This short story was written in response to Esther Chilton’s “Can You Tell A Story In… 44 words” challenge, citing four words which need to be included as part of the task: Adversary, Quiz, Wag, Waffle and Kissogram.

Janet has forever been my adversary. When she turned up at the quiz and won, I was furious. Instead of allowing her the chance to waffle on about it, I booked her kissogram ex-husband and invited him to the quiz to kiss the winner…