A few months ago, I learned about SpeckLit, an online publication devoted to drabbles. Drabbles are complete stories–with a beginning, a middle, and an end–told in exactly 100 words.
Until then, I hadn’t done much with drabbles. The only one I know for sure I wrote is the 100-word story about Sarah the ghost, which won me a spot on the midnight ghost tour of my college’s haunted library. All the difficulties of writing flash fiction are magnified, as you only have 100 words–and then you have to stick to that word count exactly.
Well, I experimented with some drabbles until I came out with several that I liked. Most of them were horror, or at least horror-themed, although near the end I challenged myself to actually write some drabbles with happy endings. (It was hard, but I managed.) I submitted 10 drabbles to SpeckLit to see what would happen, and this week I heard back from them!
Six of my drabbles are going to be published! Keep an eye out for them–their names are:
- Cursed
- Numb
- Scarf
- Magic
- Monsters
- Across the River
“Across the River” is one of the ones with a happy ending, believe it or not, even though it’s set in the Greek Underworld. Ah… I’d almost forgotten… now I want to write more Greek Underworld stories…
On a separate note, all three of my initially contracted “cold and twisted romance” stories are now available! More may follow in the future. I’ll keep you posted.
