#smallstories — Public Fediverse posts
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Colonists declared him a patron saint. They wore bucktail hats and gave the whoop. Washington threw his feast day at Valley Forge while troops starved. His name ended up on Boss Tweed's desk. Tamanend just offered Penn some acorns.
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The monk sat on the stone floor of the courtyard, with her eyes closed. In her mind, she was pouring fine sand onto the substrate of her consciousness, creating ever so beautiful patterns that it made her smile, but when she opened her eyes, she was not able to recreate what she had seen. Frustration welled up from her stomach through her chest; she let go of the sand and took a deep breath.
Her students were now flooding the courtyard; loud and full of energy, they gathered around her, marveling at her art with all its imperfections, only she could see. They were soon silent, rapt by their own work, and as she walked the courtyard and realized how far they all had come with their beautiful, imperfect creations, she felt a weight lift off her shoulders and craved the coarse feeling of sand in her hands once more.
#mastoprompt #monk #wss366 #recreate #writing #microfiction #tootfic #smallstories
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"You haven't been playing with your present," Death noted.
"It's old!" the young skeleton protested.
"Remind me how old you are?"
The young skeleton sighed dramatically.
"It's the PlayStation 2," Death said. "It's an icon. One of the biggest systems of all time."
"And?"
"And if you can't find anything you like on that, you're beating the NES library before I get you anything else."
[Later...]
"And that worked?"
Death took a pull on his cigarette. "Silver Surfer should last him about a month at this rate. For a kid who 'doesn't care about anything,' he sure takes a 'this will not beat me' attitude. I didn't even need to buy any games for the PS2."
"And you're scoping the raptor center again because?"
"Just making sure you got better at your job."
#TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction #Death #GrimReaper #Christmas
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#Writing #SmallPoem #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories #mastoprompt
I still see them. Maybe a kilometer away, maybe 10, it’s impossible to tell out here, there is so little to define distance. The screaming feels like an eternity ago, lifetimes in a different universe, certainly not here in this one. So…. What now? What in the actual fuck do I do now? Breathe… sorry, an automatic self preservation mantra, Laughable.
If only.
I can see the ship, iridescent in the (1/3) -
"So what's this new hobby you wanted to show me?" I followed my friend in.
"Painting maxiatures."
"You mean miniatures, ri-? HO GEEZ!" I jumped back as an 8-foot orc grinned at me from the side.
"Relax," my friend knocked on his arm with a couple hollow clunks.
"Uh, there isn't anything gory or anything, is there?" I asked nervously.
"Nah! Come on out back! I'll show you my progress on the Saturn V!"
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"Women! Why become a scientist when you can raise TEN scientists?" she posted smugly.
My eyes narrowed and fingers flew before I could stop them.
"If you're any indication, because a clown car only bears clowns."
#TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction #insult #clapback #conservatives
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rough patches inflamed
by rigid dogma is just
a blister on life#DailyHaikuPrompt - patches
#575prompt No. 247- blister
#MastoPrompt - #rigid
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#haiku
#senryu
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