Quordle maker, Freddie Meyer, ‘Sorry, mate,’ there are only so many words I can
DANCE with.’

Speak of the Devil

BOOTH, the Salvationist, said, ‘How the
DEUCE do you think the devil is going to
PROVE you’re unsaved? Does he believe everyone will
ROAST alongside him in Hell?