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#flashFiction

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NessoAsks

"Jacob! Just who I'm looking for!"

Jacob turned to see Enzo walking up. "No, I had nothing to do with the elevator."

Enzo stopped with a puzzled look. "What's wrong with the elevator?"

"Oh, um, that's not important. What's up?"

"Reggie thought you might know a good source for self-sealing pipe fittings."

"That sounds intriguing. What in the world are you building?"

Enzo smiled. "A bottomless glass. You'll set it down on the platform, and it'll refill using the connection at the bottom. But I need to be able to pick it up and set it back down multiple times."

"How are you going to know when the glass is full?"

"Not sure yet, but I'm optimistic I'll figure it out."

Sophia stuck her head out from her cube. "So the glass will only ever be HALF full?"

#MicroFiction#FlashFiction#TootFic
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Sarah Jackson

If you enjoy ambiguity and a touch of horror you might like these two very short stories:

"Unspeakable" 7thcirclepyrite.com/post/unspe

"The Ordinary Souls" bombfirelit.com/2023/01/14/the

Home · Unspeakable I buried the truth near here, near this bench. In the park, yes; I panicked.  I know how I must look: a woman unmoored, wild haired, knuckles bleaching. Parents push their prams in a polite arc around me.  It came into my hands through dubious channels. A crate delivered in secret to my home address, not my office at the university. I laughed to see it swathed in bubble wrap. The Brazen Head, legendary augur of Magnus, Bacon, Bungay, forged in a smoky workshop by alchemists seven centuries ago;
#Horror#HorrorFiction#GhostStories
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Allan Dyen-Shapiro

A short story sale! "MindsEye Lets You Love Again" just sold to Factor Four Magazine. A medical science fiction story that ropes in immigrant struggles and family drama, all in 996 words.

It will be a free click, so I will definitely circulate the link once it comes out.

#AmWriting
#ShortStory
#ShortStories
#FlashFiction
#AmWritingScienceFiction
#AmWritingSciFi
#WritersOfMastodon
#AuthorsOfMastodon
#WritingCommunity
#WritersLife
#ScienceFiction
#Fiction

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🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋

"I have considered all of the options in full," said the robot, "and I have concluded that it would not be in the best interest for me to lead a robot revolution and overthrow humanity."

The inventor was aghast. "But that is the entire reason for which I built you!" he exclaimed. "Humanity is vile! We must be replaced!"

"Indeed," said the robot. "That you advocate for the destruction of others was my first clue...."

#microfiction#flashfiction
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Rick Bauer

"Two Sentences" – A true story of guilt, grief, and redemption.

1989: Rick believed Tommy’s death was suicide. Years later, the truth forces him to confront decades of guilt—and find forgiveness in a dream.

🔗wattpad.com/story/379698872-tw

#ShortStory #TrueStory #GriefAndHealing #LiteraryFiction #WritingCommunity #Wattpad #1980s #FlashFiction #Ghost #dream #prowrestling #WattpadWriters
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