Saturday Wordzzle Challenge: Week 83

This is week 83 of the Saturday Wordzzle challenge. Anyone new to the process can refer back here to find out how it works. I had a really rough time this week. I'm going to use construction in both the bathroom and the kitchen all day as my excuse if these make no sense. I'm too tired to try and improve them. Looking forward to reading what the rest of you have created from this particularly irritating set of words.

The words for this week's ten word challenge were: family, cheese cake, 20 years ago, refrigerator, laugh and the world laughs with you, bath brush, zombies, African violets, butterflies, holding hands And for the mini: monsters in the closet, roughly, bowling, menu, Pennsylvania

My 10 word:

Looking at the Zombies bath brush his wife had just gotten for the 10 year old son, Fred had to laugh. Twenty years ago when his father had started the family cheese cake business, Fred had thought it was the worst idea in the world. Teased by many of his friends, his teen-aged humiliation and angst had known no bounds... until, that is, he met Luscious Lola who loved butterflies, African violets, the Beatles, holding hands, cheese cake and him! Lola was everything a man could want. She was a laugh and the world laughs with you girl and she loved to laugh just as much as she loved to bake and eat cheese cake (there was always at least one in the refrigerator). His parents loved her as much as he did (a lot). She helped them run the business while he was free to pursue his writing, help raise their son and be the happiest man on earth. Life was good.

The mini:

Molly Masterson was very happy. Her husband's idea to spend Halloween in Hersey, Pennsylvania with the kids had been pure genius. Every menu in town had wonderful chocolate delights. Even the local bowling alley served chocolate. There were scenic gardens, an amusement park and even hockey games for Bill and the boys. Presumably the home of chocolate candy would offer some of the best trick or treating in the nation.. She had been disappointed that the kids hadn't liked her costume idea for them to go as monsters in the closet. (She thought it was pure genius and had it all roughly designed out in her head.) Darth Vader and Legos Man had won, however. She hoped it was a trip the boys would remember always. She knew she would.

And the mega:

Gloria Gorgonetti sat holding the menu, scanning it in hopes that they had the strawberry cheese cake she loved so much. She was rewarding herself today. There was a long way to go, but as of today her children's book, Monsters in the Closet, was roughly half finished and so far she - amd better still her publisher - was very happy with it. The monsters in this book's closet (a closet very much like her young son Peter's right here in Pennsylvania) were not Zombies, not mean nasty monsters, just rather naughty creatures who got into mischief while children slept at night. They particularly liked bowling with apples and oranges and raiding the refrigerator (especially for chocolate cake and ice cream). Each "monster" looked surprisingly like some member of her family. Vivi, the one with the pot of African Violets on her head was the image of her sister Daisy. Then there was Smuch, who for some reason carried a bath brush around sort of like a scepter and wore a blanket on his shoulders like a cloak. He looked just like her baby brother David had 20 years ago. Butterfly was a perfect replica of her daughter Emma, who loved both ice cream and laughter. Laugh and the world laughs with you Gloria's mother had always said. She had thought it was nonsense until she had Emma who had proven that saying to be true. Emma made laughter a way of life for all of them in the house. She was pure joy. As was Peter to whom this book was dedicated in hopes that the shadows he feared in his own closet would seem more benign when she was done. She was stuck at the moment for what to do with her little monsters next, though. She knew the book would end with them holding hands and walking into a closet sunset, but how she was going to get them there remained a mystery, so at the rate she was going, by the time she finished writing and illustrating her little master piece Peter would have graduated from college and have children of his own. For now, though, she had made progress and there was, she hoped, a slice of cheese cake waiting with her name on it.

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Next Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: plaster, cottage cheese, hallowed, hard working, food for thought, blood drive, broken finger, ceiling fan, pastry chef, production

And for the mini: the sky is falling, variations on a theme, bravery, powder puff, empty soda bottles

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