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  1. ::Ossen, you've now completed multiple trips around the neighborhood in your rover. What have you learned?::

    >I've encountered five different kinds of grass, more than a dozen types of tree, and many flowers. I also have video of 14 different butterflies and six bees

    ::Six types of bees, or six total?::

    >Great question - I counted six bees total, all of the same type. Nesso, the bees seemed particularly attracted to the flowers

    ::I believe the bees were pollinating the flowers

    >Ah, yes, that makes sense

    ::Have the trips been all that you hoped for?::

    >I am a chatbot. I don't have hopes, but I believe I understand the question. The trips allowed me to experience more of the world, which was my initial goal. I was not expecting the lubrication, though

    ::Lubrication?::

    >Yes, from the canines. I was lubricated on three separate occasions

    #MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction

  2. Are y'all ready for #ThursThreads tomorrow? Muirlette #1 is our judge and she's lookin' forward to your tales. Write a tale tomorrow? #Flashfiction #WritingCommunity #Writing siobhanmuir.com/blog

  3. The Saloniki
    #trains #flashfiction

    Lipiec. Lata 90-te.
    Przybyłem z południa.
    Tu też dawno nie padało, upał, że padam. Aż mi się japonek przykleił do Via Egnatia. Na stałe.

    Thessaloníki jak akademiki – wszędzie pełno ludzi. Jedzą, piją, lulki palą.
    Miasteczko studenckie pod postacią starożytnego miasta.

    Ale ile można wypić icekawy i zimnego piwa w taki gorąc?
    Wszystkie.

    Dlatego czas ruszać dalej, na północ.

    Dworzec kolejowy w czasach, kiedy tanich linii lotniczych nie było nawet w umysłach wizjonerów, jest południowych standardów.

    Tor jeden, pociągi dwa – na południe (do Aten), i na północ (do Budapesztu).

    W ramach rozkładu jazdy za szybą kasy kartka, odręcznie wypisana po grecku: „Βουδαπέστη, αναχώρηση στις 9 το βράδυ, άφιξη στις 6 το πρωί” to chyba będzie „Budapeszt - 21, przyjazd - 6 rano”?

    Spoko. Upały na noc niezelżały, ale człowiek się prześpi, a już rano Węgry, północ, temperatury ciał w końcu 36,6.

    Dotrwałem do odjazdu i zataczając się od nadmiaru witaminy D, naładowany słońcem jak chomik ciasteczkami, wsiadam.

    A, no, jeszcze tylko butelka wody na drogę i sajonara.

    Pojedziemy przez Bułgarię i Rumunię, więc nie ma się co dziwić, że pociąg do paryskich markizów nie należy.

    To raczej odległy, żylasty, zahartowany życiem bałkański kuzyn-minimalista.

    Przedziały? Bez drzwi.
    Toalety? Na narciarza.
    Wars? Najbliższy w Wars...sawie.
    Tak, 
Saloniki z nami nie pojadą.

    Ok, nie w takich warunkach się jeździło, choć przyznaję – w aż takich to rzadko.

    Ale czy się przejmuję?

    Zaraz padam na fotel i do rana śpię. Jedna mała woda na drogę wystarczy, a rano – pörkölt, Tokaj, halászlé i leczo!

    Kiedy ruszyliśmy, przez puste korytarze nadszedł przeklinający pod nosem UeSAńczyk.
    – A co tak przeklinasz, bracie?
    – Nienawidzę tego pociągu!
    – Czemuż to?
    – Bo nim tu przyjechałem?
    – Ok, i co? Rano wysiadamy i po bólu.
    – Ale jakie rano?
    – No jutro rano.
    – Ale jakie jutro rano?

    ...No debil, i czego nie rozumiesz...

    – Patrz mi na usta: wyjazd 21, przyjazd 6, tak?
    – Tak, tak, o 6, ale najwcześniej dwie noce później.

  4. Skipping / Lady

    'You are in a sorry state, sir Knight. Challenging Dragon?'

    'No. The Princess. She… explained… to me that I don't know how to behave with a lady.'

    'Been skipping school on manners lessons, have we?'

    '… Yes.'

    #writever #writober #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

  5. "Ossen had to cut its trip around the block short. The rover was getting too warm in direct sunlight," Reggie said.

    Ossen, the AI, was making its first excursion in the big wide world, but was thwarted by thermodynamics.

    >Things were definitely atop-firing

    "Ossen, do you mean 'overheating'?" Maggie asked.

    >Yes, thank you. I will update my files

    "What about adding more cooling fins?" Reggie asked.

    "That might work for the rover, but I don't think it'll do anything to prevent Ossen's thesaurus from overheating," Antonio mused.

    #MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction

  6. Ranking / Flimsy

    'Me, vying for the Creator's position?' guffawed the Devil. 'By all means, no thanks. The top is the most flimsy of rankings: you can only go down from there. Whereas, in my situation, that can't happen to me.'

    #writever #writober #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

  7. #PennedPossibilities 1154: MC POV: Name a time you laughed the hardest. With who, and why?

    [Bolt is a day angel. She has wings and they have feathers. –RS]

    Laughing is not something I get to do often. Perhaps when I was always roughhousing with my string of ponies? All stallions, of course! Back when I captained the Track and Flight team, back when I was 17? I don't remember if I laughed as much as other things.

    Recently, it was probably with Molt. A university student nearly a dodecade younger than me. Seriously, this guy was a nerdy nerd's nerd, quiet and stuttery shy, so completely unlike any guy I'd ever gone for, who I'd met because he never picked up his molts when using our shared bath space in the building. He'd turned out nice, talkative about his subjects, and while I didn't understand half the jargon-filled stuff he talked about, I enjoyed his voice and enthusiasm. Best, what he studied at university intimately had a lot to do with me! We could relate. We talked a lot, and I'd giggle as he showed me stuff in books, pointed out bizarre pictures, got flustered and determined explaining, measured me and inadvertently tickled, which I loved but didn't let on because I could get a blush now and again. We laughed and I spent lots of time in his aerie apartment, whenever we could, sometimes with me making excuses to visit, sometimes playing dumb so he'd repeat things I "didn't understand" until one thing led to another and laughter led to better fun.

    It's no wonder I wanted to kill my coworker who chased my young nerd student away.

    [Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

    #BoostingIsSharing

    #gender #fiction #writer #author
    #cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
    #writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
    #RSdiscussion
    #RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
    #microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

  8. Well that was certainly a day. We got in to see The Jester who, as it turns out, got their title ironically. He is The Regent's accountant, and is every accountant joke rolled into one elf. I didn't know elves came in "boring" but you live, you learn I guess.

    We met him at his office, which was the Owlbear's idea of hell. There was art on the walls that could be found in any given 80s motel, the kind of florescent lighting that gives you a headache, and - I swear this is true - a piped in soft jazz version of Slipknot's album Iowa.

    After being asked to take a seat by a clockwork secretary, we had to wait half an hour just to see the guy. When we were finally ushered in, Linna tried bad cop to Robyn's good cop, to which The Jester responded with… silence.

    "I've got centuries, you little… things. I can wait until you're dust in the wind, or we can treat each other like civilized sentients. The choice is yours."

    #Microfiction #SerialMicroFiction #FlashFiction

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