The Drabble Day Challenge is a weekly challenge hosted by http://thewriteaholicblog.wordpress.com/ and it involves writing a Drabble (a short story of 100 words, plus or minus 5) based around a particular prompt. This is a late entry into last week’s prompt, which was “SORRY”.
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I am supposed to be cleaning; but the globe is sooooo beautiful. Delicate glass filled with smoke and rainbow coloured flashes of lightning. I stare at it, my soul drawn deep into its enticing heart.
“What are you doing!” shouts the Magus from behind me, and I jump.
The globe slips from my fear enfeebled fingers and falls to the floor with a craaaack! “Sorry!” I gasp and turn towards the Magus.
His face is filled with fear and horror and a shadow seems to flow across him. Glancing behind me I see what is escaping from the globe.
This time I scream, “SORRY!”
About dmlbooks
Dennis M. Lane is a British writer who left the shores of the UK in 1986 and hasn’t looked back since; he has now lived in South Africa for eleven years. His first poetry collection “8 Million Stories” was published in November 2010, followed by the collection of science fiction poetry and short stories “The Poring Dark” in September 2012 (two of the poems have been nominated for the 2013 Rhysling Award and another for the Dwarf Stars Award), his first novel “Talatu” in March 2013, and “The King’s Jewel” the first book in the five novel “Helix Key” series in August 2013. He is currently working on Helix Key Book 2 and a second collection of short stories (entitled "The Unmedicated").
When not writing, Dennis enjoys narrating and voice acting and recently set up Dramatic Voice Productions in order to take his interest further. To relax Dennis watches old movies from his extensive DVD collection, his three loves being science fiction B movies, Hong Kong martial arts, and anime. He has been presenting “A Review from the Jacaranda City” since May 2011 and has looked at classic old movies from “On The Beach” to “Creature from the Black Lagoon”.
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