A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length.[1][2][3][4] The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.
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prose fiction Anthology Serial Novel/romance Short prose fiction Novella Novelette Short story Drabble Sketch Flash fiction Parable Religious Wisdom...
2001, pp. 241: "[World population in 1913 (in thousands):] 1 791 020". Drabble 1996, p. 323. Angus Cameron (1983). "Anglo-Saxon literature" in Dictionary...
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2010. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 June 2020. Drabble, Margaret (2000). The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6th ed.)...
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