What is a drabble, you ask?<\/p>\n
A drabble is a short story of precisely<\/i> one hundred words. No more. No less.<\/p>\n
I write drabbles for fun. Usually as a writing warm-up exercise. Occasionally for profit, when for Pocket’s Strange New Worlds<\/i> VI contest two years ago I submitted many drabbles for consideration. (Come to think of it, I only<\/i> submitted drabbles for consideration.) My thinking was Pocket would have the drabble for free–I’d spend more having the 10 dollar check framed. Good editorial sense prevailed, though, and I found myself left with several drabbles without homes.<\/p>\n
Having nothing else to do with this slew of drabbles, I’ve started uploading them to the website.<\/p>\n
“Leaving the Nest”<\/a> is a Robin Lefler drabble.<\/p>\n “Perils of the Heart”<\/a> is a Quark and Ro drabble. It was my take on a scene I assumed at the time would have been in Unity<\/i>, the Deep Space Nine<\/b> 10th-anniversary hardcover novel. Hey, it could<\/i> have happened that way. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n And of more recent vintage (in other words, a few weeks ago), a Doctor Who<\/i> drabble, “Bleacher Creatures.”<\/a> The sixth Doctor and Peri pay a visit to Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is a drabble, you ask? A drabble is a short story of precisely one hundred words. No more. No less. I write drabbles for fun. Usually as a writing warm-up exercise. Occasionally for profit, when for Pocket’s Strange New Worlds VI contest two years ago I submitted many drabbles for consideration. (Come to thinkContinue reading “Drabble-y Goodness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,75],"tags":[4082,737,292,4089,285,286],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","category-star-trek","category-writing","tag-doctor-who","tag-drabbles","tag-sixth-doctor","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-deep-space-nine","tag-star-trek-new-frontier","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}