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Kath
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Jul 07, 2013 05:37AM
It works on a lot of levels! I like that. :)
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well done on the drabble Darren!yay!
oh blast. i meant to post on your author thread about how much i liked your drabble Jonathan!great twist!
Thanks, Patti. I can't seem to stop doing them at the moment!
uh oh. do we need to change this to the drabbles anonymous thread?i say just go with it.
you lot keep writing them and we'll keep reading them
I think J and I have set each other off! But for my initial downfall, I still blame Michael and his Lovely Imp!
Here's my homage to Michael and his Imp (I did ask his permission first!)The Imp Alternative
From my eye corner I saw the deformed little creature, perched like a piratical parrot on my shoulder. I tried to swipe it off but its horny little claws dug deeper into my clothing.
“What the hell?” I muttered.
“Good morning, Mistress. I’m your new Familiar,” it said. “Michael Brookes has an Imp. It whispers ideas and performs… personal services,” it said, waggling its eyebrows suggestively, buffing up my earring with a tiny, grimy hanky.
“You’re my Imp?”
“Not telling. You’ll laugh.”
“Tell me!” I commanded.
“Only if you promise not to call me Lemonade!”
I promised.
“I’m a Sprite!”
I honestly don't know how you all come up with so many. I lack the discipline to keep to a hundred words.
Oh, I don't do 'discipline'! You must be thinking of someone else. ;)
Love this Drabble. I can't stop chuckling at the buffing up my earrings bit!Darren: Kath and I have drabbloea. We've infected each other. There is no cure.
I thought Darren's was brilliant. Just because he usually writes reams, doesn't mean he can't condense out a gem or two on the side.
PS, Jonathan. He had to buff up my earrings as I don't have a beard for him to - erm, whatever he does to make Michael's so silky!
Sprites and Imps I love them ,Kath ,Michael ,Jonathan ,Darren you make my day (hope I didn't miss someone out )whats next with these drabbles perhaps I might have an Elf lol!!
Thanks Kay. Today's is the sequel to my Sprite one of yesterday. That's it for this little chap though. I have no intention of competing with the Impmeister!Name That Sprite
The Sprite bobbed up and down on my shoulder as I worked.
“Stop it Sprite. It’s distracting. I can’t keep calling you Sprite,” I continued. “You must have a name?”
“I have.” It sagged slightly. “Ain’t tellin’ though. It’s embarrassing. Three guesses?” it mumbled.
“Who do you think you are? Rumplestiltskin?”
“Nope. That’s one guess gone!”
“Give over,” I chided. “I demand that you tell me your name. You must tell me.”
“Yes,” he said, sagging a little more. “We all get given one in Sprite School. Something that suits us.”
“And you are?”
He wilted against my shoulder.
“Flaccid.”
OK, I need in on this imp/sprite action, so here comesDesignerimp.com
I was feeling down
I knew the cause well enough; everyone else seemed to have little helpers perched on their shoulders to offer good advice. Well advice, anyway.
I had nothing, nobody, not even dandruff, on my shoulder.
In desperation, I turned to Oogrle (the supernatural search engine) and there it was – Designerimp.com.
They were pricey, though. A bit beyond my price range to be honest.
Except ... except.
A lucky bag! Pay a smaller price and take whatever pops out of the bag onto your shoulder.
Well, here goes. Press enter and it says ... Elephant ogre
Oh cra...
Haha! You should send that in! Join the 'familiar' club!
Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "love it Darren!"So you don't love mine then? *sob!*
yours was even better than Darren's but don't tell him i said that!
Oh ta. Since I'm almost an author now (pffft!) I'm learning to be needy!*ducks and runs*
you can't be a proper author until you complain about a bad review.*hides behind Ignite*
We can't hide behind each other. One's got to be in front! Shall we just give up and have a drinkie-poo?
*pours another beer*shounds gud ta meeee
Hmm... I wondered why is the IBB drabble queue was full of pixies. Hee hee.
I better be very careful or there will be leprechauns added in to the mix!
Thanks to Rosen as always for featuring the latest Tales of the Imp darbble on Indie Book Bargains. Thanks also to Vicki for the wonderful artwork!
Tales of the Imp - The Interview
I felt nervous. I didn’t want this job, what fun is working in a bank? Sure the money was better and I’d work fewer hours. The Imp pointed out that I’d have more time for writing – which sounded good.
A pretty secretary called me into the office. I walked in, shook the man’s hand. His suit fitted him much better than mine did me.
“Hello, please sit down. Why do you want this job?”
The Imp leapt from my shoulder and climbed into the man’s brain through his ear.
I didn’t say a word and I was offered the job.
Eww! I wondered where the job story was going. :)
Kay (Golden Girl) wrote: "Sprites and Imps I love them ,Kath ,Michael ,Jonathan ,Darren you make my day (hope I didn't miss someone out )whats next with these drabbles perhaps I might have an Elf lol!!"Your wish is my command Kay!
A Drabble for Kay
No-one knew where they came from. Some said they were aliens while the more poetic opted for 'the hollow hills'. Suddenly there was an influx, an infestation, of small, slender, fey and pointy-eared creatures, pinching milk from doorsteps and poking sleeping infants into fretful wakefulness.
Finally it took the combined brains (both of them) of the Ministry of Strangeness to devise a method of trapping the pests. The creatures declared it 'no fun' so they went 'home'. Before that, though, there had been a radio announcement.
"Danger! Stay indoors. Do not approach the creatures. This is a Public Elf announcement."
We take an interlude from the job thread for the next one, but then we get back to it :-)
Michael wrote: "We take an interlude from the job thread for the next one, but then we get back to it :-)"I look forward to that!
love it Kath ,and thank you ,I now have my very own drabble ,an elf called public x
Everyone's got to be called something!Glad you enjoyed it. I enjoyed writing it. :-)
and now we need a writer of eroticia to write a drabble about a pubic elf.right. enough beer for Patti tonight methinks. sorry. ;-)
i might start calling them darbles tho...
Hehe, good one, Kath. How about that then, Kay? Drabbles on request! She'll be charging for them soon! ;)
Jonathan's in today's newsletter is a good one.
And here it is!The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth by Jonathan Hill
"Mummy, Daddy, Mummy, Daddy, look what I got!"
Tina and Andrew looked down at the shiny pound coin resting in Tommy's cupped palm and smiled. Tommy beamed back at them, proudly displaying the gap in his top row of teeth.
"Now I can buy something!" Tommy turned and ran back up stairs to get dressed.
"I'm so glad you remembered to do the whole tooth fairy thing," Tina said to her husband with a relieved sigh.
Andrew paused for a second then replied.
"Funny you should say that because that's exactly what I was just going to say to you."
Thanks for posting my drabble, Kath! And thanks, Kay and Michael! :)
Another of mine is in today's IBB newsletter:The smell of a new book by Jonathan Hill
"I'm in here, dear!"
"You don't take sugar, do you, Maureen?"
"No, dear, I'm already sweet enough. You should know that by...COASTER!"
"Sorry! Er, Maureen, what on earth are you doing?"
"I've just bought a new book, dear. There's nothing quite like the smell of a new book. You have to get your nostrils close enough so that your nasal hair is almost tickling the surface. Then you take the deepest of breaths and drink in the wondrous scent. It's almost as if the book's alive!"
"But, Maureen, you're getting nose prints all over the screen of your Kindle!"
She's almost real, isn't she Kay. Haha. I love it!
Thanks, folks! You'll be getting sick of seeing my name in the IBB email. There's another ton of them waiting to be uploaded!
love the drabbles but don't forget the next book
Jonathan's on a roll! Todays' is Don't Stop Me Now by Jonathan Hill
"Don't stop me now. I'm having such a good time. I'm having a ball."
I can't wait to tell her my news! The breeze sweeps across my face and paints on a smile of pure joy. I know she'll be thrilled.
I pedal faster still, the upbeat Queen track filling my head with excitement and the hopes of a glorious future. I do not hear the horn.
She sits patiently. Wheels spinning, moving nowhere. She looks at her watch. Lips move silently but no one hears my words. She smiles. Tarmac listens to my music.
"Don't stop me, don't st-
Hmmm.. he's gone over to the Dark side!
Here is the latestTales of the Imp drabble, thanks to Rosen for posting it in the Indie Book Bargains newsletter and Vicki for the cool art!Tales of the Imp - Chubby Little Buddha
You should have seen him. He sat there cross legged in the sun like a chubby little Buddha. He wore a beatific smile as if he’d never imagined a perverse thought in his life.
And do you know what he said to me?
“I am at one with the universe.”
“What?”
“You should relax more.”
“How can I with you around?”
“That hurts, I’m here to make your life better. You already have a better job.”
I nodded.
“You should be more grateful.”
“Thank you for my new job.”
“No problem, now assume the position and say with me. Ooooommmmm.”
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