Drabble (1)
(From Wikipedia)
drabble, n.
A Drabble is an extremely short work of fiction with exactly one hundred words, although the term is often misused to indicate a short story of less than 1000 words. The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
(From me)
drabble, n.
"Before Hestor, Dog-fi (that is, 'Dogmatic Fiction'), well, the whole scene had just been a complete joke. Hestor J. Cole rescued the genre from pulp novels in charity shop bargain bins, with their faded covers depicting Saints with wash-board abs and bulging biceps (and the compulsory big-titted buxom virgin in a torn shift), and broken and well-thumbed spines. Hestor made Dog-fi intelligent, and he made it respectable. Big blonde Christian boys from Alabama read it. Earnest young ministers with dog-collars so new they didn't need starch discussed it in the refectory. Hell, the sixteenth Dali Lama in exile was reading it when he got hit by a bus."
Wrote that a while ago. Comes in at one hundred and fourteen words, but I doubt there's such a thing as a drabble purist to criticise me. Hestor J. Cole is a rather thinly veiled parody of Philip K. Dick, who I am quite of fan of. He was a prolific short story writer famous for his science fiction, but his work was much more philosophical, realist and human than most sci-fi. He was also a film producer's wet dream; writing a great deal of stories with a 'gimmick' that could be expanded into a Hollywood blockbuster without the plot restricting the scope for action filled set peices. A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, Paycheck and Minortiy Report are all adapted from Dick short stories, with varying degrees of fidelity. However, he also wrote The Man in the High Castle , an alternate history novel set in 1962, fifteen years after the Axis Powers defeated the Allies in World War II. If I remember rightly I'd just finished reading it at the time I wrote the above drabble. The idea was to mirror the concept of a prolific Sci-Fi writer in a science dominated world with a similar figure in a religion dominated one. Hence 'Dogmatic Fiction'.
Tune of the moment: Heatwave - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Jac
drabble, n.
A Drabble is an extremely short work of fiction with exactly one hundred words, although the term is often misused to indicate a short story of less than 1000 words. The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
(From me)
drabble, n.
"Before Hestor, Dog-fi (that is, 'Dogmatic Fiction'), well, the whole scene had just been a complete joke. Hestor J. Cole rescued the genre from pulp novels in charity shop bargain bins, with their faded covers depicting Saints with wash-board abs and bulging biceps (and the compulsory big-titted buxom virgin in a torn shift), and broken and well-thumbed spines. Hestor made Dog-fi intelligent, and he made it respectable. Big blonde Christian boys from Alabama read it. Earnest young ministers with dog-collars so new they didn't need starch discussed it in the refectory. Hell, the sixteenth Dali Lama in exile was reading it when he got hit by a bus."
Wrote that a while ago. Comes in at one hundred and fourteen words, but I doubt there's such a thing as a drabble purist to criticise me. Hestor J. Cole is a rather thinly veiled parody of Philip K. Dick, who I am quite of fan of. He was a prolific short story writer famous for his science fiction, but his work was much more philosophical, realist and human than most sci-fi. He was also a film producer's wet dream; writing a great deal of stories with a 'gimmick' that could be expanded into a Hollywood blockbuster without the plot restricting the scope for action filled set peices. A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, Paycheck and Minortiy Report are all adapted from Dick short stories, with varying degrees of fidelity. However, he also wrote The Man in the High Castle , an alternate history novel set in 1962, fifteen years after the Axis Powers defeated the Allies in World War II. If I remember rightly I'd just finished reading it at the time I wrote the above drabble. The idea was to mirror the concept of a prolific Sci-Fi writer in a science dominated world with a similar figure in a religion dominated one. Hence 'Dogmatic Fiction'.
Tune of the moment: Heatwave - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Jac