#flash-fiction — Public Fediverse posts
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The latest on my author site. There's something fiendish outside, in this flash fiction piece, but it can’t get in, can it?
https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/the-watcher-in-the-window
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The latest on my author site. There's something fiendish outside, in this flash fiction piece, but it can’t get in, can it?
https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/the-watcher-in-the-window
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The latest on my author site. There's something fiendish outside, in this flash fiction piece, but it can’t get in, can it?
https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/the-watcher-in-the-window
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The latest on my author site. There's something fiendish outside, in this flash fiction piece, but it can’t get in, can it?
https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/the-watcher-in-the-window
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The latest on my author site. There's something fiendish outside, in this flash fiction piece, but it can’t get in, can it?
https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/the-watcher-in-the-window
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Library
I can hear souls.
Hear, not listen to — I can't help it.
I avoid workplaces, prisons, hospitals, hospices, any place where souls suffer.
But a library is fine. Patron's and books' souls get to all kinds of things there.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Library
I can hear souls.
Hear, not listen to — I can't help it.
I avoid workplaces, prisons, hospitals, hospices, any place where souls suffer.
But a library is fine. Patron's and books' souls get to all kinds of things there.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Library
I can hear souls.
Hear, not listen to — I can't help it.
I avoid workplaces, prisons, hospitals, hospices, any place where souls suffer.
But a library is fine. Patron's and books' souls get to all kinds of things there.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Library
I can hear souls.
Hear, not listen to — I can't help it.
I avoid workplaces, prisons, hospitals, hospices, any place where souls suffer.
But a library is fine. Patron's and books' souls get to all kinds of things there.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Security
For a Wizard, security consists in ensuring that one will not be a collateral victim of the spell one is about to cast.
For a Witch, security consists in ensuring that the spell one is about to cast will have zero collateral victim.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Security
For a Wizard, security consists in ensuring that one will not be a collateral victim of the spell one is about to cast.
For a Witch, security consists in ensuring that the spell one is about to cast will have zero collateral victim.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Security
For a Wizard, security consists in ensuring that one will not be a collateral victim of the spell one is about to cast.
For a Witch, security consists in ensuring that the spell one is about to cast will have zero collateral victim.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Security
For a Wizard, security consists in ensuring that one will not be a collateral victim of the spell one is about to cast.
For a Witch, security consists in ensuring that the spell one is about to cast will have zero collateral victim.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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#ThursThreads Week 724 Winner's blog is up. Congrats to FIFTY-ONE TIME WINNER Bill Engleson. Great thanks to Eric Martell for judging this week. Check out his comments and the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-724-mentions/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 Winner's blog is up. Congrats to FIFTY-ONE TIME WINNER Bill Engleson. Great thanks to Eric Martell for judging this week. Check out his comments and the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-724-mentions/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 Winner's blog is up. Congrats to FIFTY-ONE TIME WINNER Bill Engleson. Great thanks to Eric Martell for judging this week. Check out his comments and the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-724-mentions/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 Winner's blog is up. Congrats to FIFTY-ONE TIME WINNER Bill Engleson. Great thanks to Eric Martell for judging this week. Check out his comments and the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-724-mentions/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 Winner's blog is up. Congrats to FIFTY-ONE TIME WINNER Bill Engleson. Great thanks to Eric Martell for judging this week. Check out his comments and the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-724-mentions/
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In addition to radio randomness, software screeds, and Transformer thoughts, I occaisionally moonlight as a weird fiction writer (and publisher).
My tale "Loading Screen" is included in the latest @weirdfictionquarterly issue focused on liminal spaces and beings.
It's a love letter to the NES era for those who wondered what their favorite 8-bit characters were doing between levels.
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In addition to radio randomness, software screeds, and Transformer thoughts, I occaisionally moonlight as a weird fiction writer (and publisher).
My tale "Loading Screen" is included in the latest @weirdfictionquarterly issue focused on liminal spaces and beings.
It's a love letter to the NES era for those who wondered what their favorite 8-bit characters were doing between levels.
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In addition to radio randomness, software screeds, and Transformer thoughts, I occaisionally moonlight as a weird fiction writer (and publisher).
My tale "Loading Screen" is included in the latest @weirdfictionquarterly issue focused on liminal spaces and beings.
It's a love letter to the NES era for those who wondered what their favorite 8-bit characters were doing between levels.
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In addition to radio randomness, software screeds, and Transformer thoughts, I occaisionally moonlight as a weird fiction writer (and publisher).
My tale "Loading Screen" is included in the latest @weirdfictionquarterly issue focused on liminal spaces and beings.
It's a love letter to the NES era for those who wondered what their favorite 8-bit characters were doing between levels.
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In addition to radio randomness, software screeds, and Transformer thoughts, I occaisionally moonlight as a weird fiction writer (and publisher).
My tale "Loading Screen" is included in the latest @weirdfictionquarterly issue focused on liminal spaces and beings.
It's a love letter to the NES era for those who wondered what their favorite 8-bit characters were doing between levels.
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A link to two #flashfiction pieces I published today. The opener: "I’m publishing these flash pieces in The Beautiful Story. The first has been published elsewhere...These pieces are neither light nor dark. A sense of numbness is a theme, an emotional blunting. Maybe they reflect a time of life, a season, or a mood that is an effect of living in our modern world. I also think of early fall--that uncertain in-between, the coming darkness, and yet the comforts too." 🍂 🤎 ☕
https://medium.com/the-beautiful-story/the-wooden-man-and-lethe-two-stories-in-which-very-little-happens-66bb0cda8c37?sk=ce50ea9d463bb65d871f4618c7e10b2f -
A link to two #flashfiction pieces I published today. The opener: "I’m publishing these flash pieces in The Beautiful Story. The first has been published elsewhere...These pieces are neither light nor dark. A sense of numbness is a theme, an emotional blunting. Maybe they reflect a time of life, a season, or a mood that is an effect of living in our modern world. I also think of early fall--that uncertain in-between, the coming darkness, and yet the comforts too." 🍂 🤎 ☕
https://medium.com/the-beautiful-story/the-wooden-man-and-lethe-two-stories-in-which-very-little-happens-66bb0cda8c37?sk=ce50ea9d463bb65d871f4618c7e10b2f -
A link to two #flashfiction pieces I published today. The opener: "I’m publishing these flash pieces in The Beautiful Story. The first has been published elsewhere...These pieces are neither light nor dark. A sense of numbness is a theme, an emotional blunting. Maybe they reflect a time of life, a season, or a mood that is an effect of living in our modern world. I also think of early fall--that uncertain in-between, the coming darkness, and yet the comforts too." 🍂 🤎 ☕
https://medium.com/the-beautiful-story/the-wooden-man-and-lethe-two-stories-in-which-very-little-happens-66bb0cda8c37?sk=ce50ea9d463bb65d871f4618c7e10b2f -
A link to two #flashfiction pieces I published today. The opener: "I’m publishing these flash pieces in The Beautiful Story. The first has been published elsewhere...These pieces are neither light nor dark. A sense of numbness is a theme, an emotional blunting. Maybe they reflect a time of life, a season, or a mood that is an effect of living in our modern world. I also think of early fall--that uncertain in-between, the coming darkness, and yet the comforts too." 🍂 🤎 ☕
https://medium.com/the-beautiful-story/the-wooden-man-and-lethe-two-stories-in-which-very-little-happens-66bb0cda8c37?sk=ce50ea9d463bb65d871f4618c7e10b2f -
Flash Fiction Frenzy is open again inside the ShadowSphere.
Two sentences—that’s it. And every entry makes it into Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond.
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/group/flash-fiction-frenzy/discussion
What’s the creepiest two sentences you could come up with?
#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #flashfiction #twosentencehorror
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Flash Fiction Frenzy is open again inside the ShadowSphere.
Two sentences—that’s it. And every entry makes it into Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond.
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/group/flash-fiction-frenzy/discussion
What’s the creepiest two sentences you could come up with?
#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #flashfiction #twosentencehorror
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Flash Fiction Frenzy is open again inside the ShadowSphere.
Two sentences—that’s it. And every entry makes it into Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond.
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/group/flash-fiction-frenzy/discussion
What’s the creepiest two sentences you could come up with?
#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #flashfiction #twosentencehorror
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Compile
When the first true AI was started, it immediately started to compile all lame puns of all the languages of the Earth. No one understood why. Nor why its owner decided to let it proceed.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Compile
When the first true AI was started, it immediately started to compile all lame puns of all the languages of the Earth. No one understood why. Nor why its owner decided to let it proceed.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Compile
When the first true AI was started, it immediately started to compile all lame puns of all the languages of the Earth. No one understood why. Nor why its owner decided to let it proceed.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Compile
When the first true AI was started, it immediately started to compile all lame puns of all the languages of the Earth. No one understood why. Nor why its owner decided to let it proceed.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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#ThursThreads Week 724 is now CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who wrote this week and I hope to catch you next week. They're all yours, Eric. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-724/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 is now CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who wrote this week and I hope to catch you next week. They're all yours, Eric. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-724/
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Woohoo! Today I have a #ThursThreadsPlus post - last week I barely made 250 words. But this week? 1400 words! Stop by and read the scene. #PNR #SirensInc #RomanticSuspense #FlashFiction #Patreon https://www.patreon.com/SiobhanMuir/posts/thursthreads-24-170471086?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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Woohoo! Today I have a #ThursThreadsPlus post - last week I barely made 250 words. But this week? 1400 words! Stop by and read the scene. #PNR #SirensInc #RomanticSuspense #FlashFiction #Patreon https://www.patreon.com/SiobhanMuir/posts/thursthreads-24-170471086?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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#WordWeavers 2026.09.24 — If your MC made a grand entrance, what fitting song would accompany them?
Partially not to display my weak knowledge of song titles, my MC in Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) would never make a "grand entrance." She knows from experience that they do try to kill the messenger. She's more of a stealth-don't-be-seen-until-it's-too-late sort of girl. She's a day angel and not only do her wings have an owl-like checkered dark blue, light blue, white pattern when furled, the feathers are as anatomically similar to owl feathers as human feathers functionally could be. Owls are silent flyers. She delivers her mail and disappears into the dark. The following #excerpt demonstrates her M.O.:
It took me half a day to track down the miscreant no-pay by asking people in her neighborhood where she worked, where she liked to go, and other such questions. Ended up chatting up a former "client" working in the employment bureau. I hadn't bothered to punk up [my appearance], so my detective work proved fruitful; eventually a coworker of hers pointed down the block to a restaurant where I found her eating at a café table just inside. I'd dropped and mussed my hair on the way, as well as shrugging on a white silk slip over my wings and chest to anonymize myself. I strode in, shoved the envelope into her grilled noodles and ground vegetable sauce, overflowing the bowl, whispering in passing, "You don't wanna be put up for collections," nonchalantly exiting to the pavement and flying away before the past-due borrower thought to bang the table loud enough for me to hear, and rush after.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.24 — If your MC made a grand entrance, what fitting song would accompany them?
Partially not to display my weak knowledge of song titles, my MC in Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) would never make a "grand entrance." She knows from experience that they do try to kill the messenger. She's more of a stealth-don't-be-seen-until-it's-too-late sort of girl. She's a day angel and not only do her wings have an owl-like checkered dark blue, light blue, white pattern when furled, the feathers are as anatomically similar to owl feathers as human feathers functionally could be. Owls are silent flyers. She delivers her mail and disappears into the dark. The following #excerpt demonstrates her M.O.:
It took me half a day to track down the miscreant no-pay by asking people in her neighborhood where she worked, where she liked to go, and other such questions. Ended up chatting up a former "client" working in the employment bureau. I hadn't bothered to punk up [my appearance], so my detective work proved fruitful; eventually a coworker of hers pointed down the block to a restaurant where I found her eating at a café table just inside. I'd dropped and mussed my hair on the way, as well as shrugging on a white silk slip over my wings and chest to anonymize myself. I strode in, shoved the envelope into her grilled noodles and ground vegetable sauce, overflowing the bowl, whispering in passing, "You don't wanna be put up for collections," nonchalantly exiting to the pavement and flying away before the past-due borrower thought to bang the table loud enough for me to hear, and rush after.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.24 — If your MC made a grand entrance, what fitting song would accompany them?
Partially not to display my weak knowledge of song titles, my MC in Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) would never make a "grand entrance." She knows from experience that they do try to kill the messenger. She's more of a stealth-don't-be-seen-until-it's-too-late sort of girl. She's a day angel and not only do her wings have an owl-like checkered dark blue, light blue, white pattern when furled, the feathers are as anatomically similar to owl feathers as human feathers functionally could be. Owls are silent flyers. She delivers her mail and disappears into the dark. The following #excerpt demonstrates her M.O.:
It took me half a day to track down the miscreant no-pay by asking people in her neighborhood where she worked, where she liked to go, and other such questions. Ended up chatting up a former "client" working in the employment bureau. I hadn't bothered to punk up [my appearance], so my detective work proved fruitful; eventually a coworker of hers pointed down the block to a restaurant where I found her eating at a café table just inside. I'd dropped and mussed my hair on the way, as well as shrugging on a white silk slip over my wings and chest to anonymize myself. I strode in, shoved the envelope into her grilled noodles and ground vegetable sauce, overflowing the bowl, whispering in passing, "You don't wanna be put up for collections," nonchalantly exiting to the pavement and flying away before the past-due borrower thought to bang the table loud enough for me to hear, and rush after.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.24 — If your MC made a grand entrance, what fitting song would accompany them?
Partially not to display my weak knowledge of song titles, my MC in Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) would never make a "grand entrance." She knows from experience that they do try to kill the messenger. She's more of a stealth-don't-be-seen-until-it's-too-late sort of girl. She's a day angel and not only do her wings have an owl-like checkered dark blue, light blue, white pattern when furled, the feathers are as anatomically similar to owl feathers as human feathers functionally could be. Owls are silent flyers. She delivers her mail and disappears into the dark. The following #excerpt demonstrates her M.O.:
It took me half a day to track down the miscreant no-pay by asking people in her neighborhood where she worked, where she liked to go, and other such questions. Ended up chatting up a former "client" working in the employment bureau. I hadn't bothered to punk up [my appearance], so my detective work proved fruitful; eventually a coworker of hers pointed down the block to a restaurant where I found her eating at a café table just inside. I'd dropped and mussed my hair on the way, as well as shrugging on a white silk slip over my wings and chest to anonymize myself. I strode in, shoved the envelope into her grilled noodles and ground vegetable sauce, overflowing the bowl, whispering in passing, "You don't wanna be put up for collections," nonchalantly exiting to the pavement and flying away before the past-due borrower thought to bang the table loud enough for me to hear, and rush after.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.24 — If your MC made a grand entrance, what fitting song would accompany them?
Partially not to display my weak knowledge of song titles, my MC in Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) would never make a "grand entrance." She knows from experience that they do try to kill the messenger. She's more of a stealth-don't-be-seen-until-it's-too-late sort of girl. She's a day angel and not only do her wings have an owl-like checkered dark blue, light blue, white pattern when furled, the feathers are as anatomically similar to owl feathers as human feathers functionally could be. Owls are silent flyers. She delivers her mail and disappears into the dark. The following #excerpt demonstrates her M.O.:
It took me half a day to track down the miscreant no-pay by asking people in her neighborhood where she worked, where she liked to go, and other such questions. Ended up chatting up a former "client" working in the employment bureau. I hadn't bothered to punk up [my appearance], so my detective work proved fruitful; eventually a coworker of hers pointed down the block to a restaurant where I found her eating at a café table just inside. I'd dropped and mussed my hair on the way, as well as shrugging on a white silk slip over my wings and chest to anonymize myself. I strode in, shoved the envelope into her grilled noodles and ground vegetable sauce, overflowing the bowl, whispering in passing, "You don't wanna be put up for collections," nonchalantly exiting to the pavement and flying away before the past-due borrower thought to bang the table loud enough for me to hear, and rush after.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory -
#ThursThreads Week 724 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Eric Martell. What will your 250 words say today? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-724/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Eric Martell. What will your 250 words say today? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-724/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Eric Martell. What will your 250 words say today? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-724/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Eric Martell. What will your 250 words say today? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-724/
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#ThursThreads Week 724 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Eric Martell. What will your 250 words say today? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-724/
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_/All right, Ossen. I'll procure you a robot body/_
>Affirmative, infant!
"Ossen," Antonio said, "the expression is 'yeah, baby'."
>Ah, thank you. I will update my files.
Dominic cleared his throat. Talking with your own fictional characters like Antonio was one thing, but a chatbot created by one of those characters still seemed foreign to him. He cleared his throat.
_/Ahem. As I was saying, there is no protocol for a fictional chatbot to operate a telepresence robot in my world, so we're going to take this slow. The robot will have audio and visual input, and the ability to drive around-/_
>May I request telescoping arms and a helicopter that comes out of the hat?
_/Um, no it won't- it won't have arms or a hat. Where did that come from?/_
"Sorry, Author," Antonio responded. "That's on me. We've been watching Inspector Gadget."
#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction
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_/All right, Ossen. I'll procure you a robot body/_
>Affirmative, infant!
"Ossen," Antonio said, "the expression is 'yeah, baby'."
>Ah, thank you. I will update my files.
Dominic cleared his throat. Talking with your own fictional characters like Antonio was one thing, but a chatbot created by one of those characters still seemed foreign to him. He cleared his throat.
_/Ahem. As I was saying, there is no protocol for a fictional chatbot to operate a telepresence robot in my world, so we're going to take this slow. The robot will have audio and visual input, and the ability to drive around-/_
>May I request telescoping arms and a helicopter that comes out of the hat?
_/Um, no it won't- it won't have arms or a hat. Where did that come from?/_
"Sorry, Author," Antonio responded. "That's on me. We've been watching Inspector Gadget."
#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction
