Lora Gray Photo by Norbert Kowalczyk on Unsplash I tell myself I’m not worried when the captain passes his fingers tenderly through my cheek and asks, “Are you ready?” I tell…
He was the last one alive. He couldn’t stop firing his gun. The aliens were winning. He couldn’t give up. They weren’t taking any prisoners. They were aliens who ate…
By Brandon Case “Kill them, Captain!” Corporal Keril screams at me, spraying the herd of deer with his MK-790 plasma rifle. “Kill them all!” The animals drop by the dozen—their…
Drabble 2 There’s an old lighthouse near my place. It’s now unused and locked so no one could enter. People hardly visit as there’s nothing there except an empty sea.…
Drabble 1 – A True Story When I was in high school, my English teacher was so impressed by how I spoke English that she ordered me to join an…
by Ai Jiang We keep eating, but the hunger remains. But that’s what they want—that’s what we were created for. With needles they prod us, take our blood, feed us, then…
“I liked the idea of putting a book of drabbles together, but I knew I would need a lot of stories. I had no idea how many authors would be…
I love reading drabbles. One good reason is that they’re short. So, in reading a collection of drabbles, you can stop anywhere without missing a beat, so to speak. What…