Notices by Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social), page 16

A spaceship landed in the park, and an alien emerged.
"Greetings," it said. "Take us to your leader."
A passing jogger stopped. "Uh, I can-"
"We were not addressing you," the alien said, "but the ghosts. They do outnumber you."
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We all had a highly targeted mindwipe before boarding the hyperjump ship.
Now we are here, waiting for the transmission from Earth. Where we are, the past hasn't happened yet, and none of us can remember it.
The match begins...
Ah!
No!
Yes!
Our team won! We won! We're champions!
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When I learned to
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pause time I saw
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no use for it. Nothing
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could move, so
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I couldn't do
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anything in the
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pause. But then
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I learned to see a
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whole page, and read
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it in my mind. Now
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I can read all the
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books.
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"Fight me!" the king called.
"You, or your army?" the dragon said.
"Me. My army will witness my victory."
"They'd doubt you, if you told them?"
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I studied the ghost. He seemed almost solid.
"Will you be okay?"
"Yes," he said, sounding alive. "It's exhausting, and I can't do it for long but-"
"You don't have to do this."
"I know. But I chose to. It's okay if it's my choice."
"Then let's go see people, until you must fade."
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She summoned and bound a demon, to demand an answer:
"What is magic?"
"You sum-"
"This is not magic."
"No," the demon admitted, "this is mechanics. Magic is transformation."
"Like lead to gold?"
"Any guided change. Knitting, smithing - all magic."
"I can do magic?"
"You know it."
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@apLundell Thank you.

"The fight is not over until you stop fighting," the master said.
"What if my opponent stops fighting?"
"Do you keep fighting?"
"What if I do?"
"Then you are not fighting your opponent any more, but yourself."#CorrectedTypo#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"The fight is not over until you stop fighting," the master said.
"What if my opponent stops fighting?"
"Do you keep fighting?"
"What if I do?"
"They you are not fighting your opponent any more, but yourself."
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I met the bounty hunter as he rode in, dusty and weary.
"Did-" I hesitated, afraid to ask. "Did you find it?"
"Hardest job I ever had," the bounty hunter said, "but yeah, I found it."
He handed me a small box.
I opened it, and smiled widely as the hope I had lost came back to me.
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"Can you tell my future?"
The soothsayer looked up at the robot, considered, and nodded. "As well as anyone else's, I wager."
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@Baggypants
Incönceiväble!

"Tell a story!"
"There once was, on distant Earth-"
"No, a real story!"
"Hush. Earth was real, and full of children asking for stories, just like you."
"Really?"
"Really. They looked different, back then, but they, too, loved stories."
"So they were people?"
"They were people."
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Every choice made, every random event, every roll of dice creates a new timeline. I can show you how to step between them.
Do /this/
Just so.
We stepped to a timeline identical to your old, except someone somewhere rolled a two instead of a four.
Come, we have many steps to go.
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A dragon landed outside the village. "Feed me," it demanded.
The elders conferred, then one stepped up. "What do you wish to eat?"
"Eh? Nobody has ever asked... What is there, apart from what every village feeds me?"
"Er... We have potatoes?"
"Then feed me these 'potatoes'!"
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"So, professor, you have been everywhen in your time machine. What's the most important thing you've done?"
"I visited my young self, and learned to love myself."
"Oh, kinky!"
"I meant to say we talked and through that learned to love ourselves."
"My apologies."
"Then we fucked."
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"You have a lot of books. What are you going to do, build a throne?"
"What a silly idea. No, I'll build a sofa, so they can be shared."
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"The machine is designed to show what our universe looks like from the outside."
"How can that even be a thing?"
"Well, all we see is noise."
"Analog or digital?"
"Er. Digital."
"Parse it as binary."
"Hang on... Oh. It's text. A story. About us."
"What happens next?"
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"You are the last?"
"Yes," the last God said. "Gods exist to give reason to the inexplicable, and die when it is explained."
"So what are you God of? Love? Dark matter?"
"No," the God said with a smile, "I'm the God of creating Gods."
It faded from view.
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