drabble (plural drabbles)
A fictional story that is exactly 100 words long.
The purpose of a drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
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Debates raged as the world warmed. It was natural climate variation. It was man-made. The sun was warming. Hands were wrung, protests organised. Solutions were attempted, yet to no avail. Still the world got warmer. As the droughts worsened, creatures died. As even men perished, the wars began. What started as a warming became a burning. The world melted into slag. There were no survivors.
“MUMMY! MUMMY!!” Lucy’s mother rushed to the girl’s side, shaking her head. “I told you about playing too near the fire.”
“I want my marble back! It’s burned…” Lucy wept for her lost world.