Mid-Week Muses: “Are you likin’ him now, Mom?”

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

She touched the hovering
Panda-Pod. "You've saved
me three times. Who are
you in there?"

He looked to the hatch
release.

"Are you shy?"

#1lineWed

Muriel watched the time
traveler devour her
garden. Unable to shoo
the triceratops away,
she surrendered and
fed it another cabbage.

#Thurds

Molly climbed onto the
bed in the dark. "Mom?"

Ruth cried, their possum
faces nose to nose.

They'd changed. Molly's
hugs hadn't.

#SciFiFri

The war left them double
amputees, but together they
were whole: Her hands built
new arms, and he used them
to craft her new legs.

#LoveLines

"The Fed man's beginnin'
to be better, but lookin'
more possumy," Molly said.

"Like us," Ruth smiled. 

"Are you likin' him now, Mom?"

#2bitTues

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