Welcome to FB3X Drabble Cascade #135 - This week's word of the week is 'spade'.
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A drabble is a work of 100 words exactly. Flash fiction is a work of up to 500 words. Both may be submitted to the cascade. So What Can You Write? The simple answer is - anything! Our work here on FB3X will be erotically themed. but feel free to take the inspiration any way you want to, fiction, fanfiction, non-fiction, meta, since variety is the spice of life!
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AND NOW - on to the fiction :)
AND NOW - on to the fiction :)
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by Sophie Duncan
Author's Note
I'm trying to do something a little different this year. For those of you who don't know, unless it's a week inspired by a holiday, or memorable occasion, our word of the week is picked by opening up a dictionary to a random location, waving a finger about without looking at the page and pointing it to a word, i.e. it's chance. So, this year, rather than standalone drabbles, I am going to try writing a coherent story, Flight of Fire, in 100 word episodes, each one inspired by the word of the week. I have a vague outline for characters and direction of Flight of Fire, but specifics will be decided by the word of the week.
Today, the word spade brought me round to the thought of the saying 'To call a spade a spade', which means to "use blunt language, call things by right names"(1540s) translates a Greek proverb, ten skaphen skaphen legein "to call a bowl a bowl," but Erasmus mistook Greek skaphe "trough, bowl" for a derivative of the stem of skaptein "to dig," and the mistake has stuck.
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“Mama!” Benedict called, dashing into her apartments, relief making his legs weak as he found her sitting at her embroidery.
“Ben, whatever is it?” his mother asked, reaching instantly out to him.
He collapsed into her arms, sobbing, “Why is a seeker in this castle? They want to hurt us, stop our magic. Why would father allow that?”
“Father would never let anything hurt you,” his mother reassured, but she also sighed, “Seekers are a powerful sect, as king, he could not deny them representation on his staff.”
Dread he could not explain crept into Benedict. He mewed, “I’m frightened.”
“Ben, whatever is it?” his mother asked, reaching instantly out to him.
He collapsed into her arms, sobbing, “Why is a seeker in this castle? They want to hurt us, stop our magic. Why would father allow that?”
“Father would never let anything hurt you,” his mother reassured, but she also sighed, “Seekers are a powerful sect, as king, he could not deny them representation on his staff.”
Dread he could not explain crept into Benedict. He mewed, “I’m frightened.”
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And so I thought. A seeker. What exactly does a seeker do once those they seek are found by them? Perhaps the same as Stephan had done to him or something similar. Benedict at least found himself a dragon but it couldn't have been enough if he lives in the protected sanctuary or wherever he is.
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