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1. Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-May-2022 19:46:20 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin

   "Wait," the alien said, "you're a 'human'? I thought you were extinct?"
   "No?"
   "Let me check. Didn't ozone layer depletion kill you?"
   "Our bad. We fixed that."
   "Lead poisoning?"
   "That too."
   "Climate change?"
   "That too. Eventually."
   "Looks like this is your lucky timeline."
   "Yeah."
   #MicroFiction #SmallStories

   • Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 15:38:31 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin

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     • hrx

     @hrx
     I have at least one of those collections in a box in storage. :-)
     I considered it, but decided I wanted to focus on realising an on-going issue and fixing it. Thermo-nuclear war does not, luckily, fit that category.

   • hrx (hrx@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 15:38:32 UTC hrx

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     @MicroSFF Too bad there wasn't a "thermonuclear war" in the story - it would have been a sequel to Asimov's "Silly Asses"*, where the very wise Naron the Rigellian, the Great One, was proven wrong.

     * published in "Future Science Fiction", February 1958., and collections "Have You Seen This?" (1974.) and "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories" (1975.)