#microsff

[microsff]

Microstory

The demon looked around. There was a summoning sigil drawn in the ruddy sand, but nobody... It shifted its perception to the spiritual plane. Ah. A dust devil. "Why hast thou-" "A battery." "A battery?" The demon looked around. "What need for a battery on Mars?" "For our friend."

#VSS #microfiction #microsff #writers on tumblr #original fiction

[quotent-potables]

"I must warn you," the librarian said, "this book is cursed." "Cursed?" "Read the first two chapters and you will be trapped, unable to stop reading until you reach the end." I swallowed. "I… I have read books like that before." The librarian nodded. "Then go, and read."

@MicroSFF on Twitter

#quotes #microsff #reading #books

[javaelemental]

Saved for posterity.

#Monsters #Micro SF/F Stories #MicroSFF #Twitter

[rs-hawk]

Love this post by @microsff

You went to a garage sale to see what you could find. You had been working on so many projects that you were hoping to get parts for cheap, when you saw an Andrew the Android. He was sitting on a table, swinging his feel that barely scraped the ground. He was an early version. It was easy to tell by his stocky build, and the way he barely looked humanoid. Newer ones looked more human.

“How much is he?” you asked the man sitting by a lock box, pointing to Andrew.

“You don’t want that one,” the man grinned, showing off all his teeth in a way that made you frown. “It’s a weird one. Sent it up to clean my gutters in a storm, you know, testing out that ‘waterproof’ feature.”

“Uh-huh,” you said unsurely, shifting on your feet slightly.

“And it got struck by lightening. Been odd ever since. Telling me to call it ‘Andy’ and asking me questions. Didn’t think these ones of them were meant to be so annoyingly human.”

“I still want him. How much?” you insisted.

You and the man go back and forth for a bit before you finally handed him a small wad of cash. A giddy feeling fluttered in your chest as you approached him. He looked up at you, a blank look on his expressionless face.

“Hi there. I’m Y/N. I just bought you,” you explained as you offered him your hand. “I’m so excited that I found an early Andrew. You’re one of my favorite androids of all time.”

“Andy, please,” was his response. He held up his hands, no, claws, as if to apologize for not shaking yours. “It’s nice to meet you.”

You brought him home, and he settled in quickly. One day, he greeted you at the door.

“Can you make me hands?” he asked.

“Why? Your claws work better, and you can swap them out with other attachments,” you asked back as you started gathering things for the project you were working on.

“I want to pet your cat.”

“You can’t even feel her fur though.”

“But she can. And I want her to like me petting her.”

You paused, thinking for a moment. “Alright. I can build you hands.”

“I also want to learn guitar. Can you make sure I have good fingers?”

That made a grin crack your face. “Yes, I’ll make you good fingers.”

You two lived in good harmony for awhile, until one day, he showed you a book. “Why is one character being called ‘they’?”

“Oh, because they’re non-binary.”

He nodded as he went back to the book. “I think that fits me better than he.”

You nodded back at them, scrolling through your phone. “Okay.”

Another day, they come to you, holding a book with a picture of a flute. “Can you build me a mouth? And move my port?”

“You want to learn to play the flute?” you asked curiously, looking at the book, their fingers curling around the pages.

“Yes.”

“Alright.”

They took to the flute much better than the guitar, but you don’t say anything. Even when they wake you up in the middle of the night. They’re still not very good, but you enjoy hearing their progress.

Yet again, they come to you, showing you a magazine with synthetic skin and hair on an android. They don’t say anything as they hand it to you, looking down.

“Okay. I’ll take you in and let you pick everything out,” you say as you hand them back the magazine.

“Do you think I’ll really be able to feel?” they asked nervously, rolling the magazine up into a tube.

“Maybe. Why?”

They looked away, and you thought if they were human, they would have blushed. “I want to pet your cat.”

“You pet her all the time.”

“I want to be able to feel it too.”

As always, you nodded. “It’s worth a shot at least then, right?”

Andy went in many times for many more modifications on top of the ones they asked you to make for them. Over the span of months, but in a way that hit you all at once, you fell in love with them. The way they laughed. How excited they were to learn. How excited they were to just be.

“Hey, Y/N! Andy! Welcome in yous guys. I got the room set up. Andy’s got a surprise for you, Y/N. You’re gonna let Andy pick out everything as always, yeah?” the mechanic greeted the two of you as you stepped inside.

You thought it was a little odd she just kept saying “Andy” instead of “they” but you brushed it off. “Yeah Sal. It’s Andy’s body. They can do what they want.”

Andy and Sal shared a grin before you were ushered into the waiting room. A couple hours later, a dark haired woman came out, her hair styled into a neat bun on the top of her head. Her eyes were green, your favorite color. There was a softness to her face and features, as well as a stockiness to her build. She reminded you of Andy, in a way, so you returned her smile.

Sal came up behind you, gesturing to the woman. “What do you think?”

“Oh she’s lovely, perfectly stunning, but you know I’m just waiting on Andy,” you said with a frown and furrow of your brows.

“Hi Y/N,” the woman said shyly, looking down at her feet.

“Andy?”

“I mean, I guess, but I want a new name.”

“What is it?”

“I don’t know yet.”

You tilted your head, looking at her curiously. “But you already know every name that there is to know.”

A sweet smile touched her lips as she walked over to you, taking your hands in hers. “I don’t know how they sound when you say them yet.”

#robot fluff #robot girl #robot girlfriend #writers on tumblr #writing #fantasy romance #author #monster lover #monster romance #fantasy smut #monster fucker #monster fuqqer #robot fucker #robot lover #robot wife #android wife #android fluff #monster fluff #fantasy fluff #fluff #scyfy fluff #mtf fluff #mtf romance #mtf trans #y/n #y/n reader #soft fluff #queer fantasy #queer fluff #monster girlfriend

[arrghigiveup]

Source: https://twitter.com/MicroSFF/status/1689393479883825152

[open-to-the-sky]

Cool people I follow: A guide for my friend

The Great Storytellers: (stories from their lives)

@gallusrostromegalus I feel like this person has lived their own version of the Odyssey. They have LORE, their parents have LORE, their DOGS HAVE LORE.

@thebibliosphere a romance novelist who lives in a cursed body in a cursed home.

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses how am I supposed to describe this blob of pink slop? Amazing cursed writings and stories.

@bunjywunjy CURSED BIOLOGY!

@hellenhighwater a rare ADHD goblin who has no (evident) executive disfunction. Names all her pets after crimes.

@hedgehog-moss the adventures of the great escaping llama Pampe.

@tkingfisher Author of Digger, and so many other magical stories.

Wizard Roleplayers:

@wizard-council-bureaucrat

@evilwizard

@the-unseelie-court-official

Cool comics:

@yamujiburo writes a really cute and sweet Jessie/Delia comic! Featuring Ash's face-blindness.

@skycowboys so many kinds of pegasi !

@lxgentlefolkcomic the league of extraordinary gentlefolk! Cryptid Jonathan, slightly vampire Mina, Irene Norton (nee Adler) and her trophy husband, and Quincy Lives!

@linkeduniverse All the Links! what more could you ask?

@eldritch-anthology the DND adventures of an EXTREMELY NORMAL AND HUMAN teen as he searches for info on what who he is.

@pocketss goblin-core goblins

@fishtrouts Baby Dragons!

@pterribledinosaurdrawings self evident!

@thepigeongazette fun autobiographical comics!

@foxes-in-love So cute!

@figmentforms A Zelda/Ganon comic! Featuring Queen Zelda's adopted daughter Rinku (Link).

@thesuperheroesnetwork texts from superheroes!

Cool people (that have awesome advice that pertains to writing):

@blumineck archery guy!!

@howtofightwrite writing help for fights and so cool!

Writers: (stories not from their lives) (I hope)

@the-modern-typewriter writes really good stories about the dynamics between heroes and villains. Also wrote a lot of prompts before stopping and you can find them in the archive!

@microsff short but cool stories

@elsewhereuniversity so many cool stories and ideas, plus the adventures of the Archivist!

@unpretty Accountant by day, Certified Dick Wizard by night. Writing a really fun BOTW ~adjacent~ web novel, and has written many, many unhinged Batman fanfics. Highly recommend looking them up.

@caffeinewitchcraft Amazing short stories based on prompts!

@elidyce Also amazing short stories!

@marlynnofmany many Humans Are Space Orcs stories! and starting a novel on teachers at a magical school!

@yourheartonfire superhero stories!

@gingerly-writing more superhero stories!

@dduane THE Diane Duane.

#haha you can tell when I started running out of steam for descriptions #for new people

[theabstruseone]

Source: https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/110428227097461953

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #glorious 25th of may #sam vimes #night watch

[notquitebilateral]

Short story blogs I absolutely adore:

dycefic - This is elidyce's fiction blog

yourheartonfire - Linked the masterlist

shady-tavern - Search my writing or short story

gwen-tolios - Search gwen writes

watercolorfreckles - Masterlist is pinned, search my writing

microsff - Very short stories, always a delight

caffeinewitchcraft - Search my writing

planningconquest - I can't track down a specific tag

garcavisconde - Masterlist is in the pinned post

meg-moira - Oh look there's a handy dandy tab for the stories

thepenultimateword - Masterlist is pinned

Please add, or give me a shout to add, if you have others for this list.

#Oh lawd I don't use desktop often and just being able to see how people have customized their layouts is absolutely beautiful #writing #short stories #blog masterlist #I always run through a lot of short stories when bored so figured I would finally make a thing for me

[glygriffe]

Reading & Rec List of the month

Since I didn't read anything Irish-themed this month, I thought I could at least make this end-of-March rec list a little green!

Supernatural Fanfics

Something like that an untitled drabble by @chapeldean (Dean & Charlie)

Untitled therapy drabble: a conversation between Sam and Dean, set after 15 x 18, by @starcrosseddeancas

As a captive: a rewrite of Appointment in Samara by silver_penny that is ethereal and makes you reflect on life and death. (Dean, Death, Tessa)

Are You Okay: a short fluff piece about a hunt gone slightly wrong written by @octoberclidan (Dean x Reader)

Helping: love this canon slice of life by @starlitesky set late in Kelly's pregnancy (Castiel & Kelly)

They were roommates: Drunk Cas cannot hold his tongue about anything including his feelings. A fun little Sastiel piece by @posingasme (Castiel x Sam)

What Goes Around Don't Come Around (or Maybe It Does): The light and the warmth that Crowley deserves by @rauko-creates that I discovered thru the First Sentence Game (Dean x Crowley)

In the Woods (Soulless!Sam edition): by @amemipiacitu. Castiel is still captive, and Dean is still mute, but this version of the story is darker than anticipated. First chapter was written for the Weekly Prompt Challenge (WPC) of the Fanfic Lounge.

Plain sight: AU about a kidnapping that has a lot of twists and turns for a shorter fic! By @luci-in-trenchcoats (Dean x Reader)

Untitled outline by @queerstudiesnatural where Dean uses his words as much as he can… This is lovely 🥰 (Dean x Castiel)

Untitled Lily Saunder pitch set after 15x18 by @sailorsally that gives me Little Mermaid’s vibes (Dean x Castiel)

Prompted: a reread because @bobwess is a master at bloody hurt/comfort short stories (Dean x Castiel)

Not related to Supernatural

Microfiction about someone (Anghim) fond of climbing ☺️ by O. Westin /@microsff

Murdered by Mr Hand Man: My first My Hero Academia fanfic read! (I don't even watch the show or read the mangas..) Shigaraki Tomura coming into the real world to murder you. By dino_boy on AO3. Courtesy of the Fanfic Lounge WPC.

Nobody Likes The Duke Of The North: A fic also written for the @fanficlounge by @verobatto that I should have read a little sooner, but that I discovered thru the First Sentence Game (Original work)

I also started to read two paper books: American Gods by @neil-gaiman and Douze coups de théâtre by Michel Tremblay (around 20 of his stage plays are available in English I don't know about his novels, tho).

Have a good time, and make new friends between the pages!

#rec list #fanfic rec #michel tremblay #neil gaiman

[zoestorm]

A new chapter of my latest novella, The Egg Knight and the Dragon, has just landed!

In the chapter titled The Egg Knight and the Dragon (yes, same title as the story 😅), the main characters talk a bit with each other, and assess the situation they're in.

I hope you enjoy reading it!

The chapter is now available on ScribbleHub; the story is complete, and can be read in its entirety on my Patreon.

Also, this chapter contains the scene that inspired the whole story: the inspiration was sparked by a microfic by @microsff, posted more than two years ago. I found myself thinking, how did the characters get into this situation? And what happens next? So I wrote it 🙂 I think it turned out well, but you be the judge.

#trans writers #trans #transgender #writeblr #tumblr writers #writers on tumblr #writers of tumblr #queer #queer fiction #lgbtq #lgbt art #my writing

[microsff]

Once I was dead, it was curiously easy to accept it. "Where are you taking me?" I asked. Death extended a bony finger, pointing at a tall tower in the distance. "What is that?" "Your unread books. Unwatched films. Unplayed games. Etcetera." "Oh. How much time do I have?" "All."

#writers on tumblr #vss #microfiction #microsff #fiction #Death #Tsundoku

[darkicedragon]

darkicedragon https://www.tumblr.com/microsff/733965756714385408/ frankenstein yes, he hunts monsters to see them no, why do you think hes killing them? azure Franken peering over his glasses like a judgemental librarian or teacher 'no, I am not killing someone because you've an issue with their species' also imagine if it's like Jake or Mary coming to talk to him, and M is with them, sweating buckets because he… is a monster hiding what he is, of course but frick, the monster hunter might see right through him and Franken does stare at him as he says 'I don't kill monsters. I… deal with those that find pleasure in other's pain." and then he looks back at Jake "careful, you might find yourself on my list soon if you keep at it'

#noblesse #skype conversations #madameazzure #m21 #frankenstein

[quotent-potables]

"Sanctuary," the child cried, running into the library. "Nice try," the guard following after sneered, "but only holy places can grant sanctuary." The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod. The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. "Sanctuary granted."

@MicroSFF on Twitter

#quotes #microsff #santuary #libraries

[postalvalhalla]

Micro Stories

I've been posting 500-character stories to my Mastodon account since May 1st of this year, one per day. In the beginning I was writing 2-3 stories a day, because I feared I might run out of stories to publish and wanted to build a backlog. Today I've posted the last four stories written in May and June - I published four stories today so I could say that I have nothing left from May and June to post. ^_^

I started cross-posting these stories to Tumblr (and to Hive) not too long after I started. I've had a Tumblr account for years and have done very little with it, so now at least I'm posting a story a day here. To be honest, I get very little engagement on Tumblr. Mastodon has become my new home after I fled Twitter, and so far my best stories there have garnered well over 100 likes or reblogs, which is of course helped by the fact that I'm very active on Mastodon and thus follow a lot of people and have a lot of followers (relative to anything I've ever managed on any social media site -- we're still only talking a few hundred people). On Tumblr, if a story gets 5 likes that's pretty amazing. ^_^ (On Hive, I think I've managed as much as a dozen likes once. Woo!)

On Twitter I followed two accounts that posted micro stories, and so I guess I'm inspired by them (but I prefer the larger 500-character limit of Mastodon - which is still a pretty tight window to fit a story in.) One of those two accounts was only ever on Twitter so far as I know (so sad that I followed so many fun accounts on Twitter that I can't follow anymore). The other account was/still is https://www.tumblr.com/microsff who is very good at this sort of thing, if you're not following them you really should.

#flash fiction #microfiction #small story

[leatherforhell]

in photo / Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate / Hugging Yourself by Monica Zunino-Mel / H of H Playbook by Anne Carson / MicroSFF on twitter / unknown / My Own Person by Ezra Williams / You're On Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift / unknown / Child in a Seacave by Bitter Ruin / Love on the Other Side by Fall Out Boy / footprints in the air by cameraorellana on tumblr / Interrogations by Rebecca Tamás / Telephone Wire from Fun Home / Sense8 / Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain

#musings. #ooc. #long post #long post tw #CLARA KELLY MY BELOVED!!!!!! #anyway back to writing

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#class #mastodon