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26 Word Stories

Onjali Q Rauf (who wrote The Boy at the Back of the Class and The Star Outside My Window) set a challenge on Radio 2: write a story of 26 words where each word starts with each letter of the alphabet in order: 

A boy called Dave enjoyed feeding great hamsters in jars kept ...

 

Can you do any better?

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