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Thanks, Guns. My speech therapist tells me Drabbles are perfect for vocal practice, and this was a nice one to start on.

jonathan.frana wrote:I made the first incision, just as instructed. His screaming curtled my blood. I've yet to hear of a worst first autopsy.

Oh I don't know. At least you can be certain of what killed him.

According to the local people, this singing rock is called, ‘The Boom Box,’ and their Queen created it by a kind of magic.

“Ever seen a man keelhauled?” asked The Captain.

The selkies exchanged a look. “Yes, Sir,” just didn’t seem to cover it.

pondspider wrote:The people, in blind despair, grasped the chance to elect a man who'd change things. Cheers rang across a broken nation.

“Looks like there’s a civil war coming,” said the man in The White house. “Bet you all are glad you kept your guns now, eh?”

I have sociopathy on 30 day trial. It’s free, either way. If I don’t like it, I give it back to the dealer. If I do, I kill him.

No matter how many worlds you visit, there really isn’t any place quite like home. THRICE dAMN tHE gOD dAMNED DEATH STAR!

His face was a picture of indignation as he snarled, with savage ferocity, “God damn it Jim! I’m a doctor, not a twaddle!”

Or if you prefer

His face was a picture of indignation as he snarled, with savage ferocity, “God damn it Jim! I’m a doctor, not a twitfic!”

There can no longer be any doubt at all. Our experiments have proved our hypothesis. We now know that nothing is certain.

Ghosts love coffee? Makes perfect sense to me. By the way, folks. I just want to remind all & sundry that, well, all & sundry can post episode discussion threads. Just copy and paste the relevant parts from the Drabblecasst.org page for the episode in question to make the header post, and Bob's your...

I love St Darwin's. It's an amazing world where pretty much anything can, and does happen. I for one am waiting for the big eBook compendium of St D stories... No Pressure, Mr T. ;) I loved the build up of this piece, and the fight between ghosts, humans who can vanish at will and humans who can't w...

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The wizard looked up from his Grimoire, hope in his eyes.

I closed the spell book. I wasn’t going to set him loose just yet.

Staring at the knife in my hand, I shuddered, realising what I had done.

Chocolate spread and Spam? Damn these cravings!

I inserted the syringe into the nozzle, then pressed the plunger.

Who said you couldn’t put toothpaste back in the tube?

*sigh*

The real shock came when we rummaged through their small arms. It turned out that all their muskets had been rifled.

(Oh yes. Three can play that game.(

Ruff break.