Drablr
Streaming Drabbles 100 words at a time.
Noun
drabble (plural drabbles)
A fictional story that is exactly 100 words long.
The purpose of a drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
How to Write a Drabble: if you are new to writing drabbles then I highly recommend you read our guide.
Drabble of the Day
Hawick's Growth Industry
Hawick is dying, literally and metaphorically. Since 1980 10,647 folk have been born there, and 15,244 have died. Many more buggered off to the cities. Hawick’s a net exporter of people.
Funerary services, however, are clearly doing well.
I walked to school passed Beattie and Co., purveyor of undertaking to the poor with easy credit terms available.
Beattie was a big man. He’d stand outside dressed in the full rig, watching people go past, sizing them up for future business. You could see him making a mental note:
‘6”1, 250 pounds.’
Soon after he buried my mum, I buggered off.
