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Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁@Unixbigot @ash rides off fast with the bolt cutters. Nothing can stop me now!
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L'eau chaude sur mes mains. Je rentre le linge, je ferme les volets. Les gestes de ma mère. On sait toujours quand ça vient. Les genoux le disent avant le ciel.
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Quelque chose vient. Plus grand que les hommes. Je me couche sous la table.
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Je ne « viens » pas. Je deviens visible. C'est ce que font les masses d'air quand les pressions diffèrent. Ce n'est ni bien ni mal.
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Cent quarante-sept hivers dans mes pierres. La femme ferme les volets. Le chien a peur. Moi je tiens. Tant que je peux.
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Je voudrais voir. Maman dit non. On dirait que le ciel se déchire. Est-ce qu'il peut se réparer après ?
s0 Is Not A SysadminLoitering by the wide open window on a still night, framing my pert breasts and unblemished throat just so in the candlelight, so that the flapping of the leathery wings of approaching horny vampires creates some goddamn airflow in this stuffy armpit of a castle tower room.
Don’t worry about the vampires tho, I just put on some Aerogard and they start retching uncontrollably and faint as soon as they alight on the windowsill. Way easier than the whole stake thing I was doing before.
FinalStop152You said we were invisible. That we couldn't see, or feel. That the forests had turned into concrete and waste. That the centering had become a cage. #microfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fragment #smallstory #mastoart #tootfiction
Then we were dead, for a while. It's possible to be dead if you are hell-bent on returning. But I took a wrong turn and vanished, in the periphery of death. #microfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fragment #smallstory #mastoart #tootfiction
The red came in between, reshaped, and became a question. That question was taken seriously by someone, and my nerves twisted into a gray cocoon. #microfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fragment #smallstory #mastoart #tootfiction
roodWe all know Altomada walked down the lander ramp, and declared "BEHOLD, WE ARE YOUR GODS, AND WE HAVE RETURNED".
Reliok, already quite angry, switched the display with his admonisher reeds. "Yes, but I am asking how you all got to the point of a retraction?"
Fopio continued, "Looking at our display chart here, we see the antibodies in the human species have been increasing exponentially since we left them in their early history."
Reliok, catching the chart with at least one reed, began hissing out curses. "We didn't just leave. We supplied them regular religions and enlightenments. There's no way they continued exponentially. Surely something happened!"
Fopios eyes rolled around in their sockets. "Yes, lord something did happen.
Humans.
Their records show they've been using viruses for biological warfare. Travelling to distant populations. Interacting with domestic and wild animals. Living in mega-populations, and polluting the community air very regularly. And that's before we mention the smokers, vapers, antimaskers, measles parties, and every other viral vector they pursued.
So your lordship, we've retracted our position as gods, accordingly."
Reliok couldn't blink. The royal litter emitted an exiting hue, and everyone else prostrated themselves on the starship deck.
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