Welcome to Psykokow's week hosting the Drabble de wabble competition..
Thank you to all who took part and please remember 3 votes each, no voting for yourself and you don't need to have put in a drabble to vote.
Winner will be announced in 3 days and as a prize they can choose the next theme/ 'word or phrase'
Drabble Number : 1
Author : Bikky
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145391&postcount=981
Title: Tourism: Proffesional Tourist
Drabble : "Trawling through the spaceports, picking up dross and drabble as he went. Threeplant, was the Universe’s first professional tourist. Coming from the countersunk system, in the galaxy of Andromeda, where the only galactic jump capable drives came from by using a gravitational well. Their planets were embodied with a substance, massif-heavystuffiyum, used to create a temporal black hole, used to cover great distances.
Threeplant adored the flotsam that washed up in backwater galaxies, and a keen collector of big things. Entering the “Massive Emporium of Big Things” in Alioth he spies the first laser weapon ever made.
‘Wow thassa biggun!’"
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Drabble Number : 2
Author : Darren Gray
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145412&postcount=970
Title: The Song of the Tourist
Drabble : "From Alioth’s springs to Saturn’s rings
Around giants big and small
Past binary stars and canyons of Mars
I have flown and seen it all
I gambled on Lave and purchased a slave,
Just to set her free
I flew without fear through dark frontiers
For all the wonders there to see
A nova’d sun, a nebula spun,
Dark stars dying alone
Abandoned stations of fallen nations
Their names no longer known
Such uncounted sights in the endless lights
Of the infinite, star-filled sky!
While my heart still pumps and my ship still jumps
I’m a space-tourist till I die. "
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Drabble Number : 3
Author : Jeff Ryan
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145533&postcount=974
Title: Big Comet Hunter
Drabble : """Wow, that's a big one!""
Skipper nodded, ""She's the third target this year. Grissom Colony needs about another hundred of these comets before she has a proper ocean.""
The Princess smiled, ""Can I?""
Skipper gave her his most charming grin, ""Of course your highness.""
The Princess leaned over and pressed the button. The remote motors on the comet fired up and burned for about thirty seconds.
""Well done your highness, the people of Grissom Colony will be most grateful.""
The Princess gave a serene nod and with her bodyguards headed back to the state room.
""Bloody space tourists,"" grumbled Skipper."
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Drabble Number : 4
Author : Cathy
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145554&postcount=975
Title: We're Gonna need a bigger boat
Drabble : """We're gonna need a bigger...""
The Goldfinch lurched. Scarry watched the skipper's head smack the dash. Their valued paying customer squealed in terror, his knuckles seized like rusted gears on the harpoon stock. Scarry winced. Their hardpoint adaptation for big game wouldn't survive this.
Captain's Fish. Not a fish, but the first space dwelling creature bigger than a microbe discovered, so named by rich tourists desperate to bag one, to gawk and boast before the hunting and habitat destruction rendered them extinct.
Some a lot bigger than a fish, as it turned out. The stars vanished.
""Crap. It swallowed us."""
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Drabble Number : 5
Author : Gav Thomas
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145570&postcount=976
Title: Generations
Drabble : "Wow that's a big one Daddy!" Charlie wasn't wrong... it was the biggest ship in the known universe, a once-fabled Generation Ship. Until recent technological advances in long range scanning, these could only be seen in off-chance encounters in deep space. Now, suitably equipped Dolphin class passenger ships could track them down and, as in the case of Torgrup Tour Group ("you're never tour alone with a Torgrup Tour Group group of tours"), you could charge a LOT of money to those willing to spend it. "That ship's where naughty kids get sent to... best be a good boy Charlie..."
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Drabble Number : 6
Author : The Lone Gunman
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145581&postcount=977
Title: Coffee, White or Black
Drabble : "The passenger ship was day four into her maiden voyage
Sneaking out, parents asleep
Little Anne five, and slightly elder brother Timothy were alone on the observation deck
Sitting content, little legs dangling
Playing their game counting the different colored stars
“That’s strange” said Anne pointing
“Oh that’s a big one, black” Timothy observed
“Swirly like mummy’s creamy coffee” she giggled
The ship began to vibrate, alarms wailed, red lights illuminating their small faces
“Am scared”
“It’s ok” timothy’s lip quivered trying to stay strong for his sister
Yes, the passenger ship Titanic was going where others had not before!"
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Drabble Number : 7
Author : El Tel
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145605&postcount=978
Title: Detourists
Drabble : "“Passenger comm request. It’s Mr Kingsley again.”
“Captain. This is madness.”
“Mr Kingsley. Everybody agrees.”
""Not everybody. I demand you turn back immediately. I want to get off.""
Cathy's finger hovered over the lock-down button.
""And don't you dare even THINK of locking me down.""
“Mr Kingsley. Be reasonable. I have offered you all a generous share. Twenty tons of pure Protactinium is worth a fortune.”
“But Captain, this is a passenger liner! It's not equipped for mining!”
“It's free-floating nuggets. We'll use the scoop, and store it in the saloon and passenger cabins.”
“But it's radioactive!”
“Only a little”"
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Drabble Number : 8
Author : Frank
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145617&postcount=979
Title: So Bad I Walked Out
Drabble : "The Biggens family were never off the holotelly a couple of decades ago. They're not so famous now. They were taken off the air when the started to tell puns so bad they caused headaches.
They went their separate ways. A couple went into serving MegaBurgers. One made it big on local cluster radio. The others went to perform their pun-filled puerile tat to the poor passengers trapped on Dolphin star cruisers.
You'd know if you'd seen one of their acts. You'd leave the concert hall with your head ringing at all the bad puns, saying...
""Ow! That's a Biggens."""
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Drabble Number : 9
Author : Musahsi
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145659&postcount=980
Title: That Poor Agricultural
Drabble : """I hear Reorte’s gotta be seen!”
Carson frowned. “Let me tell you about Reorte."" The old pilot sipped his whiskey, then continued.
“They used these nanobots nicknamed ‘undertakers’. The wee blighters disassembled decaying organic matter, then buried it in the ground. For farming, right? Except . . . something went wrong with their programming - they stopped distinguishing between living and dead. Most people didn’t make it off the planet. I swear I could hear the screaming from orbit.”
I gaped in horror. “Seriously?”
Carson stared mournfully into his glass.
“Why do you think it’s famous for being the greenest world in the sector?”"
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Drabble Number : 10
Author : Stabb666
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145907&postcount=982
Title: Adventures In America
Drabble : "Rollercoaster ride, hit the slide, splash, mountain; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Planes, trains? I'll take the cruise, on the strip, giving tips; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Where's my bag? such a drag, lost in transit, no bus, need a car; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Shopping malls, Niagra Falls, nagging feeling, gonna drop; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Casino bright, morning already? Steady, steady, hangover coming; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Pretty lady, maybe? Upstairs, booty calls; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
A Grand Canyon, A gushing geyser, what a rush, more, more! ""Wow, that's a big one"".
__________________"
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Drabble Number : 11
Author : Insanephoton
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=146023&postcount=983
Title: Wonders Of The Empire
Drabble : "To your left you can see the famous Colossus of Achenar. Standing at over one hundred and eighty metres, it is the tallest statue ever made. Constructed in the early part of the twenty fourth century, it is believed to be modelled on the second emperor , Harlan Duval...' The tour guide droned.
The group of tourists on the 'Wonders of the Empire' tour shuttle dutifully looked to the left and started to take photos of the massive statue of a naked man holding a huge sword.
'Look at that Frank. Wow, that is a big one' Cathy exclaimed to Frank."
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Drabble Number : 12
Author : Psykokow
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=146024&postcount=984
Title: Playing The Field
Drabble : "Sweatily the couple released their embrace. Droplets of salty sweat splashing on the ground around them. The climax was reached quickly but elation from their performance radiated from their smiles.
Frank gasping for air swept the little hair he had out of his eyes.
Agent Psykokow, smiled at Frank and started to put his shirt on.
They had always vowed to take part in a charity marathon, but to actually win it was beyond their wildest dreams. This marathon tour of the Federal systems had been amazing.
As the medals were given out Frank smiled ' Wow thats a big one'"
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Drabble Number : 13
Author : Alien
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=146636&postcount=1006
Title: The Things Tourists Say
Drabble : "When do the lights come on?
Our group is missing one
Our Betty needs the toilet
Don't buy that, it is utter tat
Mr Wiggle only a pound
This is the ride of the world around
The queues for this ride are awfully long
You know the words, so sing along
Buy this souvenir, only one credit
Billy dropped his toy, don't worry, I'll get it
The sun is shining, no sign of rain
We look forward to next year, we'll be back again
These are the words, you'll hear them say
They are tourists, and boy do they pay."
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Drabble Number : 14
Author : Darkoba
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=147059&postcount=1019
Title: Llyn Ogwen is'nit.
Drabble : "The hard slog on approach slopes done, peace and quiet all enveloping, broken only by the distant call of sheep.
Next the steep grassy slope; hang on tight or slip back. Once this is over, the real climb on Tryfan can begin.
The slope nearly defeated, looking forward to the rock face. A slip, a grab at the grass. I'm OK.
A sound - wind, perhaps? A feeling of foreboding.
The sound grows to a roar. A pressure wave nearly pulls me from the slope.
My Cobra roars down Ogwen Valley.
Why did I give my daughter the keys?
Holiday over.
______________"
Thank you to all who took part and please remember 3 votes each, no voting for yourself and you don't need to have put in a drabble to vote.
Winner will be announced in 3 days and as a prize they can choose the next theme/ 'word or phrase'
Drabble Number : 1
Author : Bikky
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145391&postcount=981
Title: Tourism: Proffesional Tourist
Drabble : "Trawling through the spaceports, picking up dross and drabble as he went. Threeplant, was the Universe’s first professional tourist. Coming from the countersunk system, in the galaxy of Andromeda, where the only galactic jump capable drives came from by using a gravitational well. Their planets were embodied with a substance, massif-heavystuffiyum, used to create a temporal black hole, used to cover great distances.
Threeplant adored the flotsam that washed up in backwater galaxies, and a keen collector of big things. Entering the “Massive Emporium of Big Things” in Alioth he spies the first laser weapon ever made.
‘Wow thassa biggun!’"
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 2
Author : Darren Gray
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145412&postcount=970
Title: The Song of the Tourist
Drabble : "From Alioth’s springs to Saturn’s rings
Around giants big and small
Past binary stars and canyons of Mars
I have flown and seen it all
I gambled on Lave and purchased a slave,
Just to set her free
I flew without fear through dark frontiers
For all the wonders there to see
A nova’d sun, a nebula spun,
Dark stars dying alone
Abandoned stations of fallen nations
Their names no longer known
Such uncounted sights in the endless lights
Of the infinite, star-filled sky!
While my heart still pumps and my ship still jumps
I’m a space-tourist till I die. "
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 3
Author : Jeff Ryan
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145533&postcount=974
Title: Big Comet Hunter
Drabble : """Wow, that's a big one!""
Skipper nodded, ""She's the third target this year. Grissom Colony needs about another hundred of these comets before she has a proper ocean.""
The Princess smiled, ""Can I?""
Skipper gave her his most charming grin, ""Of course your highness.""
The Princess leaned over and pressed the button. The remote motors on the comet fired up and burned for about thirty seconds.
""Well done your highness, the people of Grissom Colony will be most grateful.""
The Princess gave a serene nod and with her bodyguards headed back to the state room.
""Bloody space tourists,"" grumbled Skipper."
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 4
Author : Cathy
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145554&postcount=975
Title: We're Gonna need a bigger boat
Drabble : """We're gonna need a bigger...""
The Goldfinch lurched. Scarry watched the skipper's head smack the dash. Their valued paying customer squealed in terror, his knuckles seized like rusted gears on the harpoon stock. Scarry winced. Their hardpoint adaptation for big game wouldn't survive this.
Captain's Fish. Not a fish, but the first space dwelling creature bigger than a microbe discovered, so named by rich tourists desperate to bag one, to gawk and boast before the hunting and habitat destruction rendered them extinct.
Some a lot bigger than a fish, as it turned out. The stars vanished.
""Crap. It swallowed us."""
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 5
Author : Gav Thomas
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145570&postcount=976
Title: Generations
Drabble : "Wow that's a big one Daddy!" Charlie wasn't wrong... it was the biggest ship in the known universe, a once-fabled Generation Ship. Until recent technological advances in long range scanning, these could only be seen in off-chance encounters in deep space. Now, suitably equipped Dolphin class passenger ships could track them down and, as in the case of Torgrup Tour Group ("you're never tour alone with a Torgrup Tour Group group of tours"), you could charge a LOT of money to those willing to spend it. "That ship's where naughty kids get sent to... best be a good boy Charlie..."
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Drabble Number : 6
Author : The Lone Gunman
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145581&postcount=977
Title: Coffee, White or Black
Drabble : "The passenger ship was day four into her maiden voyage
Sneaking out, parents asleep
Little Anne five, and slightly elder brother Timothy were alone on the observation deck
Sitting content, little legs dangling
Playing their game counting the different colored stars
“That’s strange” said Anne pointing
“Oh that’s a big one, black” Timothy observed
“Swirly like mummy’s creamy coffee” she giggled
The ship began to vibrate, alarms wailed, red lights illuminating their small faces
“Am scared”
“It’s ok” timothy’s lip quivered trying to stay strong for his sister
Yes, the passenger ship Titanic was going where others had not before!"
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 7
Author : El Tel
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145605&postcount=978
Title: Detourists
Drabble : "“Passenger comm request. It’s Mr Kingsley again.”
“Captain. This is madness.”
“Mr Kingsley. Everybody agrees.”
""Not everybody. I demand you turn back immediately. I want to get off.""
Cathy's finger hovered over the lock-down button.
""And don't you dare even THINK of locking me down.""
“Mr Kingsley. Be reasonable. I have offered you all a generous share. Twenty tons of pure Protactinium is worth a fortune.”
“But Captain, this is a passenger liner! It's not equipped for mining!”
“It's free-floating nuggets. We'll use the scoop, and store it in the saloon and passenger cabins.”
“But it's radioactive!”
“Only a little”"
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 8
Author : Frank
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145617&postcount=979
Title: So Bad I Walked Out
Drabble : "The Biggens family were never off the holotelly a couple of decades ago. They're not so famous now. They were taken off the air when the started to tell puns so bad they caused headaches.
They went their separate ways. A couple went into serving MegaBurgers. One made it big on local cluster radio. The others went to perform their pun-filled puerile tat to the poor passengers trapped on Dolphin star cruisers.
You'd know if you'd seen one of their acts. You'd leave the concert hall with your head ringing at all the bad puns, saying...
""Ow! That's a Biggens."""
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 9
Author : Musahsi
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145659&postcount=980
Title: That Poor Agricultural
Drabble : """I hear Reorte’s gotta be seen!”
Carson frowned. “Let me tell you about Reorte."" The old pilot sipped his whiskey, then continued.
“They used these nanobots nicknamed ‘undertakers’. The wee blighters disassembled decaying organic matter, then buried it in the ground. For farming, right? Except . . . something went wrong with their programming - they stopped distinguishing between living and dead. Most people didn’t make it off the planet. I swear I could hear the screaming from orbit.”
I gaped in horror. “Seriously?”
Carson stared mournfully into his glass.
“Why do you think it’s famous for being the greenest world in the sector?”"
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 10
Author : Stabb666
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=145907&postcount=982
Title: Adventures In America
Drabble : "Rollercoaster ride, hit the slide, splash, mountain; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Planes, trains? I'll take the cruise, on the strip, giving tips; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Where's my bag? such a drag, lost in transit, no bus, need a car; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Shopping malls, Niagra Falls, nagging feeling, gonna drop; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Casino bright, morning already? Steady, steady, hangover coming; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
Pretty lady, maybe? Upstairs, booty calls; ""Wow, that's a big one"".
A Grand Canyon, A gushing geyser, what a rush, more, more! ""Wow, that's a big one"".
__________________"
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 11
Author : Insanephoton
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=146023&postcount=983
Title: Wonders Of The Empire
Drabble : "To your left you can see the famous Colossus of Achenar. Standing at over one hundred and eighty metres, it is the tallest statue ever made. Constructed in the early part of the twenty fourth century, it is believed to be modelled on the second emperor , Harlan Duval...' The tour guide droned.
The group of tourists on the 'Wonders of the Empire' tour shuttle dutifully looked to the left and started to take photos of the massive statue of a naked man holding a huge sword.
'Look at that Frank. Wow, that is a big one' Cathy exclaimed to Frank."
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Drabble Number : 12
Author : Psykokow
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=146024&postcount=984
Title: Playing The Field
Drabble : "Sweatily the couple released their embrace. Droplets of salty sweat splashing on the ground around them. The climax was reached quickly but elation from their performance radiated from their smiles.
Frank gasping for air swept the little hair he had out of his eyes.
Agent Psykokow, smiled at Frank and started to put his shirt on.
They had always vowed to take part in a charity marathon, but to actually win it was beyond their wildest dreams. This marathon tour of the Federal systems had been amazing.
As the medals were given out Frank smiled ' Wow thats a big one'"
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 13
Author : Alien
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=146636&postcount=1006
Title: The Things Tourists Say
Drabble : "When do the lights come on?
Our group is missing one
Our Betty needs the toilet
Don't buy that, it is utter tat
Mr Wiggle only a pound
This is the ride of the world around
The queues for this ride are awfully long
You know the words, so sing along
Buy this souvenir, only one credit
Billy dropped his toy, don't worry, I'll get it
The sun is shining, no sign of rain
We look forward to next year, we'll be back again
These are the words, you'll hear them say
They are tourists, and boy do they pay."
---------------------------------
Drabble Number : 14
Author : Darkoba
Link : http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showpost.php?p=147059&postcount=1019
Title: Llyn Ogwen is'nit.
Drabble : "The hard slog on approach slopes done, peace and quiet all enveloping, broken only by the distant call of sheep.
Next the steep grassy slope; hang on tight or slip back. Once this is over, the real climb on Tryfan can begin.
The slope nearly defeated, looking forward to the rock face. A slip, a grab at the grass. I'm OK.
A sound - wind, perhaps? A feeling of foreboding.
The sound grows to a roar. A pressure wave nearly pulls me from the slope.
My Cobra roars down Ogwen Valley.
Why did I give my daughter the keys?
Holiday over.
______________"
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