3rd place in Derby #554: USA! USA! USA!

4 Tiny Stories

1.
When Bill's door store, which he had named simply "Door," proved more successful than he anticipated, he opened a second location. He called it: "More Door."

2.
Having found the cookie dough flavor to be the best seller by far, Melissa, the frozen yogurt store's proprietor, decided to replace all other flavors with it. Every machine dispensed only cookie dough. "You still doing fro-yo?" asked an acquaintance she ran into at the grocery store. "No," said Melissa. "Now I do fro-dough."

3.
After being attacked by an aggressive gander while canoeing, Norm returned home and developed a spray to keep geese away. He named it: "Gand-off."

4.
Doug and Lucy, at the third house they toured, came across an architectural feature quite unlike anything they'd ever seen. It was a column, but not quite, and made entirely of granite. "What would you call it?" Lucy asked. "A grolumn?" Doug suggested. "No," Lucy said. "The sounds gross. Let's just say, Golumn."

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