Mastodawn

Erik Krämer May 23, 2025

Meine Stammleser haben es vielleicht schon bemerkt. Die Bloggeschichten, also die #Drabbles und die #abc.etüden, sind nicht mehr da. Warum ich das gemacht habe und wo sie hingewandert sind, erfahrt ihr in diesem Artikel:

https://www.blogissimo.de/die-bloggeschichten-sind-umgezogen/

#blog #bloggen #kurzgeschichten #umzug

Carl Myrland Mar 10, 2025

So I was at a #literature lecture where one of the topics was Flash #Fiction, and we talked about #Twitterature, #twosentencehorror stories, #Drabbles etc.

One of the tasks we were given, was to create a new genre of flash fiction, and my mind went to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse, and the skeptisism towards Big Tech etc many people here share.

So my idea was a genre for tech dystopia, with a 500 char limit. But what to call it?!

#microfiction #flashfiction #dystopia #tech #allheimen

Heather Bron Mar 5, 2025

Don't forget to pick up Particulates, my collection of 135 100-word stories (fun-size science fiction), for free during "Read An eBook Week."
See all the great books on sale at https://buff.ly/2SpqCKc
#ebookweek25 #Smashwords #drabbles #microfiction

Smashwords – E-Book Week Home

Heather Bron Mar 2, 2025

From March 2nd to March 8th, Particulates, my collection of 135 100-word stories (fun-size science fiction), is free during the "Read An eBook Week" celebration.
Check out the sale at https://buff.ly/2SpqCKc
#ebookweek25 #Smashwords #drabbles #microfiction

Smashwords – E-Book Week Home

Heather Bron Feb 3, 2025

IngramSpark has been "processing" my little paperback for almost a month now, so if you wanted it in your library or bookstore, I guess it might be there sometime?

Here's a link to the reasonably priced eBook in the meantime: https://books2read.com/u/mdalE5

#scifibooks #drabbles #microfiction #collection

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Particulates: A New Edition by Heather Bron

enchantedsleeper 🌈⭐Jan 2, 2025

Refreshing my #introduction! Hi, I'm enchantedsleeper: fic writer, sometime vidder, and lover of #smallfandoms and #drabbles.

I'm into many fandoms (and never really leave any behind), but my current homes are The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Fence, Questionable Content, and Spider-Verse. More broadly, I love comics, AI/robot characters, cyberpunk, and critiques of big tech. I also dabble in the #smallweb & edit #wikis when I find the time.

If any of these are also your jam, come say hi!

Billie Sep 10, 2024

Glimmers in the Penumbra

I assembled this zine to collect drabbles written for my D&D group, and I'm sharing it with you all today.

This is for you, @[email protected] , @[email protected] , @[email protected] , @[email protected] , and @[email protected]

Special thanks to @[email protected] for drawing the illustrations used in this zine and for buying my drabble commission slots on behalf of the group. She has made a lot of really cool art for our group and for her character Dia especially, so you should check it out if you like this!

This was a really fun project. It was great to play in the 100 word limit with different styles and character voices to make something tailored for each character.

I assembled this zine so that I could make a special and unique home for all of the pieces together. It was put together in Scribus, a free and open source layout tool.

If you enjoyed this zine, please consider a donation to Crips for eSims for Gaza or at Gaza Funds.

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Full Text Transcript

Glimmers in the Penumbra A Tabletop Roleplay OC Drabble Collection

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Embodied

The snow feels wrong. It mushes against the strange pliant dough stretched across her soles, shoots her through with a kind of pain she's never felt before. It bites, metallic, as though she can feel the pinprick of each shard of each snow flake. The air, too, grips her. All of this, wrong. Never before had the winds caused her pain, nor had snow felt anything but pleasant on even her tenderest scales. Winter has abandoned her. It was in her very weft and now all she has is this naked pink putty. No way for a dragon to live.

Dia Istehar

[Includes an illustration of Dia holding herself in a gust of snow and wind.]

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L’Enfer

Fire's heat. Warms, tickles, crisps. Pleasure becomes pain. Sears, destroys, consumes. Ashes to ashes.

Vous qui entrez, abandonnez toute espérance.

No way to snuff a forest fire once it's caught hot and tall, naught but to let the blaze run out. A heart is like that. A little fire you can throw water over, but the burn in him grows fast. All you can do is get out the way.

Watch for smoke.

What's a flame want? Nothing but to burn. Bright and hot, alive until it's out. Doesn't care what's burning, where or how. But a man's heart? Well.

L’Enfer - The Inferno Vous qui entrez, abandonnez toute espérance. - Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Ozias DeVir

[Includes an illustration of Ozias lighting a cigarette.]

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Song of the Princess

She is come from a castle in a far away land, from a lineage ruling for generations.

Hath traveled the lands in great odyssey, and suffered many a hardship and poverty.

O Princess, Sweetest Briar with thorns sharp, stand strong against despair. Nobility is not in gold but in heart and deed and bearing. Retain thy grace and thy dignity. Fear not the dark and the wicked, for thou art puissant. Magic courseth through thy veins as fish in a stream.

Know that one day thou wilt reclaim thy birthright. So sayeth this poem, written in serenade of a princess.

Briar Allaire

[Includes an illustration of Briar, regal in a crown.]

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Idle Musing

Life should be fun. Things would be far too boring without a bit of mischief to keep it interesting, ya know? Just a dash like spice in the stew. Nothing serious, maybe swipe a shiny here or snack there.

Things can change pretty fast out on the road though. It gets scary out there, with monsters and bad guys. Sometimes I think I should have just stayed home.

But hey, one minute you're strumming along up and down the strings of a bouzouki, tickling the melody to and fro, and bam! Out comes the zouka. Didn't expect that, didja spookies?

Kaapro

[Includes an illustration of Kaapro, a Kenku, smiling and playing a bouzouki.]

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Sacrament

"Go and sin no more."

The other man, the one on the other side of the wooden screen, knows what a joke it is. He says it anyway, and manages not to laugh. It's procedure after all.

A rosary and an extra Our Father. A man's life snuffed out, his blood on the stone, and all Lucere needs to do is mumble some words.

Done in God's name, isn't it a Holy act?

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Deliverance won't come, but so too will he sin again. He always has and always will.

Lucere Crough

[Includes an illustration of Lucere holding a rosary in his hand, covering half of his face.]

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Just World Fallacy

Let us consider the situation rationally. Which situation is more likely?

The first, that I was conceived by two emotionally stunted people unprepared for the maturity, care, and mundane sacrifices of parenthood? That I lived at the whims of a man who took out rage and fear on his vulnerable son? That my mother could bring me into the world but shrink my existence so small in her heart that she could ignore it? That suffering is largely beyond our control and the world is fundamentally unfair?

Or that I am unloveable and it's my fault?

The answer is obvious.

Pinion Andolus

[Includes an illustration of Pinion where you cannot see his face, gazing at unbalanced scales.]

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Knight in Shining Armor

My face mirrored in a gleaming scale. I chased it like the glint of oasis after days walking parched sands. Was it a mirage? I follow its path and come no closer, but the image does not fade. Still there, out of reach, ever on the horizon.

What is she really like? I've imagined her on the highest pedestal, with every sublime virtue, and in the deepest depravity, with every foul cruelty. Perhaps she is simply a well-meaning fool, doing her best.

Do I truly want to know? Would the mirage dissolve, and would that be for good or ill?

Okaara Justa

[Includes an illustration of Okaara, a half-orc, gazing at her own reflection in a piece of plate armor.]

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寝袋詰め心の準備と出かける

「一緒に」

romaji reading: shurafuzume kokoro no junbi to dekakeru

「issho ni」

The bedrolls are wrapped. Ready for what awaits them, the party sets forth.

[Together]

[No illustration]

Originally posted on Tumblr here: https://www.tumblr.com/terror-billie/759892367589392384/full-text-transcript

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

Chuffed

Marc Criley Jun 1, 2024

One week from today (6/8/24) I'll be participating in my first SF panel: "Smaller is Better: #Drabbles and Other Microfictions" for the 2024 Nebula Conference.

We'll be talking about cramming a LOT of story into very few words.

It's an online-only event so you don't even need to show up in Pasadena! Just register for the con at https://events.sfwa.org/.

Home - Nebula Awards Conference Online

The 2023 Nebula Conference, which will be taking place both online and in-person at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, in Anaheim, CA, is coming the weekend of May 12–14, 2023!

Nebula Awards Conference Online

Lauren McMenemy Apr 26, 2024

Every Friday, I meet a member of the British Fantasy Society and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week, it’s Corinne Pollard’s turn – West Yorkshire lass, dark fantasy and horror lover, and drabble queen.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/meet-corinne-pollard/

#horror #darkfantasy #drabbles #writersofmastodon