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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 14:00:48 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   #writever Captain

   In the Earth Fleet, you're the captain of a corvette, a frigate, a destroyer, the flagship... When all's said and done, in space you're just the person who's got to handle thing when everything goes sideways.

   #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 14:02:10 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Jewel

     "Let us fight for the Magnificent Jewel! Only one of us will surv--"

     "Here it is, if it'll make you stop bawling."

     "Huh?"

     "It's just a shiny rock. It's not worth a death, certainly not mine, and not yours either."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 03-Aug-2025 14:00:48 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Flaming

     Krek the Swift's Flaming Flamberge spell left people gaping, first at the actually flaming sword in his hand, then at himself holding his hand and yelling in pain. Elena the Curious sighed and fished a pot of unguent from her bag.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 14:01:22 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Proxima

     We all know that Proxima is the closest star to the Sun.

     What we don't all know is that by an unlikely coincidence, it is the closest star to *all* other stars.

     The Proximi know this and are fed up to their grux of the incessant traffic.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Aug-2025 14:00:24 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Explore

     ‘I've come to slay you, Sir Dragon!’

     "Could you wait a moment? I'm in the middle of my chapter."

     ‘You are... reading?’

     "Yes. I collect books. Feel free to explore my hoard."

     "... Do you have any Chrétien de Troye?"

     ‘Of course. All of them.’

     "... May I?"

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Aug-2025 14:00:22 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Pirate

     Robot pirates are more dangerous than flesh ones. Humans and money are safe: they only take whatever has got a calculator, however rudimentary. And you end up in a drifting wreck with no motor control and no radio.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 14:01:25 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Star

     "We've examined all planets around this frigging star, including those too far or too close, and we found nothing! Where is this bloody life hiding?"

     "The star."

     "There's life *on the star* ?"

     "The star *is alive*."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 14:00:46 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Ambassador

     ‘Let me introduce you to Ambassador-ess Neyil.’

     ‘So... do you Neyils promote diversity too?’ blurted the Earth Minister.

     The Skargo looked him up and down.

     ‘Yes, although *we* have an exception for dumbasses.’

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 14:00:47 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Eye

     The eye of a Dragon is a marvel of evolution: its retina is covered with cones, tuned to Princesses, and rods, tuned to Knights.

     However it sometimes happens that evolution gets confused and swaps cones and rods, to everyone's surprise.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 15:26:00 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Sgt Pépère

     @sgtpepere Je viens de le constater... Je corrige ça...

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     Sgt Pépère (sgtpepere@ludosphere.fr)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 15:26:01 JST Sgt Pépère

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     @aaribaud
     Pas de VF aujourd'hui ? ;)

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 15:50:32 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Sgt Pépère

     @sgtpepere Rah... Va *vraiment* falloir que je me penche sur la correction de messages dans mon outil, et/ou que je le rende plus résistant à des corrections externes... Hier j'ai corrigé trois des 4 posts (FR+EN masto, FR+EN Bluesky) sans corriger à la main dans l'outil... Merci encore pour le signalement !

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 14:00:47 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Crew

     "So, did you sink that ship with your songs?"

     "No. The crew consisted in men of iron, not of flesh."

     "What?"

     "They said our acoustic spectrum is exceptional."

     "What?"

     "We did not understand that either."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 14:01:13 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Trap

     "I am neither edible," said R42, "nor easily destructible, and I can help you find the way out of this Labyrinth where you have been trapped. Once outside, you'll be free to go and complain to the designer. Or gore him."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Aug-2025 14:00:47 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Cannon

     "So we line up a hundred cannons ready to fire. One man eases himself inside each mouth. We shoot above the walls, The men land inside, and then they open the gates for us and--"

     "Thank you. Any other suggestions? Odysseus, perhaps?"

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 14:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Amazon

     ‘Why do you call it “the Amazon side-saddle”? None of us would ever dream of adopting such an uncomfortable and inefficient posture. Ah, you were taught that by a *man*? I'm not surprised. Now, to ride *properly*...’

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 14-Aug-2025 14:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Galaxy

     Stellar Joe,the outlaw, is known across the whole galaxy...

     ... Which means he died of old age centuries ago, because that's how long it takes, at *least*, for reliable information to travel from one end of said galaxy to the other.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 15-Aug-2025 14:00:22 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Copilot

     When I announced that I would pilot the Tin Locust alone, at first the Shabasch refused. For them, I was an Erthian, so, necessarily, a copilot. I had to undergo six months of non stop simulation for them to agree.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 16-Aug-2025 14:04:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Space-time

     ‘This spell is trivial,’ commented Elena the Curious. ‘Rotation, translation, reverse rotation, all within the four-dimensional space-time continuum.’

     ‘What?’ Krek the swift stammered.

     Elena sighed.

     ‘It goes back in time.’

     ‘Ah.’

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 17-Aug-2025 14:00:22 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Android

     ‘So an android is like a man who does household chores without being told repeatedly? We'll take four billion of theses.’

     ‘That's going to take up a lot of space…’

     ‘No problem, we'll dump useless stuff.’

     ‘Understood, madam.’

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 18-Aug-2025 14:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     ‘I, Gawain, Corporal Knight, challenge you, drag--’

     ‘Corporal?’

     ‘We've organised ourselves into an army. You know, soldiers, NCOs, officers…’

     ‘So, one day a general will come challenge me, right?’

     ‘Er… I don't think that's planned.’

     ‘I thought as much.’

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 14:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Laser

     ‘A laser beam,’ R42 explained, ‘is the most efficient way to send heat to a given distant point, and I believe I know how *you* can actually produce one.’

     ‘You interest me greatly, Sir Armour,’ replied the Dragon.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 14:00:24 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Ship

     When the Theseus reached Alpha Centauri, everyone on board was dead. Then again, when you set out to replace all part of a ship one by one while in outer space, a fatal accident becomes unavoidable.

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     Asymmetricblue (asymmetricblue@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 19:47:31 JST Asymmetricblue

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     @aaribaud When the Theseus II reached Alpha Centauri, all the original crew were dead. Then again, on a Generation Ship with an efficient recycling system, all the new crew were effectively all the old crew too.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 14:02:09 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Flee

     ’Dragons flee in haste when they face me!’

     ‘... and only then.’

     ‘What do you mean--’

     <WOOOSH>

     ‘It was not very sporting to roast him from behind.’

     ’I DIDN'T HAVE THE HEART TO PROVE HIM WRONG.’

     ’That's to your credit.’

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 14:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Goddess

     “When I grow up I want to be the goddess of memory!”

     “Do you really think you have what it takes for that, my little, uh...”

     “Mnemosyne.”

     "... Ah yes, thank you."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 23-Aug-2025 14:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Epsilon

     The Shabasch word "epsilon", which comes from "eps", meaning "arrow", "i", meaning "distance", and "lon", meaning "tortoise", sounds the same as its Earthian translation.

     Xenolinguists are still scratching their heads about this one.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 14:24:02 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Cooperate

     For Wizards, agreeing to cooperate amounts to confesing to one's individual deficiency.

     For Witches, agreeing to cooperate amounts to recognizing the power of collective action.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 14:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Mercenary

     "I am a mercenary", Volta growled, "I'll shoot at someone if the mission requires it. But don't you *ever* call me an entrepreneur again. At least *I* have a moral compass."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 14:00:53 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Station

     Yeah, a space transport company should *know* that a shuttle designed only for upright station isn't a good idea for myriapod aliens...

     Come on, get on board, I've put anchors on all the internal surfaces.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 14:00:24 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Gardian

     Ah ah no, I'm out of it. This treasure's guardian is a woman. She won't challenge you in a single combat before the gates, no. She'll kill you from two hundred yards away without warning from a crenel. She means business.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 14:04:04 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Wreck

     In space, there's strict rules for survival. You don't get near black holes and asteroid fields, and most of all, you avoid getting too close to a wreck. There's a *reason* for it to have become one, and it might well be contagious.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 14:01:18 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Planet

     Tired of waiting until each planet agrees to align, the Sorcerer had devised a spell to put them in place and thus be able to transmute lead into gold.

     Then the immobilized planets started to fall toward the Sun.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 14:00:51 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Pursue

     When he died, his love was so strong that his ghost remained to pursue his efforts and make her love him back at last. But all he got was more shovel blows, now immaterial but still just as painful.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Aug-2025 14:26:25 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Quantum

     Ever since Wizards and Witches understood that Mana comes in quantum amounts, Wizards have sought how many quantums can fit in a single spell, while Witches have sought how few quantums each spell needs.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction