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Fiction Shorts 2024 Drabble Challenge
Fiction Shorts 2024 Drabble Challenge
Words make the world go round
Nancy Oglesby
Dec 30, 2023
New Outside Contest & Two of OurWriters Were Winners!
New Outside Contest & Two of OurWriters Were Winners!
Congratulations!
Nancy Oglesby
Jun 9
Today's Word
Mixed Up June Random Drabble 166
Mixed Up June Random Drabble 166
Challenge 6/14
Nancy Oglesby
Jun 13
A Firm Resolve
A Firm Resolve
It’s the moment you risk everything
Misha Seeks
Jun 13
Dumb Criminal
Dumb Criminal
It’s not a who dunnit — it’s what was he thinking?
Paula Shablo
Jun 13
Under the Basin
Under the Basin
Every time he looked at the fountain he helped construct , he thought of her
Brian Dickens Barrabee
Jun 13
The Buckstaff Bathhouse Murder
The Buckstaff Bathhouse Murder
A Detective Edward Murray Mystery
Nancy Oglesby
Jun 13
A Looking Glass Doesn’t Lie
A Looking Glass Doesn’t Lie
Nor does it wipe itself clean
Nanya Sands
Jun 13
A Fishy Mystery
A Fishy Mystery
Was the fertilizer plant owner the killer?
Carole Olsen
Jun 13
A Call He Didn’t Want
A Call He Didn’t Want
You can’t always think of everything
Ronald Franklin
Jun 13
She Gave ‘Short, Back and Sides’ a New, Eyewatering Meaning
She Gave ‘Short, Back and Sides’ a New, Eyewatering Meaning
Her husband was cut up about it
Val Francis
Jun 13
Troubling Reflections
Troubling Reflections
Day 165 Drabble Challenge — “BASIN”
Steven Smith
Jun 13
The Mystery of the Wildfire at Jaxon Hole
The Mystery of the Wildfire at Jaxon Hole
Random Word Drabble
Robin MS
Jun 13
Unsicher Falls
Unsicher Falls
Today’s word is basin and the genre twist is mystery.
S. Douglas Hall
Jun 13
Something in the Water
Something in the Water
It looks like somebody has had enough…..
Mark Palmer
Jun 13
The Red Herring in a Basin
The Red Herring in a Basin
Random Word Drabble Challenge Day 165 Word Is Basin & the Genre Is Mystery
Stephen Dalton
Jun 13
A Deadly Night Out
A Deadly Night Out
Day 165 Challenge — basin, Mystery
Me Writes
Jun 13
Before He Deals His Final Card
Before He Deals His Final Card
Can the detective stop the serial killer?
Nerdishwrites
Jun 13
Here Snakes Eat Money
Here Snakes Eat Money
It happened for real
OBA.T.K
Jun 13
The Dog Knew
The Dog Knew
And she loved him
Ludiane de Brocéliande
Jun 13
Oh, What a Tangled Web I Wove
Oh, What a Tangled Web I Wove
Who was the one who really drove?
Denée King
Jun 13
Where’s Edie
Where’s Edie
Who or what took her?
Izzibella Beau
Jun 13
The Best Detective
The Best Detective
Is always the mom
Jennifer Morrison
Jun 13
Monica Goes Missing
Monica Goes Missing
Today’s random word is basin and the genre is mystery.
Nancy S Rust
Jun 13
A Sweet Little Mystery
A Sweet Little Mystery
… With muffin to lose, it’s another case for Inspector Don Ut
The Ink Rat
Jun 13
One More
One More
A death to come
Keith M. Leonard
Jun 13
The Disgusting Detective
The Disgusting Detective
He’ll lick this case yet
Mike Range
Jun 13
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