Drabble Days: Egg, If, and Frame

I missed two drabble days, so I have combined them and this week's into one drabble:

I put the last tunic in my bag.  I was ready to go.

Ready in property, anyway.  I’d never be ready to leave this place.   I glanced around my room one last time.  My eyes rested on a picture in a silver frame that sat on my nightstand.  Me, Victor, and Pansy all smiling on the day we’d found out we’d be going to the mountains.  If only we’d known then what would happen there.  I turned to my bed and touched the dragon-egg that rested upon it. Touching it sent tingles up my arm.  No more putting it off, it was time to go.  

Not my best, but it felt good to write again.  

Drabble day is a weekly meme created at The Writeaholic's Blog.  This paragraph was based on this prompt, that prompt, and this other prompt. 

Drabble Day: Soon

Drabble Day is a meme hosted by The Writeaholic's Blog.

Here's my drabble for the prompt "soon":

“Soon” they keep saying, but when?  How is a person supposed to function under this kind of pressure?  “Soon” would have been weeks ago. I’ve been waiting months for this to all be over.  As soon as power is back in the hands of the Assembly I’ll be able to return to my life.  But, what if the power remains with Zarek? Maybe that’s why it’s taking forever; he’s still in control.  If that’s true, then everything is lost.  Rebellion isn’t far off.  Stop thinking like that, Astra.  Everything will be fine.  It has to be. They won’t, they can’t, let Zarek stay in control.  

This is supposed to be Astra thinking to herself, did it read like that?  

This drabble was interesting 'cause instead of coming up with something of the top of my head, Astra (who I'd previously invented and has been hanging around recently) came up and had me write something that would work in her story.  Apparently she wants to be written down.

Drabble Day: Cheese

Drabble Day is a weekly meme from The Writeaholic's Blog.  Click here to get to this week's prompt post.

I have to admit, I was very happy to see that cheese was this week's prompt.  I love cheese.  Irrationally so.  Except for Swiss and blue.  I can't bring myself to like those.  Anyway, here's my drabble:

Madelyn clomped up the stairs of her apartment building.   Her boyfriend had dumped her, her family wasn’t speaking to her, and she was close to losing her job. Her life was not going where she wanted.  There was only one thing that could make her feel better.  Cheese.  The first thing she did when she got home was fling open the door of her lime green refrigerator.  Sitting on the top shelf was a wheel of brie, the queen of cheeses.  Madelyn sank into her couch and took a bite.  The creamy goodness calmed her nerves, and told here everything would be okay.

This is not really any good, and I do admit a bit...well, cheesy.  It sounds kinda like a commercial for brie. Oh, well.  It was a writing exercise, and I wrote, and that's all that matters.

Drabble Day: Game

Thanks to Sarah over at Comfy Sweaters, Writing, and Fish I have discovered a new writing meme: Drabble Day.  Drabble Day is a weekly(ish) meme from The Writeaholic's Blog.   Here's how Drabble Day works: every week there is a one word prompt (this week's prompt is "game") and you write a 100 word (give or take five words) paragraph based on the prompt.  Click here for the link to this week's Drabble Day post over at Writeaholic's.

Here's my drabble:

I looked Linwood in the eye.  “Deal.”

He smiled.  “Vincent!” he shouted to the little man on the dais.  “The game is on.”  Vincent nodded, the scar on his cheek glowing in the filtered light.  Linwood stood and offered me his arm in an attempt to look chivalrous.  I stood and ignored the gesture.   If he had been chivalrous, he wouldn’t have put me in this situation. 

        “Let’s get this over with,” I said.  We walked to the dais, where an assortment of weapons had been laid out.   I picked up a sword, ready to "play" to the death. 

Not my best,  but fun. 

Also, thanks to the lovely folks on the Go Teen Writers Facebook group, I just found free writing courses/exercises things here.  I'll have a post about today's exercise up sometime in the possibly near future.