February’s Six on the Sixth

(…or on the eleventh, as I never get to do it on the right date… ;o)

This month, the prompt words for the Six on the Sixth challenge are

This time I tried to link them all, and created a 36-word story composed of 6 6-word sentences, each featuring one of the prompt words.
The hardest one for me was maintenance.

This is how it ended up:

GOBLIN:       Wizards and goblins brewing a potion.

SPIT:         Toad's spit to top it off.

SHINE:        The liquid boiled, the vial shone.

BELITTLE:     Some saw nothing special on it.

GAPE:         The others were open-mouthed in astonishment.

MAINTENANCE:  Drinking it, they would be silenced.

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This post was written in response to the Six on the Sixth challenge for February 2016, hosted by Adam Ickes.
The image is a collage of 3 different images grabbed from pixabay.com and edited a bit.