Some shortcuts to great stories

Adventure: The gorilla.
Delight: Love the taste of words.
Action: One in the eye for Hitler.
Squirm: A mastectomy, before the discovery of anaesthetics.
Tenacity: A tortoise crosses the road.
Wonder: Rough sex down by the river.
Feel good: What happens when a homeless guy does the right thing?
Bizarre: The strange case of Mr Phineas Gage.
Exploration: First meeting with a ghastly creature, the witch-finder Gagool.
Survival: How to eat a salamander.
Gruesome:‘Oh me, I eat anything…’
Satire: A solution to the rising birth-rate among the urban poor.