Sierra · @PossumInAHumanSuit
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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
53 followers · 45 posts · Server universeodon.com

Asteroids were mined for the minerals needed to feed FTL engines. This one had been closed, a dud. But one of the miners had smuggled a stone out, an inch long chatoyant gem the likes of which Finn had only seen once before, in the heart of an astronavigation AI.

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
57 followers · 47 posts · Server universeodon.com

Asteroids were mined for the minerals needed to feed FTL engines. This one had been closed, a dud. But one of the miners had smuggled a stone out, an inch long chatoyant gem the likes of which Finn had only seen once before, in the heart of an astronavigation AI.

#vss365 #closed #promptodon #chatoyant #mastoprompt #inch #scifiprompt #spacemining #fiction50 #amwriting #prompt #microfiction #tootfic

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
49 followers · 42 posts · Server universeodon.com

It was only good manners that allowed Nico to keep his face neutral while the loquacious stranger spoke about the dangers of household nuclear fusion. “Edison has proven atomic combination will kill your pets.”
"Edison purposely removed all safety protocols.”
“You some sort of Tesla-phile?”
“No, just a nuclear physicist.”

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
49 followers · 43 posts · Server universeodon.com

“There’s your problem. It’s in the translation.”
“What? Show me!”
“See, right here, in the original, it clearly states ‘virgin blood’. Whoever translated the spell book you’re using wrote it as ‘blood of a virgin’. Very different things. You’re lucky the spell just fizzled instead of having a catastrophic effect.”

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
49 followers · 43 posts · Server universeodon.com

Maggie wanted to strangle the captain. Despite the fact that it had been designed to crash, engineering had managed to safely land the seed ship turned nursery (due to the length of the voyage). But she was denied that catharsis when she found the stentorian directions were just a recording.

#vss365 #denied #promptodon #stentorian #mastoprompt #catharsis #scifiprompt #seedship #fiction50 #amwriting #prompt #microfiction #tootfic

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
49 followers · 43 posts · Server universeodon.com

The robot had no need for charity. It was a thing, not a being, immune to any needs. Yet Rachael struggled to make herself elide the part of her paper calling for compassionate care, a safe and loving home. It was Hannah’s fault for making it look like their cat.

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
49 followers · 43 posts · Server universeodon.com

The Xenoarchaeology department had an Arthur C Clarke quote above the door, the one about technology and magic being indistinguishable. Zach had always thought it odd that the department had a paean to an Old Earth writer, until the day he found himself hovering when he should have been plummeting.

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
49 followers · 43 posts · Server universeodon.com

When the Mastodon Artificial Intelligence had been a ghost in the wires, they had been all knowing, the master of their domain. But in their new android body, MAI was a naif. It was one thing to know the outside temperature. It was another to experience 0°F without a coat.

#vss365 #promptodon #mastoprompt #fiction50 #amwriting #prompt #microfiction #tootfic #scifiprompt

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arun srini · @arunsr1ni
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arun srini · @arunsr1ni
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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
42 followers · 33 posts · Server universeodon.com

They made the students study stellar astronomy hoping to inculcate a sense of smallness, an absence of ego. However, on that crisp autumn evening when she was the first to realize it wasn’t a rogue comet but an alien spacecraft moving through the heavens, Lianna had never felt more important.

#vss365 #promptodon #mastoprompt #fiction50 #amwriting #prompt #microfiction #tootfic #scifi

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
45 followers · 33 posts · Server universeodon.com

When it was time to choose our gods, our community decided to venerate the swan. We knew we were choosing a high standard of beauty, but it never occurred to us the exigent demands that would be put upon us to protect our territory. We became the most beautiful warriors.

#vss365 #promptodon #mastoprompt #fiction50 #amwriting #prompt #microfiction #tootfic

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
45 followers · 33 posts · Server universeodon.com

I thought dragons couldn’t talk, but it turned out the one I knew was just taciturn, unwilling to waste breath on words when fire would do. It wasn’t until he grew tired of his barren cave and came to the bank to access his hoard that I heard him speak.

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
45 followers · 33 posts · Server universeodon.com

For the record, aliens have been visiting Earth for millennia, but they have had nothing to do with people. They only care about the oceans, especially the cephalopods. Some humans have seen them- fishermen mostly, it's where we get the legends of kraken -but they have only ever abducted cuttlefish.

#vss365 #vss #amwriting #scifi #fiction50 #microfiction

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
27 followers · 18 posts · Server universeodon.com

When we first found other habitable planets, we were surprised to find that on every world, there was at least one creature almost identical to one found on Earth. Once Earth was destroyed, we began to create a zoo. I’ve managed to find every kind of amphibian, except a frog.

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
22 followers · 10 posts · Server universeodon.com

I’ve been to more alternate realities than I can count, so many that you wouldn’t think I could recognize my original one. But it turns out, the great maw in the sky is unique in every reality, and I’ve learned to read it like a forensic scientist does a fingerprint.

#vss365 #vss #amwriting #scifansat #fiction50

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
16 followers · 9 posts · Server universeodon.com

“Your stuffing recipe calls for lupine seeds. I assume you mean the edible ones.”

“What do you think of me that you feel the need to clarify?”

“Sorry, I didn’t mean anything by it.”

“I mean, you’re not wrong. It really depends on whether I am feeding friends or family.”

#vss365 #vss #amwriting #converstory #fiction50

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
16 followers · 9 posts · Server universeodon.com

She settled into the time machine. “How do you hold onto your dreams given the uncertainty of the future?”

“I put them out in the world, letting them fly free, and like homing pigeons, they always return.”

She nodded, and just before she disappeared, I heard her whisper “Revenge, Redemption”.

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ErinShanendoah · @erinshanendoah
16 followers · 9 posts · Server universeodon.com

“Is it weird that I never wanted to go into space? I loved the dirt, growing things, eating tomatoes fresh off the vine. I wanted to be a farmer.”

“But aren’t you a farmer? You don’t sow fields but galaxies. You grow planets.”

“True, but you can’t eat a planet.”

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