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Thereafter there were none
There came a time when a group of Christian fanatics called Knights of the New Crusade arose and caused mayhem amongst all factions of human civilization.
One astronomer scrutinized their scriptures and discovered a way to rise among their ranks. "Every knight should converge at CD-78°25527 on christmas eve 3329, when the Righteous Sun will embrace those with fidelity in their hearts. With its blessing we shall finally tread down the wicked.", he said.
He didn't say that CD-78°25527 was a rare type of variable star, and that the wing-like gas clouds around it were remnants of earlier cataclysms ages ago.
There came a time when a group of Christian fanatics called Knights of the New Crusade arose and caused mayhem amongst all factions of human civilization.
One astronomer scrutinized their scriptures and discovered a way to rise among their ranks. "Every knight should converge at CD-78°25527 on christmas eve 3329, when the Righteous Sun will embrace those with fidelity in their hearts. With its blessing we shall finally tread down the wicked.", he said.
He didn't say that CD-78°25527 was a rare type of variable star, and that the wing-like gas clouds around it were remnants of earlier cataclysms ages ago.
Ian Phillips
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Sorry guys, my father has hurt his foot and can't walk/stand.
I'm having to do everything today and won't be able to submit a drabble - just too busy
I'm having to do everything today and won't be able to submit a drabble - just too busy
A nasty time to have an accident. All the best to you and your father.
01 - azdour - The wrong place at the wrong time
02 - Galactic Midden - Looking a gift horse in the eye... and spitting at it!
03 - Frank - This Time Next Year We'll Be Millionaires
04 - Rog - The eternal night before Christmas
05 - Splendour - Christ Mass
06 - MrMogadon - The Swedish Yuletide Miracle
07 - Bleke - Thereafter there were none
But that's only one contestant out of the running. We should have more than seven entries. Surely all that mulled wine and dry turkey should be causing you to hallucinate some good stories by now?
I'll put the poll up tomorrow morning
All the best to you and your father.01 - azdour - The wrong place at the wrong time
02 - Galactic Midden - Looking a gift horse in the eye... and spitting at it!
03 - Frank - This Time Next Year We'll Be Millionaires
04 - Rog - The eternal night before Christmas
05 - Splendour - Christ Mass
06 - MrMogadon - The Swedish Yuletide Miracle
07 - Bleke - Thereafter there were none
But that's only one contestant out of the running. We should have more than seven entries. Surely all that mulled wine and dry turkey should be causing you to hallucinate some good stories by now?
I'll put the poll up tomorrow morning
Sorry to hear about your dad Ian. Hope he gets well soon.
Come on in everyone. Happy times be had this day and you have one last chance to get a Christmas drabble in before Frank ends the week with a wee sing song, a dram, and of course 10 rounds of Who Am I?
So put down those turkey sandwiches, mince pies and mulled wine and throw your creative juices into your word processor. Merry Christmas one and all!
Come on in everyone. Happy times be had this day and you have one last chance to get a Christmas drabble in before Frank ends the week with a wee sing song, a dram, and of course 10 rounds of Who Am I?
So put down those turkey sandwiches, mince pies and mulled wine and throw your creative juices into your word processor. Merry Christmas one and all!
Arrival
The couple had paid extra to take up residence in the shielded room and pretty much kept to themselves for the trip. So it surprised Kalran when he heard the knock on the cockpit door.
"We have a little gift for you. According to Earth time, it's Christmas morning." The couple gave Kalran a music box with a rotating Christmas tree.
"It is very kind of you. I am Hindu myself, but I have a present for you too. Look."
Kalran rolled the ship and the colored lights from the dark side of Lave came into view, dazzling the eyes.
The couple had paid extra to take up residence in the shielded room and pretty much kept to themselves for the trip. So it surprised Kalran when he heard the knock on the cockpit door.
"We have a little gift for you. According to Earth time, it's Christmas morning." The couple gave Kalran a music box with a rotating Christmas tree.
"It is very kind of you. I am Hindu myself, but I have a present for you too. Look."
Kalran rolled the ship and the colored lights from the dark side of Lave came into view, dazzling the eyes.
Thank you Mogadon, that was great!
I've often imagined myself in a spaceship, but reading someone else's words makes it feel like it almost happened for real.
You are WAY too kind about my scribblings, but thank you anyway.
I hope you had a good Christmas.
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Sorry guys, my father has hurt his foot and can't walk/stand.
I'm having to do everything today and won't be able to submit a drabble - just too busy
I know I'm a bit late, but please give your dad our best wishes.
Hoping it didn't put too much of a dampener on the festivities.
Tish tosh! When it's good, it's good. No way around it.
This Christmas was just fine, thank you. Not too much people and hubbub.
Well I for one love the audio drabbles so I say yes! Though I should disclose that I'm in the State Bar just off Sauchiehall Street right now so I may be slightly judgement impaired but if it's easier for you to keep the drabble going by streaming our drivel live then go for it
And since we've got the thread stickied again I say let's push for bigger membership even if that means going t'Internet mad and hopping on the light fandabandwagonago! Erm, sorry.
On another note, I managed to crash my cobra whilst stationary and docked on the landing pad! A new record for me
So we all jump on the same Skype or Teamspeak channel and read our own? LOL I wouldn't be able to stop making fun of 'Kow's readings!
And he wouldn't be able to stop himself from tweaking auto tune as we read
Drinking the profits again aye Frank. Mostly when I have Lavian Brandy it gets destroyed along with my ship, and often before I leave a station's no fire zone. I suppose that's worse than drinking it where at least one person could enjoy it
Congratulations to Erik and Splendour a well deserved win for both of you. Erik has already set his theme of 'sleepy'. If Splendour would like to set an alternative/additional theme now would be a good time.
Ok, so with only one theme this week submitted, we're going with:
Sleepy
Looks like a really sleepy week for our Drabblers as well. Too many people still sleeping off big holiday dinners, wine, scotch, etc. So, let's see how many entries we can get by Thursday, 1 Jan at 10pm. If we get 6 or less, I recommend that we hold the Drabble entries this week open for one more week and allow people to submit up to Thursday, 8 Jan at 10pm.
Sleepy
Looks like a really sleepy week for our Drabblers as well. Too many people still sleeping off big holiday dinners, wine, scotch, etc. So, let's see how many entries we can get by Thursday, 1 Jan at 10pm. If we get 6 or less, I recommend that we hold the Drabble entries this week open for one more week and allow people to submit up to Thursday, 8 Jan at 10pm.
Meta Girl of my Dreams
...nothing can go wrong."...
I saw a gorgeous girl admiring my ship. She smiled, "Does this customised spaceship of yours have a psycho-interface? I always fancied having a go on one."
I connected her to the co-pilot's chair before sharing the dream-like state with her. Feeling part of the Cobra was as familiar to me as slipping on a glove, but I could sense the concerns of my co-pilot "Were those your memories? Did you calibrate the interface for two inputs?"
"Relax", I thought to her, "This is a bulletproof technology. Nothing can go wrong."
...I saw a gorgeous girl...
...nothing can go wrong."...
I saw a gorgeous girl admiring my ship. She smiled, "Does this customised spaceship of yours have a psycho-interface? I always fancied having a go on one."
I connected her to the co-pilot's chair before sharing the dream-like state with her. Feeling part of the Cobra was as familiar to me as slipping on a glove, but I could sense the concerns of my co-pilot "Were those your memories? Did you calibrate the interface for two inputs?"
"Relax", I thought to her, "This is a bulletproof technology. Nothing can go wrong."
...I saw a gorgeous girl...
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
Siriusly?
Sirius B. was old and sleepy. He ate too much for supper and his only desire now was to rest forever. Something disturbing started happening deep within his bowels however. A few atomic nuclei lost their way and collided with each other. This has caused a nuclear reaction – something that Sirius B. didn’t experience for eons. He managed to raise one of his cosmic eyebrows and turned into a supernova.
Sirius A., his younger brother, sighed: “I knew he’d fart himself to death sooner or later”. Father Universe rolled his eyes and returned to its affairs as if nothing happened.
Sirius B. was old and sleepy. He ate too much for supper and his only desire now was to rest forever. Something disturbing started happening deep within his bowels however. A few atomic nuclei lost their way and collided with each other. This has caused a nuclear reaction – something that Sirius B. didn’t experience for eons. He managed to raise one of his cosmic eyebrows and turned into a supernova.
Sirius A., his younger brother, sighed: “I knew he’d fart himself to death sooner or later”. Father Universe rolled his eyes and returned to its affairs as if nothing happened.
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Ian Phillips
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The End
It's cold and I'm feeling sleepy.
At first the cold makes you shiver, an automatic response by your body to generate heat. Wait long enough and even that response stops, then you know you are in real trouble. But the problem is, by that time you just don't care any more.
I'm sitting in my pilots seat, staring at the heat gauge as it slowly descends.
The stars are pretty, outside the frozen canopy. The tumbling ship lets me see most of them.
A shot up wreck surrounds me, the sum total of my life's endeavors.
I mustn't fall asleep.
It's cold and I'm feeling sleepy.
At first the cold makes you shiver, an automatic response by your body to generate heat. Wait long enough and even that response stops, then you know you are in real trouble. But the problem is, by that time you just don't care any more.
I'm sitting in my pilots seat, staring at the heat gauge as it slowly descends.
The stars are pretty, outside the frozen canopy. The tumbling ship lets me see most of them.
A shot up wreck surrounds me, the sum total of my life's endeavors.
I mustn't fall asleep.
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