The AI Drabble Challenge – Week #6: Two Black & White Sketches

Welcome back to the AI Drabble Challenge, a weekly experiment in human and AI creativity. Each Wednesday, I will set a prompt to inspire a Drabble, a story told in exactly 100 words.

You can use any AI model you like (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, or others), or several at once. How you collaborate is up to you. Maybe the AI drafts the first version, or writes the whole thing, maybe you co-write, or maybe you use it to spark ideas. What matters is the process, and sharing it.

This Week’s Prompt

This week’s Drabble Challenge prompt is two black and white sketches, both generated by Midjourney. I’ve included the prompt for each image which you might want to use.

Image 1

Prompt – If Imagination Knocks, Why Not Fling The Door Open? – black and white sketch

Image 2

Prompt – A black and white sketch of a man lost in the ruined streets of an apocalyptic city.

Example Drabble – ‘The Last Witness’

I put Image 2 into Claude and asked – “Write an evocative monologue of exactly 100 words using this image as the starting point.“

I thought I’d return to ghosts, to emptiness echoing through hollow windows. Instead, there’s weight here. Every shattered brick remembers the hands that laid it. The clocktower still reaches upward, though it measures nothing now but patience. They said forgetting would be mercy, but these ruins refuse. They insist. Each twisted beam testifies to what we were, what we built, what we lost in a single morning of human madness. I am the only one who came back. The only one still breathing. The streets don’t need my memories. They have their own. They will outlast mine, permanent as scars.

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How to Take Part

1. Write your 100-word Drabble with help from an AI tool (or two).
2. Post your story in the comments, or publish it on your own website and include a pingback to this post.
3. If you can, share which AI model(s) you used and the prompt that started your process, we can all learn from each other.

Community & Highlights

Each week, I’ll read through the entries, share a few favourites, and highlight one that particularly stood out, for originality, style, or the inventive way it used AI.

This isn’t about competition; it’s about curiosity, experimentation, and celebrating how humans and machines can create together.

A Closing Thought

AI gives us the tools, but we give it meaning. Let’s see what stories emerge this week, 100 words at a time.

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