If it's the 17th, that can only mean a WRITING CHALLENGE!

[in_the_blue]

Third month in a row. Ready, set, get out those pens and/or fingers to the keyboard...

Here's this month's loosely-defined DRABBLE challenge and the guidelines.

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Rules (remember, they're more like guidelines):

• Fandom: any, so long as it's one you know well.


• Word count: 300 or less


• Main theme: the concept of empty or emptiness.


• Ratings: No restrictions.


• Duration: Challenge opens today and closes at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, June 25. Just for fun.

Post your drabbles as comments to this entry. And yes, please comment on other peoples' work. Feedback is a reader's gift to a writer.

On your mark, get set... go.

Comments

[janeylou.livejournal.com]

Empty. Why is my classroom so bloody empty? Come to think of it so are my chambers, my children's playroom. But worse ... so much worse ... my lab. All gone. Vaporised by a mightier hand than that of the good wizarding folk.

My research.

My favourite jar of formaldehyde with its preserved occupant.

The exotic plants in the third greenhouse on the row ... *ahem*

I guess that I've wondered about such things, in the small hours when he's asleep and our children are snuffling comfortably in their cots. Are we real? Do we exist before we are born and that all that comes after is just an illusion? Is reality dreams? Are my dreams solid enough to be a reality where I can co-exist with fellow dreamers?

Bugger. I can theorise until the dragons come home to roost but it doesn't explain the swirling nothingness when I open doors. Powers have been awoken once more. He's back, feeding on the energies of our determined little community. Sucking it dry like a vampire to fuel his growth and return to power.

Voldermort has come out of hiding, reborn and renamed.

Beware the Dark Lord E.Z.Board!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I just love you.

[janeylou.livejournal.com]

You too, hun. I thought I should get my dig in at the Dark Lord Board. Figured it would be the sort of thing he would do to the Castell if he found out about it anyway. Wouldn't it be funny if JKR had modelled Voldermort on one of the EZadmin?!

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

*dies*

I second G's assessment.

[janeylou.livejournal.com]

*smirk*

Heck, gotta get a dig in here and there, haven't we?!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

BLOODY brilliant!

(although you did get those zip files of HTML pages....)

[janeylou.livejournal.com]

Yup, I did get the files and pass on the relevant ones. Empty ... the only way I felt when G said it had all gone. Seemed appropriate somehow.

[livii.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious! I wasn't a member of Dogstar but saw the losses across communities, and it was definitely a very sad, empty feeling. Love the humour you managed to get from that. :)

[ravensnape.livejournal.com]

I never played in your back yard, but I lived in the neighborhood. My heart goes out to the community.

As to the writing...I love tounge in cheek. You made me smile! ;D

[janeylou.livejournal.com]

Smiles ... the best international currency. Oh, and hugs of course.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

This gav the tragedy soem comic relieve. *snort*

[janeylou.livejournal.com]

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

wel for mnow o ni cant' promise <lj user="sit_good_dog'. that I'll hod lbackon references toths school in private b-day fics. for the snippets I've picked up here adn there it soudns liek it was some of the best of rp-ign times. {Huggles ouad nrest of players}