“Something’s wrong we’re off course. Wait no, we’re ON course but far too close to our destination. Mother, did we oversleep? What’s wrong?”
«Nothing, you looked so peaceful in your cryobeds I let you sleep in. I spawned subunits to take care of maintenance and navigation while you rested.» […]
# The Passing of Zi Zhen 子真之逝
**#HistoricalFiction #ShangDynasty #China c. 1040 BCE
Reign of Di Xin of Shang**
#Wss366 Railing #WritersCoffeeClub April 2: Visual presentation
Daji watched from the #railing of the Peacock Terrace. Below, the fire cast a ruddy tint on her fair features. Incense […]
“Patch tuesday hits different since The Outbreak, you know?”
“You’re still doing weekly patches? Crikey that could be six days you’re vulnerable to a new Variant! My cousin got an extra nipple because some joker piggybacked a zero-day mRNA payload onto a batch of Coco Pops”
“I’m not doing […]
"You know, when I did my first six week introduction to programming course, the highlight of the final day was getting to use the computer"
"Hahaha, hard core!"
"Glad you think so. This interview will be conducted under Faraday Cage Rules, this laptop runs Minix 2.0 will full source code and […]
# The Mad Frank's Dreams: Post 7 Mao Dreams No More
**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Boring #MastoPrompt Visitor
By the time Chue stirred, the simple millet congee prepared with ample, if common, vegetables had grown cold. It wasn’t prison slop. They evidently were going to treat […]
The simulant deployed to impersonate the absconded President was already failing. Guaranteed by its creators to function for three years, within three months it was visibly degrading. Confabulations, freeze-ups, nocturnal free-association ramblegrams—it became necessary to contemplate retrieving […]
Zygon Day of Visibility only comes once a year. It takes nearly that long to get the slime out of the carpets.
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot
# Least Kan Lakan be Forgotten: April Fools Edition 3 of 3
**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Fool / #AprilFools #MastoPrompt Cruel #WordWeavers April Fools.
Mao took a sip under Lakan's watchful gaze.
“What’s that?” he asked.
Clack!
“Is it good?”
Mao shot En'en a piercing look. “ […]
# Least Kan Lakan be Forgotten: April Fools Edition 2 of 3
**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Fool / #AprilFools #MastoPrompt Cruel #WordWeavers April Fools.
The room looked much as it had in her recent dream. Courtesans lounged on pillows while Joka played the erhu, looking bored. The […]
# Least Kan Lakan be Forgotten: April Fools Edition 1 of 3
**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Fool / #AprilFools #MastoPrompt Cruel #WordWeavers April Fools.
As soon as Mao and her party were out of the madam's earshot, Mao said, "I need to stop by the apothecary for a moment. There's […]
"They're headed for that small moon!"
"That's no moon---that's a starworm feeder"
"Ugh, why would anyone want to attract those?"
"The larvae aren't pretty, I'll grant you, but the moth phase is gorgeous; plus, the discarded pupa cases are high in transuranics"
#Tootfic #MicroFiction […]
“Check it out, I got a Trinitron for my new retro gaming rig. Just listen to the satisfying clunk it makes when I turn it on.” *BLONG*
“Uh, is your rig connected to the internet?”
“Duh, it’s for strea—ooof.”
“Stay down!”
“Get off me! Why did you do that?”
“The BeamGleam worm is still live […]
# The Mad Frank's Dreams: Post 6 Chue’s Con 2 of 2 parts
**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Rack #MastoPrompt Volume
“How much do they pay you?” Chue asked. Her voice was still hoarse, but her words were clear, the #volume steady.
“What’s it to ya?” the elder said.
“Because whatever […]
# The Mad Frank's Dreams: Post 6 Chue’s Con 1 of 2 parts
**#FanFic #TheApothecaryDiaries**
#Wss366 Rack #MastoPrompt Volume
Since it was pointless #racking her brains for an escape plan, Chue went to sleep.
She awoke to the sound of the door scraping open. Her head still hurt, but when she […]
“You build what!?”
“Dyson spheres”
“How?”
“With a crane!”
“Wait, where do you mount the crane?”
“On our dyson sphere”
“Huh?”
“It’s just a little one, my g’grait grandma built it around a class Y brown dwarf. Since a body anywhere from one to a hundred Jupiter masses doesn’t get any bigger […]
#ScribesAndMakers 29 griddle #MastoPrompt clang
#Clang! The #griddle hit the fire pit grate.
"What you making? "
"Fufu cakes."
"Yum!"
#TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #NMPrompts #NMSAM #Food
When physicists worked out that the speed of light in a vacuum is a fixed limit *UNLESS* a civilisation has completed age verification, a vocal minority complained that there had to be a catch; what—they asked—if verification was some kind of surveillance trap?.
After we verified, the naysayers […]
“Ha, nice tinfoil hat!”
“It’s an umbrella”
“Yawhackinfut?”
“It projects a transverse gravity gradient that deflects raindrops”
“Oooh-kay, let’s presume for the moment you’re sane. It’s sunny out!”
“For now; storm later”
“Did your tinfoil hat tell you that?”
“No, stupid, my weather pixie” […]
“What can i get you?”
“Guinness Zero, please.”
“A lot of people drinking that now.”
“It’s really good. Uh, so what’s it like working in a documentary bar? Must be quieter than a sports bar and a boxing crowd”
“You’d think. Come back on Friday and watch the Cutting Edge Engineering crowd […]
# Life of a Cinderblock / The Death of Jimmy Hoffa
This was not what I expected. I was supposed to be the foundation of an edifice.
Not to lie in the mud, seven fathoms deep, wrapped in chains.
#MastoPrompt #Cinderblock
#TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #JimmyHoffa
#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Dōken-shin (Airisu POV) Post 21
Airisu strikes a deal with the kami, Dōken-shin.
Link: sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/1...
#Wss366 Concert #TimeTravelAuthors Whatever #Edo
#TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #Serial #SlowBurn #Yuri
# #Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
**Dōken-sha (Airisu POV) Post 21**
#Wss366 Concert #TimeTravelAuthors Whatever #Edo
“Is the beckoning-cat now the weasel’s master?” Arakawa-sama’s aura had calmed, but his eyes remained fierce.
I took exception to being called a cat and to my mistress being […]
NEW YORK (AP): Shares in Manhattan based SPAV “Ethereal Services LLC”—which last year acquired a number of occult-related businesses including pioneering startup Ghostbusters Inc—have been suspended from trading after the District Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that found the capture and […]
“That’s the same timber you had in the tray yesterday”
“Uh, you must have me mistaken for somebody else”
“I don’t think so. Step out of the vehicle please, I am arresting you on suspicion of operating a double-lane power vehicle without lawful excuse.”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot
#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Dōken-sha (Airisu POV) Post 20
#Wss366 #TimeTravelAuthors Whatever
Airisu and the kami Arakawa Dōken go head to head: crow vs. god.
sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/1...
#TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #Serial #SlowBurn #Yuri #EdoEra
# #Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
**Dōken-sha (Airisu POV) Post 20**
#Wss366 helm #MastoPrompt Unabashed #TimeTravelAuthors Whatever #Edo
Sumika’s fingers touched Arakawa's. It was the slow motion of someone half-asleep. Arakawa-sama, Owl-sama, had ensorcelled her.
In a moment of insanity, I […]
I’ve always treated the modern world like a marvel. I carry an imaginary 15th century peasant in my head, and when I wash a teflon pan, or take an ibuprofen, I experience their appreciation of these everyday miracles. Whenever I use a new piece of technology I mentally explain how it works. If I […]
# Heaven of Boot Hill: A brief history of the end of Sheriff Henry Plummer—Bannock, Montana (1864)
#Wss366 Boot #HistoricalFiction
“Lies, lies, lies,” Sheriff Plummer yelled as the Vigilance Committee of Alder Gulch dragged him from his home. His tone was less than manly for a person of his […]
#ScribesAndMakers 3.23 — Do you consider yourself a frood who knows where their towel is? #MastoPrompt #kick
The rock troll kicked the chef out and growled, “Give me my trowel! We have a plaster roast beast tonight.”
“Eek, I’m a frood, sir, not roast beast!”
#NMSAM #NMPrompts #MicroFiction […]
“Wait” the bicycle said.
“Who said that?” the person holding the bolt cutters lowered them.
“My owner is a wizard,” the bicycle continued, “who is tired of losing bicycles.”
“Bicycles don’t talk” Mx bolt-cutter counterfactually replied.
“Speak the words ‘I would like a bicycle’ and you will […]
