Ghost of the mind, haunting thoughts.
#SixWordStories #FiXatoWrites #FiXatoCreative #writing

Ghostwriter ghosted historian; exhumed medium spooked.

#SixWordStories #FiXatoWrites #FiXatoCreative

crunch
squish
one of those days

#SixWordStories #FiXatoWrites #FiXatoCreative

Eyes locked,
moon reflected,
they howled.

#SixWordStories #FiXatoCreative #FiXatoWrites

Setting the scene is this #inTake (an out-take that's been edited back into the original clip) from #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration: https://youtu.be/qsVO9EPhpFc (Ryan's Edits: Star Trek INtakes #143, *Riker Rolls With It".)
"Damn it", Geordi muttered to himself as he headed towards the turbolift, "this is the last time I'm going to haul his drunk ass home again... He knows he can't handle his Romulan Ale."
"Computer, location of Commander Riker?", Geordi asked with a sigh, as the turbolift doors whooshed open.
"Commander Riker is in Shuttle Bay 2," the computer answered.
"Huh, I guess the drunken fool thought he could pop off to Risa... again... good thing we installed those breathalysers after the last time; don't want to have yet another incident like we had with that Vidiian ambassador... he really got under her skin."
Geordi chuckled to himself at the pun, but then quickly shuddered as he remembered the holophotos.

"Alright, go home, you're drunk Will", he started with an exasperated groan, recovering quickly with "... 'you ever have a day without bugs popping up', is what I said to the computer after it garbled up your message, sir! So, I figured I'd just head on over here STAT before I have a look at the comms systems. What seems to be the issue?"
'Nice save', LaForge thought to himself, 'better double-check with the computer next time before I assume he's off his rocket again next time... So glad his name also acts as a verb!'

#STTNG #outTakes #bloopers #WillRiker #JonathanFrakes #GeordiLaForge #fiction #microFiction #FanFiction #FiXatoWrites #FiXatoCreative

@vicorva I think my preference for single double quotes might have something to do with how I tend to use the same character for single quotes and apostrophes, and thus you could end up in situations where there would be an apostrophe right before a single closing quote: 'That's James'', which would look weirder to me than "That's James'". I guess I I could solve this by using grave accent and backticks, so you'd have `That's James'´, but that would take too much conscious typing and use of the alt-graph key.
In Dutch I grew up using quotes where the first one is more like double lying commas, such as 🙸That's James'🙷 or „That's James'” or ones that are hanging but tilted towards the word, such as ‟That's James'”, though those are even harder to type unless I use my phone. ;)
(Also, I dont think a trailing apostrophe is actually a thing in Dutch.)

My use of quotes might also be heavily influenced by programming though, where single quotes strings are usually not parsed by the programming language, while those in double quotes can often contain variables. Nested quotes of the same type also mean you need to escape them with a backslash, which means I tend to use double quotes for strings so I don't have to worry about apostrophes breaking my string.

When I quote a text, I tend to wrap it in «double angle quotation marks», so I don't have to worry about nested quotes of any kind confusing people where my quote ends and the quotee's quote starts. :)

In my #FiXaNotes browser extension I do have a section with all sorts of quotation marks in case I need to mix and match though.

#quotation #FiXaThoughts #writing #FiXatoWrites #FiXatoCreative

the phone rang
I have none...

#SixWordStories #FiXatoCreative #FiXatoWrites

The dragon got bored
was tired of their hoard
so they took what they'd stored
and flew to the nearest port,
where they shared their wealth and roared:
"please accept this award
that I spread of my own accord."

#FediRhyme #FiXatoCreative #Tootfic #FiXatoWrites #dragons

A crack,
a helping hand,
broken.

#SixWordStories
#FiXatoCreative #FiXatoWrites #tootfic

Punny comeback to existing six word story:

"I've sold my soul for peanuts."

"You sure they were not cash-ews?"

#SixWordStories #FiXatoCreative #FiXatoWrites #puns #pun

"Eye for detail wanted.
Preferably green."

#SixWordStories #FiXatoWrites #FiXatoCreative

#hashtags I regularly use:

• #FiXatoCreative a collection of all my creative outlets. I usually combine these with one of the following:
• #FiXatoPaints for my physical media paintings and #FiXatoPaintsDigitally for my digital ones.
• #FiXatoDraws drawings made with other materials than paint. Distinction is not always very clear cut, and I may use them interchangeably.
• #FiXatoWrites for my writing activities
• #FiXatoFoto as well as #photography and #dailyPhoto for photographs I've taken.

Then there's also these other topics that interest me:

• #FiXatoCodes and #coding (which is perhaps better used as a profile filter: FiXato's #coding posts)
• #FiXatoStreams for my posts about my #livestreaming activities.
• #FiXatoBlog for posts I would like to expand to full blog posts at a later point, or for posts about the development of said blog.
• #MSX and #MSX2 for posts about the MSX #homecomputer from the 80s.
• #FiXatoFood for food I eat and/or make
• #pun and #puns for the puns I make

#WhoAmI #MyProfile #MyHashtags

"Time traveller needed: application due yesterday"

That's the subject done of the job offer done, but what about the description..? They had no clue why they'd need a time traveller, but yesterday they'd found a curious letter on their doormat addressed to them which read as follows:

"Dear Mx Song, as per your job offer dated tomorrow, I hereby offer my services as time traveller. I've just returned from our interview that's scheduled for Thursday next week at noon at
Caffè Nero in London, and while I can't inform you of the details of this meeting, it's my understanding that your need for a temporal wayfarer is quite critical.
I await your offer forthcoming, though you must understand that given the short notice, I will have to charge priority fees upon completion of our journeys.
With kind regards,
Dr. Kaa"

At first they'd thrown the letter away; thinking it a mere scam they'd carried on with their day not giving it a second thought. However, the next morning as they left their bathroom, there was a loud crack followed by the sound of glass falling onto the floor... The sight of the medicine cabinet and the shards of its mirror, now spread across the floor, made them feel very uneasy...

They rushed down the stairs, quickly tightening the belt on the dressing gown they'd grabbed on their way out of the bathroom. The dew-covered grass felt cold and wet on their bare feet, but all they could think of was "please, let the paper bin not been emptied yet..." as they rushed to the curbside bins.

Opening the blue lid they rummaged through the top layer of old paper till they found the envelope.
Skipping the letter's main contents they read the small post script at the bottom:

"Ps. don't worry about the mirror; these things happen."

Their heart skipped a beat. How had they known? What does this mean? Certainly it can't be...

But something about this felt very real. Very... true... They knew what they had to do.

And so, here they sat on the sofa, fingers resting on the laptop's keyboard, pondering what to write for its job description, till it hit them.

"Details available at interview on the 26th of May at noon at
Caffè Nero in London."

Suddenly getting very excited, and giddy, they added: "Ps. don't be late."

#SixWordStoriesExpanded #StoryPrompt #TimeTravel #SciFi #microfiction #FiXatoCreative #FiXatoWrites

You might think me dull,
but it says here on the tin:
"Good scripts go to bin,
Bad scripts go to /dev/null"

#DeveloperPoetry #rhymes #FiXatoWrites