List: Micro Science Fiction | Curated by Martin French

Aug 4, 2024
431 stories
Micro Science FictionA list of my minute long sci-fi stories
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
Any idiot can galumph around the galaxy on very little cash.It’s easy really. On any major space station — spaceport if it’s a backwoods system — head to their Navigator’s lounge. Just stroll in…
2d ago
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2d ago
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Martin French
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Everything Shortform
He watched his colleagues’ bodies sucked through the hole, and thought of Melanie.He couldn’t afford to think about his colleagues — his friends. They were gone, frozen debris floating far away from any recovery. Him be…
Jul 28
2
Jul 28
2
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
Naturally the Australians were the first to give the vote to sentient machines.Popular opinion was that Australia’s Treasurer believed sentience would be the next economic driver, confident that they would figure out…
Jul 26
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Jul 26
1
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
No, please, ask me anything.It wasn’t difficult — I just saw something online, applied, and here I am. The interview was straightforward.
Jul 20
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Jul 20
3
Martin French
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Martin’s Sci-Fi Storage Unit
An Audience in The Dark ForestA worst case scenario
Jul 11
3
Jul 11
3
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
The universe approaches infinity, featuring nearly infinite possibility.Take, for instance, one who reasoning in the infinity that it must be probable that a planet exists so uniformly black that it reflected no…
Jul 1
Jul 1
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
Henry refused to watch the launch.–They got no metal in ‘em.
Jun 8
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Jun 8
1
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
I’m bored explaining how a table became a sentient being. It’s such a tedious story.OK. Remember that early 21st century fad where they put USB ports in everything?
Jul 1
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Jul 1
2
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
–This lift serves the South Tower. Please choose your floor.–12th floor please.
Jun 16
Jun 16
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
At first, the Chip was given to asylum seekers as a condition of admission.Soon, the Chip was offered to inmates, guaranteeing early parole. Anecdotal reports suggest that they returned to their communities…
Jun 13
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Jun 13
1
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
I admit the pub may not be the best place for experiments in gravitational physics, but is there a…OK, I admit I may have had one or two before we set up the equipment. However, again, we are looking at real-world experiments, so I think…
Jun 6
4
Jun 6
4
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
Six of them saw the saucer land.The alien was grey and bald three of the witnesses recalled. It had no nose according to two of them. Three remarked on its large black…
Jun 6
2
Jun 6
2
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
–Oh my god, look at her! Look at those legs!–You’re right. Those legs are amazing. Absolutely stunning.
Apr 29
5
Apr 29
5
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
A star dimly shines in the constellation we call Horologium.And because of that unassuming moon following the insignificant planet around its distant star, life blossomed. The moon deflected meteors…
May 4
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May 4
2
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
The alien tore the flesh from the human’s bones.–No, stop. Stop it there.
May 25
3
May 25
3
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
You’d just sat down when you hear horrifying screams.You have no choice but return to the bathroom. Baseball bat in hand, you open the door as another howl vents.
Apr 16
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Apr 16
5
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
It seemed like the billionaires responsible for Mars City would escape punishment.But that last clause got them. An associate at Matz Phil. spotted that the company quietly stopped charging for air three years after they…
Mar 24
2
Mar 24
2
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
It was early in the morning that their deadly rival detonated 25 bombs strategically placed around…The inhabitants became love-lost zombies, wandering the streets alone and lonely. There was no enthusiasm to retaliate from the halls of…
Mar 19
1
Mar 19
1
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
I remember when I was a liquid.No, since becoming a vapor, I know far better. I properly understand my nature now. I ooze and dissipate; I drag my slower molecules along…
Mar 22
1
Mar 22
1
Martin French
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Everything Shortform
It was April 23rd when someone posted a video on YouTube for the last time.Had the poster thought about why it went unwatched, he could have noted that people weren’t really using social media anymore. The collapse…
Mar 15
Mar 15