"So, uh, you're an Elf?"
"Indeed."
"Are you, like, homo or heterosexual?"
"Me, or Elves?"
"Er, both?"
"Most Elves are homosexual, some are heterosexual, some bisexual. I am bisexual."
"You like both men and women?"
"What's gender got to do with it? I like both Elves and Dwarves."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 11:05:56 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "You are the chosen one."
"Me? Wait, like in a hero?"
"Yes, the chosen hero."
I shook my head. "That can't be... I've never heard of a hero like me."
"There are countless heroes, of every kind you can imagine. You are one. We don't choose heroes. We choose whose story to tell."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Sep-2022 20:40:19 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "Oh," he said. "When you said you were a mermaid... I thought you'd look different."
"Oh?" she said. "How?"
"Well... I thought you'd have larger eyes."
"To see in the dark?"
"And be more pale."
"From lack of sunshine?"
"Yeah. And thin."
"Oh! You've got me confused with Gollum!"
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Sep-2022 10:52:57 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and an alien emerged.
"Er," they said.
They looked around, turned and looked at the door, then turned again.
"Do you also experience that?" they asked the gathering crowd. "You go through a door and forget what you were going to do?"
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Sep-2022 19:40:08 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "So," said the astrophysicist, "since you have much more advanced technology than us, and travel through wormholes and all, I'm sure you can tell us-"
"Gullibility," said the alien.
"-wha... Pardon?"
"What you call 'dark matter'. Gullibility."
"Gullibility?"
"Gullibility."
"Huh."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 16:38:15 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "You want me to...? No. Your kink is not my kink, and that's okay, but no."
"It's not a kink, it's... You're an administrator. A good one."
"I don't see how that has any-"
"Bite me!"
"No! Why?"
"So every full moon I'll be able to sort things out, reply to emails..."
"Oh. Okay."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Sep-2022 11:32:25 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin The messages from space began with numerical patterns then built from there. Arithmetic, algebra, calculus; then concepts no human mathematician had dreamt of. But having seen them, they worked it out.
"It's a proof the sender exists."
"So are the messages."
"Still worth saying."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 19:18:03 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin There was a sign. It said "To be woken by true love's kiss".
Next to it, a princess sat polishing a sword.
A knight rode up. "Ah, you have already been kissed?"
"No," said the princess, "I did the kissing."
"Oh. Right. Um. And the happy... lady?"
"Right here," said the sword.
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 08:42:53 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin A young dragon landed on the thatched roof of the witch's cottage.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"Oh, nothing."
She grumbled, but work called and she soon forgot about it. Then, after a month, she had a thought.
"Are you hoarding my cottage?"
"No," said the dragon.
"Me?"
"Um..."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Aug-2022 15:04:12 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "You are sitting through the chair."
I looked up. A child was staring at me.
"Pardon?"
"You are sitting through the chair."
So I was. I made myself float up a bit.
"That better?"
"Never seen a hologram miss a chair before."
"Ah." I smiled. "I'm not a hologram, I'm a ghost."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Aug-2022 19:55:45 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a good library, must be in want of more books."
The dragon looked smug, as if they had said something clever.
"True," said the knight, hefting his lance. "But those belong to the town library. Return them!"
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Teryl's Tales of Whim~ (teryl_pacieco@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Aug-2022 14:40:31 UTC Teryl's Tales of Whim~ The night was hot - even the lofty royal towers couldn't maintain their usual chilliness.
The restless princess listened to the chittering coming from under her bed. She imagined cute mice or perhaps squirrels trying to escape the heat. But the more she listened, the more she could make out words. She knew she wasn't the kind of princess who spoke to animals...
"Hot as hell, isn't it?" she tested.
"Almost like home," replied the lead imp.
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Aug-2022 15:03:08 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin The swordmaster sat down. "Would you speak with me, please?"
The dragon approached warily. "No sword forged can pierce my hide."
"I know."
"Then why are you here?"
"To hear you out."
"No, why you?"
"I have studied long to learn how to keep a sword sheathed."
"Hm. That's a first."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Aug-2022 17:20:52 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin You find amazing things when you fix up a century-old house like ours, which was built in the 2000's.
"Another memory card," my wife says. "We'll take it to the library."
"Do you think it's photos or banned books?"
"It was hidden, so probably banned books."
"Heroes lived here."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 15:12:35 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin The robot held a sign with the words "Please donate to let me speak" and a QR code.
On a whim, I scanned it and donated.
"Thank you!" the robot said.
"So you can speak?"
"My text-to-speech is cloud-based, and my subscription had run out."
"What about free speech?"
"I wish."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 19:32:29 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "So you just adopted them?" the princess said.
"When they failed to defeat me," the dragon said, "they all said they couldn't return home in shame."
"You can't hoard princes."
"I'm not trying to. But someone must look after them. Anyway, do you see your brother?"
"That one!"
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 19:28:38 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "So you just adopted them?" the princess said.
"When they failed to defeat me," the dragon said, "they all said they couldn't return home in shame."
"You can't hoard princes."
"I'm not trying to. But sometime must look after them. Anyway, do you see your brother?"
"That one!"
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Aug-2022 17:10:59 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "Are all monsters really monsters?" the hero asked.
"Monsters are like bastards," the witch said. "All bastards are bastards, but some bastards are /bastards/."
The hero nodded.
"That's what I thought. Thank you."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Aug-2022 11:03:10 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "No, see," the fairy Queen said, "when we ask someone for their first-born, it is because that is what is most precious to them. You offering that shows us we must ask for something else."
"Oh," he said. "What then?"
"What is most precious to you: your certainty you are right."
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Aug-2022 16:23:45 UTC Micro SF/F stories by O Westin "We have decoded the latest missive from the Humans," Scrp'x said. "It appears to be a diplomatic commitment of loyalty."
Behind them, the gold plaque found on the Humans' first probe was shown.
"They undertake to never: give us up, let us down, or run around and desert us."
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