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#ThursThreadsPlus post is up. Want to see what I'm working on? Join today. #Romance #RomanticSuspense #PNR #FlashFiction #Writing #Patreon https://www.patreon.com/SiobhanMuir/posts/thursthreads-27-167864155?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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Post-apocalypse tip: if a stranger offers a free hot meal, ask 'what's the catch?' Jimmy G skips the MREs for a cafe meal, only to learn the menu has plans for him too. https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/table-for-one-scifi-flash-fiction/ #SciFi #FlashFiction #Dystopia
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#ThursThreads Week 720 is LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Mark Ethridge. What will your 250 words say today? #Flashfiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-720/
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🩸 The silence is thick, the shadows deeper.
Dark Descent is seeking horror flash fiction — short stories under 500 words.
We’re after bite-sized nightmares, cursed relics, and creeping dread.
📖 Submit: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubmissions#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #darkfiction #microfiction #shortstory #creepyreads #indieauthors #fictionwriters #scaryreads
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Being self-aware fictional characters that could interact with the outside world was uncharted territory for Jacob and his colleagues. Even to Jacob, though, his new app was beginning to feel like he was playing with fire.
Nesso, the sentient chatbot sharing their world, felt compelled to point this out.
::Jacob, didn't both Sophia and Maggie express strong opinions against pursuing this?::
"It's just a small prototype."
::How small of a prototype?::
"The app can view... and modify our past stories," he replied guiltily.
::Jacob, your stories are hosted in three different data centers. Author doesn't have a synchronization mechanism set up. Any modifications you'd make to the current copy wouldn't be replicated to the other two::
"I know. I've tried to make this safe, which is why the app is currently set to read-only."
::Guardrails - you? I'm shocked::
"Hey!"
#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction
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Are y'all ready for #ThursThreads tomorrow? Mark Ethridge is our judge and he's looking forward to your tales. Got a tale to tie on? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #WritingChallenge #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/blog
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"Sarah sat on the sofa while her mother prepared biscuits she had never liked..."
Coming Home by Chris Kenn https://medium.com/lit-up/coming-home-d2c59b3fdcc4
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Before Maggie and her team discovered they were fictional characters, they were software developers. Being the senior developer, Maggie was nominally the head of the team. Having difficult conversations with her teammates was one duty she never relished.
"Jacob, can we talk about the 'fifth wall' app you've been building?"
Jacob looked up from his computer with a slight look of shock. "How did you know?"
"Because you're you. You know, I've seen you build some crazy things. Most were whimsical, but none of them threatened our existence."
"The app is read-only, it won't-"
"We heard your voice, talking from the future about this fifth wall."
Jacob got quiet.
Maggie continued. "Time-travel stories show how easy it is to drastically affect the future with small changes in the past, right?"
"Sure, but what are we doing in our future-selves' past by changing our present?"
Maggie smiled. "I think that's called 'thinking before you leap'."
#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction
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The Sun’s Beloved – Àsùnmọ́ (Embrace the Sun)
a half dragon born to Ashuton, Nari and Niccolo
a dragon of the moon and stars, worshipped in the modern day
he was stolen from them and marked as a divine envoy
forced to join the proto-Sun Devourer cult
he is forced to telepathically connect to an emotionally distant serpent god
it is painful for him, but he feels himself growing closer to the seemingly cold god
his followers await his reappearance
even in his absence, they still beg for his guidance under the Big Dipperday after day he completes tasks meant to appease the serpent
writing constant devotions, praises and affirmations
but sometimes he fights against it
he writes his resistance against the serpent
as punishment for his insubordination,
the serpent cursed him to become his divine representative
forsaking his own divinity of the stars and pledging only to him
linking them for as long as he livesbut at the end of his service, Àsùnmọ́ is fated to be devoured
brought before the serpent and eaten, his power stolen in the process
he values his life, he values waking up every morning
he values the moon, the stars, the sky, grapes, the friends he once had
he doesn’t want to die…
he still dreams of having his first kissName meaning
A common Yorùbá oríki, likely meaning someone that you like to be with or be around. (Source)
Read about the Sun Serpent here
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#ThursThreads Week 719 Winner's post is up. Congrats to FIFTY TIME WINNER Bill Engleson! Great thanks to David Ludwig for judging this week. Check out his comments and the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-719-mentions/
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👁 Some horrors are most chilling when they creep in silently.
Join the Flash Fiction Frenzy in the ShadowSphere! Share your two-sentence horror tale for a chance to be featured in Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond. 🖤
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/group/flash-fiction-frenzy/discussion
#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #flashfiction #twosentencehorror
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#ThursThreads Week 719 is now CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who wrote this week and I hope to catch you next week. They're all yours, David. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingChallenge https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-719/
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#ThursThreads Week 719 is now LIVE (and it is - I checked). Come tie on a tale for judge David A. Ludwig. Have a tale to tie on? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-719/
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"No, Jacob, definitely NOT a good idea."
He held up his hands. "Sophia, I'm just curious."
She shook her head. "We are characters in a story - a story that is literally our whole reality - and you want to risk that by trying to open a 'fifth wall' to our past selves because," she started ticking off fingers, "1) we heard a voice mention it 2) that sounded like you, and 3) hinted at being from the future?"
Jacob nodded vigorously, "Yes!"
She pinched the bridge of her nose, and not for the first time this conversation.
"Sophia, the fifth wall could give us the ability to correct our own mistakes or pass along life lessons, or... something."
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"We need to nip this thing in the bud. What is-? The fifth wall is open again! Shut it dow-"
***Sophia and Jacob froze at the sound of Reggie's voice.
Sophia gestured to the ceiling, "See? Life lesson, right there!"
#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction
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Are y'all ready for #ThursThreads tomorrow? Hopefully, the servers in Phoenix hold up. David Ludwig is our judge and is waitin' on your tales. Got a tale to tie on this week? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/blog
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Into the Madness #5
Image generated using ChatGPT The Dog The man in the coat drove north and the roads took him and he went. He was seen once at a gas station two counties out. A clerk remembered a man in a dark coat who paid cash and did not speak. The man's hands were dark beneath the nails. The clerk thought nothing of it. A man bought gas and left. That was all. He went back to his house. His coffee. His counter. The county road. He drove to work and he came home and he slept and the sleeping was empty. […]https://markneweden.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/into-the-madness-5/
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The team of sentient sci-fi characters were just settling into their new cloud digs when a voice that sounded like suspiciously like Jacob broke into the conversation. Being already present in the room and hearing himself was confusing in the least.
"The other-me distinctly said 'fifth wall interface'. Author, do you know what that means?"
_/I was just about to ask you that. Wasn't that you I heard just now?/_
"No! Well yes, but no! Someone's playing a prank-," his attention swung to Reggie.
Reggie threw up his hands. "Hey - not it! I'm just as confused as you are."
Enzo raised his hand. "He also mentioned contacting 'past' published versions. Does that mean other-Jacob is from the future?"
"The future? You're kidding, right?" Jacob asked.
Enzo responded, "We ARE in a science fiction story, after all."
"I don't buy it. This has to be a joke."
"The voice exuded extreme confidence followed by disaster," Reggie responded. "Sounds like Jacob to me."
#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction
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#WordWeavers 2026.08.16 — If one of your characters could ask you a question, what would they ask?
What's that three-eyed metallic orange slab you keep on taking out of your pocket to look at the glowy side?
How do you explain an iPhone to someone from an advanced culture that doesn't have or need electricity?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSInklingsStory #RSReluctanceStory
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“He rushed to the restroom. Not because he had to go, but because he had to go.”
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Would you like to dance? We could create an exciting story.
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The 432nd edition of #Paranatellonta brings A Plan in Motion. Enjoy!
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#dancing #clouds #surrealism #statuette #photography #flashfiction #vignette
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Part 2/2
I waited until sunrise and looked under the bed.
Nothing.
But the ceiling above me was now a wooden floor, stained with blood.
Another message arrived:
You’re upstairs now.
#Horror #Microfiction #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #occult #readers #horrorstory #flashfiction #news
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#PennedPossibilities 1099: SC POV: Describe the most beautiful sound you’ve ever heard.
[Steamed Milk and Sugar aka Shugh:]
I never thought about it, but there are plenty of times I've taken a break on the first floor. There are broad windows to the street where you can see the newspaper printing presses rolling. Now employed here, I can watch from the inside the press room so long as I stay behind the yellow lines. That thunderous rumble! It's amazing. Dynamic. Alive. Mixed with the shouts of the technician managing the paper and the daemons powering the steel beast. The energy defines my dream of becoming a journalist that's slowing coming true. I had thought, in the beginning, that the sounds of dozens of reporters at their typewriters banging away the next edition was it, but no. This is better. The whir for the paper through the rollers. The smell of the ink…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
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#WordWeavers 2026.08.13 — What's the most unexpected source of inspiration you've ever had?
For me, likely all the writing hashtag games (and response thereto). Social media, even Facebook which I rage force quit 3-4 years back, was never my thing, so what I found when a friend convinced me to try Mastodon was surprising. Not only do hashtag games keep me writing daily through dry as well as wet spells, one is responsible for me writing at all the novella Mars Needed Women, still in beta editing. Many are the times of the week that I discover something about characters or the world they live in by answering prompts, and recently I've been writing bits of chapters or tiny side stories.
Search from:sfwrtr #excerpt)
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
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Welp, I'm calling it. We're going to have to postpone #ThursThreads . The site host is still under maintenance so I got nothin'. M.L. Gammella, we'll do this another time. #FlashFiction
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Flash Fiction Frenzy is open. Write a horror story in just two sentences—no judging, no theme, just raw dread.
Post it in the group before the 25th.
Let’s see how much fear you can pack into two lines. 💀
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/group/flash-fiction-frenzy/discussion#horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #flashfiction
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"Well, we're still here," Maggie said, addressing her team.
"The endless-dark-room phase of the transfer was kept to a minimum - thank you, Author," Jacob added.
_/You're welcome. That was by design, and I'm glad it worked/_
The team was made up of sci-fi story characters, turned sentient. Their universe, in the form of their stories, had been uploaded to the cloud in triplicate to guard against hardware failure, the kind that leaves them wandering an endlessly dark room until their author's laptop reboots.
"Are you still hearing an echo?" Maggie asked.
_/Thankfully no. The new filter on the fourth wall combines the responses- /_
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"...present the fifth wall interface, allowing us to contact past published versions of ourselv- oh crap! That's not supposed to be on yet..."
***Everyone looked around the room. Jacob broke the silence first. "Author, what was that, why did that sound like me, and what's a 'fifth wall interface'?"
#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #TootFic #ShortStory #SciFi #ScienceFiction
