Hooked Storyteller Gifts

"Ha! You mean you've only caught one fish all day?!"

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

"Did you sleep awkwardly again?"

'You lifted your head.'

"Sorry lad, ye can't be having' me pot o' toilet paper."

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

"On New Year's Eve, Clement and I stayed up all night drinking. Tea, of course."

"Hello, my name is Karl and I'm addicted to speaking to small groups of strangers."

'We're doing a fly on the wall documentary.'

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

"Actually, I used them as collateral for a loan."

'This court finds you guilty Mr. Jones. As your punishment, the bailiff here will slug you one.'

Kirsten Johnson

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

Baby Bear.

How I met your mother

Reading

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

'I'm sorry but my little boy, Jack, ruined them all today.'

"Its my letter of resignation. I also turned it into a memoir."

Man sitting on bank with pulling up fishing with sign from fish attached to hook: Gone fishin'.

"Well, sir, it looks like things are getting pretty serious for Peter and Pauline."

And overcoming their resistance by sheer skill.

'There's a little bit of my late husband in every glass - I used his ashes as a fining agent.'

"This little piggy went to market, this little piggy drove the getaway car..."

Gag - a graphic novel

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Pets in Attorney's office - 'The iguana gets everything.'

Mephistopheles

Young Stephen King

'On the face of it, it sounds great that she left me her house, but it has gone stale and what Hansel and Gretel didn't eat the birds have had a go at.'

"Dear Mom and Dad: Thanks for the happy childhood. You've destroyed any chance I had of becoming a writer."