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Thank you. You're no mean drabbler yourself!
The Moon"The moon's looking lovely tonight." They stood by the water's edge and watched the moon and its reflection.
"Don't you think the moon looks brighter than usual?" He stood at the door, looking out over the fields.
"Why is the moon bigger than normal?" She began to worry. This wasn't just a bumper harvest moon.
"You don't think the moon's getting closer, do you?" he asked his dad. "The government; they'd tell us, right?"
"This is a public safety announcement. Do not panic. Stay in your homes. It is almost certain that most people will survive the impact. Stay tuned."
For some reason I was reminded of the music of 'Disaster Area' a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones,"Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being under a silvery moon which then explodes for no adequately explored reason."
Oh yes. Their lead singer spent a year dead for tax reasons. I wonder if Will has suggested that to any of his clients. Or his characters...
I actually got to use the line used by one of his bodyguards on the TV series" I'm the guy who's telling you to beat it before you get it beaten for you." :-)
It worked as well :-)
Lovely. I wish I had been there to see that.
It was one of those magic moments when you see the light go on as someone's brain kicks into gear and frantically runs round trying to find the 'off' switch for the mouth.
Another 'one of ours' :)Adam
They say the first man was called Adam. Now that the sun had died, was about to explode, and life on this planet had become unsustainable, there had to be a last man on earth. Strangely, coincidence and balance decreed that he too should be called Adam.
Adam, gasping and starving, remembered the philosophical question, "Does a falling tree make a sound if there is no-one to hear?" He looked past the immensity of the splitting sun, at the light of the distant stars. Would they still shine with no-one to see? No matter. For Adam, the stars went out.
I enjoyed reading this earlier - poor Adam :-)
I like this a lot. It feels deep but I understand it, which is always a bonus! :)
It's probably not as deep as it feels! ;)
Cracking one from Ignite today:A Recipe for Disaster
Take one summer holiday.
Add five consecutive days of sunshine and sprinkle with a general air of expectation.
Mix in a few sunhats, a couple of deckchairs and a portable barbecue.
Add three excitable children and agitate thoroughly.
Unlimited sugar may be added at this point.
Mix well and pour onto a windswept beach. Add a driving wind and a dash of squally showers.
Fill the chef with alcohol.
For added piquancy, ensure that the barbecue burns intermittently and the food is either charred or barely cooked.
This dish is generally served with a side order of blame and recrimination.
Thank you young man! And thank you Jonathan for posting it up while I've been out. :-)
Here's my latest drabble (100 word story), it's also posted on www.drablr.com which is a great place to discover new drabbles. Thanks as always to Rosen for posting this in the Indie Book Bargains newsletter (http://www.indie-book-bargains.co.uk/) another great places for drabbles and book bargains too!Skin Deep
Some people claim that beauty is only skin deep. I scoff at such a foolish notion. Is the treasured Christmas gift special because of the shiny paper? Of course not. Certainly it provides a pleasing presentation, but once you get underneath you discover the real beauty.
It isn’t easy; it takes a practised eye to appreciate the form, the shine, the texture of the muscle. Only with the proper study can you marvel at the delicate marbling of fat and meat. Enjoy the skin, peel it back carefully so that you don’t spoil the treasure.
And the taste. Oh the taste.
Sometimes your drabbles sound like they're going to be nice - but inevitably they all end up nasty! ;)I love it!
A drabble from me:How to bury a family pet by RMF Brown
In order to ensure the proper disposal of your faithful dog or cat with the minimum of fuss, make sure you have the following: a good handkerchief to dry the eyes of the wife and/or children, a properly dug pit in the back garden (cat remains are particularly good for giving your carrots a boost), a sharp spade for digging the pit (also handy for administering a swift blow to the head if pet is dying and/or in agony) and finally, a family friendly DVD such as ‘It’s a wonderful life/ The Lion King,’ in order to boost morale.
Just plopping Michael's new one on -Murder Drabbles - An Accidental First by Michael Brookes
I didn’t mean to kill her, hurt her yes, but not kill her. One moment she screamed the next dead at my feet.
Shocked was the only way to describe my mental state in that instant. An accident, yet I had carried the knife, something I rarely did. It was my favourite blade as well, sharp from hours of constant attention.
If she’d kept her mouth closed then this would never have happened. Clearly her own fault rather than mine.
Yes, her fault, but now my mess to clean up. Thanks Penny, I bet that wasn’t even your real name.
One from a GR member again today on IBB - well, me in fact. This is just to prove that I don't only do nasty ones. I just do mostly nasty ones! ;)Foxgloves
Little Ellie was walking round the garden hand in hand with her granddad. She loved flowers and he was telling her their names. The ones she liked best were taller than she was and had long spikes of purple flowers. He said they were foxgloves.
"See those little oval shaped blobs inside?" he asked. "Those are fairies' slippers."
"Really?" she asked, wide-eyed.
"That's what people say, but really it's part of how the flower makes seeds."
Ellie skipped off happily. She knew something Granddad didn't. Inside one of the flowers, next to the slippers, was a little red felt hat.
"C°C"Conception
Chemical
Concatenation
Cellular
Complication
Caesarian
Commencement
Cradled
Cherub
Cosseted
Childhood
Carefree
Confraternity
Cadet
Certification
Collegian
Capers
Clownish
Corybantic
Cocksure
Cronies
Credentials
Corporate
Cartesian
Clockwork
Careerist
Commuter
Competitive
Calculating
Casuistry
Clinical
Conforming
Consummate
Cornucopia
Colleen
Courtship
Coupling
Candlelit
Caress
Charm
Completion
Ceremony
Cummerbund
Consummated
Connubial
Customary
Consuetude
Cloying
Contemptuous
Chore
Caged
Champing
Compulsion
Concupiscence
Cheating
Covert
Careless
Cocaine
Cavalier
Chancre
Caught
Confrontation
Conciliatory
Castigated
Condemnatory
Culpable
Candid
Callous
Charade
Casualty
Cant
Conceited
Covetous
Cacoethes
Carnal
Corrupt
Cataclysm
Check-up
C
Corporeality
Contemplative
Conversion
Covenanted
Campaigner
Celibate
Cathartic
Charitable
Consoling
Counselling
Compassionate
Content
Cessation
Cadaver
Cerecloth
Casket
Catafalque
Crepuscular
Cold
Culmination
Cursory
At first glance I thought - what the? Then after a re-read I saw the connections. C is for clever :-)
Michael wrote: "At first glance I thought - what the? Then after a re-read I saw the connections. C is for clever :-)"Unfortunately I don't know html coding so couldn't make it big 'C' about 4/5 of the way down
Another from me - out on IBB today.Invasion
We are here among you now. Those lights you saw in the skies, months ago, were our means of travel. We needed a new place, new subservient creatures, and we have chosen you. We came peacefully but I understand you have a saying about making omelettes and cracking eggs. There can be no compromise. We needed hosts so we lay low and watched all Earth's children so we might choose. We found a hunter, a killer, a beast with basic instincts so like ours. We have taken them over and now have the power to dominate. We are your cats.
Haha! Don't you always get the feeling that cats are up to something?
They give you the look and then continue plotting.
Michael wrote: "They give you the look and then continue plotting."they don't have to plot anything. They are already in control
Happy first birthday for the drabble spot on Indie Book Bargains!It was their newsletter that spaked my love for drabbles:
http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...
Indie Book Bargains, Angelique. I'm sure it would come up on Google. You can join (free) and get a daily newsletter with reduced price or free Indie books. And a daily drabble!
Here's Jonathan's blog post about the subject.http://www.jhillwriter.com/index.html
And I'm not just posting this because he mentions me. As in, I'm not JUST posting... :)
Ah, thanks, Kath. Just wandered over here to post it. And before I even start, my work is done!
Ich. Haven't had a chance to look at this thread in days.That C thing is dead clever!
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Ich. Haven't had a chance to look at this thread in days.That C thing is dead clever!"
thanks Patti
My latest story in the Murder Drabble series has been posted in the Indie Book Bargains newsletter (if you're not subscribed then you should visit http://www.indie-book-bargains.co.uk/ and sign up, as well as daily Kindle bargains you get a daily drabble), the drabble is also copied below:Cleanliness is next to Godliness
Penny lay before me, her blood dull in the dim light. The alley was quiet, but all too close traffic moved in the better lit street. The thrill of the murder soared through my veins; with an effort I suppressed the buzz.
This wasn’t the way I’d always dreamt it. Then it was always clean, how the world should be. I felt an unexpected shiver of fear as I carried her body, surprisingly heavy, to my car.
Thankfully I always carry bin liners, just in case of a mess. With them I wrapped up Penny’s body and her bloody dress.
You can read the first drabble in the series here: http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/p/m...
I find the idea of telling a longer story using dabbles intriguing. I suspect the tricky bit will be to keep each on discrete and not to have them running into each other too much.
That's the idea Jim. Even in a series, each should be a complete story. Michael's one of the masters of the drabblers' art!
Yes, I've read the first two or this 'series'.It strikes me that what Michael is trying to do is even harder than just doing 'one off' dabbles
It is difficult, Jim. In my drabble book, I wrote a series of five or six drabbles featuring the same character. Each one worked as a stand-alone but together they read the story of someone's life. This type of drabble thus still works as a stand-alone but works BEST when you've read the others.
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