I'm going to offer a prompt for the week and hope that our lovely and brilliant Moderator allows it. :)

George, the last known Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, died on Sunday, making the species extinct.

Therefore, I offer:

Extinct

Keep Calm and Drabble On, my friends.

Opps meant to get this up earlier. Hope everyone is having a great holidays, however you celebrate. This is challenge 404 which, as I live in cyberspace, means only one thing: Not found. We just did a 'found' challenge so this week's challenge is:

LOSTAs this is a holiday week, this challenge will be open until next Sunday -- then we will be back ( Read more... )

In researching for today's challenge I realized it is five years since Hurricane Katrinia hit the Gulf area.

A moment for those affected by the Hurricane and its aftermath.

This week's challenge is:

Back

Ready? Set? Drabble!

This week's challenge is inspired by the founding of the Lutheran Church of the US which occurred on August 15 in 1748. It was that or use Epic from Scott Pilgrim v the World, a movie set in my home town of Toronto. Being a benevolent dictator, I decide Epic might be mean so the prompt:

FOUND

Deadline will be late Tuesday EST --

Ready? Set?

Happy Sunday, drabblers!

Today is the 134 anniversary of Edison's patent for the mimeograph! This lead me to the prompt challenge for today:

COPY

Open til midnight EST on Tuesday.

Ready set drabble!

Happy Sunday!

Today is the 179 annivesrary of the opening of the most recent London Bridge (the one that is now standing in Arizona). Given this fun fact, this week's prompt is:

BridgeI'm going to continue the Tuesday night cut off, as it seems to help generate more drabbles ( Read more... )

In order to increase participation in this comm, for the next three weeks I'd like to try something different. Let's try making this more of a flash community -- when you see the prompt try to write a drabble RIGHT THEN (just one)

I'll close the challenge on TUESDAY EVENING. Maybe the shorter period will let people post without mulling it so long ( Read more... )

Canada Day, British Virgin Island's Territory Day, Burundi's Independence Day, Rwanda's Independence Day, and Foundation of Somalia Day was July 1st, July 3 was Independence Day in Belarus. Today is the US's Independence Day while Cape Verde's Independence Day, Caymond Island's Constitution Day, and Venezula's Independence Day is on July 5th ( Read more... )

First, thanks everyone for your comments on what you want from OoS (and if you would like to add your 2 cents, please comment on this post)

I'm up early to help move my office. So, in a fit of creative genius, this week's prompt is:

MOVE

Remember, any form of the word is acceptable!

Ready? Set? Drabble!

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Jim Henson's death. So the prompt this week is to make use of:

Muppet

Be creative. Have fun!