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strangetomato) wrote2008-04-09 08:44 pm
strangetomato) wrote2008-04-09 08:44 pm
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Challenge 002: Drabble+: Death
Here's my response to the current challenge over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
simstorytellers . I thought I would post this now, since it's based on the Strangetown, Here We Come, and I won't be able to post the next chapter until Sunday at the earliest. I'm heading out of town tomorrow evening for a long weekend. This drabble+ (slightly longer than a regular drabble, which is exactly 100 words) is related to the next couple of chapters in the story, and is thus a slight spoiler, but I like to think of it as more of an appetizer. I hope the next installment will follow by early next week.
This week's challenge was to create a 150-200 word drabble+, using a maximum of two in-game pics, with "death" as the prompt.
CHALLENGE 002: Drabble+: Death
Prompt: death
Pic max: 2
Word count: 150-200
Expires: 4/16/08
Nervous didn't have to look far for examples of the impact that his parents had made on this little desert town. There was Ophelia, his cousin, who had lost her entire family to death at an early age. There was Ripp Grunt, whose parents had also been brutally murdered, though he didn't know that yet. There was Johnny Smith, who had, so far, been lucky, but his troubles would come. Death didn't spare anyone. Nervous knew that his father had an appointment with Johnny's family, and sooner than any of them expected.
There was Pascal.
Nervous hoped that somehow, despite logic, Death might decide to grant Pascal some special privilege to walk untouched and happy throughout his long life.
If Nervous asked, he could make it so, but asking favours of Death always came with a price.
simstorytellers . I thought I would post this now, since it's based on the Strangetown, Here We Come, and I won't be able to post the next chapter until Sunday at the earliest. I'm heading out of town tomorrow evening for a long weekend. This drabble+ (slightly longer than a regular drabble, which is exactly 100 words) is related to the next couple of chapters in the story, and is thus a slight spoiler, but I like to think of it as more of an appetizer. I hope the next installment will follow by early next week.This week's challenge was to create a 150-200 word drabble+, using a maximum of two in-game pics, with "death" as the prompt.
CHALLENGE 002: Drabble+: Death
Prompt: death
Pic max: 2
Word count: 150-200
Expires: 4/16/08
Nervous Subject looked around the cemetery.
He was surrounded by death. This was his legacy. This is what his mother had left him with: a collection of dead people, each of them hand-picked to suit her various whims.
It was also his father's work. He performed his task thoroughly and carefully, leaving nobody behind. Death touched everyone.
Nervous didn't have to look far for examples of the impact that his parents had made on this little desert town. There was Ophelia, his cousin, who had lost her entire family to death at an early age. There was Ripp Grunt, whose parents had also been brutally murdered, though he didn't know that yet. There was Johnny Smith, who had, so far, been lucky, but his troubles would come. Death didn't spare anyone. Nervous knew that his father had an appointment with Johnny's family, and sooner than any of them expected.
There was Pascal.
Nervous hoped that somehow, despite logic, Death might decide to grant Pascal some special privilege to walk untouched and happy throughout his long life.
If Nervous asked, he could make it so, but asking favours of Death always came with a price.
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Awwww, that's so sad! :(
(No further comment at the risk of spoiling things to someone else in case I might be right with my suspicions)
Other than that, I've never read Sim Drabbles and the examples I've seen so far are very neat! This one was lovely, and I really liked the very last picture.
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I really like sim story drabbles too. It's great fun to do these short pieces with images included, since a lot of the story can be told in the image alone (though I haven't really pushed that side of it yet). Have you considered participating in some of these challenges too?
I do traditional drabbles based on my sim stories too, in a drabble group that I'm involved with. Some of those can be found if you follow the drabble tag. I have a new batch too, but they tend to be even more spoilery than this one is, so only read them if you're okay with some hinting at things to come. Many of them get recycled into actual chapters. The end of chapter twenty two (part one), with Johnny looking at the stars and thinking about his decision, started out as a drabble.