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“Gotcha,” taunted Leonard as his snowball smashed into his foe.
Gandhi realized passive resistance had limitations.

Thanks Readerofmuch. It was a fun one to write. I've just started writing drabbles and I find them challenging and a truckload of fun. My submissions are the ones that make me want to read them the day after I write them. When that happens, I copy & paste them in the DC forum. Glad you liked the twi...

Let your character tell you what it’ll do next. Tied to a chair with a revolver to my head, I’m not sure I should write pulp.

“I strangled my targets in Rome, Orsk, Peoria, and Essen,” bragged Luis. “Quaint; I slit the throats of my marks in Kabul, Nairobi, Istanbul, Fredericton, and Exeter,” replied Jessica. Sven shook his head and chuckled. “You are both hacks. I poisoned my assignments in Albuquerque, Reykjavík, Sarajev...

Roxanne raised her katana and stepped over corpse after corpse. Someone grabbed for her but a quick dodge and upward strike ended with a severed arm dropping to the floor with a sickening slap. Roxanne dropped into splits and thrust her katana up under the ribcage of her final foe. Two guards appear...

“Guilty of two counts of bird on bird evil” proclaimed the owl. “It’s not evil; it’s just my nature!” screamed the brown-headed cowbird. As she continued to protest, the hummingbird deftly slipped the noose over the cowbird’s head. “No! You can’t do this to me! Please! It’s just my nature! Please!” ...

Thanks for the welcome and for your comments. I was aiming for ambiguity. What did Cormac decide? Was he there to kill Jimmy and decided to go ahead, or had he decided to warn Jimmy to get out of town? Maybe he was there to hire Jimmy to commit a crime or was he there to confess to Jimmy that he had...

There comes a time in each person’s life when they must decide to become a person of integrity or treachery. Cormac examined his face carefully in the mirror searching for a hint of which kind of person he was. The corners of his mouth slowly curled into a smile as Cormac reached into his jacket poc...