My Time in Drabbles

by MistressofHerDomain

Summary:

Random drabble prompts, some for a challenge some for a discord server, I figured I'd post them. I'll update with a new chapter anytime I write new ones.

The characters involved in each drabble will be in the chapter title.

Chapter 1: Shedding -Elsie

Elsie grabbed the bottle of Greeno and gave it a dubious look. She eyed her red hair critically, then dumped the Old World concoction on her head.

For Logan, she thought, he’ll have to notice me now.

Rubbing the shampoo methodically through her hair, she daydreamed of his reaction. He’d smile at her, his beautiful blue eyes finally seeing her for the woman she was, the woman for him. Lucy would writhe in jealousy.

She rinsed and dried her hair eagerly, then began to brush the strands.

She screamed in horror as slowly, every single hair fell from her head.

Chapter 2: Disgrace - Catori

Catori silently pulled her clothes back on. She had promised herself she’d never do this, never sink so low.

What would her Ma say? What would her son say? No one could ever know how desperate she’d become.

She crept to the door on silent feet and slowly opened, glancing back at the sleeping bank representative in the light from the hallway, she choked back her disgust, then straightened her shoulders and left the hotel room.

She now had ninety more days before her loan payment was due. Ninety more days before he came back for his pound of flesh.

Chapter 3: Comedy - Owen and Cooper

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 6 Prompt: Comedy

Owen strode across the stage, his arm flung dramatically in the air, his voice echoing off the walls of the Blue Moon Saloon as he recited the words of the Old World play he’d uncovered.

The audience was riveted. Not a sound could be heard outside his emotional soliloquy.

A sudden crack beneath his foot and he pitched forward, knocking against the elaborate rigging commissioned from Mi-an and the entire thing collapsed in a cacophony of noise.

Laying there dazed and embarrassed, he could hear Cooper laughing, “Dang, Mabel, I thought you said this’d be a drama, not a comedy!”

Chapter 4: Lotion - Lucy and Pen

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 7 Prompt: Lotion

“Ow, ow,” Lucy hobbled her way out of the sparring ring. “My arms, my legs.”

“Good job, skinny!” Pen’s voice boomed from behind her. “You almost beat me this time.”

Lucy glared at him, her muscles aching. “Funny, feels like I lost…badly.”

“Not at all,” he assured her, sliding up beside her, slipping his arm around her and pulling her close. His voice dropped to a low purr, “How about as a reward for your improvement we head to your workshop and I’ll rub soothing muscle lotion all over your body.”

Now she ached in a completely different place.

Chapter 5: Stars - Arvio

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 8 Prompt: Stars

Arvio stood in front of his shop watching the happy people walk past. Couples were forming all over Sandrock and he was feeling excluded. He’d worked so hard to build a successful shop, earning funding from Mr. Musa, but at what cost?

He watched Lucy and Logan walk past with Mi-an and Nia, holding hands.

Dejectedly he wandered over to the Oasis, and found Elsie staring balefully into the water.

“Feeling lonely?” he asked, walking to stand close to her. “Perhaps we can help each other out.”

“Look at all the pretty stars,” he said just before he lost consciousness.

Chapter 6: Enjoy - Stev

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 9 Prompt: Enjoy

Stev entered the Duvos mess hall with his regiment. It had been a hard day training under dreary, drizzly skies and he had worked up an appetite.

Grabbing his tray, he sighed internally at the noxious smelling soup and suspicious looking bread plopped down upon it.

“Enjoy,” said the joyless soldier behind the counter.

Glumly, Stev carried his tray to the table. As he choked down the bitter, sour soup and hard, dry bread, he thought about his upcoming mission to Sandrock. He’d heard it was sunny and warm there, not like Duvos. He really hoped the food was better.

Chapter 7: Serenade - Lucy, X, Coco

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 10 Prompt: Serenade

Lucy left the Civil Corp office, heading back to her workshop. As she neared the train tracks, her eyes snagged on the two shadows slicing lazy figures in the air. Despite the sun, she knew immediately who they were and a small smile crossed her face.

The figures dove towards the ground and disappeared from sight. A soft warbling sound reached her ears as she turned the corner, approaching the boxwood tree on the left side of the tracks.

Searching the tree, she spotted them, snuggled together. X serenading softly to Coco as the owl gazed adoringly at the raven.

Chapter 8: Credit - Mi-an, Matilda, Yan

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 11 Prompt: Credit

Mi-an stepped back, staring proudly at the new bannister she’d just installed around the City Hall porch.

“Mi-an, it looks just lovely,” Minister Matilda praised.

“Precisely like I instructed“, her boss, Yan, interrupted from behind them. “If I hadn’t told her exactly what to do, this here bannister would be less…uh…bannistery.”

Mi-an fumed as he took credit for her work, as usual.

Matilda caught her eye and winked, “You don’t say, Yan. Maybe you can take a look at the bannister on my porch. It could use your personal touch.”

Mi-an laughed as the Minister led him away.

Notes:

Ugh, for some reason AO3 is counting this story as 102 words in the stats. I have word counted this piece in both google docs and on wordcounter.net and they both promise me it is 100 words exactly. Regardless I have edited it to match AO3's word count. The original is still on Tumblr.

Chapter 9: Scones - Amirah, Heidi, Pablo, Lucy

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 12 Prompt: Scones

The Fleeting Youth Tea Society sat at their usual table, tea flowing freely – literally and metaphorically.

“I heard he was seen sneaking out of her house three of the past seven nights,” Amirah said conspiratorially.

“Three?!” Heidi exclaimed, “Try five. At least, that’s how often Andy’s spent the night with other people this week.”

“Well, he is a yakboy, she’s just making sure he gets a good ride,” Pablo laughed.

A throat cleared beside the table, Lucy’s unamused face making it plain she’d heard everything.

“Lucy, darling!” Pablo squeaked. Grabbing a plate he lifted it with a wan smile, “Scones?”

Chapter 10: Abundance - Larry

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 13 Prompt: Abundance

Larry slunk through the trees, his lithe body twisting and swerving through the thick trunks. He paused, tracking his prey, then he struck! He swallowed the bug thoughtfully.

What a difference a year made. No longer enemies with the humans, they now had an abundance of fruit flies to vanquish.

He hissed in contentment. Xena was in the cave right now, preparing to receive their offspring. The eggs would hatch any day now. He could not wait to train his children to hunt in the greenery the humans were growing.

They will make fine warriors in the fruit fly war!

Chapter 11: Saccharine - Grace, Andy, Jasmine, Logan

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 14 Prompt: Saccharine

Grace stood beside Squeeze the Day, Andy ran up and ordered an Intoxicating Dream.

Jasmine approached from his right as she handed him the drink, Lucy and Logan not far behind, holding hands per usual.

With a flourish, Andy presented Jasmine the drink. “For you, my lady. To help beat the heat,” he swept a bow as she accepted his present.

“Aw, that’s so sweet,” she grinned, drinking it. They ran off, hands tightly clasped..

Grace glared at Lucy and Logan, now grinning indulgently. “I blame you two for this saccharine crap,” she grouched. “You ruined him!”

“Guilty!” Logan agreed.

Chapter 12: Last - Mason

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 15 Prompt: Last

Mason lifted his hand as Owen yelled out the last call for drinks. He stared glumly into his yakmel milk and waited for his final drink of the night.

Just a few more weeks and the replacement builder would arrive, better drink as much milk down as he could.

Thirty minutes later he shuffled across the tracks and through his gate, the loud screech of the rusty hinges another reminder of his failures.

He stumbled across the room, falling onto the rickety bed, the oppressive desert heat weighing him down and filling his lungs like the guilt he constantly carried.

Chapter 13: Ballad - Mabel, Cooper

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 16 Prompt: Ballad

Mabel walked silently towards the barn, the sound of the guitar luring her closer. She didn’t want to disturb Cooper, she knew he used this time to clear his head.

Approaching the boxwood tree, she could see him sitting on the rock beyond, handsome in the moonlight.

The song changed, a ballad she recognized as one he’d written for her when they’d dated. He’d spotted her.

She joined him on the rock, leaning her head on his shoulder as his beautiful voice washed over her.

Flawed as he was, no one had ever filled her heart with love like Cooper.

Chapter 14: Tropical - Trudy, Zeke

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 17 Prompt: Tropical

Trudy sat down her bag of fertilizer and walked over to Zeke. Grabbing a drink of water from the bucket, she gazed out at the last batch of trees they’d planted. Satisfaction filled her at how nicely they were growing.

“Did you ever think we’d get this far?” she asked Zeke.

“I never let myself hope for too much. Nia is having seeds imported from Highwind for us to test grow outside the Moisture Farm. While we’ll never be tropical, sustainable food growth in the outdoors is my ultimate dream,” Zeke confided.

“Then let’s keep working towards it. For Sandrock.”

Chapter 15: Leaves - Nia, Mi-an

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 18 Prompt: Leaves

Nia walked slowly amongst the rose willows, her fingers trailing lightly over the rosettes of leaves. She reflected on her life since moving to Sandrock.

She’d helped revitalize the town, cultivating the algae needed to help the trees root properly in the sandy soil She’d won an award for advancements in botany for her fertilizer delivery methods after coaxing the Mama Tree back to life. She’d started a thriving plant shop that attracted tourists from all over. She’d found love, although not with who she’d thought she would.

“Ready to go?” Mi-an called.

“Ready,” she replied with an adoring smile.

Chapter 16: Pebble - Unsuur

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 19 Prompt: Pebble

Unsuur slowly removed his hand from the rock perched precariously at the top of the stack. It was almost done. The lines were clean and the composition of the stones was subtle, yet complex.

There was something missing, though. He eyed his stack critically, then rooted through the pile of rocks in the box beside him.

There. He lifted the pebble and studied it. It was small and round with a barely noticeable smooth spot on one side.

He placed it carefully on top of the stack, the symmetry vital. Perfect. As with nature, his stack was now perfectly balanced.

Chapter 17: Liability - Catori, Trudy

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 20 Prompt: Liability

Catori stood eagerly in front of Trudy, anxiously awaiting her response to the new proposal.

“Well, it’s an, eh, interesting concept for sure,” Trudy hedged. “But don’t you think it’s a little dangerous? I don’t think the city can take on this kind of liability.”

“Oh, but a surgical themed expansion to Catori World would draw huge crowds!” Catori enthused. “Maybe we can adjust the plans so you feel more comfortable?”

“Er, well, okay. First, the surgical pavilion. It’s a firm ‘no’ to the patrons operating on each other.”

At Catori’s crestfallen expression, Trudy prepared herself for a long afternoon.

Chapter 18: Choice - Justice, Logan, Owen

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 21 Prompt: Choice

“Well, Justice, what’re ya thinkin’? Blonde, brunette, or redhead?” Logan grinned over the rim of his whiskey glass.

“Stop it, Lo, they ain’t lookin’ at me,” Justice ducked his head bashfully.

“Oh, I beg to differ, my friend,” Owen said. “They are definitely looking at you.”

“Go on, Just, make a choice,” Logan egged him on.

Justice stood up and made his way over to the trio that had been casting glances his way while Logan and Owen watched. Returning minutes later they asked who he’d chosen.

He just smiled saucily.

“Why choose at all?” He returned to the ladies.

Chapter 19: Tenacity - Dan-Bi, Rian

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 22 Prompt: Tenacity

“Come on, Rian, help me with this!” Dan-bi demanded.

Rian sighed. “Why are you so insistent on this, babe? The room’s fine as it is, the baby won’t care.”

“Our baby is going to have the best room in Sandrock, where she can grow and become the best citizen Sandrock has ever seen. Now help me!”

Through her tenacity and force of will, with Rian’s reluctant help, Dan-bi meticulously directed every move, until, finally, the baby’s room was complete.

“It’s perfect!” she sighed admiringly.

“Great, let’s get dinner,” Rian enthused, heading outside.

Dan-bi growled softly at her frustrating husband’s back.

Chapter 20: Workshop - Pen, Lucy

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 23 Prompt: Workshop

“No, no, no, Skinny, not like that. You’re thinking too much. The Space Punch isn’t about your brain, it’s about feeling the power resonating through your body, and out of your fist. I can only show you so many times, you have to make the effort to learn it yourself.”

Lucy glared at Pen. Why had she agreed to let this big bag of wind teach her his “Space Punch”?

“Again, with an easy target. How about that bunny over there?” he shot her a mocking grin.

She shot him a finger, spun around, and headed back to her workshop.

Chapter 21: Date - Owen, Amirah, Pablo

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 24 Prompt: Date

Owen winked and slid the drink in front of Amirah. “On the house.”

She sighed as he walked away, sipping the drink. “I really wish he’d just stop trying. I’m never going to date him. Perfecting my craft leaves little time for romance.”

The door jingled and she, Heidi, and Pablo stared at the newcomer; a smiling young woman with an athletic figure.

“Lucy!” Owen boomed with a giant grin. “You always brighten my day!”

As Owen gushed over the new builder, Pablo smiled cattily at Amirah’s sour face. “Looks like you won’t have to worry about it much longer.”

Chapter 22: Immense - Qi, Trudy

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 25 Prompt: Immense

“Director Qi, where have you been?” Trudy demanded as she entered the Blue Moon. All eyes swung to the pair.

“At the new ruins, why do you ask?”

“No one has seen you for three weeks! We thought you were dead! You can’t just leave like that with no word,” Trudy was incensed.

“I left a note. This project is immense, I’m only here now to resupply.”

“‘Out for research.’ is not a note! Times, locations, contact information. That, Director Qi, is a note!”

“Ahhh, understood. Thank you, Mayor, I shall correct it immediately,” he grabbed his supplies and left.

Chapter 23: Narrow - Logan, Haru

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 26 Prompt: Narrow

Logan and Haru narrowed their eyes through their binoculars as they spied on the new builder.

“What’s she doing?” Haru asked.

“Looks like she’s stalkin’ a rocket rooster.”

She crept slowly up to the snoozing rooster, pulled her arm back, and flung her rock. It bounced off the rooster, startling it, and it began to flap, cluck, and fire defensive rockets. She screeched and ran from the crazed rooster, zig zagging back and forth, hands flapping, as she dodged the rockets.

The bandits laughed harder than they had in years.

“She’s gonna be a fun one to watch,” Logan wheezed.

Notes:

I have my preferences on these drabbles. This is in my top five so far.

Also, throwing rocks? Really? Not even a slingshot or sling? Just your arm and a rock.

Chapter 24: Transform - Lucy, Fang

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 27 Prompt: Transform

Lucy stared suspiciously at the liquid in her hand.

“This isn’t going to transform me into some kind of hideous creature, right? Your medicines have turned me blue, blinded me for hours, and knocked me unconscious. I’m losing faith in your abilities.”

“No,” Doctor Fang assured her.

She steeled herself and tossed back the liquid. She waited. Nothing. Then, a vicious cramp in her gut followed by a long, loud bellow from her butt, and the air around her turned dark green and smelled of sewage. Another fart followed.

She glared at Fang, mortified.

“Only... temporary. You did not... transform.”

Chapter 25: Mercy - Jane, Logan

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 28 Prompt: Mercy

Jane looked up from her paperwork as a knock sounded on the schoolhouse door.

“It’s open,” she called, rising from her desk.

The most beautiful man she’d ever seen entered. Tall, muscular, beautiful blue eyes, a warm smile on his lightly tanned face. He removed his horned hat to reveal lush silver-white hair, her fingers twitched with the urge to rake through that glorious mane.

“Miss Jane?” a warm, sexy, honeyed voice asked with a knee weakening drawl. “I’m Andy’s Pa, thought I’d introduce myself.”

After he left, Jane sank bonelessly into her chair.

“Have mercy,” she whispered, fanning herself.

Notes:

Same, girl, same.

Chapter 26: Maelstrom - Wei

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 29 Prompt: Maelstrom

Wei jolted as the conductor announced the approaching Sandrock stop.

This was it. This was where his life began anew. No more scrabbling for food, no more looking over his shoulder as the spectre of death shadowed him, no more praying for death to end it all while simultaneously fighting his hardest to survive.

His twin brother was in this town. Locked in a cage, appropriately.

The train stopped. His gut roiled with a maelstrom of emotion. Time to face the man that stranded him in the most dangerous place in the world then stole his life.

Wei was ready.

Chapter 27: Hat - Andy, Logan

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 30 Prompt: Hat

Andy bounced in anticipation. It was the Day of Memories and Trudy’d decided to try something new this year. She’d read about an Old World tradition of kids dressed in costumes begging people for candy and thought it sounded fun.

He adjusted his horned hat as he headed to the living room. Lucy and Vivi had helped him make his costume, and he looked dandy.

Logan eyed Andy critically, taking in the entire spectacle. Andy held his breath, would he like his Logan costume?

Finally, the man he admired most in the world broke into a broad grin, “Nice hat.”

Chapter 28: Poppy - Owen, Alo

Summary:

Written for the May 2025 Drabble Challenge on Tumblr. Day 31 Prompt: Poppy

Alo sat glumly at the Blue Moon bar staring at the menu, hunger gnawing at him.

“Tummy still bothering you?” Owen asked sympathetically.

“Yeah. Your food is delicious, Owen, but I just can’t get used to it.”

“I understand. I have something for you. I have a chef friend in Atara. She sent me some recipes and several ingredients we don’t have here.” Owen slid a platter in front of Alo and lifted the lid dramatically, “Ta-da!”

“Are those lemon poppy seed muffins?” Alo bounced in his seat, excitement filling him.

“Yep! All for you.”

“Thanks, Owen, you’re the best!”

Notes:

Welp, that's the last drabble for the challenge. I missed the first five days but I'm not going to bother going back and doing them.

I'll add more drabbles as I do other challenges. In fact, I have a few in my back pocket from a server challenge I did during this month that I'll probably add at some point.

Chapter 29: Sleepytime 1 - Captain

Summary:

Captain rests after making his rounds.

Notes:

Wrote a few drabbles for a sleepytime prompt on a server a few weeks ago, thought I'd start posting them.

Captain pushed open the door to the Blue Moon Saloon, the last location on his rounds.

He sniffed the interior of the building, identifying the various scents: the delicious meat Owen was frying, the rancid eggs Grace was destroying, and that strange smell of tomato and meat coming from Ernest.

What he didn’t smell was mice.

Satisfied with a job well done he headed over to Tailor Made. Hopping up onto the sales table out front, he curled up beside the register, the warm desert heat sinking into his fur, and drifted off to sleep, Vivi’s gols safe with him.

Chapter 30: Sleepytime 2 - Logan

Summary:

Logan comes across something unexpected in the desert.

Wanted bandit Logan galloped across the shimmering sands of the Eufaula. A spot of blue and white caught his eye in the vast sea of browns and russets.

Bringing Rambo to a halt, he pulled out his binoculars. It was the builder, asleep on a rock, basking in the sun like a lizard. The faint rise and fall of her chest assured him she wasn’t dead.

As he watched, she woke, stretching languidly as she rose, arching her back gracefully, her breasts pushing against her white shirt, vibrant hair cascading in waves.

He grinned. Maybe he’d meet her another day.

Chapter 31: Sleepytime 3 - Pen

Summary:

The sun has the audacity to wake Pen.

Sunlight streamed into Pen’s face, rudely awakening him from his restorative slumber.

He cracked his eyes, his pulchritudinous visage staring at him from the mirror beside the bed. He stood, stretching his sculpted body, then flexed, scrutinizing his musculature with a critical eye.

Pleased with his level of virility, he dropped to the floor and began his morning workout routine, his straining muscles highlighted by his sleep shorts, custom designed to mold to his ass and printed with his heroic profile.

Workout complete, he dressed then left to bestow his magnificence on the town as he sought his morning protein.

Chapter 32: Sleepytime 4 - Fang and X

Summary:

Fang performs his morning routine.

“Wake up, sleepyhead,” X’s voice roused Fang from his fitful sleep.

He rose and padded downstairs, stripping bare, stepping into the barrel, sinking down into the fragrant water he always kept warm.

As his muscles relaxed and he breathed deeply the scented fumes, his mind, always restless, evaluated and catalogued his body’s response to the treatment. So much work left to do. Despite the warmth surrounding him, he still felt cold – always cold.

He stood and dried off, slipping into his clothing and grabbing his satchel. Time once again to seek and gather new herbs to test. Disease never rested.

Chapter 33: Sleepytime 5 - Logan and Andy

Summary:

Logan picks Andy up from Rocky's house after a late night.

Logan knocked lightly on the door, grinning at Rocky when the door opened and the sleeping bundle gently handed over.

Nodding his head in appreciation, he walked back to his house and ascended the steps on silent feet.

He placed Andy softly on the bed, tucking him in, then stroked his hair lovingly, a fond smile on his face. He’d do anything for this child.

Andy burrowed his face into his pillow, snuggling deep, and whispered, “Welcome back, Logan. Missed you. Love you.”

Logan’s heart swelled as he pressed a kiss to the warm cheek, then sought his own bed.