Wandering Adventure Party

The travel poster looked like so many others. A lush forest behind a serene beach. The text said "Be something exotic!""Sorry, there's a typo on your poster. I think you mean 'somewhere'?""No. We can make you to be, say, a bear, tiger, or hippo, for up to a week.""A hippo? Tell me more!"#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"One time," my neighbour said, "my dog escaped and chased a car down the road.""Did he catch it?""No, he didn't." My neighbour scratched his chin. "What are you gonna do?"We looked from my proud dog to the chicken-legged hut he'd somehow corralled into the yard. "Dunno. Leave the country?"#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

The alien fleet appeared suddenly and entered Earth's orbit. A message was broadcast, in thousands of languages"Greetings! We are the Interstellar Mobile Library. We have 4096 ships, please suggest landing sites for all.""Yes, of course it is free, and for all people.""Why? We are a library."#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

@ckeen @MicroSFF No it won't! (The Laundry Files end in May 2015, the subsequent New Management series has only gotten as far as 2017, and the fictional universe is therefore blessedly free of LLMs.)

"Oh," the unicorn said, "I guess you have caught me. What now?""Is it true you can purify anything, and remove poison?" the virgin asked. "I can.""How are you at hiding?""I can't hide from the innocent, but can evade anyone else.""Good. I'll need to smuggle you into TV news studios."#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #vss