Welcome to FB3X Drabble Cascade #151 - This week's word of the week is 'steam'.
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it's really very simple, be inspired by our word of the week and just write :).
To see this week's entries check out the list at the bottom of this post. We put it behind a cut so it doesn't clog up your scrolling.
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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- Below you will find a chance to join in the cascade in the form of a linked list
- Write a drabble/flash fiction inspired by the word of the week.
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- OR you can just write us something in the comments :)
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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.
This week I used the word of the week, steam, as inspiration for a simile to open the piece.
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He was lifted as gently as steam rising from hot liquid, but Benedict woke a little as his mother’s touch slipped out of his reach. The loss of her calming influence gave his own magic free rein, bringing with it a dance of fire and ice.
Those who took him were gentle, washing his battered body with ungent herbs, but they could not reach inside his magic. Lost to its maelstrom, too tired to fight anymore, Benedict surrendered to dying.
Yet, then came a presence, larger, wilder than his own power, sweeping him up. Terrifying. But Benedict was not afraid.
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Nerves (m/m, Fantasy, PG13)
Author's Note
Welcome to another week, I hope you enjoy today's offering.
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by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Author's Note
Welcome to another week, I hope you enjoy today's offering.
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Nal regretted coming even as he slid from the cold air into the hot pool. This was where humans came to pick up Fae and he didn't do things like that. He was going to kill his cousin for talking him into it.
Almost before he settled he felt the water move and someone touched his leg.
"You look nervous."
The face that appeared through the steam was at least handsome.
"Why would you say that?" he asked, voice cracking.
The human smiled and Nal knew he was never living this down, Fae were supposed to be the suave ones.
Almost before he settled he felt the water move and someone touched his leg.
"You look nervous."
The face that appeared through the steam was at least handsome.
"Why would you say that?" he asked, voice cracking.
The human smiled and Nal knew he was never living this down, Fae were supposed to be the suave ones.
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Flying -- oh oh, first meeting with his dragon. *happy dance* Mother provides.
ReplyDeleteNerves - What a unique place for humans to pick up Fae, not a bar but a spa. *grins* He's not living up to his Fae cred but I can't see it hurting him. He's real.
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