Time for some short fiction from me.  I present to you: The Gift

The last few years had presented some challenges, but now she had the solution. A gift he had longed for and she could finally give him, even if her approach was unusual.

https://david.shortfiction.online/the-gift

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He mapped every system. Every tolerance band. Every variable. He had never learned to map a person.

"Vacua" — a story about precision as armour, and what happens when the instrument turns on the one thing it was never designed to measure.

🔗https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/portraits/2026-03-28-vacua/

#psychologicalfiction #autofiction #shortfiction #writing #fiction

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: “𝑬𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚" -

"Esmond has no need to see the abandoned starling nest to his right: he hears, echoing still, seven generations of them across the past nine years, jumbled warblings and desperate imitations of jays to hold off predators . . . "

https://waywordsstudio.com/fiction/esmond-at-the-factory/

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I wrapped up this series with a short story instead of another post.

“The Crowns That Answered”:
https://writingwithamandalee.weebly.com/blog/the-crowns-that-answered

If you read it, I’m curious what stayed with you after.

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#amwriting #writerslife #fantasy #shortfiction #sf #free2read

Ok, next closely met self imposed deadline. What wouldn't I endure for my (counts on one hand)... MANY readers? Please enjoy this sci-fi flash fiction, and like, comment, share? Please?
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https://ko-fi.com/post/Beneath-A-Crystal-Sky-G2G21WD5WM?fromEditor=true

Thank you Shabana Mahmood and the Home Office for reminding me how mean-spirited we can sometimes be.

And reminding me why I wrote this.
#ShortStory #ShortFiction #UKpolitics
https://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com/2024/08/flash-fiction-cold.html