Tag: drabble
member name: Tanya P.
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August 20, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
The prompt for this week’s challenge is to give this image my story:
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November 15, 2008 11:39 PM EST --
(This week we were given a double dare as the prompt -- to use this fine art of Elliott Erwitt, called ‘France’, as our inspiration and write a 100 word . . .
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February 27, 2008 07:12 AM EST --
My morning alarm wafts its enticing aroma throughout my room, coaxing me to pay heed, drifting into my dream. I watch the little boy wind his way through a forest of adults, obviously seeking someone. . . .
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March 05, 2008 11:02 AM EST --
There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings.
Liquor, reefers, off-key singing, raucousness echoing good . . .
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April 13, 2008 08:00 PM EDT --
"HaHaaaa! I knew he'd be a snorer! Lightweight, too. Didn't even make it through his second drink."
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April 30, 2008 05:08 AM EDT --
Driving through the Wild Animal Park, we sought our favorite animal, the zebra. When seen, we ritually sing, "A horse is a horse, of course, of course.…." .
I brake hard, staring . . .
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June 02, 2008 08:06 AM EDT --
(The prompt for this week: Sex and the City.)
"I'm tellin' ya, Lizzy, nobody is going to notice us."
It was daring to lie with Leonard in the soft soil under . . .
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September 23, 2008 12:00 AM EDT --
(The prompt for this week's 100 Word Stories is “White Lie”.)
"Would you ever lie to me?"
"Noooo! What kind of question is that?!"
"Just . . .
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September 09, 2008 11:08 PM EDT --
(The theme for this week's 100 Word Stories is “New Beginning”.)
I watched her, my young daughter, as she cried herself to sleep. My own tears had mixed with hers, as I tried . . .
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March 11, 2008 12:05 AM EDT --
It was kismet that propelled me, spiraling into myself, projecting me into yet another physical expression. Bursting from the womb into the sterility of a hospital room, surrounded by quickly moving . . .
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June 08, 2008 01:13 AM EDT --
( NOTE: I am respectively withdrawing this entry from the challenge, due to Reena's e-mail notifying us that the perspective was to have been specifically from that of the shoe; not just the shoe's . . .
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June 11, 2008 04:15 AM EDT --
( The prompt for this week is to tell the shoe's story, from the shoe's perspective. See this week's challenge and rules here .)
Each night I wake to the bawl of hounds, . . .
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July 23, 2008 03:53 AM EDT --
(The prompt for this week's challenge is to use the following picture and give your words to the woman's thoughts.)
I see you in this room, where he . . .
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October 29, 2008 08:54 PM EDT --
(The prompt for this week's 100 Word Stories is to write a drabble involving an old lady and a donkey.)
“Master Brayer, I beg of you, untether me!! I promise, if . . .
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October 30, 2008 06:43 AM EDT --
(Bhawana has challenged me to imagine that my life is now a book and to write a blurb for the book in 100-150 words. So, my friend Bhawana, this blurb’s for you!)
NOTE: Scroll down to the . . .
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April 01, 2008 09:10 PM EDT --
At the request of another Gather member, one of my contacts, I'm placing this warning to anyone about to read. This drabble was written for week 8s theme, with the intent to bring one of the stories . . .
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July 05, 2008 08:40 PM EDT --
(The prompt for Week 22 is this Tabloid headline, " Dead husband buried with winning lotto ticket in his pocket.")
"Let me get this straight. You're promising . . .
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November 10, 2008 11:03 AM EST --
(The prompt for this week's 100 Word Stories is to f ill in the blank and finish the thought: "I didn' t go to ____ looking for redemption, but somehow I found . . .
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