☺ Can you write an amusing story that includes 5 of these lines just for the pure fun of being creative?

[I am Sunshine]

1. Well, let's see......I've been reading "don't-kill-myself "books.
2. Never, EVER negotiate without your lawyer.
3. In the humidity-less atmoshere of Arizona.
4. You can not take a pitch pipe out of someone's hand when they're in the middle of a very funky groove!
5. Please leave me a message...... don't text me; And whatever "Twitter" is.....DON'T!
6. Wanna sing "Silly Love Songs" songs with me?
7. To quote Romeo...."________________________."
8. Ummmmm....I think that was after my fifth stint in rehab just before I __________.
9. Water theme parks,casinos and of COURSE, _____________.
10. The stand-up comic just sat down....Praise be to God.

(Some of these are movie quotes....the rest are my silly gigs)
â–ˆ Oops! These is one too many "songs"
in #6

[Sara]

"Please leave me a message....don't text me; And whatever "Twitter" is DON't" I've already been driven to distraction by my foolish decision to move to this place. I tell ya, I'm suffering in the humidity-less atmosphere of Arizona. Water theme parks, casinos, and of COURSE lots and lots of bars. To beat this unforgiving heat, I ducked into a dive. A guy was telling jokes that were so bad they couldn't melt an ice cube. The stand-up comic just sat down....Praise be to God. Never EVER negotiate without your lawyer. I did and now look where I landed in a desert down and out.

Thanks for the challenge.

[emucompboy]

X 1. Well, let's see......I've been reading "don't-kill-myself "books.
X 2. Never, EVER negotiate without your lawyer.
X 3. In the humidity-less atmoshere of Arizona.
4. You can not take a pitch pipe out of someone's hand when they're in the middle of a very funky groove!
5. Please leave me a message...... don't text me; And whatever "Twitter" is.....DON'T!
X 6. Wanna sing "Silly Love Songs" songs with me?
X 7. To quote Romeo...."________________________."
8. Ummmmm....I think that was after my fifth stint in rehab just before I __________.
X 9. Water theme parks,casinos and of COURSE, _____________.
10. The stand-up comic just sat down....Praise be to God.

Morning. Another day, another day in h-e-double hockey sticks, [3] in the humidity-less atmosphere of Arizona. Arizona had everything in it, [9] water theme parks, casinos, and of COURSE, my own special purgatory, the circus. Strongman Grant had awakened Sandy and me early, manacled us at the ankle, and we were shuffling three-leggedly toward Cooky's tent -- Sandy to get breakfast, me in hopes of getting some.

"Someone did a nice job of painting the trucks," I said. It was true. They were gaily painted with pictures of circus life. "The A-Z Az Circus of Amazements and Wonderments" read one. "Sandy, the Prettiest High Wire Girl in the World," read another -- with a very good glamor portrait of Sandy, who may very well have been the prettiest. ... then I saw... "James the Insane Animal Tamer, and his Ferocious Jungle Beasts!" -- with an effigy of me in my costume, and Queenie and Prince, the two jaguars. I could tell which one was Queenie and which Prince, the painting was that good.

"Astounding! Who does these?" I asked Sandy.

"Magician," said Sandy. She smiled. She was sweet on the fellow, although he threw knives at her.

"Everyone here is so multi-talented!" I exclaimed. It was true. Magician was... a magician, the knife thrower, painted the trucks (evidently) and had a carny fire-eating show too. Sandy was a pretty girl, did some tightrope walking, assisted me and Magician, posed on the biceps of Strongman Grant, and was the knife thrower's (Magician's) target.

"Everyone except you," pointed out Sandy.

"Hey, keeping the animals in line and trained is a full time job!" I protested. "We could sing duets too, I suppose. [6] Wanna sing 'Silly Love Songs' with me?"

"No thanks, loverboy," she said, and bumped me with her hip. I stumbled, jingling the short chain between us.

"[7] To quote Romeo... 'Stick another dagger in me, Mercutio.'" I said.

Sandy laughed merrily, and musically, I might add. "I don't think Romeo ever said any such thing," said Sandy.

"Yeah, you're right. I never read that play. We did 'Macbeth' in high school and college," I answered.

Sandy clapped a hand over my mouth. "You dumb-dumb! If you had learned anything, you'd know you never EVER say the name of that play out loud! You're supposed to circumlocute and say 'The Shakespearean play about the Scottish King.'"

Circus people. Superstitious lot.

"So, Tamer, what do you do on the nights I'm not with you?" she asked. I didn't know whether she was calling me by my name, or by my job, the way she did with 'most everyone else.

"NMmoph mmv mnn," I said. She pulled her hand away from my mouth. "[1] Well, let's see... I've been reading 'don't-kill-myself' books. The latest one was titled '[2] Never, EVER negotiate without your lawyer.'"

Sandy laughed merrily again. "Tamer, I'm going to miss you when you're gone." Then the smile left her face.

Yeah. The previous animal tamer had "left" by being killed by Little Bear, the smaller of the Mexican grizzlies. It was pretty sobering to contemplate that... especially since she'd probably called him "Tamer" too.