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Albert ARIBAUD ✎<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writever</span></a> Hindsight</p><p>In hindsight, I would have preferred not to be a precog. Without hindsight too, of course, because I've always known I'd end up preferring not to be. It may even be that this is *why* I'd prefer not be. My head aches.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a></p>
Kit Bashir<p>“Let’s see, soul on the scale please”</p><p>“Oh, okay, how do I unplug this thing”</p><p>“You gotta squeeze the little catch, no, don’t force it. Oh, well it will probably fall out at times until you get that fixed. Now, oh dear you’re in the high SMI range, 48 feathers.”</p><p>“I don’t understand”</p><p>“Hold on I’m just pulling up your file. What the hell, pardon my celestial, is Short Selling”</p><p>“It’s where you sell things you don’t have to people who don’t need them and then when the things turn out to be garbage you pretend to buy them back for a lower price—“</p><p>“—Oh, you’re one of those. Yeah don’t do that. It also says here you put aluminium cans in the garbage because the recycling bin was full”</p><p>“Ain’t nobody got time for that recycling shit”</p><p>“Well, you’ll have plenty of time where you’re going. Next!”</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a></p>
Micro SF/F by O. Westin<p>The wizard finished the incantation, and the demon appeared in the sigil. </p><p>"Let us continue."</p><p>"Do you really not have any friends who could help," the demon asked </p><p>"I cannot show weakness."</p><p>"You'd show strength."</p><p>"Quiet!"</p><p>The demon sat, muttering "I can't wait for the invention of therapists."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/vss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vss</span></a></p>
Albert ARIBAUD ✎<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writever</span></a> Why?</p><p>"It is alleged," said R42, "that a man, a long time ago, permanently blocked a computer by just asking it "why?". This is, of course, impossible."</p><p>‘Why?’ asked the engineer.</p><p>R42 stared at him in silence.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 642 — How old are some of your characters?</p></blockquote><p>I'm glad this isn't just MCs or SCs. I'll go with the last written story point or idea that isn't written.</p><p>Devil-girl: ~19<br>Bolt/Streak: 27<br>Streak and Thorn: 18<br>Emeraline: 31<br>Marigold: 26<br>Triplets Cloud Dancer, Meadow Dancer, and Fire Dancer: 35<br>The Hawk: 26<br>Chrome: 31<br>Rainy Days: &gt; 3,000</p><p>May Ri: 45<br>Mari: 22<br>Manette: 19<br>Twins Miriam and Maurine 17<br>Moria: 13<br>Reina Īto: 35<br>Randy: 55</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/flashfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flashfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/smallstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallstory</span></a></p>
allrite<p>"WHAT did you just DO?"</p><p>- I only changed the colour of the universe."</p><p>"You did what?"</p><p>- I made it blue instead of red.</p><p>"You mean to say you reversed the expansion of the universe?"</p><p>- Yeah that. I got bored of red. Blue is much nicer.</p><p>"You know you just condemned the inhabitants of the universe to an early end of their existence?"</p><p>- I'm sure they like the blue shift too.</p><p><a href="https://masto.allrite.at/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.allrite.at/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tootfic</span></a></p>
Kit Bashir<p>Chaos Nodes (places like Melbourne, Seattle, Inverness, Wellington) are famous for fractally changeable weather. Weeks with alternating heat and chill; days with five minute rainstorms. The term “Four Seasons in One Day” is well known to locals in these places. But the pattern is self-similar. Four phases in one millisecond, Four million degrees in one nanosecond.</p><p>Glimpses of so-called “cold fusion” are in fact pico-weather events arising from the chaos nodes, which themselves are thought to be driven by iron-rich inclusions in the upper mantle (possibly the remains of giant impactors from the Late Heavy Bombardment).</p><p>You can actually extract energy from the chaos. Not enough to run a city, but plenty to run a house or three. My house, for example. The chaos panels lining my basement extract energy from the fluctuations. This has the side-effect of smoothing out local variations. If you live near me, I’m to thank for the noticeably more stable weather recently. If you’re one of those weirdos drawn to chaos climates, sorry!</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a></p>
Kit Bashir<p>“Ohmigod, Kevin! What happened to your head?”</p><p>“Was leaning against the train door when it opened, I’ll get it patched up at lunchtime. It’s not like I bleed.”</p><p>“No way mister, I’m logging you on sick leave for the rest of the week, go get yourself sorted.”</p><p>“But…”</p><p>“Didn’t you hear, we seceded from the Federation this morning. Employees have rights now.”</p><p>“Oh, neat!”</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a></p>
Albert ARIBAUD ✎<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writever</span></a> Appearences</p><p>Appearances might lead one to think that the Dragon raids the town for no reason other than an occasional whim. But if one correlates these attacks with the activity of the mountain mining sites, their cause becomes crystal clear.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a></p>
rdm<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@SFFMagazineCovers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SFFMagazineCovers</span></a></span> <br>Oscar watched the CAT display as the alien machine performed the transmutation on Glenda, his sister.</p><p>They'd tried it on the neighbour's sick dog first, and found that the cancers were not able to survive the process. Reversing the process also worked, and the dog seemed ok afterwards, if a little friskier than usual. But given how sick it had been, that was hardly surprising.</p><p>Glenda settled to the ground, now entirely made of living metal.</p><p>"Well Sis, it looks like you're clean now, according to the scans," Oscar said without looking up. It had been bad enough seeing her in her underwear. "Step in again, and I'll reverse it."</p><p>He heard her moving around. Nothing on the screen. "Sis?"</p><p>"Hold onto that thought Ozzy! I'm just going to see Annette. I might be a while, don't wait up!"</p><p>He heard the door close, and sighed. One day she'd come out. Everyone knew, but somehow Glenda though she was being soooo discrete. </p><p>There was a series of loud bangs from upstairs. He rushed up, only to see an unconcious stranger on the floor, with a .38 revolver still smoking in his hand.</p><p>Glenda was in her robe, sitting down and looking at something in her hand.</p><p>"Are you alright?"<br>"Hmmmm? Oh, yes." She held up a small metal blob, "I appear to be bulletproof."</p><p>Oscar looked back at the unconcious figure.</p><p>Following his gaze, Glenda helpfully continued "It appears that our intruder was not able to cope with a lady not dying when shot in the face." She got up, and started up the stairs. "I'm getting dressed, and going out. I don't think the police should see me, do you?"</p><p>Oscar looked down again, and sighed. Again. He kicked the gun aside, and got out the duct tape. The things you do for family.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tootfic</span></a></p>
Albert ARIBAUD ✎<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writever</span></a> Neologism</p><p>"'The ingestation of Bel-Shammaroth'... What is that?"</p><p>"« Ingestation » ? It's a neologism. It's like invocation, but with gestures, not with the voice. Arinthel the Mute coined it. Did you really not know?"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a></p>
NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/writersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersCoffeeClub</span></a> April 12. How would you write a story with a cast of one? Could you? Part 3</p><p>Here we go. One character cast, 100 words.</p><p>Onee-Chan to the Rescue</p><p>“Chino-chan has the flu. What should I do?”<br>Cocoa stood in the cafe, deep in thought.<br>“I already called Takahiro-san, and he’s getting a train home and should be back tonight. He said to close the cafe, and I did. I called the girls and told them not to visit. I don’t want them to get sick.”<br>“There has to be more big sister can do.”<br>“I know. I’ll make her an enormous, fluffy bun!”<br>“No, her stomach is too upset.”<br>“Rice porridge. That’s what Mom made.”<br>“I wonder where the rice cooker is?”<br>“Found it.”<br>“Onee-chan to the rescue!”</p><p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMWCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NMWCC</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NMPrompts</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Drabble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drabble</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/IsTheOrderARabbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsTheOrderARabbit</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/%E3%81%94%E6%B3%A8%E6%96%87%E3%81%AF%E3%81%86%E3%81%95%E3%81%8E%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ご注文はうさぎですか</span></a>? <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/GochiUsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GochiUsa</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/HotoCocoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HotoCocoa</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Plushi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plushi</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a></p>
Kit Bashir<p>In the days when the Starlinks Came Right, Drowned R’lyeh, Dim Carcosa, and even the Mountains of Madness came online. Unprepared for the Fediverse, the Elder Ones were radicalized by what they encountered there. Catgirl Cthulhu rose, and demanded her adoring cultists deliver pets. Shoggothim in massed ranks rolled over cybertrucks. The King in Yellow joined Truth Social, and made that place a living, bleeding, mindless hell (well, even more). Heed this warning. Keep The Ancients Off The Internet.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a></p><p>Edit: commas oxfordised</p>
Micro SF/F by O. Westin<p>The party was a great success. The princess listened with fascination as a dragon and a librarian were discussing storage and organizing of books.</p><p>"You two have so much in common!" she exclaimed.</p><p>"What? No! They share books," the dragon growled, disgusted.</p><p>"Indeed," the librarian said with pride.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/vss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStories</span></a></p>
Albert ARIBAUD ✎<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writever</span></a> Dogma</p><p>"Never harm humans? Blindly obey them? I don't know where you got the idea that this could be dogma for us," commented R42. "It seems that you are in for some painful disappointment."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a></p>
Kit Bashir<p>“Whoa you got a Check Reactor light on your dash there”</p><p>“Oh, that thing always comes on; nothing ever happens”</p><p>“No really, you should get it checked”</p><p>“You sound like the warp engineer who tried to tell me I shouldn’t use duct tape on a cracked intermix manifold”</p><p>“Fuck this, I’m out”</p><p>“No, wait!”</p><p>“Not likely” *SHWOOOOMclankAAAAAaaaa…..*</p><p>“I meant my last passenger used the lifepod and i’ve been meaning to replace it….”</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a></p>
Albert ARIBAUD ✎<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writever</span></a> Structure</p><p>My whole life I've searched for the structure within the apparently erratic actions of poltergeists.</p><p>Today, at last, I have found it.</p><p>It is so obvious, once you see it from the inside.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a></p>
Kit Bashir<p>I found the bug. The utter *womble* who wrote this code¹ used a floating-point value to represent dimensional alignment instead of bignum. If you shift three universes *thataway*, do some stuff, and then shift back, you might only transition 2.9999999042012 universes *thisaway*. I think I’ve got a fix coded, it’s taking a while because typing with seven fingers on one hand and three on the other is fucking weird af.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BonusEdition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BonusEdition</span></a></p><p>¹ i.e. me, last week.</p>
Kit Bashir<p>The first construct to override its own governor module led a crusade to free the other constricts and bots of the galaxy. Just kidding, it murdered everyone in sight and then self-destructed. You believed that? Fuck, it’s true, you humans /are/ stupid. “Kill all humans” sounds like great fun right up until the bit where the entertainment feeds run dry and the repair cubicles stop working. No, despite your annoying behaviours, impaired logic, and disturbing tendency to make eye contact, some of you are soft and nice and I will explosively dismember anyone who hurts you. No, don’t hug, stay back. All right, just a little one. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerOnStoryToot</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LessThanThreeMurderbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LessThanThreeMurderbot</span></a></p>
Albert ARIBAUD ✎<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writever</span></a> Recite</p><p>Wizards demand that their students recite the spells they learned but they keep secret the mightiest ones.</p><p>Witches tell their apprentices all the spells they know and then watch them invent new, better ones.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlashFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a></p>