He mapped every system. Every tolerance band. Every variable. He had never learned to map a person.
"Vacua" โ a story about precision as armour, and what happens when the instrument turns on the one thing it was never designed to measure.
๐https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/portraits/2026-03-28-vacua/
#psychologicalfiction #autofiction #shortfiction #writing #fiction
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"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.
โThe Crowns That Answeredโ:
https://writingwithamandalee.weebly.com/blog/the-crowns-that-answered
If you read it, Iโm curious what stayed with you after.
#ShortStory #ShortFiction #IndieFiction #FictionWriting #CreativeWriting #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWritingFiction #FictionReaders #IndieAuthors #StoryDiscussion #WritingLife #ReadersAndWriters
#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
And this one is just flat out fun:
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/where-are-they-now/
I didnโt die when I fell into the candy river, you know. That mean girl didnโt die when she got flushed down the fake novelty toilet. Neither did the other one, the one who ate so much jelly that they rolled her away to pump her stomach. I think she set the record for the highest ever blood glucose level, but sheโs alive. We write sometimes.
This story is EXCELLENT.
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/lotus-dew-for-the-emperors-tea/
The First Emperor was the first and last of true immortals on earth, and no winter touched his realm. No autumn wind blew. His orchards bloomed and fruited and bloomed again. In his court, death and old age were shut out. And every day, he drank a cup of tea brewed in the dew of lotus flowers, which had been collected that morning from the lotuses that grew in a heaven-touched lake at the easternmost point of his palace grounds.
Kairos Prometheon
Morris Wayts
Laura Blackwell (she/her)
Waywords Studio
Writing With Amanda Lee
Mike Robbins
Leona