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

The warbot staved-in half of old 
49's android face. But 49 was 
unyielding, defending the new 
mother and infant tenaciously. 
#1lineWed

Calliope listened to the 
whispers. "...Exer! That's what 
GARS does to you." 
Half human and cat, she sunk 
within her pea coat. 
#ThruLineThurs

The thugs saw a little old lady 
and easy target. She saw six fools 
about to die at the hands of the 
greatest shinobi ninja alive. 
#Thurds

Galen kicked the barrel of howling 
undead capuchins down the stairs. They 
crashed into the Nazis. 
"That WAS more fun!" he quipped. 
#FictFri

The dilapidated colony ship loomed 
like a corpse. Beth felt the push 
of her EVA suit thrusters before a 
tug of unease in zero-g. 
#SciFiFri

The archmage was unimpressed. 
"An elemental?" 
Dur grinned before teleporting. 
"...Of plutonium." 
There was a nuclear flash. 
#SlapDashSat

He looked at her stunned. "We're alone. 
How is the city empty?" 
The barista shook. "The shop was full, 
then I saw them all vanish..." 
#SunWIP

She turned in disgust from 
the inauguration. "That's it, 
all hope is gone!" 
"Not gone," her father said, 
"just harder to see." 
#MuseMon

She gagged, eyes staring past the 
Adonis strangling her. Heather saw 
the frat boy she'd so rudely rebuked, 
coming to her rescue. 
#LoveLines

"Yeh can't git me on shore!" the 
poacher taunted. 
The lake spirit whipped 40 years 
of fishing tackle at him. 
Snared, he screamed. 
#TuesTell

Terale comforted him. "Your injuries 
would've killed you. Are you unhappy 
as an Ent?" 
He held her. "No, life's a birch sometimes." 
#2bitTues

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