Weekly Drabble challenge
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1) A drabble is, by definition, a 100-word story therefore all responses should be 100 words exactly, no exceptions.
2) You may also choose to respond to this challenge with a five-minute sketch.
3) PLEASE put the word DRABBLE at the top of your post. That way people can easily spot the drabbles in amongst any reader comments they receive.
RATING: I don't think this should be limited so reader beware that they could be any rating (you could put it in the subject line if you feel it needs it)
PLEASE try to remember to make each drabble a comment in response to the original post. That way, if the comments start to collapse, the drabbles themselves should remain visible.
Alone
Apart
Solitary
Seperate
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Date: 2012-10-26 01:58 pm (UTC)Jeeveses are generally solitary, coming together only to mate, an act scientists know little about because it occurs underground and in the dark, and the Jeeves's incredible sensory array allows it to notice the slightest interference in its environment.
The truly strange thing about the Jeeves is its occasional interbreeding with the Wooster, a brightly colored animal of the same genus with completely different habits, which can lead to the spectacle of an exasperated Jeeves driving off an entire band of Woosters in order to have a few moments alone with its mate. The mated Wooster is usually very understanding.
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Date: 2012-10-26 08:31 pm (UTC)I am now wondering about the care and feeding of the resulting Joosters and Weeveses
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Date: 2012-10-26 08:29 pm (UTC)Wooster woke. I waited. “Jeeves?” Rummy.
Wooster ankled into a kitchen bereft of Jeeveses. And tea. Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management was out, spine broken at the duties of the valet. Blast. Bertram was just shoveling in an extra spoon of leaves for the pot when I saw Jeeves’s copperplate.
“No words to express my dismay at leaving you all alone….” Bertram sank to the floor, weeping.
Jeeves returned with pounded sugar and saw the crumpled note in my fist. “Hush,” he murmured, holding the slender corpus close. “Are you quite all right?”
“I am now.”
"Happy Birthday, darling."
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Date: 2012-10-27 06:12 am (UTC)Woosters are gregarious, and spend far less time underground than Jeeveses. They form bands of approximately five to forty individuals, generally following the principle of 'the more, the merrier.' Woosters do not like to be alone, which can cause some tension when a Wooster mates with a Jeeves. The Jeeves will inevitably need some time on its own, leaving the Wooster alone in the burrow making its shrill distress call until some of its favorite bandmates come to groom and console it until the Jeeves returns. Older pairs are calmer, the Wooster trusting its mate to come back to it.
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Date: 2012-11-22 06:33 am (UTC)XD
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Date: 2012-10-27 07:13 am (UTC)Joosters and Weeveses tend to form their own bands and to interbreed further. They are often very handsome animals, striped in darker and more vivid hues. While often as gregarious as Woosters and less subterranean than Jeeveses, each hybrid retains the Jeevesian habit of defending Woosters from the attacks of Bassets. Male Bassets eat Woosters when they can catch them, and the females will attempt to mate with them, which Woosters usually find deeply distressing. Woosters have sharp teeth but hesitate to use them in these scuffles, preferring to call upon a Jeeves or Jeeves hybrid to come separate them.
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Date: 2012-11-22 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-27 07:42 am (UTC)Giving birth is one of the only things Wooster go apart from their group for. Males guard over their mates despite their distress at the smell of blood, and female Woosters hide deep in their burrows during labor.
Often when a male Jeeves has mated with a male Wooster (which is very common) they will find a corresponding female pair and provide each other with kits. This can create stress for the Woosters, as a female Jeeves resents being guarded, sometimes biting. Generally, the male Jeeves consoles his mate and the female Wooster's bandmates keep her company in her vigil.
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Date: 2012-11-22 07:10 am (UTC)Twiddling a pencil, Bertie mused, “Five letter word… ‘being apart from others’… hm…”
“Alone,” came a voice from the bedroom.
“I say!” Bertie filled in the squares. “Umm… Five letter word… ‘remote and separate.’ Last letter’s a ‘t’.”
Jeeves passed through toward the kitchen. “Apart.”
Bertie smiled, scribbling in more letters. “Intersecting the ‘a’ is an eight letter word for ‘having no companions’.”
“Solitary,” declared Jeeves upon returning.
“Another eight letter word, third letter’s a ‘p.’ ‘To set or keep apart’?”
“Separate.” Jeeves leaned down, kissing Bertie’s temple. “Long as I live, those never need apply to you, my own.”
Obviously, I'm trending toward fluff & shmoop of late.
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Date: 2012-11-22 02:02 pm (UTC)I, for one, am totally digging the fluff and schmoop... It is utterly, completely topping to see you back in the swing of drabbles and whatnot...
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