At some point, we’ll have real, old-school folk horror about computers. It’ll take a while, but we’ll get there. Until then, let things like ‘The UnCompiled’ show us the way…
Tag: microfiction
Patreon Microfiction: Inevitable Resolution.
You don’t have the right tenses to be able to see how “Inevitable Resolution” works, temporally speaking. But that’s all right. Neither do I.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Velvet Glove.’
Which one is humanity, in ‘Velvet Glove?’ The conqueror, the abbot, or the deathworlder? I dunno. You tell me.
Patreon Microfiction: Star Truck.
Patreon Microfiction: From The Saga Of Brad Just Brad.
I read somewhere ‘Hwaet!’ was basically the Old (Middle?) English equivalent of ‘Yo!’ or ‘Dude!’ I thus saw no reason why not to incorporate that into ‘From The Saga Of Brad Just Brad.’ It fits the aesthetic.
Continue reading Patreon Microfiction: From The Saga Of Brad Just Brad.Patreon Microfiction: “…May Be Worth Something.”
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Musings of the King.’
I know full well that there’s a bigger story in ‘Musings of the King.’ I’m trying to write it. It’s just been a weird month.
Patreon Microfiction: Fighting Like Cats and Dogs.
Patreon Microfiction: Doing Good By Doing Bad.
The thing about Lawful Evil, as “Doing Good By Doing Bad” suggests, is that they don’t have to be invested in Evil for Evil’s sake. Or at least they can get their charge by watching Good squirm over having to sign. Or when they have to be polite, afterward, when the mutually-beneficial business is concluded to everyone’s specifications. It’s a rarified villainy, to be sure — but after a while, one’s evil palate grows more sophisticated.
Patreon Microfiction: Bric-a-Brac.
Transhumanist fiction always talks about Transcendence and Directed Hyper-Evolution. It never talks about what happens next. Which, in this case, apparently involves being bric-a-brac on some unevolved human being’s desk.