Yeah, that particular method in ‘Personal Thaumaturgical Choice’ does sound kind of awful. The kind of awful that ensures that the mages who use it don’t ever seem to successfully surrender. Real fight-to-the-death types, those.
Tag: microfiction
Patreon Microfiction: ‘One Chance.’
Heh. You get the feeling that the protagonist in “One Chance” has had this happen before, and is now thinking of doing a few Horrible Examples to discourage it from happening in the future. Can’t say that I blame him. Death cultists must be exceedingly tedious to be around.
Patreon Microfiction: Normalcy.
(September 11th was on a Saturday, this year.)
…Nothing further to say on this one.
Patreon Microfiction: The More Myths Change…
Note that, in “The More Myths Change…”, the narrator does not claim to like humans. It doesn’t. But it’s interested in maintaining cordial relations and a productive working arrangement with us, which is good enough as a long term strategy.
Patreon Microfiction: They Totally Had It Coming.
“They Totally Had It Coming” asks a question not often asked: what if, indeed, they totally had it coming? I mean, they’d have to be really damn awful, sure – but if they were? What if what came for them in the sky was simply transcendent justice?
Patreon Microfiction: Rational Theurgy.
The protagonist of ‘Rational Theurgy’ isn’t very nice. But… no, honestly, that’s it. It’s not very nice.
Patreon Microfiction: Mission of (Technical) Mercy.
I’m not sure what’s so bad that hangin’ seems like a better option, but whatever it is; it’s in the Devil’s Mine. So much so the sheriff’s not entirely certain he wants to go there himself. But the protagonist has his own reasons for seeing the job done… yeah, yeah, yeah: ‘Mission of (Technical) Mercy’ could have been a longer story.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Revolutionary Cinema.’
“Revolutionary” is where you find it. “Cinema,” too. And we don’t know which of our things our descendants will treasure.
Patreon Microfiction: The Way to the Devil’s Heart.
‘The Way to the Devil’s Heart’ is, of course, bad theology. But it’s not exactly bad psychology. It is, indeed, very difficult to be unpleasant to someone who is cheerfully serving you a piping-hot portion of properly prepared roast beef, particularly if they are being generous about the crust. It’s just so petty. And nobody likes to think of themselves as being petty.
Continue reading Patreon Microfiction: The Way to the Devil’s Heart.Patreon Microfiction: The Actual Magery Involves Slide Rules.
The oddity of ‘The Actual Magery Involves Slide Rules’ is, I don’t know who are the better guys. I mean, ‘cultist’ is diagnostic – but so is ‘deliberately setting people up for fatal radiation poisoning.’ That’s not exactly nice.