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Drabbles
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Drabble: Over the wall
Prompt: Over the wall Even if you stand on your tip-toes, you’ll never be able to look over that wall. It’s lived too long, known too many other nosy children to topple down just for you. On the other side you can hear voices: the clinking of glasses, a woman’s laughter, the lilting tune of…
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Drabble: Ahead of Time
Prompt: Ahead of Time I can always tell when I’ve arrived too late. There’s a shift in the atmosphere that I can feel in my gut. In an ideal world, I could just leave and travel back again to an earlier time, but it isn’t that easy. You would think that time travel would give…
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Drabble: Smoking a cigarette
Prompt: A man is smoking a cigarette. Make me understand what he’s feeling without using any ‘thought’ verbs. Leathery skin spoke of how many hot summers the old man had seen regardless of how his hands shook. The bright white near his roots was a stark contrast from the cheap black hair color he had…
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Drabble: Selling your soul
Prompt: Someone wants to give away their soul for something. Satan tries to talk them out of it. “Look, your soul isn’t worth that much.” Lucifer said as his fingers glided over the piano keys. “Come on,” she smiled. “If you really are who you say, nothing should be out of your reach.” Lucifer frowned,…
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Drabble: The waking hour
Prompt: The waking hour The waking hour is one of darkness, filled with doubt and fear and uncertainties that are too fragile to see in the light of day. You wake in a whirlwind of confusion from a dream that you hope was mere fantasy. Your mind swirls with dangerous potentials that you try hard…