Post #4108198
2026-07-26 08:53 UTC
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a distraught alien emerged.
"What's happened to the library? It's gone! The one thing your civilization had going-"
"They moved to a new building," a passer-by said. "Don't you have ways of finding these things out?"
"Yes. I ask at the library."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Replies (3)
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@ArdentArchivist@archaeo.social 2026-07-26 11:59
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art I agree wholeheartedly: libraries are the closest homo sapiens has ever come to achieving civilization. 👏👏👏👏
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@Perrin42@mastodon.social 2026-07-26 15:58
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art And then all the libraries closed, and they had to send a ship back in time to find a breeding pair of libraries and bring them to the present before the aliens destroyed the planet...
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@jyrgenn@mas.to 2026-07-30 08:40
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art Yesterday at the supermarket checkout in front of me was a boy of maybe 8, 9 years or so who only wanted his bottle deposit back. What warmed my heart was that he had a whole arm full of library books. I wouldn't have pegged him as a reader, but apparently he was. I loved seeing that.