my user pic drabble.

Snow covered now, the house stood as it had done for years. Lights blazed from all the windows, the rosy glow glistening in the snow and lighting the well trodden path. Silently it watched and waited for the one missing family member to return.

It had known many families over the years. Children, grandchildren, births, deaths ( Read more... )

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For this week, I thought it might be interesting to do a drabble about time. We never seem to have enough of it but at work the hours can sometimes drag.

The time change in the US is what gave me the idea for this theme. I think my body has finally caught up.

I cradle him in my arms just as I did the day he arrived at my home.  His body, now a husk, was once so full of life.  Every limb and digit was miniature when he was a young boy.  His smiles and laughter seemed endless.

I expected I would love him, but I never thought I would love him this much.  My chest hurts.  Someone has ripped my heart from ( Read more... )

Dear Zilla ( Read more... )

A Drabble is an extremely short work of fiction with exactly one hundred words (or sometimes 100 words maximum depending on the exercise or contest). The purpose of the drabble is to teach brevity and test author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space. You may be given a theme or you may be given one ( Read more... )