The Drabble Meme
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valarltdThis is going around my F'list.
Under the cut are 27 of my opening lines. If any of them move you, leave a drabble in the comments.
(Drabble=100 words)
1) I feel incredibly stupid dressed as a cartoon character.
2) It was late May.
3) "Oh man, this is so lame," Xander griped.
4) Willow found the website purely by accident.
5) Wesley Wyndham-Price awoke to pain.
6) "It's just skin," she says rubbing against me.
7) He tumbled to a stop, covered in cobwebs, the idol heavy in his grasp.
8) "You were not very damn funny up there on the cliff."
9) He sat at the bar, nothing stronger than soda in his glass, listening to the dark guy on the next stool go on.
10) Spock was puzzled.
11) Tick.
12)My father used to tell me I could be as blind as a dzuba when I had my mind set on something.
13)Art comes only through suffering.
14)The waves lapped at the base of the boulder where the old man sat, a sollak wood staff across his knees.
15) Coruscant, jewel of the New Republic, glimmered in the eternal night of space.
16) The room was a bar in any universe.
17) "I ain't goin'!" Han announced for the third time in an hour.
18) "I've never seen anything like this."
19) The black sands of the beach sparkled like the moonlit night waters, almost indistinguishable from the starry sky.
20) The closing deckplates clanged like the door every backwater jail-cell he'd ever been in.
21) Places like this were all the same: a lowlife dive in the front, with a well concealed back room.
22) Where do you go when the dreams take you from me?
23) The landing pad was blessedly empty of dignitaries, droids and assorted on-hangers as the Heroes of the Republic kissed their wives goodbye at the foot of the Millennium Falcon's ramp.
24) Put down the utensil and back away from the food processors with your hands in the air!
25) There is a saying here on Coruscant: "The whores in the Pleasure Quarter know the news before the whores in the Senate."
26) The orcs found Frodo in the lair of Shelob and carried him to Barad-Dur.
27)Moses had been assigned the task of butchering the runts in the latest litters of pigs.
Under the cut are 27 of my opening lines. If any of them move you, leave a drabble in the comments.
(Drabble=100 words)
1) I feel incredibly stupid dressed as a cartoon character.
2) It was late May.
3) "Oh man, this is so lame," Xander griped.
4) Willow found the website purely by accident.
5) Wesley Wyndham-Price awoke to pain.
6) "It's just skin," she says rubbing against me.
7) He tumbled to a stop, covered in cobwebs, the idol heavy in his grasp.
8) "You were not very damn funny up there on the cliff."
9) He sat at the bar, nothing stronger than soda in his glass, listening to the dark guy on the next stool go on.
10) Spock was puzzled.
11) Tick.
12)My father used to tell me I could be as blind as a dzuba when I had my mind set on something.
13)Art comes only through suffering.
14)The waves lapped at the base of the boulder where the old man sat, a sollak wood staff across his knees.
15) Coruscant, jewel of the New Republic, glimmered in the eternal night of space.
16) The room was a bar in any universe.
17) "I ain't goin'!" Han announced for the third time in an hour.
18) "I've never seen anything like this."
19) The black sands of the beach sparkled like the moonlit night waters, almost indistinguishable from the starry sky.
20) The closing deckplates clanged like the door every backwater jail-cell he'd ever been in.
21) Places like this were all the same: a lowlife dive in the front, with a well concealed back room.
22) Where do you go when the dreams take you from me?
23) The landing pad was blessedly empty of dignitaries, droids and assorted on-hangers as the Heroes of the Republic kissed their wives goodbye at the foot of the Millennium Falcon's ramp.
24) Put down the utensil and back away from the food processors with your hands in the air!
25) There is a saying here on Coruscant: "The whores in the Pleasure Quarter know the news before the whores in the Senate."
26) The orcs found Frodo in the lair of Shelob and carried him to Barad-Dur.
27)Moses had been assigned the task of butchering the runts in the latest litters of pigs.
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Date: 2004-10-06 06:09 pm (UTC)The planet before him, for instance; beautiful in its very transience, waiting to be condemned by the lie hovering on the Senator's lips. Dantooine, indeed; a coarse, an obvious misdirection, a false note in the edifice of crystalline destruction. He would have had her tell a better lie, one that he could at least pretend to believe. Art is imperfect.
He cannot feel the disturbance in the Force, but in Vader's stillness he can almost hear it sing.
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Date: 2004-10-06 06:47 pm (UTC)Hope your a Hornblowe fan...
Date: 2004-10-06 07:32 pm (UTC)Archie tried to hide his grin, but was somewhat less successful than Horatio. Neither of them knew whom William was berating, but since it applied to them both, both tried to be suitably chagrinned. They’d found it far too amusing to drag the screaming man over the edge and into the water.
“You would have rather we left you up there to get blown to bits?” Archie called back to where Bush was changing and trying to dry off in the privy. They’d had no choice. They could do something about Bush’s inability to swim. None of them were fireproof.
There was a long pause.
“Seriously, Mr. Bush, what real choice did we have?” Horatio asked.
Emerging disheveled but much drier, Bush dropped into a seat at the wardroom table, dragging a comb through his ratted hair. He sighed. “I guess I should be grateful, all said.” There was a pause before he added, “I suppose that was the living embodiment of the expression ‘being caught between the devil and the deep blue sea’.”
Archie passed around a bottle of port, and, finally, all three laughed at cheating fate.
(Okay, it's a double drabble. I've always been long winded. :)
Re: Hope your a Hornblowe fan...
Date: 2004-10-07 09:10 am (UTC)Re: Hope your a Hornblowe fan...
Date: 2004-10-07 03:19 pm (UTC)Only... Bush doesn't swim. So he refuses.
So Horatio and Archie each grab and arm and drag him off the cliff. On the way down he screams, "I don't SWWIiimmmmm!"
Waldo.
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Date: 2004-10-07 01:24 pm (UTC)Come here tonight.
Come alone.
The back room was dark, cluttered, filled with low couches and muffled moans.
She heard a laugh-- painfully familiar-- no, it couldn't be-- and pulled aside a torn curtain.
Luke sat half-undressed, his arms around a woman-- a woman who looked just like her.
She gasped.
He looked up, and didn't care.
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Date: 2004-10-07 03:59 pm (UTC)Woman, you managed to push about every SW het button I've got.
Fabulous. Hot, scary and ugly all at once.
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Date: 2004-10-07 09:26 pm (UTC)-----
I feel incredibly stupid dressed as a cartoon character. It's a fact I mention to Clark. Repeatedly. But he just smiles in that way he has that seems to light up the entire room.
His smile also has the unfortunate side effect of making me forget what I was just talking about, but I'm going to assume that's not intentional. I'm in a good mood, stupid costumes aside, so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
"It's for a good cause, Lex."
And oh, yes, now I remember. I was objecting to being made into a public mockery. While I may like to read Warrior Angel, I never wanted to dress up as him. Not even for the annual Smallville Halloween Carnival.
But Clark's smiling again, and suddenly it doesn't seem quite so horrible.