Drabble Thursday: A Taste of Adventure

[ourlostprophet]

For our Drabble posts, we ask for 100 words exactly on a given topic. This can be in any tense or perspective you like, so please go nuts.

Most characters lives are full of adventure, slaying dragons with rolls of the die, charging straight into the Final Frontier, or just road tripping across the country with your best friends. So, for this Thursday, write about Adventure. Where does the unknown find you?

Adventure

[intelligenced]

I never saw myself as the adventuring type. Then after I left the Army, I got to see the world. Everywhere from Cancun to Tokyo, just me, my camera and my notebook.

It was beautiful.

I'd spend all day sometimes shooting photographs. And then I'd find a quiet place, and I'd write letters. Letters to Casey and Connie and everyone, telling them everything I'd seen.

Not a lot of people get to travel like that. I'm grateful for those two years.

But they would've meant so much more if I'd had someone to share them with.

So I came home.

Danielle Fitzgerald
intelligenced
Original Character
100 Words

Thursday - adventure

[michael_malone]

Canada: simple mission, missing package.

Everything goes wrong.

The canister contains a nanite plague, cracked open- leaking contagen.

It's there he makes his first kill - not out of mailce, but of mercy. Holds a dying man under water so he dies quick instead of slow and agonizing.

The green sleeves of his army surplus jacket, damp from twater, freeze in the Toronto night.

Miles to go chasing the canister before sleep. He knows he will dream of the hot rotting flesh, the icy water, the body so easy beneath his hands. The disturbing lack of struggle.

Some adventure. Fuck Canada.