Title: Playground Tag

Drabble: She runs merrily across the playground, darting and zig-zagging. Her little red shoes hit the ground with unsteady, child steps. She walks up the stairs, and loses one in her haste. She continues on, no time to stop, or she would risk getting tagged. Finally she is at the top, and takes a breath to enjoy the view, her little chest heaving with exertion. She loves heights, and sways a little, her legs at odd lengths. Then it's back down the slide, running pell-mell. The wood chips cling to her sock, her shoe forgotten at the bottom of the steps.

Eek! I get so excited when it's almost time for a new prompt. xD

*Chuckles* me too. I'm not overly pleased with the one I put together this time, but its not bad either. Maybe next time I'll do haiku stanzas. Maybe the next prompt will be something like "fall" or "leaves" or somethign in honor of the new season.

Or it could be something Halloweeny, like pumpkins or cats.

I always really like yours Moxie. You're very talented. n_n

I just stumbled upon this thread. It's amazing :O ahh... this is going to entertain me for such a long time. Haha

Title: Paranoid

There’s a pair of little red shoes, sitting on my door mat. My mother opens the door, and gestures at the television. I step inside to watch. The murder of a young girl—the device drones—her body was found yesterday, dismembered. A picture flashes on the screen. I see red shoes. I hurry outside, grab the shoes and shove them in the garbage. I’m paranoid. But I know the shoes will be taken away.

I peer into the garbage can as I come home today. Empty.

Yet there’s a pair of little red shoes, sitting on my door mat.

Oh geeze oh geeze oh geeze.
I am a terrible host.

School hit me like a ton of bricks. I'll try and get everything updated as soon as possible. I have my last mid-terms today, so barring any influx of information/problems with my school projects everything should be up to date in a day or two.

Thanks for all of your entries! New prompt is up, but the results will be along for Round 4 soon!

Hmm...I wrote 3 drabbles for this prompt. Are we allowed more than one entry? I don't want to overwhelm the topic.

Every Hero has a story about how they became hero's. But so do Villians. My all time Favorite Villian is Joker, From bat man. Now over the years I have heard tons of stories about how Joker became Joker. One of my favorites was the one about his girl friend. Yoiu see he wasn't always smiling. In fact, he used to be a sad little family man/ Gambler. Well, one time he gambled to much and couldn't get the money to pay, so the shark tracked down his girlfriend and cut her, Ear to ear. Well he felt so bad that he got a knife, and cut himself ear to ear. He went to his girlfriend and said, "See, now we can both smile forever." She called him crazy and disgusting and ran away. Another story was about his father. You see growing up the Joker had an abusive father. He would throw things at him, or hit his mom. Well one day his father hit his mom so hard that she got knocked out. Thinking she might be hurt seriously, the young kid jumped on his father, hitting him in the face, and the groin, anything he could think of to knock him down. His father, being the huge man of 6,6, reached back and threw the kid down. Then he grabbed a letter opener off the table and cut the kid from ear to ear, saying, "Look whos laughing now." Needless to say, his father vanished a few years after that. See, Just because they get off on killing, and stealing, dosn't mean Villians aren't people also.

@Moxie: Sure, I don't see why not! I might put a limit on entries if I ever get a hole heck of a lot, but I don't really see that happening for this kind of contest. I'm glad it inspired so much!

@Ember_MIst: I'm sorry, but that's over twice the length of the word limit. Thanks for giving it the effort, but I can't accept it as an entry. My apologies.

Alright, I wrote three drabbles. All three are quite a different take on the topic of "Villain" and villainy in general. I don't really know if other people approve of me entering three. If there are complaints, feel free to pick one to enter and let the other two just be examples.



Title: The Seed of Villainy

Drabble:
I’m the thing that is here to fool you.

I am playing the dumb dancer on the stage; hiding behind the mask of an average idiot. It’s easier for people not to know. It’s easier to blend in. To sit and keep my peace. I am the thing that eats at you in the dark- that shining blade of suspicion.

My mother told me that the smartest thing a genius can do is play dumb.

I sit in my grey space. I blend in because you can't see the nameless villain who conjures doubt.

I am here to fool you.
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Title: The Heartbreaker's Lament

Drabble:
She was not perfect.

She had loved and not been loved in return.

She was flawed and broken and fragile as if made of glass. She was too precious to touch, too fragile to hold, too eager, too clear, too everything. She was untouchable. Like broken glass, you had to handle her with care, so you didn’t find yourself bleeding.

The fact that she was untouchable made her easy to break…so easy to crush.

Someday she will be loved.

Someday … someday I will love and not only be loved.

And I will shed those tears too.

Beautiful glass tears.
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Title: The Final Villain

Drabble:
This is what death is.

An event, a thing, it happens.

People think death is a time for fancy words. Long eulogies where you remember before you forget. A day is a day, no matter how you dress it up.

People think that death is the opposite of life, but it’s not. Death is just death. It has no opposite and no synonym. Death is death. Life is life. They are not opposite and they are not equal. No amount of dressing them up will make them so.

Strip me away and leave me naked.

That is what death is.

I can't imagine there would be any complaints. After all, if someone else wants to enter three, they can too.
Thanks for your entries!

What? I thought the Mini number was 100??

You have to write EXACTLY 100 words Ember. That is what makes it a challenge.

can I resubmit?

I see no reason why not. :) Heck, if I can have three entries, you should be able to resubmit. *shrug*

@Ember_MIst:
Sure you can! =]

Man, I had several ideas last time. Thanks for opening that possibility up Moxie! Now I need to think of one...

Title: If you must
Drabble: There are many who hate me, I suppose. I can't find myself caring in the slightest. My brother rules the coven and I, I am allowed my 'toys'. Ah, what fun we have, my toys and I. Though I often find myself missing my favorites. Caerwyn I had for a century. I had him nearly broken before I found her. Carissa. I had her for only five years before she forced me to kill her. Five years was not enough. And though Caerwyn escaped me, I will have him back! And now that I know she lives, she's mine also!

I didn't know we could write more than one! I wish I had known that for the "Stranger" prompt. xD

I'm having a heck of a time with this prompt. I've always been terrible with villains. >.<

@fairywaif+Nanami:
If you guys ever want to do something that hasn't been done before (like having more than one entry or whatnot) feel free to ask! I'm pretty lenient about most things, so unless you want to have more/less than 100 words, I'll probably say yes. =]

@Moretgami:
Thanks for your entry!

@Nanami:
Well it doesn't actually have to be about a villain. Maybe it's the hero talking about the villain? Maybe the person is being falsely accused of villain-hood? Maybe you don't like cheese, cheese is your villain.
The drabble doesn't need to be directly related to the prompt. =]

I have a question, actually... I know (now) that we can post more than one story in response to the prompt, but I didn't know that when I posted my drabble. Is it possible to add more drabbles in a new reply or should I go back and edit my initial response?

@Moretgami:
Hmm. I think it would be best (and cleanlier) to edit your post and put them in there. Just post to tell me you edited lest I forget to edit the front page.

Title: Villainous Fail
Drabble: The spite that feels their motivations is truly the monster inside a villainous being. Created to tempt and thwart they mumble on in their minds about how they can torment the souls of innocents, pluck the feathers of saints, and demolish the hopes of young children. Often equated to serpents, these slimy creatures are truly our neighbors and ourselves for we lurk into the world of manipulation and power, never to escape. We drive into it our hands, grabbing the villainy like sand, clutching it but watching it fall away…those who let go, those are the lucky…those who hold…fail miserably.

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I felt really cool doing a drabble because to me it made more sense than doing a plotted out story...maybe i should really embrace the idea of vacation, but anyways, here is my entry, I hope it follows the rules!

I'm glad you liked it so much. I hope you stick around for the next round! And thanks for your entry.