Category: flash fiction
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Today’s News
April 1, 2025 A dozen music majors from universities and conservatories across the United States just published the highly anticipated results of their yearly drunken social media challenge to create the most annoying sound in the universe. This year, the music students decided to invite various AI platforms to participate…
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Count on it….
(A commercial sometime in the not-too-distant future) Are you tired of technology? Of apps and programs that keep changing on you? Devices that are designed to become obsolete and infuriatingly expensive and difficult to use? Do you long for simpler times and tools you can understand and operate easily? Cars…
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Nightmare
You’re trying a new restaurant for dinner. A waitress brings you water, a basket of rolls, and a menu and says she’ll be back soon to take your order. When she returns, you tell her you’d like the grilled salmon with lightly steamed asparagus. She makes notes on a pad,…
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Pudding
Once upon a time, there was Comfort, and there was Safety, and they were very close. Comfort could live without Safety, and Safety could live without Comfort; but as they realized they were better as a pair, they preferred not to be apart. All went well for a while, until…
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Sole Support
Miranda didn’t trust her mirrors so she crawled out of herself for an objective look. It was a nasty trip, through a spongy maze of gray matter, past the eyes, and down the nose. If she had known the route was going to be so twisted and sticky, she would…
