drabble


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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,…


  • 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…


  • Drabble: Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse

    Prompt: A zombie apocalypse occurs in a society which has been ready for it for over a century. A flash of color in the night sky was the signal, and Stevie rushed over to the picnic blanket to get a good view. All night they had waited for this, shivering in the darkness and bundled…