Drabble the First:
“I’ve done it,” Dr. Bombasto cried, holding the device above his head. “Reversing the polarity generates zero point energy!”
Nobody in the lab bothered looking up. Drivel. It was the third impossible claim he had made that day. They ignored him for the rest of the week, and denied even working with him when journalists began to call. A press conference was scheduled for Friday.
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof,” one of his colleagues quipped.
Friday at ten, a journalist relayed the quote. Bombasto nodded, reached down and pressed a button on the device.
And then the world ended.
Drabble the Second:
Researching his next novel, Tim Spell travelled to the North Pole.
There, in a deep crevasse, he discovered an enormous spaceship buried in the polar ice. Climbing aboard, he found gargantuan robots, deactivated for aeons, and the frozen corpses of their tentacled alien masters.
The ship’s log (recorded in English) spoke of invasion plans, portals in space-time and a crash caused by “neutrino emissions.”
Suddenly, the robots began to stir in their pods. He fled home, telling everyone about the impending attack.
“Tim, this is unpublishable rot!” his agent said.
And so the Earth went to meet its clichéd doom.
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