“I thought dragons didn’t exist.” “Yet here I am.” “And I thought dragons roasted anyone they met.” “Only those who want to kill us. We’re not as big fans of the idea as you are.” “I am unarmed.” “Thus you live. Also, had you known you would meet a dragon today, would you not have […]
Writever – August 2022
#writever is a Twitter writing prompt initiative with monthly lists of words. The suggestion is to write, based on these words, science-fiction, fantasy, fantastique stories. It can be a single story in thirty-odd tweets, or thirty-odd one-tweet micro-fictions, written any time one wants. My personal approach is to program one tweet in french, and one […]
Rays of Hope
This is my contribution to #RaysDay 2022. Feel free to comment here, or on Mastodon, or on Twitter! This short story is published by me, Albert ARIBAUD, under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, with the express indication that reproduction MUST be made in a form or on a medium which has NO access […]
Writever – July 2022
#writever is a Twitter writing prompt initiative with monthly lists of words. The suggestion is to write, based on these words, science-fiction, fantasy, fantastique stories. It can be a single story in thirty-odd tweets, or thirty-odd one-tweet micro-fictions, written any time one wants. My personal approach is to program one tweet in french, and one […]
Cruel and unusual punishment
This short story was written based on a prompt at Critique Circle which basically amounted to “The devil, an app and a teenage school kid with a problem”. There was an additional constraint of not editing while writing, which I respected to a degree there, but here I have fixed a few embarrassing typos and […]
Writober
Writober is a list of 31 propositions, one for each day of October 2021. The objective is to create, in at most 280 signs, a science-fiction, fantasy or fantastique story. In the blog post, I collect, more or less regularly, all my productions… 1/ The other side of the dream Each of them believes he […]
Dreamland
This vignette/short story was written based on a prompt at Critique Circle which basically amounted to “A dream/nightmare and its effect on reality for your main character. No more than 3 paragraphs, no more than 5 sentences per paragraph.”. If you like working from prompts like this, register at Critique Circle (that’s free), there’s about […]
Late Summer
This short story is the result of @Curator@mastodon.art‘s “challenge” found there. Four images, 50 words per image. It is a followup to the previous such challenge response. I wake up. So I should have died, but I haven’t. Snow did reach the lake side… and then stopped short. Also nausea and dizziness are gone. In […]
Off Season
This short story is the result of @Curator@mastodon.art‘s “challenge” found there. Four images, 200 words. Didn’t know if that meant 200 words per image or 50, and I like my shorts shorts. 🙂 Snow has been building up. Again. Over the previous layers. I should have gotten used to it by now, but haven’t. Most […]
How the Seirangs did not invade Earth thanks to General Coleman
The alien invasion ships steamrolled over Tau Ceti. Earth’s direct connection with its very first and only colony was severed within the first seconds of the assault. Earth did not learn about the attack from the ground station, as the first impact had shattered the dome and killied all of its occupants at once. The […]