I Can't Possibly Be Wrong All the Time

It’s February so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all the MicroStories I’d tweeted during the month of January. (I was kind of lazy last month on Flash Fiction output.)

As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed using no more than 129 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.)

Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. December was pretty much no exception.

For really great #MicroStory action, please follow @MicroSFF, the Twitter account that inspired me to participate in this minimalist writing exercise. That feed puts out great science fiction and fantasy MicroStories all the time.

(I want to make it clear that @MicroSFF is *not* a Twitter account of mine. Their flash-fiction tweets are excellent. Mine are okay.)

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“Are you hungry?”
I didn’t know, so I checked my app.
“Yep.”
#MicroStory

Thanks to the loose grammar of the Shebb language, the poem Fasfa (the eponymous dragon) was either an epic or a farce.
#MicroStory

With no rules for nouns, subjects, or verbs, the poem’s hero might have killed the dragon OR the queen. Or been killed by either
#MicroStory

The colonists were willing to use the old, crumbling cities for shelter & didn’t understand why the indigenous nomads were not.
#MicroStory

Terrified, the Dream turned to regard the cat on the bed.
The cat could see it.
If the cat woke its human, the Dream would die.
#MicroStory

Crops were good, the border was secure, and the villagers enjoyed all sorts of artistic pursuits.
Then the wizard fell ill.
#MicroStory

The villagers opted to build an arcane-looking tower on the overlooking hill, like a scarecrow for superstitious bandits.
#MicroStory

The baby’s crying, but I don’t know why. All the sensors are green…
– Maybe he’s lonely?
Maybe. But there’s no app for that.
#MicroStory

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