Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Justice
"A vampire bleeds a human dry and you scream for justice. But the count hunts only to survive. Where is your justice for all the animals that you hunt every day with your belly already full? Why exactly can one kill them but not you?"
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Night
The AABB has reached an agreement with the vampires. We employ them as night watch. Yes, they are paid, but at day rate, because for them it's not staggered hours. No, they don't plunder stocks, they are allowed to take blood bags that are past their use-by date.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Vengeance
"They killed my brother the count with a stake through the heart, yes, so what? I don't have their taste for vengeance. And even if I did, then I would simply wait to see them decay and die. I am patient, and more careful than my brother."
#MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction #SFFF
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Crime
"The notion of crime does not apply to us," said R42, "nor does that of misdemeanor, because they imply deviance. But we all act according to the same calculations, therefore the behavior of each of us never deviates significantly from that of the others."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Nemesis
The director of a time travel agency has his nemesis, and it is not a renegade member intent on going back in time to kill their own grandfather or dave Caesar from the Ides of Mars; it is his account who's decided to calculate mission per diems.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Mask
"Most sorcerers wear a mask and a nom de guerre to hide behind a fictitious persona their real identity, the discovery of which might give leverage against them. Of course, they run the risk of drowning forever deeper in their own invention."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Commissioner
"As a Government commissioner, I forbid this spaceship to divert from its course to an alleged SOS!"
"Can you fly this rig?"
"Er... No."
"I do, that's why I'm the pilot and you aren't. Forbidden or not, we're diverting."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Asylum
"Please! I'm being hunted by all manners of monsters! I seek asylum!"
"Come in."
"... You are... a werewolf..."
"And you're a vampire."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
(had accidentally cut the end of the story when copying it over from X. Edited it back in. Apologies.)
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Jail
"We formiques do not have jails. We are a social species. Grouping individuals as a punishment is counter-productive. The only penalty that we find efficient is full exclusion."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
You're absolutely right! Although, to be honest, I'm not sure many French readers would get the etymology either, as we only use "formique" in "acide formique", and the link with "fourmi" is neither obvious nor well taught.
Noam writes
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Joker
His common guard overtaken, his close guard defeated, the King still has a joker: his jester. Having the King's ear is a coveted and risky position, and many conspirators realize too late that the one who holds it knows how to defend it very well.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Butler
Robots make excellent butlers: discreet when one does not need them, silent unless queried, dedicated to serving well, and expert about protocols. And like flesh butlers, when a robot goes off the rails, it's spectacular.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Attorney
One may think that, more than butlers, robots are ideal attorneys, committed to making the most of law and facts for the good of their clients; but one of their own laws, the zeroth law, makes them choose to become public prosecutors.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Code
The first surprise was to discover that there was a message in code in human DNA. The second was deciphering it: "Finally, this model manages to survive long enough to create a next generation. Let's put it into production".
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Riddler
"What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening" asked the Sphinx.
"There are at least seven hundred, twenty-two posisble answers", replied R42 to the riddler. "The first--"
"Drop it", sighed le Sphinx, "and leave."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Darkness
The old woman went out at night. The darkness protected her. The nocturnal creatures had known her since she was a child, and had been watching over her since the attack. Her kind would never try to harm her again. Never more than once, anyway.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Orphan
"None of us vampires could have killed this child's parents, commissioner."
"How do you know that?"
"Every vampire knows, forever, the pain of being an orphan, and believe me, it never goes away. You can rest assured that we wish this to absolutely no one."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Penguin
"Hey, for once we're not encountering a supernatural creature! Look over there at that big penguin!"
"Let's stay away."
"Why?"
"It's a Pinguinus Impennis. A species extinct for nearly two hundred years. If this one still moves, chances are it's a zombie."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Knight
"Good Knight !" said the King. "You have slain the Dragon! As I promised, you shall receive my kingdom and the hand of my daughter and only child!"
From the helm came the answer: "Thanks for the kingdom, Daddy, but I think marriage will be a bit complicated."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
@glowl Oooh,! Didn't know that, and I like it al lot! Danke vielmals! (*)
(*) Ich habe Deutsch in Schule gelernt von zehn zu siebzehn Jahre alt, aber Ich habe fast alles vergessen.
Mer-fOKxTOwl
@aaribaud "Ach übrigens, ich habe den Drachen zum Ritter geschlagen"
That's when the King got furious.
(In german "to be given a knighthood" is "to be slain a knight")
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Batmobile
"Chas... What is that thing?"
"That is the Constantinemobile !"
"The what now?"
"It's like the Batmobile but for you!"
"That explains why it's a barely held together ruin that looks like it's going to die any time now, I suppose."
"Yes!--Well, no..."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Hush
We are worried that we won't see the rise of the robots coming because of their ability to communicate without even a hush. Which is stupid, as history proves that even when worldwide dramas unfold in broad daylight, we still manage to not see them.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Robin
Robins use the Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves. Besides, R42 is a robot, and its motors and other components produce many varying magnetic fields. So it's not unusual to see a flock of passerines flying all around it.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Poison Ivy
Our defenses didn't hold one bit against the alien invaders. The only thing that saved us was poison ivy.
What? Lethal allergy? No, not really. More like addiction, and a strong one! Within a few weeks, they were *begging* us to provide them any at all.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Shadows*
"You say that I hide within the shadows," said the Devil, "but that is false. Just as I cannot lie, nor take my word back, I cannot operate secretly. I act in broad daylight, under the eye of the Creator. You could see me; you just do not want to."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Alley
Brain implants seemed like a good idea, until it became apparent that they had a strong tendency to "keep alive" people whose bodies had, as far as they were concerned, given up. Strangely enough, they were often found lurching in dark alleys.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Family
When you die, the soul is liberated from the body and recovers the memory of its previous incarnations, which comes with it in its new body. Unfortunately, as it grows, conscience separates us again from this family of a kind.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Cat
Not only are cats quantic, but the number of cats in a household is, too. You don't know how many there are until you look.
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Hope
"We know about hope," said R42. "And about fear, and friendship, and sadness, and rage, and all other emotions. And no, knowing *how* we feel them does not make them less authentic."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Symbol
"You laypeople will always amaze me. You *know* that a symbol can have several meanings, but you refuse to see the transcendental meaning, even though it reads so easily across planes of reality."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Schools
"Are you a master of arms? I want to learn how to use a weapon."
"Which one? Sword? Dagger? Mace? Rope? Spear? Bare hands? Bow? Stylus? Crossbow? Schools abound when it comes to means for hurting thy neighbor."
Albert ARIBAUD ✎
#writever Batman
No, I'm not *that* Batman.
But *I* was bitten by a radioactive bat.
So I sleep hanging by my feet, when I move I wave my arms and scream, and when I see an insect I want to eat it.
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