Microfiction

An Ode to the Ones Behind the Screens
You tap, you type, you build the world from quiet corners. Lines of logic, pixels aligned, shaping futures in real-time.
By Mustafa Khan10 months ago in Fiction
We Are Coining It. Content Warning.
Them: "Me and a few others have found this great AI story generator and it is guaranteed untraceable. We can generate hundreds of stories a day with no effort at all. We're going to use it to generate puzzle books to sell on Amazon as well as getting lots of Top stories on the Platform" Me: "Tell me you are joking, I thought you were a creative writer, not a cheat" Them: "We're already doing it, we have had ten Top Stories this month, and we have bots that go through new stories and comment on them, so we are coining it there as well because the Platform rewards commenting. We have other bots that comment on our stories using Platform Ids so we make a lot from that as well" Me: "You disgust me, while I think they will eventually suss you out, I am going to tell them now" Them: "You have no proof, they won't believe you, and we are respected creators, The Platform even eulogised us in a podcast, so they will take our side" Me: "I have this message, I can forward the lot on" Them: "We'll just say you faked it, and as well as that, we will forward the one we made about you, how you abuse others and cheat the system, you will be lucky to be just banned from the Platform, we could get the police involved" Me: "You are disgusting, you're not even making that much from this just ruining it for everyone else. Eventually, they will spot you even if I stay silent" Them: "They won't, they're too busy keeping the Platform afloat. If we think they might be on to us, we hit them with a Denial of Service attack, so they have to put extra effort in. If someone is trying to keep their boat afloat, a couple of holes below the waterline, always keep the crew busy" Me: "If I ever see you in person, you will pay for this" Them: "Sure, oh, by the way, we have sent that email about your cheating and abuse to a few Platform creators, so you will be losing readers, and if we even think you have shared this with anyone, we won't hold back.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 10 months ago in Fiction
The Secret Language of Rust
The voices of the world are soft. But busy lives make us deaf. They are only heard when we slow down. I learned this lesson on an old railway bridge. I was told a quiet tale by weather, metal, and time. The bridge stood across the wide river like a backbone. The strong wind made the iron beams squeak. The tracks had no trains anymore. But their silence was louder than the old engines. Rails were covered in rust. It did not look like damage to me. It looked like nature’s quiet writing.
By Asif Mahmud10 months ago in Fiction
Freedom on the Run: Exploring the Emotional Journey in Road 96
Road 96, developed by DigixArt, is far more than just another indie adventure game. It’s an emotional rollercoaster, a political commentary, and a narrative masterpiece rolled into one. Set against the backdrop of a fictional authoritarian country called Petria, the game puts you in the shoes of several teenagers attempting to flee a collapsing regime. Each choice you make can change not just your own journey, but the very fabric of the nation.
By Shahadat Hossain10 months ago in Fiction
The last cup
Benny made her tea every morning, even after she was gone. The tea cup sat steaming on the kitchen table, a habit he could not shake.
By Susan Fourtané 10 months ago in Fiction
Wrong
Introduction This is from a prompt in this resource The line I chose was "The clock struck midnight, and I knew..." The music is "Wrong" by The Archers Of Loaf
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 10 months ago in Fiction
ChatGPT's New Image Library: A Step Towards OpenAI's Social Media Ambitions
An integrated image library that lets users store and manage their AI-generated images is a new feature that OpenAI has introduced to ChatGPT. In addition to improving user experience, this advancement suggests OpenAI's larger goals in the social media space.
By Sakibul Islam Sakib10 months ago in Fiction
An algorithm's last prayer
The sky was no longer blue. A dull amber glow hung like a dying bulb over the ruined skyline of Old Chicago. Concrete husks of skyscrapers jutted from the earth like shattered teeth, their glass eyes long since gouged out by fire, wind, and war. The streets below were veined with rust and silence, the echoes of humanity scattered to ash.
By E. hasan10 months ago in Fiction
The Quixotic Paradox: A Hallucinatory Pilgrimage Through Cervantes' Labyrinth
Prologue: The Birth of Literary Schizophrenia Imagine, if you will, a world where reality is but a flimsy curtain—and one man, armed with nothing but delusions and a rusted lance, tears it asunder with manic glee. Enter Don Quixote: part lunatic, part prophet, wholly unforgettable. Cervantes didn't merely pen a story in 1605; he unleashed a literary atom bomb, one that detonated the very boundaries between sanity and madness, comedy and tragedy, fiction and... something far stranger.
By MI BADSHA10 months ago in Fiction
Drawn to the List
This is for Mikeydred's April Challenge. Ignore your voice long enough, and you lose yourself. __________________________________________________
By Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin10 months ago in Fiction
Faded Pulse
Have you ever scrolled for hours... and still felt nothing? Not sad. Not broken. Just… empty. Like the world is moving, and you're watching from somewhere underwater.
By Debarghya Chatterjee10 months ago in Fiction
Spectacular Solar Storm Could Light Up US Skies with Stunning Auroras
A dazzling light show might be on its way to the night skies over the United States, thanks to a powerful solar storm. The National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center has announced that the northern lights, or aurora borealis, could be visible much farther south than usual on Wednesday evening—possibly reaching regions in the Midwest and Oregon, for example.
By Shadow10 months ago in Fiction