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rdmMad Science isn't all about death rays and trying to take over the world. I mean there are some in the community who go in for that sort of thing, but really? Death rays are a dime a dozen - there is no real challenge to them, and what do they really do to expand our scientific knowledge? Nothing. Now I know what you are thinking, and yes, some of what some of us do is not morally defensible, and I'm not going to pretend that that sort of thing is something I support. But that is what we have superheros for, right? To deal with those sorts. The rest of us just want to answer the really hard questions. "Can you stop time?" "Can you travel in time?" "How many licks does it take to get to the centre of various lollypops?" "What if the moon were transparent?" "Is vampirism a disease or genetic?" Those sorts of things.Why just last week I helped out a fellow who wanted to know about one of those. We only caused a couple of tidal waves, and to be honest, Florida is better off for them. And he got his answer. So you see? We just want to help people.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SF</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SFF</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tootfic</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MadScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MadScience</a>

Steven CudahyThe <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> for Sunday 27 April 2025 is:<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/xenophile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xenophile</a>The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.@ me, if you like, or just include the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallStories</a>

Wandering Shop StoriesToday's Wandering Shop Stories <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/prompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prompt</a> is <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/sound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sound</a> . Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "sound " in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sound" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sound</a> Join in and tag it with <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/wss366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wss366</a>! <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingLife</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a> h/t <a href="https://indieauthors.social/@extraspecialbitter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@extraspecialbitter</a>

Albert ARIBAUD ✎<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writever</a> DouterLes Sorciers ne doutent jamais d'eux-mêmes : ce serait un aveu de faiblesse.Les Sorcières passent leur temps à douter d'elles-mêmes. Ça les aide à accepter leurs erreurs et à les éviter qu'elles ne se reproduisent à l'avenir.<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#French</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fran%C3%A7ais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#français</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/sfff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sfff</a>

Albert ARIBAUD ✎<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writever</a> DoubtWizards never doubt themselves: it would be an admission of weakness.Witches spend their time doubting themselves. It helps them accept their mistakes and prevent these from happening again.<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlashFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallStory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TootFic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a>

Kit BashirWe shut down NASA when the Visitors gifted us an elevator and a fleet of runabouts moored at Stationary Station. Then they departed to continue their mission of goodwill, never to return. Not even when the elevator broke down four years later. Then the messages from Rogue Plumbers started arriving. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tootfic</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOnStoryToot</a>

AsakiyumeSway was traveling a little-used path through the forest when he encountered his friend Dirk, one of the King's Supervisory Guard, and two other guards struggling to secure a plank across the door of a tiny dwelling as the occupant battered on the door from within.Finally the guards succeeded. "What was that all about?" Sway asked. "The forest <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/recluse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recluse</a> is always trying to abandon his hermitage, but that would be bad luck. We have to keep 'im in," Dirk explained.<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/wss366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wss366</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a>

C. Knodel<a href="https://mas.to/@VisualInspiration" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@VisualInspiration</a> The money had come from a Swiss bank account. The negotiations were handled quietly by a law firm in Chicago. From time to time, engineers from unknown places, authorized by passphrases, arrived to inspect the construction site. The contract was simple: build a hull and two massive propellers — nothing more. Yet it also required supplying certain materials such as pipes, kilometers of wire, welding metal, gases, oils, fuels, sealing materials, windows, lenses, mirrors, raw plastics, steel plates, and beams, all to be carefully deposited inside the hull following an apparently incomprehensible schedule. When the hull was finished, a strange device was delivered. It rolled on its own across the shipyard, found an opening in the hull, boarded the incomplete vessel, and immediately began sealing it from within. Electronic parts and special resources of unknown origin were delivered in scarcely (and ominously) labeled boxes and barrels. Whenever a new load of parts was placed inside the hull, the workers tried to catch a glimpse of the interior, but they could see nothing except a strange glow. However, they could hear the noises of an entire factory that had obviously been built inside the ship. The day of departure came. Still, no one had set foot aboard — and no one would. Yet, precisely on schedule, the ship cast off from the dock, glided away from the shipyard and soon left the harbour. Clearly, the necessary arrangements with harbour authorities had been made long before. Of course, the ship was followed by the coast guard and by flying and underwater drones sent by various news networks. But after crossing into international waters, the Nautilus II submerged below the waves... and was never seen or heard from again.<a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a>

🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋When aliens discovered earth, they found ruins of a great civilization. Here there were great temples tended by robotic priests."Before humanity passed," said one, "they created us, a class of robots who continually offer up thoughts and prayers in their abscence."The aliens considered this. "What does this accomplish?""It accomplishes everything," said the robot, spreading his hands, "which the original thoughts and prayers of actual humans accomplished."<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/flashfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flashfiction</a>

Lunis MoonHeute ist der 26.4. und damit <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/LesbianVisibilityDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LesbianVisibilityDay</a>. Ich schreibe nicht nur lesbische Novellen und bald hoffentlich auch Romane, sondern ich bin auch selbst lesbisch! Ich möchte mich gern mit mehr Menschen vernetzen, die zu dem Thema schreiben oder lesen mögen, ob Romane oder Blogartikel. Meldet euch also gern!Für sapphischen Crime Fiction Content und <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/Microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microfiction</a> schaut gern in mein Profil.<a href="https://literatur.social/tags/TagDerLesbischenSichtbarkeit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TagDerLesbischenSichtbarkeit</a>

Steven CudahyThe <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> for Saturday 26 April 2025 is:<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/zone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zone</a>The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.@ me, if you like, or just include the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallStories</a>

Wandering Shop StoriesToday's Wandering Shop Stories <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/prompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prompt</a> is <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/recluse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recluse</a> . Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "recluse " in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recluse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recluse</a> Join in and tag it with <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/wss366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wss366</a>! <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingLife</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a> h/t <a href="https://indieauthors.social/@extraspecialbitter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@extraspecialbitter</a>

Albert ARIBAUD ✎<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writever</a> Néo-essentialisme"Tu devrais approuver le néo-essentialisme, R42. Pour être simple, il postule que toute choses, donc, aussi tout robot, existe indépendamment de ce que les hommes pensent d'elle, et--""Ce n'est pas un postulat. C'est un constat."<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#French</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/fran%C3%A7ais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#français</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/sfff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sfff</a>

Albert ARIBAUD ✎<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writever</a> Neo-essentialism"You should approve of neo-essentialism, R42. Put simply, it postulates that every thing, thus too, every robot, exists independently of what humans think of it, and--""This is not a postulate. This is an observation."<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FlashFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlashFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallStory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TootFic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a>

Kit BashirProduct Recall: NissanTesla Patrol Deluxe SUV 2027-2029 model year. Subspace compression field used to reduce vehicle to fit standard-size parking spaces may disengage, resulting in rapid unscheduled decompression. Drivers of unrepaired vehicles must only use double-dimension parking spaces until your vehicle is updated. Note that DD parking fees are not claimable against your warranty. Injuries or permadeath due to vehicle-human spatial colocation are also out-of-coverage. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tootfic</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PowerOnStoryToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOnStoryToot</a>

Aurani“Yes! This is exactly what I wanted to see,” the king announced as he starred eagerly into the vortex; basking in the images on the other side. “But we cannot hear anything,” he swatted a couple of times at the side of the swirling mass of clouds, “why not?”The mage struggled to keep her eye-roll from becoming audible, “my apologies your highness, but it is - after all - the Eye of Forever Seeing… Not the Ear of Forever Hearing.”“You should get one of the boys up here to check it,” he said absently, while continuing to swat at the cloud.<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroFiction</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MagicSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicSupport</a>

AsakiyumeLeta, the generalissimo's wife, was burping his firstborn, & the baby regurgitated milk onto her dress."Ai, this will <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/stain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stain</a>," she murmured, but the generalissimo's eyes lit up."Darling, see how the pattern resembles the shape of the despicable nation of Abiri on our western border? It's a sign: we must invade." "Cherished one, a patch of vomit cannot means such things," his wife said anxiously. "Nonsense. I read it in a <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a>. Secretary! Assemble my staff!"<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/wss366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wss366</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a>

GaH LearnerLord of Monsters, a <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#microfiction</a> story for the Friday Fictioneers.<a href="https://ghlearner.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/lord-of-monsters-friday-fictioneers-flash-fiction/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://ghlearner.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/lord-of-monsters-friday-fictioneers-flash-fiction/</a>

🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋The man spent billions on a robot companion. Once built, he asked it, "Do you like me?"THe robot replied, "I was built to be your companion. Of course I like you.""And you really mean it?" the man asked."I was constructed to answer as you wish," said the robot. "Of course I mean it.""Then why do you qualify each statement?""I wish to be precise," said the robot. "I am programmed reply that I like you.""Well," the man replied, "just so long as you really mean it...."<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a>

Noam writes"8 florins? That's a high price. It's just a wooden bird box.""Yes, but it's a limited edition.""What does that mean?""I've only built five of these. I'll get more wood next week, but it won't be the same.""But... All wooden things are like that! It's not like there are hundreds of identical tables and chairs out there."The carpenter sighed. Maybe he was ahead of his time.<a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=limited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#limited</a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microfiction</a>

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