Truly Tiny Tales

Fantastic #microfiction by C.S. Begu.

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He was plotting a dessert.

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Team of archelogists in Hungary discover ruins of an ancient wall built to keep out the Huns.

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New resources discovered, some of them human.

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@JerrySeinfeld Is this anything?

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What hero of Troy would admit to a secret wish for anonymity and a warm, long-lived mediocrity? But Ajax's dad would have shunned his beastly son had he known his inner mildness. So Ajax went to war. 3000 years later his name lives on at checkout counters all around the world.

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The rookie comic did not know about the undercover reptilians in the audience, whose human-laugh gland was stimulated by his stage fright. So he thought his jokes worked. And so did the Late Night scout, who got him on the show the very next day, 2 minutes before the invasion.

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Two kids cross the street holding hands, afraid a car will hit the other.

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Overtime, working weekends, and grocery shopping had not been a problem until he found out about the Simulation. That it was designed not by a space nerd, but a god. And that aliens were demons. Including Messi.

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@elonmusk Twitter fails to load in my cave here on Mars. Please come and fix it in person. Bring sattelites, tunnel diggers and jorogans!

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@elonmusk It all began with the media mogul retweeting a microstory vaguely triggering his struggles with juggling myriad companies and fates. Who could have imagined that this flick of the thumb would lead to his interplanetary travel dreams coming true during his lifetime?!

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Tim was a master multitasker, so it was no wonder than when his time came, his heart paused mid-attack and then a stroke started. But that froze too and his lungs began to cave. Gasping for a last breath, he looked up and saw the Angel of Death fiddling with an iPhone.
#vss

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What hero of Troy would admit to a secret wish for anonymity and a warm, long-lived mediocrity? But Ajax's dad would have shunned his beastly son had he known his inner mildness. So Ajax went to war. 3000 years later his name lives on at checkout counters all around the world.

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It was an hour up to the ocean surface. Propelled by the column of sulphur, the exhiled held his breath. He had only breathed in lava all his life and water would have killed him, despite his immortality. Hands on his chest, he took in the strangeness of the new world. Soon, air.

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The brush had been dipped in willdust and, as the artist finished the king's portrait, the lines reshaped themselves into the author's true vision of the monarch, to the helpless amazement of the whole Court. Decapitation of both the artist and the queen followed shortly.

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The boy from the Philosopher's Clan was running around with pen and paper, prospecting reality for meaning ore. He found plenty but when he hauled it back home, it would all melt into words, leaving the tribe thoughtful but weaponless. And the panther ate them, and became wise.

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The time machinist invested his one and only bitcoin to build the diamond-powered, platinum-frame device. He set the time to August 18, 2008, checked his pocket for the 100 dollar note -- his only cash left -- and pushed the button. This time, the future would look different...

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@WritingAboutWr1

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Just as he was lifting his thunderbolt to strike the tourists he'd found loitering on Mt. Olympus, Zeus was stopped by his nephew Narcissus, who had been taking care of things during Zeus' hiatus.
"Uncle, nooo! That's bad PR. They'll call us Nazis. OMG, we're already trending..."

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The Hawaiian elders told stories of "lahʻu lele", the only discipline where you passed from apprentice, to master, to statue in the tribe's main hall, during the course of a day. Translates to "lava surfing".

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Etched into the solidmelt of the Drommian temple, the inscription glowed serial numbers of random galaxies in the Rohr Table. Each time one turned, a different entity appeared through the gate. The last one was turned back. She had forgotten the Receipt.
#sciencefiction #fantasy

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Along with the sheets of snow tumbling down the mountain behind me, I could sense familiar vibrations in my ski suit coming every few seconds. The breath of death was sweetened by those little shots of joy in my heart pocket, the likes from my Facebook live.

#microfiction

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"What were journalists, daddy?"
"They looked just like all the other humans we annihilated, except they had no hearts."

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Dealing with abduction can be hard enough without the added pressure of shrinking deadlines and work-related stress. So the new mindfulness sessions were a welcome relief for both humans and ETs on the team.