charles barrow's writing

The weather has been so bad over the past couple of weeks, and there is always a temptation to search for signs that things will improve, and then to load these signs with a positive outcome. A silver lining, or a rainbow, will always do the trick, bring a surge of optimism. I'm moving, packing up my life, and moving back to the mainland. I've been living on an island for 9 years and it's time to head back to where my friends, my true home, and my heart reside. It hasn't exactly been a hasty decision, but I know that it's the right one. And now that I've pulled the trigger things will move quickly, and the upcoming weeks will be filled with planning, packing, and saying my goodbyes to the friends that I've made here. I'm optimistic about the future, things are falling into place, I've been watching for signs, and the weather is set fair on the road head. The photo is the author's own.

Traditionally, a  drabble  is a piece of fiction that is exactly 100  words long . Thank you Google. I was completely unaware that a drabble was a thing, especially a fiction writing thing. I'd heard of flash-fiction, and micro-fiction to describe short pieces, but not a drabble. Until, that is, I happened upon a Blogger blog, 101fiction, entirely dedicated to the drabble. They run a monthly drabble writing competition - t he prize is publication in their download magazine. They ask for stories of 100 words, and t hey allow only a one word title, hence the 101 of 101fiction, and they set a different theme each month, this month it's Invention . The whole idea intrigued me. I've never tried writing such a short piece of fiction before, and there was something about that title of Invention that was a great writing prompt for me. So, for that past week I've been writing a drabble. I've really enjoyed the process, the constraints that such a small word limit impose