Mid-Week Muses

A weekly compilation of collected microfictions composed by yours truly. If your time is short, these are shorter!

Rifle barrel looming past the window frame's edge, Morton took aim. 
A plastic fist stuck him from behind. "Not today!"
#1linewed

"Please let me see you." 
His canine face winced. "I, I look like a furry, Ann." 
"I look like a malamute with boobs, open the door." 
#Thurds

Old Maya eyed her escaping grandchildren. Enraged, the soldier stomped 
her harder. Clasping the grenade, she pulled the pin. 
#ThruLineThurs

Josh watched his uncle roll up a yellowed issue of Town and Country 
like one of his cigarettes. He swatted the moosefly dead. 
#FictFri

"What've you done to me?" asked the girl. 
"They only froze your head, Mr. Kerry. And the primitive cryonics 
ruined your genome..." 
#SciFiFri

The shaman's stick etched a sigil into the beach. 
"Will the sea spirits—" 
"—Listen? Yes. Help? I can't say, Aen," she shrugged. 
#SlapDashSat

Clair watched the vortex of colorful bricks orbit Asil. "You can 
control... Legos?" 
"No, any plastic! Legos are just handy!" 
#slapdashsat

"A padded cell?" Dr. Marcus squinted. 
Bob nodded. "Teri's attempted esca—" 
"—I'm not crazy! Lovecraft was right!" she yelled unseen. 
#SunWIP

Esst glided on the ice, the fire fey dancing like a flaming doll. Her 
joyful wake etched delicate patterns upon the frozen pond. 
#MuseMon

He'd shrunk out of his clothes, and Rob emerged raccoon faced 
from under them. 
Molly squealed, her ringtail high. "So handsome!" 
#2BitTues

Maxine watched the oily black mass on the ceiling shrink as it 
shoved a drop tile and oozed upwards. 
"It's loose!" she screamed. 
#2BitTues

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