More Adventures with Lady Yaga
Unsubmitted NYC Midnight Drabble entry
This year, I finally decided to participate in the NYC Midnight 100-Word Story Competition. They really should start calling it Drabble Competition. Round 1 will close in about three hours, and I've just submitted my story.
I got the following assignment from the competition organizers:
Genre: Action and/or adventure
Action: Piggybacking
Word: germ (can be a part of a word or derivative)
At first, I wanted to continue with my Russian absurdist world story. But after I sent it to a friend for feedback and we talked about it, I decided it wasn't good as it didn't have dialogue and the readers and judges might not have enough context to understand the story. For example, my friend thought the story was a spy story involving two women when in fact it's an absurdist/magical story with two characters: the old witch named Lady Yaga and the protagonist, the Prince.
Thus, I crafted and submitted a totally different story. I'll publish it here after the Round 1 results are announced. But why let a good Drabble go to waste, right? So here's my non-submitted entry:
Lady Yaga got spooked again.
We argued in a dark alley. Just as I thought my eloquence was germinating an agreement, she noticed a civilian courier eavesdropping on us. She bolted, unimaginably fast for her age. I jumped onto my bike, chasing her.
I lost her seconds later. I couldn’t believe she escaped again! Suddenly, I felt an added weight on my bike. Turning around, I saw the old witch balancing herself on my back wheel axle. Oh, the chutzpah on that woman, piggybacking me on my chase after her!
She grinned, snapped her fingers, and disappeared in a puff.
For fuller context, here's my original long read setting up the absurdist universe where it all happens:
It happened so that just before I entered NYC Midnight 100-Word Story Competition, I published a story here on how to write Drabbles, completely oblivious that Round 1 registration was closing the same day, March 20. Immediately after I published "How To Write a Drabble," my email pinged a notification about the NYC Midnight registration deadline. Algorithm or a coincidence? - You decide, but it was a little eerie for me.
Please wish me luck and I wish you happy writing as well.
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Lana V Lynx
Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
@lanalynx.bsky.social
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Comments (8)
I wish you all the best! ✨️❤️ Like Caroline, I kept misreading it as Lady Gaga, lol. Can't wait to read your story!
Clever use of the prompts! And a great micro! Good luck in the challenge and excited to see your entry someday!
Good luck in that contest, Lana. Synchronicity hits us when we least expect it.
Oh man, I misread that and thought you said Lady Gaga!! Good luck in the challenge Lana. Can’t wait to read the entry you submitted! (And yes it’s bizarre you wrote about drabbles and then the challenge came up!!?
Oh, Lana, Good Luck!! I can't wait to read your entry to the NYC challenge! I love your drabbles, and this one was just wonderful. The entire time I was reading it, I was associating the plot with your first story <3
I love this. You did a great job crafting a humorous and interesting tale out of only 100 words.
Good luck with the contest! This was a fun story.
Fab story