#SmallStories
Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 27th, 2023
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The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 27th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 26th, 2023
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There's cyan, yellow,
magenta N.T.S.C.
Don't forget the pluge
#MastoPrompt for Tuesday 26th September#magenta
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
#haiku #senryu #NTSC
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated, and a very handsome man stepped out.
"People of Earth! I am the son of the Galactic Emperor! I cannot show favour to any faction in the empire, so must seek a companion elsewhere."
He paused dramatically.
"Bring me the best dog!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Nobody expects the latibule !
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 26th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 25th, 2023
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rough patches inflamed
by rigid dogma is just
a blister on life
#DailyHaikuPrompt - patches
#575prompt No. 247- blister
#MastoPrompt - #rigid
#prompt
#haiku
#senryu
#poem
#SmallPoems
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#writing
#WritingCommunity
#MicroFiction
#SmallStories
#craiyon
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 25th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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@maisiesummers @tanweerdar @penprompts
The astronomers read the translated message.
"We are coming. You will serve us. Prepare."
They looked at each other with horror, except for one man who smiled.
"How can you smile?" The others asked him.
"Because I read the rest of the message? They list details of their biology and customs. This is a cookbook! When they arrive, we are supposed to serve them dinner."
Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 24th, 2023
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Eggs, beer, cheese. Hopefully, whoever lost this list has windows that open. I don’t know why I picked it up. I’ve a drawer filled with wrinkled notes scribbled by strangers. I read every one. My dad used to give everyone who appeared at our door an #orange. Not everything needs to be explained.🪶
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 24th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 23rd, 2023
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Deep in the oldest memory cores, the starship carried its most precious cargo: the names and likenesses of every person that had touched or interacted with it, all the way back to when it was built on that lonely little planet. So they would never be forgotten.
The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 23rd September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 22nd, 2023
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The knight rode up to the dragon's lair.
"Dragon!" he called. "Are you still lying on your hoard?"
"I... yes," the dragon replied, after a while.
"Is it hard to get up?"
"...it is."
"Is it your body, your mind, or your heart that makes it so?"
"Why do you ask?"
"I want to help."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 22nd September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 21st, 2023
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In shadows cast by the moonlight,
Whispers of sorrow fill the night.
A treasure trove of memories past,
Melancholy's spell, it will cast.
The treasure lies in memories, in moments now long past,
In the smiles and laughter, in love that couldn't last.
It's hidden in the pages of a faded, tattered book,
In the corners of my mind, where wistful thoughts are took.
#Poem #Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #treasure #MastoPrompt #MicroFiction #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 21st September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 20th, 2023
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The warlord hired a few of the remaining literate folks to scribble words on the walls of his palace. He knew that writing had once been important, and he wanted his palace to echo the old ways. It didn't matter which words they wrote. An old scribbler said that there used to be machines that would make up spurious text to fill space in that way. Such a machine was called an LLM, which as near as she could recall was short for Loremipsumdo Lorsita Met.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 20th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 19th, 2023
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What use is this outfit of mine
When darkness dulls my heart and mind?
These clothes were picked with happier intent
But now they cloak my soul, weary and bent.
Colors once bright now depressed and drear
As bleak as the thoughts that fill me with fear.
This outfit fails to lift my despair—
A mournful shroud is all it can wear.
#Poem #Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #outfit #MastoPrompt #MicroFiction #SmallStories
"You look dazzling in that #outfit," he said.
"Thank you," she replied with a smile, as she drew the gun from her handbag and shot him right between the eyes.
The space pirates boarded, cybernetic eyes blinking madly. They hacked the ship's software update library.
"At last! Patches for our eyes!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #RepostFrom2015
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 19th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 18th, 2023
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On the library returns trolley, books told about their adventures.
"I was only checked out yesterday," a thriller said, "and read in one sitting."
"I was out for weeks," said a romance, "and reread twice. I got so many hugs!"
"Oh. I'm never hugged," said the thriller.
"One day."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 18th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 17th, 2023
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The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 17th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 16th, 2023
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(Early today cuz I'm going out - enjoy!)
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In whispered sighs, the night begins to sing, A mournful tune that sadness seems to bring. The audience, a sea of faces, stare, As I, the actor, bear my cross to bear.
Amidst the shadows, on life's somber stage, Melancholy dances, an enigmatic sage. A solo performance, in twilight's gentle glow, Whispers of sorrow, like a river's ebb and flow.
Each step a whisper, a fading note, Upon this stage, where sorrows float.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories #stage #poem
The chairbeing of the Galactic Federation looked at the motion to exclude Humanity for 'Being the absolute worst, ever'.
"Hm. Come back with this in a week."
"But they are the worst!"
"That has often been said. And then they somehow manage to be the best, ever."
It took two days.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
New flash fiction on my website:
The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 16th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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The #MastoPrompt for Friday 15th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 14th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 13th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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"You humans have so many stories," the alien ambassador said.
"You might think so," the human envoy said, "but almost all stories we've ever told have already been lost and forgotten."
"And yet you tell new ones."
"As long as someone hears and cares. Even if it's just yourself."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 12th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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When ghosts gather, all warmth is sucked out of the air, all light is dampened, deadened.
"Thank you for coming," one ghosts whispers.
"Any time," their friends reply.
The flame of the forgotten candle by the stack of books is extinguished, a conflagration averted.
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 11th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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At empty platform 10 Kings Cross with my friend Dave in the early naughties. One old man is shuffling.
Me: Check the train, don't go to Hogwarts.
Ha-ha.
You know, Boudica came right down the rail line with her army to right here. This is as far as she got. This is where she died.
Man: You're standing on her grave.
Me: *chills*
Man: You're standing on her grave. She's right here.
*he reacts to my wide eyes and goosebumps*
You told her story aright. I thought you knew.
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 10th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and an alien emerged, holding cue cards.
"Greetings! A witch has cursed me into this form; only the kiss of a... wait."
They shuffled the cards.
"Greetings! We come in- Yes?"
One of the onlookers had raised their hand.
"Whose kiss?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 9th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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The #MastoPrompt for Friday 8th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 7th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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She raised her eyebrows. "Have you made this offer before?"
The businessman smiled. "Many times."
"And everyone who pushed the killing button got a million dollars?"
"Cash."
She considered. "Then it looks like I'm going to kill for a million dollars today."
He held forth the button eagerly.
She cracked her knuckles. "No, you can put that away."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
(With a nod to O. Westin.)
Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 6th, 2023
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I just had the most super uplifting, affirming, joyful community orchestra rehearsal (I'm the conductor) Our non-concert (just for us) is next week and I am very much looking forward to it!
I'm going to make everyone 'orchestra cookies' (a cookie in the shape of them playing their instruments) and give them each a rose with a label that says 'thank you for making the music' (but don't tell them about the flower idea! - they know about the cookies - I did that 5 years ago!)
#smallstories #music
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 6th September is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for September 5th, 2023 (just under the wire!)
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The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 5th September (sorry it's so late!) is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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"Some of our writers said that when we met alien civilisations," the human envoy said, "we would be weak in comparison."
"We read some of those," the alien ambassador said.
"Others said we'd be space orcs."
"Indeed. None were correct."
"What are we?"
"Great storytellers."
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 30th August is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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A spirit appeared to me in a vision, and said: "You are not the Chosen One."
"Pardon?"
"The world needs saving. Your role is not to lead this effort. We tell everyone, this time."
With that, the vision ended.
I wasn't going to, but now I really want to try to save the world.
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
The dragon watched a lone rider approaching.
"I wish humans had magic," the princess said.
"Your lives are too short," the dragon said.
"That's so unfair."
The dragon stood up.
"The gods gave you something stronger than magic."
"What?"
The rider lowered their lance.
"Hope."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #StillUndecidedOnAirGaps
#SmallStories #MicroFiction #ScrollsOfTegalie
“How am I supposed to defeat even one giant let alone an entire empire?” En fretted.
“You must out-think them,” Kobanongar the hunchback, told him.
“Even If I had the heads of the six smartest people, in my father’s kingdom, a single giant would be smarter.”
“If you had the heads of the six smartest people, you’d be considered a tyrant and have even bigger problems.” The Hunchback said, wryly.
“Are you going to help me or not?” En snapped. “You’re a wizard. Can’t you do something?”
“I am but as you see me, Highness” the hunchback bowed low. “I can do much, but I cannot lead your father’s armies against this foe.”
En snorted.
“Highness, you are a powerful wizard in your own right. Can you not defeat this enemy with your own magic?”
“Of course not. The giants have a counter spell for every enchant.”
“So, you must out-think them.”
“And we’re back to becoming a tyrant again.”
En paced across the room, back and forward. He mumbled to himself as he grappled with this damnable quandary.
Kobanongar watched him, almost as though he expected something wonderous to happen before his eyes. Gradually, a smile formed on the hunchback’s twisted face.
“We need allies,” En said, stopping. “The legends tell of a beings that dwell in the north-west. Their name translates as beasts of light.”
“Elfs,” Kobanongar said.
“Do you know of them?”
“I know a little.”
“Would they join our cause?”
“No.”
“Eventually even they will be threatened by the giants.”
“No, it will take something much greater than the giants to rouse them to action.”
“What is greater than a giant?”
“Chaos manifested. Demons and other fiends. They forced the elfs to flee their home an age ago.”
“You know a lot for someone that knows so little about elfs.”
The hunchback bowed his head. “Highness, I have an idea,” he said. “It will take years, and it feels unlikely that we will survive it but-”
“That is ever a risk. What must we do?”
“What I must do, I will reveal to you at a later time. However, what you must do is learn the language of the elfs.”
“And you will teach me?”
“I will. It was my folk that talk them how to speak. Just as they taught your folk to speak.”
En scoffed, “You are mistaken, my friend. A messenger from the gods, Choalú, taught Men to speak. It says so in the Sacred Scrolls.”
Kobanongar smiled, “Highness, Choalú was an elf.”
– The Scrolls of Tegalie - The Blade of En.
When I opened the book, the ink of all the letters leapt off the pages, formed a cat, and ran off.
Long did I chase it, long and far, tracing faint smudges and soft murmurs of unread words.
"Why do you run?"
"People read me and weep."
"Ah. So you give relief."
"I do?"
"You do."
What does one do when ones crush puts up a banner with a typo?
Does one talk to him? No, that would be too sensible.
So, I walked to the bakery in the middle of the night, armed with a ladder and Sharpie.
Place ladder? Check.
Turn the c into an e? Check.
Get down the ladder and escape with grace? Not so much.
“Hello Suze.”
I shrieked and fell into his arms.
He smiled, “You okay?”
“Yep.”
He grinned, “Couldn’t resist my lure, eh?”
I had to kiss him.
I always imagined that if I found myself stuck in a time loop I would take the opportunity to reread The Lord of the Rings or all of Discworld. But that was me imagining a loop of days or weeks.
Where would I find a story that can be read in eighteen seconds?
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The Nymph of the spring behind our house was waiting for me.
"I finished the book," she said. "Do you have more?"
"Do you like science fiction?"
"What is that?"
"This one is about travels to other planets and moons."
"Like Mars and Europa?"
"How did you learn-"
"The water knows."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
After the show, a robot came up to the Illusionist.
"Could I learn to do that?"
"I'm sure you can learn the technique. The presentation... you must invent yourself."
"I fear humans might struggle to accept a magic robot."
"You said it."
"Could I do it as science fiction?"
"Yes!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
"I thought this was meant to be a temple dedicated to learning!"
The angry man's question was a statement.
"We do not usually use such grand words," the librarian said, "but yes."
"Then how come the building is full of fiction!"
"You do not know what can be learned from fiction?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
The Professor of Spellcraft studied the parchment.
"Hmm. No, I have not seen this spell before. What does it do?"
"When you read it out, it creates a parchment with that spell written on it."
"That's all?"
"Isn't that neat?"
"But why?"
"To see if I could."
"Ah!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 10th August is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Time for the all-new #VisualWritingPrompt for August 9th, 2023
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When I gathered the courage to tell my mother that I was her daughter, not her son, she simply said:
"I have suspected so, ever since you were born."
"Why?"
"I was cursed when expecting you. A demon would take my firstborn son."
"And?"
"It came, looked at you and said 'Nah'."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 8th August is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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"There are near infinite stories still to tell," the Oracle of Stories says.
The writer sighs. "I do not want to write about war."
"There are still near infinite stories without."
"Or disaster, or horror."
"Still near infinite."
"But it must ring true."
"Still."
"Still?"
"Still."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 7th August is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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"So, what's the weather like at your place?"
The demon in the pentagram looked perplexed. "Why?"
"Just making conversation," the sorceror said.
"Same as always," the demon said, "sulfur and acid, heat and howling winds."
"That's Hell for you."
"Hell? No, we demons live on Venus."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
"Ah," the robot said, "now I understand."
"Understand what?"
"The concept of 'uncanny valley', where something is subtly wrong, unnatural, but you can't pinpoint why. I've experienced that now."
"Oh? How?"
"I talked to ChatGPT."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 2nd August is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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The #MastoPrompt for Friday 28th July 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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I take a few ragged breaths. The Void waits, patiently, in case I need to shout some more.
"I'm sure you've heard that before," I say.
- yes
"Actually, are there things people have stopped shouting about?"
- smallpox, the hole in the ozone layer
"Huh."
- and most gods
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 19th July 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 18th July 2023 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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