"A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length, although the term is often incorrectly used to indicate a short story of fewer than 1000 words. The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space." Drabbles
Below are a few of the drabbles written for our YA Creative Writing Club, which meets on Wednesdays @ 4 pm when we're taking a break from our novels. They had the theme of "Eye in the Sky" to work with, and could either use this as their title or just as their inspiration.
"Eye In the Sky"
-Zach
Spotlights shone through the fog. It was the shape of an eye, for the One, the Only--Eye Man. The police chatted in wait of Eye Man. There was a flash, a crack, a blink, and Eye Man was there. All eye except appendages coming out of his body, and a mouth at the pupil, Eye Man was all eye. In the blink of an eye, literally, he could beat up bad guys. The police officer said, "Sorry, Eye Man, wrong spotlight. Maybe next time."
There was a flash, a crack, a blink, and Eye Man was nowhere to be found.
"Daymares"
-Niah
Though she had an idea of where she was, she wasn't entirely sure. And she was even less sure that she truly wanted to know. But would you, when surrounded by twisted trees and flowers that towered over you like Jack's beanstalk? Though, in her opinion, everything was twisted, not just the plants but the people and even the animals as well. In front of her the air shimmered and an all-too familiar grin appeared. "How ironic," she thought, steeling herself for his appearance.
"Hello, welcome back." Her heart stopped, and Alice turned to run ,refusing to look back.
"Memoirs of a Gold Fish, Day...I'm not sure"
-Trey
Dear diary, today the human just stared at me...he-hello! Would you like some water? It's very clea--Dear diary, today the human just stared at me...he--my name is...I don't know. What's yours? I--Dear diary, I don't remember what my human did today, he--where am I? Dear diary--hello! My name is--Dear diary, I have had a good memory today. I--Hello! I'm about to make some cookies! Do you want to have--I love you. Sigh, you have beautiful eyes, you--Dear diary, the human is watching me. Just sitting there, watching--you loathesome, miserable creature--
until next time, love, Goldfish
