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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 01, 2026

Reading The hardest part, when compiling demon invocations, is to realize that many beginners read out loud. One must thus ensure that simply reading an invocation does not activate it, lest it decimate the ranks of sorcerer apprentices. #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 22, 2026

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Rewriting 'Dear intelligent beings: We shall soon be rewriting the physical foundations of your universe. During this process, you may undergo subtle or profound shape changes, or even disappear entirely. Thank you for your attention.' #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jan 01, 2026

#writever Crossing For crossing the river Styx, in addition to the two traditional coins, Charon now accepts major credit cards, as well as payment in kind. No one knows what he does with all the bits of souls he receives. #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jan 02, 2026

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#writever Instant If you descend straight towards a black hole, at the exact instant you cross the Schwarzschild radius, you can manoeuver to exit out in any direction you want. Well, the Schabasch do it, so everyone can manage it, right? #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jan 03, 2026

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#writever Denial Elena the Curious expressed firm denial as to the rumours suggesting her responsibility in the acute diarrhoea crisis which struck Krek the Swift shortly after his statement that ‘women should wipe children's bottoms, not perform magic’. #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 17, 2026

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Proofreading Krek The Swift's first and sole published book of counter-curses could have done with some proofreading, according to the words of a great number of unhappy buyers, often uttered in extremely graphical and efficient terms. #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 18, 2026

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Polish 'Honestly,' said the Devil, 'the Boss is not going to be happy. He spent a whole aeon to polish an unforgettable world end, and all this for you to botch it from under His feet in less than two centuries...' #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 19, 2026

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Disagreements To be a telepath nowadays is a heavy evolutionary disadvantage. The intense migraine constantly induced by your countless unending disagreements renders me almost unable to function within your society. #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 20, 2026

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Negotiation It's amazing what you can manage when you're open to negotiation. The vampires drain them, then the werefolk gut them, then the ghouls eat the pieces... Granted, the necromancers protest, but hey, you can't please *everyone*, right? #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 21, 2026

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Compromise "I've got you an excellent compromise with the Terrans. They've agreed to stop sending junk into space, and you've agreed not to bombard Earth with your Z-cannons." "What Z-cannons?" "As I said, it's an excellent compromise." #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 06, 2026

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Interpretation 'That the Dragon is a malevolent creature and the Princess an innocent victim,' said the Knight, is one interpretation of the facts among several. I shall go talk with them and hear their side of the story.' #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 07, 2026

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Imperfect 'Every Terran is imperfect; this is what makes them unique,' the auto-translator enunciated. Foster pinched his nose and sighed. What the Denebian ambassador had *said* was 'Only a Terran can be so uniquely unfinished.' #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 08, 2026

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Subjectivity "Call me out on my subjectivity if you like, but personally, I find it admirable that humanity has managed to produce artificial blood that is identical to the real thing in every way," said Count Emil Scarlat as he sipped his drink. #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 09, 2026

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Arbitrary 'Your decision to keep us Terrans outside of the Galactic Union is arbitrary!' 'Yes... and then no. It is indeed founded on absolutely non-objective individual intuitions. But we *all* agree that you are just insufferable.' #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 10, 2026

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Doubt 'As a robot,' replied R42, 'I never have a single moment of doubt. That being said, the doubts I do not have may change radically from one moment to the other as soon as new facts warrant it.' #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 11, 2026

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Idiom To even *begin* to understand what it means to master magic, one must first realize that, to be able to cast a spell, one has to perfectly fluently speak the idiom in which it was created. #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 12, 2026

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Transpose When a spaceship transposes, things get weird: height becomes breadth; breadth, depth; depth, length; length, time; and time, height. You need to transpose three more times to get back to normal. #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 13, 2026

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Correlation 'So, I cross-checked things several times, and I found a near-perfect correlation between variations in the numbers of Dragons, of Princesses, and of Knights. Every time a Princess is born, a Knight and a Dragon appear.' #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 14, 2026

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Ballpark The number of human beings born in this world is in the ballpark of a hundred to a hundred and forty billions, most of them claimed by no religion. Wandering souls should thus *teem*. Yet we don't see any much. What has become of them? #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud@mastodon.art · Jul 15, 2026

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Perseverance You cannot make a machine that goes back in time. But with enough perseverance, you can make one that stops moving with time. On the upside, it carries no risks of temporal paradoxes. On the downside, it's totally useless. #writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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