2026-10-02 18:01 UTC
On the market day, the witch stopped by all the stalls.
"Have a care," she told the tinsmith. "You're getting fuzzy."
"What?"
"Do you ponder other paths you could have taken?"
"All the time."
"Shadows of other yous hang on you, making you indistinct. Don't lose the you you are. You're real."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Replies (6)
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@VaylLarkinPoet@disabled.social 2026-10-02 19:01
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art This is my favorite little fable/parable I've read in a while! Very charming and with good, deep roots.
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@EvoScale@c.im 2026-10-02 19:36
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art Were there so many you-you's, that you were abbreviated to yo-yo's?.. Not that TechBros are stringing you along, wildly up and down this vertigo life...
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@knowprose@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 19:45
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art this was GOOD.
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@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 19:48
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art I think more often of the times I chose this path when I might have otherwise missed it.
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@mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 21:14
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art Spoken like a true master.
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@fleuron@mas.to 2026-10-03 13:44
@MicroSFF@mastodon.art the realest witch.