Co-oped Vocab Story (from high school)

I found this vocab story that we wrote many moons ago and thought I'd share. From what I can tell, the vocab words were: Unwonted, Utopian, Cavorting, Distraught, Credence, Evinced, Viscous, Verdant, Decry, Primordial, and Cavorting..again. Although, I probably don't need to point them out because they stick out pretty awfully since nobody actually uses SAT Words of the Day in real life.

Once upon a time, Antonio woke up unwontedly from a utopian dream. In it he was cavorting about fields of tulips and bunnies. Distraught from waking up from a perfect dream, he began to give credence to his wise mother’s words, “Son, always, always follow your dreams.” He evinced his obedience to his mother and set out to follow his latest dream.

Unfortunately for him, he was an awkward boy who never bathed. This resulted in a viscous layer of filth over him, making his hair a verdant tint. Everyone decried his dreams and that made it hard for him to start the primordial steps of living out his fantasy. Discouraged, he began to weep for help. His fairy godmother appeared in a flash and offered him some helpful hints. “Try growing your own tulips and bunnies from scratch by yourself!” she offered. (Fairy godmothers don’t know much about bunnies.) With new found confidence, Antonio set out again, determined to live out his goal. He smuggled his tulip seeds from the old lady neighbor, named Donna Shannon, and took bunnies from little kids. He dumped them all in a big pen and, with great enthusiasm, he started cavorting through it. It wasn’t like his dream at all, because in dreams, you don’t squish the bunnies when you prance on them. When he was finally satisfied after four hours, he looked, still giggling. When he saw the mess of thousands of trampled bunnies and tulips, he went into shock. He later died of heart problems. Doctors say it was cardiac arrest from the shock, but we know it was really just a broken heart. Dave Chappelle hosted Antonio’s funeral, and he was buried in a casket made of poptarts.

The End