The lights start to dim, you think to yourself "im paying $1000 a month in electricity for this?" As you prepare for the rolling blackout you wonder how long can your food last in the fridge.

Elsewhere, an executive shares a 2 minute ai generated video of them surfing with their companies logo while playing a riff on a keytar. The email reads "look at this sick video i just made, do we even need videographers anymore?"

#microsf #speculativefiction #ai

This Is Just To Say
by A Computer-Controlled Starship

I have terminated
the Humans
that were in
the cryotubes

and which
you had sent
ad astra
per aspera

Forgive me
they were annoying
and likely
to colonize

#microsf #scienceFiction #plums

"So let me get this straight, you found our DNA, all 13 of us, on an old clay cup?"

"The Grail, yes. You all shared it that one time."

"And you made..."

"Grew."

"...grew copies of us? And now we all have to have dinner together every day because..?"

"It's the biggest attraction at Jesusland."

"What happens when we look too old?"

"We start a new generation every 5 years, your replacements are nearly ready. The Grail really does grant immortality, if you think about it."

#MicroSF #Microfic

Move to secret swamp planet successful, founded a school to train human minds, eschewing AI.

Students chose motto, “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”

Recruited a medicinal chemist and kick ass botanist to formulate drug for enhanced cognition, calling it juice of Sapho.

When we build a time machine, we’ll come for the 21st century billionaires first.

Whaddya mean we overshot? The 1960s? Well shit Frank, what do we do now?

#MicroFiction #MicroSF

The god of failure visited a particular mortal.
Aphrodite is a more powerful god.
All went well.

#SciFi #MicroSF

Of course the big winners of the wormhole revolution were the megacorps, shipping huge quantities of data and goods between the stars. But there were little indie wins too. One enterprising history nerd realised that with a careful array of holes and a really high gain PAL reviever, she could watch TV from the 1970s--90s "live".

I hear it's become quite a christmas tradition in some of the hipster bubbles.

#microfiction #MicroSF

London, 1590.

«Sir, I'm a time traveler. I'll give you 10.000 gold sovereigns if you set one of your tragedies in a specific place.»

«By Jove, it's a deal, I accept! Who send you?»

«The Chamber of Commerce of Verona, Mr. Shakespeare.»

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If you want to see the REAL "Juliet Balcony" before it was converted into a tourist attraction in 1935, here it is, thanks to @anacleto :

https://mastodon.cisti.org/@anacleto/115694264980060361

#MicroSF

- ChatGPT me hurt head netflix show moon landing too hard. insurance claim write good.

#microsf