drabble – Page 81 – Tale Told

Drabble: Burn It Down

He sat there coolly, cigarette smoke rising in lazy arcs around his head, as they rattled the door. Muttering to himself more than anything, he advised the devils to quit.…

Drabble: Sunrise

The sun was rising. Golden rays shot forth their light upon the long forgotten world. For eons night had smothered the land, for eons she had been breeding, infesting the…

Drabble: Dying Flames

He stokes the fire. The embers reveal their red glow as they turn over, and then grow black. The smoke rises in twisting plumes as the fire dies. The world…

Drabble: Separated

The hull against a reef had crashed, and we, in mortal combat locked, were thrown into the air when she did sudd’nly stop. Quick still our swords did ringing meet,…

Drabble: Cold

Let me remember, then, the cold. Winter comes in slowly, at times, but one storm will bring it in a day. I remember the snow, sad, melting, snow which covered…

Drabble: The Mask

“You can never take it off again once you put it on.” I knew the words were true as he said them, and I looked down at the inside of…

Drabble: I Still Could See

The soft flowing air rustling the trees blew over me. My flesh in goosebumps, my breath caught in my throat, my shirt and hair swaying: Night, I saw the night…

Drabble: Monster

The monster rose up out of the sea, its shadow like night over us. The size! What is size? What can I say but that a mountain was suddenly thrust…

Drabble: Watcher

The statue’s earnest eyes looked down the sloping hill of the cemetery. We stared at each other, the statue and I, thinking our own thoughts. A breeze blew past us…

Drabble: Hammer

His blood fell from him onto the floor, dripping slowly from his brow. The hammer had left a crater in his skull. He stood there, his body processing the blow…