A drabble is a tiny story, exactly 100 words long, usually written in the science fiction or fantasy genre. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, UK press Beccon Publications published three Drabble anthologies featuring very short stories by such authors as Isaac Asimov and Neil Gaiman.
I wrote two drabbles for Sam’s Dot Press’s Drabbler magazine, specifically “Drabbler #13: Alien Magic.” Because Drabbler #13 was published on February 1, and I never heard one way or another from the magazine’s editor, The Boortean Ambassador, I am assuming that my drabbles were not published. One of them will probably remain unpublished, as it was a tongue-in-cheek literal interpretation of the issue’s theme.
This is the other one, called “The Final Slaughter:”
The Final Slaughter by Nick Faber
(photo via flickr user millerm217)
