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I'll start the list with one of mine :-)
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The Yellow Lady
A grave robber encounters a ghost from a story he was told as a child.
This Empty Place
At the heat death of the universe, the Grim Reaper contemplates his existence.
Forced Entry
A special forces team enters a suburban house to rescue a family taken hostage, they encounter more than they were trained for.
The Reluctant Demon
A young demon prepares to take his possession exam.
This Drabble Enhanced edition also includes some of my favourite drabbles (100 word stories).
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Click here to buy 100 Nightmares from Amazon
A drabble is a complete story told in precisely 100 words. 100 Percent Drabbles is an collection of one hundred such stories.
These tales traverse a diverse range of genres and themes and many have an unexpected twist up around the 95-word mark.
Welcome to the wonderful world of drabbles!
A drabble is a piece of writing precisely 100 words long. A challenge to write, but fun to read, they often tell a tale with a twist or encapsulate an idea or emotion.
In this collection, perfect for dipping into in a spare moment, you'll experience the full gamut of emotions, amusing and shocking twists, several mini-series of drabbles, and a surprise or two along the way.
And, true to drabble rules, everything in the book is exactly one hundred words in length, from the stories themselves to the foreword and this blurb!
A flavour of what's inside:
The Understudy
Night after night after night for six weeks I had played the silent shopkeeper. I knew the lead role inside out, back to front, and upside-down. Yet the leading actor, so sickeningly good in the role, seemed resistant to any form of ill health or injury.
His face was a picture when he walked into his dressing room and saw me standing there in his Act One clothes.
"What the...?"
"I thought you were indisposed this evening," I clarified.
"Why would you think that?"
I didn't give him the chance to even glimpse the knife before it penetrated his abdomen.
Jump
I stand high on the motorway bridge, watching the cars speeding to and from work. I am taken back to my childhood and I see myself standing over my play-mat, toy cars spread out at my feet. I think of family and friends as I sway in the wind. I can hear sirens. And now I can see flashes of blue. For just a second, I myself consider jumping, unable to process what I have just witnessed. I look down again, see the dark unmoving shape at the side of the road. I hadn't been able to talk him down.
A Young Man's Concern
I inspect myself in the mirror, checking for blemishes and admiring the bulges beneath my tanned arms. My smile fades as the niggling thought resurfaces. What if 'it' happens? But they're waiting; no backing out now. I quickly adjust my hair (as if that's what they'll be looking at!) before dropping my boxer shorts.
I enter the room and breathe a relieved sigh, for the wrinkled faces that peer round easels belong to bodies at least thrice my age. I assume my position, safe in the knowledge that my blood supply will not be taking any unwanted diversions this afternoon.
100 One Hundred Word Tales is available from Amazon
The world of drabbles awaits you!
A drabble tells a story in precisely 100 words, and this book is packed with drabbles that will move, shock and entertain.
'Beyond 100 Drabbles' features 120 new miniature works, written by two of today’s most formidable drabblers. Jonathan Hill and Kath Middleton showcase some of their finest drabbles here, resulting in a collection that demonstrates the indisputable power of this popular flash fiction form.
The authors cover a plethora of genres and even take the drabble one step further by interacting in a series of ‘challenge drabbles’.
The stories are ideal for reading back to back, or individually in spare moments. The question is, can you stop at just one?
Beyond 100 Drabbles is available from Amazon (and is an excellent read)
Welcome to my world of Drabbles* and Short Stories. My anthology of short fiction is certain to entertain you with its diverse range of genres.
Some will make you smile!
Some will make you sad!
Some will make you think!
Some will make you blink!
But all will keep you interested, for there is something for everyone!
So why not Buy – Read and Enjoy?
*Drabbles are little gems. Short stories of exactly 100 words.
Click here to buy Drabbles 'n' Shorts from Amazon
Welcome to my new world of stories. As before this anthology covers a wide range of genres but with the emphasis on more Shorts and fewer Drabbles. It is bigger and better than before.
Some will make you wonder.
I say with a little wink.
And as you sit and ponder.
Take a sip of a well earned drink.
So put your feet up, open the book and let the magic of my imagination entertain you.
I know that you won't be disappointed.
Click here to buy Shorts 'n' Drabbles from Amazon
The stories contained in this volume are a collection of 100 word shorts known as drabbles.
What exactly is a drabble?
Noun
drabble (plural drabbles)
A fictional story that is exactly 100 words long.
The purpose of a drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
I hope you (the reader) enjoy this collection of drabbles, and that it inspires those of you that are interested in writing, to sit down and really test your skills.
Drabbling is not easy, but when you read the results, it is worth it.
Thank you for picking up this book, and giving it an honest read; you may discover something about yourself within these pages.
Click here to buy The Random Drabblings of a Madman from Amazon
Contained within this book is a collection of 40 flash fiction stories know as 'drabbles'.
A drabble is a short 100 word story that is designed to tell a story as briefly as possible. They're great for when you want a quick tale to satiate your literary appetite.
The subject matter of the included drabbles varies from the humorous, to the macabre, and strange. There's sure to be something for everyone!
Go ahead and dive into the world of drabbling; you won't regret it!
Click here to buy Here a Drabble, There a Drabble from Amazon
Flash fiction is like glimpsing a new world through a window and being able, for just a moment, to be somewhere else or someone else. In reality, this is not one, but two books. The first book is a collection of short stories, and the second book is made up of drabbles.
Click here to buy Bananas in my Shorts from Amazon
Flash Fiction tells us a story in a limited number of words. Poetry and drabbles are both forms of flash fiction. They tell us a story. They convey an idea, or an image, and bring it to life. Each has its own criteria. A poem might have rhyme or rhythm, whereas a drabble has limitations in size, but they are essentially the same thing. In fact, a poem might also be a drabble. Every day, my world is filled with ideas, images, concepts, and whacky thoughts. It might be a picture I see on social media that triggers it, or a walk in the country. It might be an advert on TV, or a play on words. My poems and drabbles are these little words, and the ideas inside my head that are screaming to get out are my Big Worlds. Here is a micro-drabble (50 words) to whet your appetite: Writers Block After some discussion with my agent, we came across a solution to help me overcome my writers block. I was to try and write using a different format. I put the laptop away and sharpened some pencils, opting to go Olde-Worlde. I soon got bored. Now I'm using alphabet spaghetti.
Click here to buy Little Worlds ... Full of Big Worlds from Amazon
Drabbles are flash fictions of exactly 100 words. Growing explosively in popularity they are all over the net. Collected together here are drabbles written since 2014 based on images, web prompts and contests.
These tales in short are snapshots of inspiration and reflections of meaning.
Click here to buy Reflections in Drabbles from Amazon
Two short stories about seasons, childhood and the end of the world. Over 11,000 words in total.
Fifth Season:
Duncan was nine years old on 5/5. That was the day the extra season came, barging in between Autumn and Winter. For him, it was the most exciting thing ever!
All the rest of the world wanted to know was: when will it end? And how much of the world will end with it?
Nineteen Seventy-Steve:
Steve’s summer is the best! He’s going to remember it forever.
But can his childhood memories survive being ruthlessly inspected by his own future selves?
Click here to buy Fifth Season from Amazon
Love bites us all at some time in our lives and always leaves a mark on soft tissue, like skin or our souls, showing that you belong to your lover. Even when those visible marks fade, they leave indelible scars on our attitudes, memories, our very souls. This is a collection of 52 stories about love, laughter and sorrow.
There is some adult content.
Click here to buy Love Bites from Amazon
An eclectic collection of 58 stories, in the form of shorts, poems and novellas, covering a wide range of genres: humour, romance, drama, science fiction, fantasy, contemporary and historical. Something for every taste. Some will make you laugh, others may bring a tear to an eye, but I assure you only the English language is bullied into submission.
Click here to buy Fifty Odd Shades of Monochrome from Amazon
Fissures is disjunction at its most disruptive—Faulkner’s stories are “spectral spaces” captured with “hard borders” and his dangerous eye for truth.
—Pamela Painter, author of Wouldn't You Like to Know
Grant Faulkner’s stories are poetic and creepy and funny and touching and you’re going to have a swell time. I wish I had written some of them.
—Lou Beach, author of 420 Characters
Grant Faulkner is the impresario of 100-word stories. The 100 tantalizing fictions in Fissures shock and please—a precious pile of sparkling surprises.
—Jane Ciabattari, author of Stealing the Fire and California Stories
Grant Faulkner’s sharply observed, darkly funny, heart-breaking bursts of highly compressed prose offers a startling view of what reality might look like through a funhouse microscope. Fissures pushes the boundaries of flash prose, and thank goodness for that. Sometimes less is so much more.
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals
Click here to buy Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories from Amazon
A collection of one hundred "drabbles" (100-word short stories or poems) themed around the subject of Doctor Who, in aid of the RNIB Talking Book Library. Limited edition: only 1000 copies produced.
Click here to buy Drabble Who? from Amazon
When Rob and Dave "invented" the new literary form, the DRABBLE, in the Birmingham University SF Society they had no idea where it would lead. Their initial thought of a small fanzine with a dozen or so stories was soon left far behind. With their hearts in their mouths and their hands in their pockets they approached Roger at BECCON Publications, and together this trio launched themselves into the unknown by committing themselves to publish a book containing 100 drabbles.With much trepidation The Drabble Project was published on April Fool's Day 1988 in a limited edition of 1000 copies.
Click here to buy The Drabble Project from Amazon
Following the success of "The Drabble Project" this second selection of drabbles contains another one hundred stories of exactly one hundred words each. The author is typically aged between 12 and 75 and lives in one of nine countries. He/she may be either a seasoned professional or an aspiring amateur and may, or may not, have won a drabble writing competition. None of the 100 authors has accepted any payment other than one copy of the book. All profits made from this publication will be donated to the RNIB "Talking Book" Library.
Click here to buy Drabbles II - Double Century from Amazon
One hundred autobiographical stories.
Click here to buy Sportin' Jack from Amazon
Locked in a quantum prison with his own dead body, will he repent?
How far must a doctor go to stop a lethal virus from killing everyone in her colony?
What happens when a pleasure bot accidentally achieves sentience?
And why won't the world president reveal the message that he has received from the future?
A rich, sprawling collection of micro-stories known as drabbles; one hundred sublime morsels each of exactly 100 words. A bubbling pot of science and speculative fiction with a generous helping of horror and a dash of fantasy. But be warned: dark and disturbing tales lie within - for mature readers only.
Buy Paradox Lost, and be instantly transported to a hundred different worlds...
Click here to buy Paradox Lost from Amazon
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A drabble is a complete story told in precisely 100 words. 100 Percent Drabbles is an collection of one hundred such stories.
These tales traverse a diverse range of genres and themes and many have an unexpected twist up around the 95-word mark.
A drabble is a piece of writing precisely 100 words long. A challenge to write, but fun to read, they often tell a tale with a twist or encapsulate an idea or emotion.
In this collection, perfect for dipping into in a spare moment, you'll experience the full gamut of emotions, amusing and shocking twists, several mini-series of drabbles, and a surprise or two along the way.
And, true to drabble rules, everything in the book is exactly one hundred words in length, from the stories themselves to the foreword and this blurb!
A flavour of what's inside:
The Understudy
Night after night after night for six weeks I had played the silent shopkeeper. I knew the lead role inside out, back to front, and upside-down. Yet the leading actor, so sickeningly good in the role, seemed resistant to any form of ill health or injury.
His face was a picture when he walked into his dressing room and saw me standing there in his Act One clothes.
"What the...?"
"I thought you were indisposed this evening," I clarified.
"Why would you think that?"
I didn't give him the chance to even glimpse the knife before it penetrated his abdomen.
Jump
I stand high on the motorway bridge, watching the cars speeding to and from work. I am taken back to my childhood and I see myself standing over my play-mat, toy cars spread out at my feet. I think of family and friends as I sway in the wind. I can hear sirens. And now I can see flashes of blue. For just a second, I myself consider jumping, unable to process what I have just witnessed. I look down again, see the dark unmoving shape at the side of the road. I hadn't been able to talk him down.
A Young Man's Concern
I inspect myself in the mirror, checking for blemishes and admiring the bulges beneath my tanned arms. My smile fades as the niggling thought resurfaces. What if 'it' happens? But they're waiting; no backing out now. I quickly adjust my hair (as if that's what they'll be looking at!) before dropping my boxer shorts.
I enter the room and breathe a relieved sigh, for the wrinkled faces that peer round easels belong to bodies at least thrice my age. I assume my position, safe in the knowledge that my blood supply will not be taking any unwanted diversions this afternoon.
100 One Hundred Word Tales is available from Amazon
The world of drabbles awaits you!
A drabble tells a story in precisely 100 words, and this book is packed with drabbles that will move, shock and entertain.
'Beyond 100 Drabbles' features 120 new miniature works, written by two of today’s most formidable drabblers. Jonathan Hill and Kath Middleton showcase some of their finest drabbles here, resulting in a collection that demonstrates the indisputable power of this popular flash fiction form.
The authors cover a plethora of genres and even take the drabble one step further by interacting in a series of ‘challenge drabbles’.
The stories are ideal for reading back to back, or individually in spare moments. The question is, can you stop at just one?
Beyond 100 Drabbles is available from Amazon (and is an excellent read)
Welcome to my world of Drabbles* and Short Stories. My anthology of short fiction is certain to entertain you with its diverse range of genres.
Some will make you smile!
Some will make you sad!
Some will make you think!
Some will make you blink!
But all will keep you interested, for there is something for everyone!
So why not Buy – Read and Enjoy?
*Drabbles are little gems. Short stories of exactly 100 words.
Click here to buy Drabbles 'n' Shorts from Amazon
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| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Welcome to my new world of stories. As before this anthology covers a wide range of genres but with the emphasis on more Shorts and fewer Drabbles. It is bigger and better than before.
Some will make you wonder.
I say with a little wink.
And as you sit and ponder.
Take a sip of a well earned drink.
So put your feet up, open the book and let the magic of my imagination entertain you.
I know that you won't be disappointed.
Click here to buy Shorts 'n' Drabbles from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
The stories contained in this volume are a collection of 100 word shorts known as drabbles.
What exactly is a drabble?
Noun
drabble (plural drabbles)
A fictional story that is exactly 100 words long.
The purpose of a drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
I hope you (the reader) enjoy this collection of drabbles, and that it inspires those of you that are interested in writing, to sit down and really test your skills.
Drabbling is not easy, but when you read the results, it is worth it.
Thank you for picking up this book, and giving it an honest read; you may discover something about yourself within these pages.
Click here to buy The Random Drabblings of a Madman from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Contained within this book is a collection of 40 flash fiction stories know as 'drabbles'.
A drabble is a short 100 word story that is designed to tell a story as briefly as possible. They're great for when you want a quick tale to satiate your literary appetite.
The subject matter of the included drabbles varies from the humorous, to the macabre, and strange. There's sure to be something for everyone!
Go ahead and dive into the world of drabbling; you won't regret it!
Click here to buy Here a Drabble, There a Drabble from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Flash fiction is like glimpsing a new world through a window and being able, for just a moment, to be somewhere else or someone else. In reality, this is not one, but two books. The first book is a collection of short stories, and the second book is made up of drabbles.
Click here to buy Bananas in my Shorts from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Flash Fiction tells us a story in a limited number of words. Poetry and drabbles are both forms of flash fiction. They tell us a story. They convey an idea, or an image, and bring it to life. Each has its own criteria. A poem might have rhyme or rhythm, whereas a drabble has limitations in size, but they are essentially the same thing. In fact, a poem might also be a drabble. Every day, my world is filled with ideas, images, concepts, and whacky thoughts. It might be a picture I see on social media that triggers it, or a walk in the country. It might be an advert on TV, or a play on words. My poems and drabbles are these little words, and the ideas inside my head that are screaming to get out are my Big Worlds. Here is a micro-drabble (50 words) to whet your appetite: Writers Block After some discussion with my agent, we came across a solution to help me overcome my writers block. I was to try and write using a different format. I put the laptop away and sharpened some pencils, opting to go Olde-Worlde. I soon got bored. Now I'm using alphabet spaghetti.
Click here to buy Little Worlds ... Full of Big Worlds from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Drabbles are flash fictions of exactly 100 words. Growing explosively in popularity they are all over the net. Collected together here are drabbles written since 2014 based on images, web prompts and contests.
These tales in short are snapshots of inspiration and reflections of meaning.
Click here to buy Reflections in Drabbles from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Two short stories about seasons, childhood and the end of the world. Over 11,000 words in total.
Fifth Season:
Duncan was nine years old on 5/5. That was the day the extra season came, barging in between Autumn and Winter. For him, it was the most exciting thing ever!
All the rest of the world wanted to know was: when will it end? And how much of the world will end with it?
Nineteen Seventy-Steve:
Steve’s summer is the best! He’s going to remember it forever.
But can his childhood memories survive being ruthlessly inspected by his own future selves?
Click here to buy Fifth Season from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Love bites us all at some time in our lives and always leaves a mark on soft tissue, like skin or our souls, showing that you belong to your lover. Even when those visible marks fade, they leave indelible scars on our attitudes, memories, our very souls. This is a collection of 52 stories about love, laughter and sorrow.
There is some adult content.
Click here to buy Love Bites from Amazon
An eclectic collection of 58 stories, in the form of shorts, poems and novellas, covering a wide range of genres: humour, romance, drama, science fiction, fantasy, contemporary and historical. Something for every taste. Some will make you laugh, others may bring a tear to an eye, but I assure you only the English language is bullied into submission.
Click here to buy Fifty Odd Shades of Monochrome from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
—Pamela Painter, author of Wouldn't You Like to Know
Grant Faulkner’s stories are poetic and creepy and funny and touching and you’re going to have a swell time. I wish I had written some of them.
—Lou Beach, author of 420 Characters
Grant Faulkner is the impresario of 100-word stories. The 100 tantalizing fictions in Fissures shock and please—a precious pile of sparkling surprises.
—Jane Ciabattari, author of Stealing the Fire and California Stories
Grant Faulkner’s sharply observed, darkly funny, heart-breaking bursts of highly compressed prose offers a startling view of what reality might look like through a funhouse microscope. Fissures pushes the boundaries of flash prose, and thank goodness for that. Sometimes less is so much more.
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals
Click here to buy Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
A collection of one hundred "drabbles" (100-word short stories or poems) themed around the subject of Doctor Who, in aid of the RNIB Talking Book Library. Limited edition: only 1000 copies produced.
Click here to buy Drabble Who? from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
When Rob and Dave "invented" the new literary form, the DRABBLE, in the Birmingham University SF Society they had no idea where it would lead. Their initial thought of a small fanzine with a dozen or so stories was soon left far behind. With their hearts in their mouths and their hands in their pockets they approached Roger at BECCON Publications, and together this trio launched themselves into the unknown by committing themselves to publish a book containing 100 drabbles.With much trepidation The Drabble Project was published on April Fool's Day 1988 in a limited edition of 1000 copies.
Click here to buy The Drabble Project from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
Following the success of "The Drabble Project" this second selection of drabbles contains another one hundred stories of exactly one hundred words each. The author is typically aged between 12 and 75 and lives in one of nine countries. He/she may be either a seasoned professional or an aspiring amateur and may, or may not, have won a drabble writing competition. None of the 100 authors has accepted any payment other than one copy of the book. All profits made from this publication will be donated to the RNIB "Talking Book" Library.
Click here to buy Drabbles II - Double Century from Amazon
 |
| Click on image to buy from Amazon |
One hundred autobiographical stories.
Click here to buy Sportin' Jack from Amazon
Locked in a quantum prison with his own dead body, will he repent?
How far must a doctor go to stop a lethal virus from killing everyone in her colony?
What happens when a pleasure bot accidentally achieves sentience?
And why won't the world president reveal the message that he has received from the future?
A rich, sprawling collection of micro-stories known as drabbles; one hundred sublime morsels each of exactly 100 words. A bubbling pot of science and speculative fiction with a generous helping of horror and a dash of fantasy. But be warned: dark and disturbing tales lie within - for mature readers only.
Buy Paradox Lost, and be instantly transported to a hundred different worlds...
Click here to buy Paradox Lost from Amazon
Hi Michael. Nav has two books containing Drabbles. Bananas In My Shorts and Little Words Full Of Big Worlds.
ReplyDeleteAdded them - thanks!
DeleteIf you are also featuring books that aren't exclusively drabbles, then I have some of mine in Fifth Season.
ReplyDeleteContaining drabbles is fine - I've added it.
DeleteThanks, Michael, for this helptul list of Drabble books. :) --- Suzanne
ReplyDeleteFantastic selection of books - I hadn't realised drabbles were quite so popular.
ReplyDeleteIndeed and I've just added a bunch more :-)
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