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Thirteen Word Story: Desperate Restraint
Somehow, they restrained themselves until their children traveled among the stars. Then: self-destruction. ————- I remember the Cold War, going to school in a designated nuclear shelter, the uneasy...
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It’s The End Of The World As We Know It: Flower On The Moon
A short vignette, about 1300 words. A vignette is not a story, but is a scene. In this scene, a very old man sits in his study and contemplates his end. It is an end he has brought on himself, out of...
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Thirteen Word Story: Misanthrope’s Paw
After his robot armies finished their bloody work, the last human discovered loneliness.
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New Monthly Microfiction At Patreon: “The Mangrove At The End Of The World”
I’ve been posting a piece of microfiction each month for Patreon patrons (a whole buck a month is the minimum pledge to see them) since March. This month’s offering is a vignette about a young man...
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Reach For The Stars
(Short-short story short-shorter: birds not leaving the nest die there.) Reach For The Stars Skyscrapers, rockets drowned in withering leaves: their masters, in the end, too timid.
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Thirteen Word Story: Global Warmed
Global Warmed No snowflake fallen below Canada since 2104 — desperate hordes press north, all starving.
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Thirteen Word Story: Back To The Trees
Wars, famines, politicians casting every disagreement as life-or-death division, the screw-the-future shortsightedness of deregulated banks and businesses, the ever-deepening US suspicion of...
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13 Word Story: Misanthrope’s Paw (now with image)
I posted this story about a year ago, before I started putting the stories on images. I like the story being on the image much better. It looks better. Somehow it makes the story feel better. And you...
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Hurricanes And Tornadoes And Floods, Oh My, Will It Be Easy To Flee…
…or at least that may be an upside of an ever-more-connected world. The “Internet of Things” future will have to ponder if that and other pluses offset living in a world where any of your belongings...
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If The Nukes Start Flying…
…a goodly number of us dreamers are going to ruefully reflect that it was entirely possible for humanity to establish off-planet settlements following the Apollo program. Settlements that likely could...
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