Drabbles

Drabbles are fanfic of exactly 100 words (or some other specific, small word count). (You'll notice I didn't always succeed at that goal.) I used to be a very active member of the xf_drabble community on LiveJournal!

I thought about giving each drabble its own page on IJ, but you know what? There's a ton of them and I'm not that invested. To leave feedback, please comment here or drop me an email.

If you enjoy these stories, you are welcome to archive them elsewhere on the internet. If you do, please let me know where, and please include a link back to this site. Thanks and enjoy!

Drabble Series

The City and the Stars
A post-apocalyptic drabbleverse. All were written to fulfill challenges in the community. Listed in the order written; or read by the numbers for chronological order. MSR and D/R; overall rating: PG, word counts vary.

4. The City and the Stars: Skinner
?. The General's Secret: Skinner
1. Into the Lion's Den: Mulder (1/3)
2. Lambs to the Slaughter: Will (2/3)
3. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Scully (3/3)
5. In Starlight: Mulder
6. Vespers: Scully
7. Ruins: Doggett
8. Justify: Mulder
9. Caught: Skinner
10. Morning: Reyes
11. Kiss: Doggett

Non-Community Drabbles

Always
PG, MSR, cancer arc, 155 words. Valentine's Day.

Anakinship
PG, MSR, post-series, 100 words. Mulder and Scully see Revenge of the Sith.

Quiet Vigil
PG, UST, Detour, 100 words. Scully had to finish singing the song, you know.

Invasion
PG, MSR, Orison, 100 words. Scully's fine.

Denial
PG, MT, 100 words. Mulder's burning up.

Old With You
PG, MSR, Dod Kalm, 100 words. At least Mulder's not seasick anymore.

xf_drabble challenges

Nest (Sloth)
PG, Mulder, Spoilers for I Want To Believe, 100 words.

Living For
PG, MSR, Spoilers for Closure, 100 words. The Quest is over. Now what?

Break My Fall
PG, UST, Spoilers for Season 3, 100 words. Action, angst, The Sweetest Thing.

Turned Around
PG, MSR, M/D, Spoilers for S6, 175 words. Love came to town and Diana's out in the cold.

Nothing Changes
PG, UST, Spoilers for Millennium, 150 words. Did anything change on New Year's Eve?

The Way We Weren't
PG, MSR, Spoilers for The Truth, 150 Words. Daydreaming on the road.

Constellation of Doubt
G, Spoilers for Patient X, 100 words. Cassiopeia must mean something.

Teotihuacan
PG, 100 words. Teotihuacan.

Erased
PG-13, MSR, spoilers for S8, 184 words. Mulder feels erased.

Addicted
PG, CSM/Teena, Spoilers for S4, 100 words. "They would kill me for the cigarette -"

Just Another Night
PG, 162 words. "One more murder in this town .."

Tea for Two
PG, MSR, spoilers for Tooms, 100 words. "Must be fate, Mulder."

Stopping Criteria
PG, MSR, spoilers for Requiem, 100 worlds. "We've never had that choice."

Товарищи
PG-13, spoilers through Existence, 100 words. Krycek doesn't lie.

In Memoriam Crocodilans
PG, MSR, Spoilers for S3 and Alone, 100 words. Something around to take care of ..

Empathy
PG, spoilers for Conduit, 142 words. Scully gives Mulder some advice.

Where
PG, MSR, 100 words. Profiler MT/SC.

Rain
PG, MSR, 100 words. The Truth missing scene.

A Toast
PG, MSR, spoilers for Rain King and Millennium, 141 words. Champagne rain.

Surprise
PG, MSR, 407 words. "Don't tell me you forgot."

No Pun Intended
PG, M/D, MSR, spoilers for S6, 176 words. "I wonder if she expects me to call her."

Just Coincidence
PG, Doggett, spoilers for S9, 315 words. "If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

Good Dog
R, Spoilers for Irresistible, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, Quagmire, Orison, 158 words. Who's a good puppy?

Remission
G, spoilers for Redux II, 100 words. SHe should be dead.

Miracles
PG, UST, spoilers for Milagro, 100 words. Is this our miracle?

Subtext
PG, MSR, spoilers for NIHT, 100 words. Moving on Mulder's last day.

Requiem for a Season
PG, MSR, spoilers for Requiem, 187 words. Why does this feel so final?

Memory
PG, spoilers for The Truth, 150 words. "We never gave Sam a memorial."

Last Look
PG, MSR, D/R, spoilers for The Truth, 100 words. "Do you think we'll ever see them again?"

Tempered Steel
PG, K/M, spoilers for One Son and Requiem, 100 words. "You think it'll beat me?"

Paradox
PG, MSR, 143 words. It was the best of times ...

Matchmaker
PG, MSR, 274 words. A truth universally acknowledged ...

Till The End
PG, Syndicate, 210 words. This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

It's Alive
PG, 179 words. Agent Mulder has taken up offices in the basement ...

The Red-Headed League
PG-13, MSR, post-series, 200 words. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings ..."

Stranger
G, spoilers for The Unnatural, 94 words. Once upon a time there was a Martian ...

The Power and the Glory
PG, spoilers for Biogenesis arc, 500 words. The heavens were opened and Scully saw visions of God.

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
PG, AU, MSR, 239 words. It was a dark and stormy night ..

The Waste Lands
PG, early S9, 380 words. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Good Sailing
G, Scully, spoilers for Beyond the Sea and One Breath, 127 words. Not a week had passed since January that she hadn't seen him.

Incomplete
G, UST, spoilers for Emily, 100 words. *This* is my family, he thinks.

Any Other Name
PG, MSR, mytharc, 277 words. He'd underestimated her. How *could* he?

A New Hope
PG, spoilers for William arc, parody, 181 words. William has a choice.

Mas Huevas Rancheros
G, Frohike, 158 words. Yeah, this was the life.

Saturday
G, Scully, 100 words. God, she deserved this.

She Loves You
PG, D/R, spoilers for Audrey Pauley, 151 words. "She told me what to say."

We Can
PG, MSR, spoilers for Never Again, 604 words. He was trying to send her a message with music.

Your Mom
PG, CSM/Teena, spoilers for One Breath, 100 words. "Your mother should know."

And She's Gone
G, UST, 119 words. And ... she's gone.

Gideon's Bible
G, spoilers for Miracle Man, 100 words. "Did I say anything about a revival?"

Revolution
G, mytharc, 100 words. "You say you want a revolution, Agent Mulder."

Wisdom
G, S1 mytharc, 100 words. Agent Mulder .. just let it be.

Daddy
PG, MSR, through S9, 100 words. "The monster's gone, he's on the run, and your daddy's here .."

Simplicity
G, UST, Pusher, 100 words. She is struck, later, by how simple it was.

Autognosis
PG, Squeeze/Tooms, 100 words. It isn't that they taste good.

Be Prepared
G, S3 mytharc and Unruhe, Scully. 111 words. She stares at Schnauz, Sr.'s headstone.

Surrender
G, MSR, Requiem, 100 words. Right up until the last second, he had a choice.

My Weakness
PG, meta, humor, 119 words. This a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or events, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Firstborn
G, MSR, season 9, 179 words. She dreams.

Drag
PG, CSM/Himself, spoilers for Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, 100 words. They'd always said the first time was the sweetest.

Rent
PG, MSR, Season 8, 100 words. Scully wasn't pleased.

First Base
PG, MSR, The Unnatural, 100 words. "I think you'll catch me, Mulder."

Beginning to Like Her
PG, Frohike & Scully, EBE, 100 words. Frohike's a scoundrel. Unfortunately for him, Scully likes nice men.

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