I discovered Drabbles vie the weblog of narrativephile Ben Whitehouse.
A drabble is a story, usually science fiction or fantasy, that is exactly 100 words long.
I'm hopless at ficitional writing. Can't do plots or characters or any of that gubbins. So this is ideal. Here's my first attempt. It's also my first ever fictional writing that I've posted on the web (I think) so be nice to me.
Still they came. In their hundreds, thousands. And still they died.
Marching for days, across the windblown sand under a sun dripping blood. Wrapped in the remnants of their clothes, faces covered against the scouring dust they continued to walk to their deaths. Armed with ineffectual weapons, stepping over the bodies of their brethren they posed no threat to us.
Day after brutal day, the endless slaughter drove us mad. We invented new ways to kill them to stem the boredom. Soon killing them wasn't enough. We turned on each other in the need for an enemy that fought back.
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