Does everybody know what a “drabble” is?
No, it’s not something a basketball player does with the ball, or what a baby does with his mashed peas.
It’s original meaning is to make wet and muddy. Think of my pant cuffs dragging on the ground when I’m out walking in the rain.
Nowadays it refers to a story that’s exactly 100 words long.
There are a lot of drabble challenges on the Medium platform. Somebody comes up with a prompt, then challenges writers to write a drabble on the subject.
I tried my hand at one recently. The prompt: The Best Day of My Life.
Here’s the whole thing.
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The brown fox peered around the corner of the biker bar.
The proverbial coast was clear.
He stole a motorcycle.
The fox liked to live dangerously.
He came to a pencil in the road.
Not a fork.
A pencil.
A big pencil.
It was tilted up like a ramp.
The fox roared up the pencil and soared over a dog that was lying nearby.
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog!!” he exulted. “Hot damn! — a pangram!!”
The dog was not amused.
This is the best day of my life, thought the fox, just before he crashed and died.
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