49 Random Word Drabble Challenge 2/18

We challenge you to write a 100-word fiction story

Nancy Oglesby
Fiction Shorts
Published in
8 min readFeb 17, 2024

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From the editors …

A couple of new guidelines

  1. Using the word as the name of your character eliminates the challenge of finding a way to use the word as it is defined. Let’s not. ;)
  2. Limit your after-stories to a sentence or two. (Not super long sentences, either.) The point of a Drabble is to write a self-contained story. No back story, no what’s next, no why.
  3. I do recommend writers keep a draft of their after-stories followed by a link to the published story. At the end of the month, or every few weeks, you can publish an anthology, and link to it. Maybe we can do a roundup at the end of the month. I’d love to hear your thoughts about this.

New Writers

Please read through this in its entirety … sorry about the length, your editors are learning every week. The formatting information is critical.

The next day’s challenge will be posted at approximately 10 AM (CST) the day before.

We have over 30 requests to join our little publication sitting in the queue. I hope to add 10 this afternoon (Sunday), but I’ve got a busy day ahead.

Some of the tools I’ve been handing out lately are a link to a title case converter. You can find it here: https://titlecaseconverter.com/

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Nancy Oglesby
Fiction Shorts

I explore life and tell stories! Embracing the world of Drabbles. Publisher of Fiction Shorts, the Challenged, and Another Fucking Publication