I love posting tiny fics on Mastodon on occasion (see the tootplanets for one series there), but Mastodon, like Twitter, is inherently a bit ephemeral.
I’m going to begin with an archive of all the tootfics I’ve posted that I can find (mostly from the Read Me Elsewhere posts) and attempt to update this as I go.
Microfiction is very small fiction, designed to be a whole tale (hopefully), in a small package. 50-word fics, drabbles (100-word fics), 6-word fics (See the Hemmingway example) – these are subsets of microfiction. So are tootfiction – fics designed to fit in a toot (The Mastodon version of a tweet) or, in common usage, several toots. Tweetfic is harder (less characters, although 280 is better than 140 for this) but is the same concept.
Here’s someone else’s definition:
As Shakespeare said, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Which translated into modern language means, “Everyone should write and read microfiction.”
What is Microfiction?
It’s a subset of flash fiction—those super short stories typically told in 1,000 words or less. Definitions vary, but for the most part, microfiction is any story told in 300 words or less, and could even be as short as a few words. (At Microfiction Monday Magazine, I use the limit of 100 words.)
Mastodon is free to join, by the way, and ad-free; you can read any of the below fic, however, just by clicking through – you don’t need to have an account!
Here’s My Microfiction
Fantasy (including Urban Fantasy)
By A Nose
Souls and Hearts
A Wish
Side Effects (warning: creepy)
The Come and Gone King (a reply)
The Hall of the Lost (a reply)
Natha/en (fae apoc)
Bi Kisses (more Natha/en)
Rooftop – Jasper and the House converse. (Haunted House)
Once Upon a Time comes to Fae Apoc – darkfic crossover Fanfiction
Ficlet with a portion of a map sketch, Autumn, Stranded
Stranded Caturdays
Untitled Cat Game – cats can’t see Strands….
Neighborhood Cat
The Pirates and Podka
Orange Sunset Parlay – The Imperial Captain wants to talk to Yonpler.
Silver Rain – on Podka, it was said to rain silver.
Blue Foraging – the Captain and Yonpler are going to have to work together.
Teal Calculations – Sometimes you have to take a leap. Sometimes you can calculate the risks.
Potions and the Apocalypse?
Po(t)tion – the trick in potions
Wav(er)ing – the trick in spells
End(ur)ing – magic in the apocalypse
Ru(i)ne(d) – Personal runes in magic
Grim(oire) – A scavenged grimoire.
Sel(f/v)edge – Salvaging Magic
Substitutions – Needs must, after all
Ban(e/ana) – Some more substitutions
Protect – During the Dust Fall
Discovery – Just after the Dust Fall
Kitty – Just after the two above
4-Part Harmony – After Kitty, above.
Reinventing the Wheel – not sure if this is Fantasy or Sci-Fi so it’s Fantify?
Sci-fi
Cure the Cure
Tootplanet Resumes
Bird Brains
Horror
Misc
Cake Walk, weird.
Tootfiction Already Posted on this Blog
- Tootfiction/Thimbleful Thursday: At Arm’s Length
- Tootfiction/Thimbleful Thursday: New Leaf
- A Month of Sundays – Tootfiction/Thimbleful Thursday
- Over the Moon
- Toot Planets
Various Blog-posted Microfiction
100-Word Fics
I went through a phase where I was on 100- and 50-word fic community on Livejournal, back when that was a thing.
- 114 words – fictiony thing – The oracles of my dead
- “Um…” 100-word fantasy story
- Adventure, sci-fi, and “mystery:” 100- & 50-word stories
- Late-Night Call
- Summer Romance, trying to be 100 words
- 105word story
- 100 words: struggle
- 100-word fiction
- 100-word fiction: 100 milihelens 😉
- 118-word erotic kink short
- 100-words: Stale Love
- 100-word-story: Many-Loves
- Supposed to be 100 words: Spiraling Silence
- 100-words thanks to seoman007
- Poem: Floating (Carry on Tuesday, Daughters of Clio)
- 100-word ficlet: Runaway #weblit
50-word Fics
Try the password “suddenly!” for pre-2007 posts.
- 50-Word Character History: Leila
- 50 word fanfic
- wendigo heartbreak
- Watching (50word)
- 50-word reminisce: Pain is Something You Work Through
- 50-Word thingy
- Almost-50-word-stories.
- More 50-word-almost-stuff
- 50-word (almost) Both Sides of the Control Coin
- 75-word: Ouch
- “Whoops” – 50-word fantasy story
- Adventure, sci-fi, and “mystery:” 100- & 50-word stories
- Late-Night Call
- 50-word fiction
- 50 word freewrite poemlet: Coda
- 50-word fictional musing, “Odium”
- Spring draft
- Part II: Summer
- Winter, Draft
- 50-Word story: Control
- Yesterday’s Scribbles
- 50-Word-Story: Damnit #weblit
- Mythic Thursday 50-word Fic #weblit
- Three 50-Word Fics on Marriage #microfiction #weblit
General Microfiction
- Reminisce
- 175word something: Hoosegow
- (no subject)
- Friday Flash: White Liar
- Friday Flash: Start with A…
- Flash Fiction: Armor
- Accidentally Microfiction – Complications
- Friday Flash: Evolution
- Microfiction – Life Packages
- Flash Fiction – Flying
- 5 MInute Fiction – Blizzardded
- Getting Further Lost, a story fragement continuation #webtlit @clarekrmiller
- Carry On Tuesday Short Story: “Children’s Hour” #weblit
- Drakeathon: In Training, from @wsteria’s prompt
- MicrominiTinyfics
- 420-character fictions
- Give-me-something-fun-to-write Storylet 1: @rix_Scaedu
- Give-me-something-fun-to-write Storylet 2: Kelkyag
- The Present
- Was That There…?
- Kittens
- Better Left Unsaid, a story for #FridayFlash
- One Hundred Eight Roses
- Solstice, 50 words, @dahob
- Soft Target, a drabble of Cloverleaf
- Seconds to Love
- #ThrowbackThursday: 100 millihelens
Kink Bingo prompts
a story over many micro-intervals,to a kink-bingo prompt set
- Kink-Bingo Mini-story: Tattoos
- Kink-Bingo Mini-story: Enemas
- Kink-Bingo Mini-story: In Public
- Kink-Bingo Mini-Story: Up up down down left right B A start
- Kink Bingo Mini-Story, Size don’t matter none
- Mini-kink-Bingo: Exposed
- Mini-kink-Bingo: Vanilla
- Kink-Bingo Mini-story: Masters, doms, slaves and subs