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Oct 10, 2019 21 tweets 7 min read Read on X
I'm officially beginning my #flashflctober thread. I'll be posting a line from each story I write in this thread. For more info on #flashfictober, check out @jcalyst's blog post: subtext.jmcoster.com/2019/09/30/fla…
For this challenge, I'm using a combination of the official #inktober prompts and some of the prompts from #AIinktober - which you can find here:
My first #flashfictober piece was written on 10/4, using prompts from 10/1. Here's one line:

Alec found it hard to believe that the ringing noise was coming from the skeleton in front of him, the one he was supposed to be examining, not staring at with his mouth hanging open.
A line from the flash piece I wrote on 10/5 for #flashfictober:

Travis dodged yet another swipe of the Great Bear’s paw, and tried to pull out the only weapons he had: a hammer and a handful of fairy dust.
I didn't write a flash piece on 10/6, but that was because I didn't yet know I was participating.
A line from my #Flashfictober piece for 10/7:

The body she was trapped in wasn’t made for slithering.
A line from my #Flashfictober piece for 10/8:

As he laughed, light flickered through the holes in his face and torso, as if some divine being had speared him with a fishhook, then decided he was worthless and tossed him back.
I don't have a flash piece for 10/9 because it was Yom Kippur.
A line from my #flashfictober piece from 10/10:

Zac set the goose down on a nearby shelf with care, and gave its head a gentle pat. “Thanks, old friend. You can rest now,” he said.
My 10/11 #flashfictober piece got finished on 10/12. Here's a line from it:

If he didn’t find those teeth, he was a dead man for sure.
A line from my #flashfictober piece from 10/12:

As the water lapped at her front claws, Aria wrapped her body around her most prized possessions: her hoard of golden buttons.
A line from my #flashfictober piece from 10/13:

What other means did he have to hold these criminal rodents responsible for their deeds?
10/14 was the first day of Sukkot, a Jewish holiday, so I wasn't able to write a story.
10/15 worked the same way as 10/14. Still a holiday. Couldn't write until after it got dark out - by which point I had the beginnings of a migraine. So no story on 10/15.
A line from my #Flashfictober piece from 10/16:

“Your gender is ‘human,’” the scarfed figure told him as he struggled to make sense of why that even mattered.
A line from my #Flashfictober piece from 10/17:

The programming hadn’t accounted for the sheep.
I attempted to write a #Flashfictober piece for 10/18, but it didn't work out. So I left that one unfinished, and I'm not going to share a quote from it. This is the first time all month that I began a story and didn't complete it, and I'm okay with leaving it unfinished.
A few lines from my #Flashfictober piece from 10/19:

Another kitten emerged from output port, fully formed, and full of playful energy.

She wasn’t supposed to bring her daughter into the lab, and this was exactly why.
10/20 was the day before yet another Jewish holiday. (Welcome to October. This is most of my month.) I was getting ready for the holiday, and also needed a break from fanfic. So I took one.
10/21 was the first day of the aforementioned Jewish holiday (which ran from sundown on the 20th to dark this evening, the 22nd), so no #Flashfictober piece for the 21st.
After a few days off, here's a line from my #Flashfictober piece from today, 10/22:

It’s hard to read a map when you’re noncorporeal, but Shea tried his best as he attempted to figure out where the hell the Spirits had sent him this time.

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Dec 25, 2020
For those of us who aren’t celebrating Christmas, I would like to share a story:
In a small Jewish community on an outlying planet sits a museum. At its center, a narrow plinth. Upon the plinth, a boxy container, folded from heavy white paper, its edges charred. A wire handle across its top.

The label reads: In Commemoration of the Great Christmas Alliance
There is no further explanation posted, but ask any museum staff member, and they will tell you the tale of the time when Chinese food saved the Jews from boredom and despair, on the occasion of yet another Christmas.
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Sep 22, 2020
This Rosh Hashanah, my thoughts kept returning to a single story. It’s the story of a soul, newly arrived at the gates of Heaven And while I’m not sure I believe in a literal heaven, with an actual gate where angels stand guard, a story doesn’t have to be factual to be true.
So a woman arrives at the gates of Heaven. She is small of stature, but she stands tall before the imposing gates. A simple black robe hangs from her shoulders, and a lacy white collar adorns her neck. In her eyes, there is a gleam of steely determination.
In most stories, this is when the angels would stop her. They would ask her to prove she deserves a place in Heaven. But in this story, the angels step aside.
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Aug 23, 2020
After nearly five months at my parents’ house, I am finally back in my own apartment.

The first thing I unpacked: stuff that needed refrigeration.

Next: my laptop.

After that, books.

Here are all the books that spent time at my parents’ house. 39 books in three stacks, s...
And here are the books that I read while I was at my parents’ house: 26 books in two stacks, spi...
I also purchased a total of 18 books, 17 of which were shipped to my parents' house, and one of which I picked up while traveling.
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Aug 21, 2020
The eighth panel I attended at #ConZealand this year wasn’t technically a panel. It was a dialogue between @doctorow and @Ada_Palmer entitled “Corey Doctorow and Ada Palmer Discuss Censorship and Information Control”

I learned a lot from their conversation.
This thread will include some of the things the two of them said. I’m copying this over from my handwritten notes, so assume I’ve paraphrased unless I put something in quotes.
From @Ada_Palmer: Every time there’s new media technology, people worry about the new one and forget to censor older ones. Censorship focuses on the newest saturate media - and on where people get political information from.
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Aug 14, 2020
The seventh panel I attended at #ConZealand this year was “Justice in Science Fiction and Fantasy”, with @BrentCLambert, @AdriJjy, @MMSnodgrass, and Fred Lerner, moderated by @jennlyonsauthor.

This panel gave me a lot to think about.
This thread will include some of the things the panelists said. I’m copying this over from my handwritten notes, so assume I’ve paraphrased unless I put something in quotes.
The panelists began by listing pet peeves about how justice is handled in science fiction and fantasy:

@AdriJjy: I want more about societal institutions and systemic things rather than an individual. And I hate the bad guy getting redeemed by dying.
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Aug 13, 2020
The sixth panel I attended at #ConZealand this year was “Infinite Entangled Futures - Indigenous Voices in Conversation,” with @ShiningComic, @RoanhorseBex, @understatesmen and @toniwaiaroha, moderated by @sloanesloane.

This was a fascinating and enjoyable panel.
This thread will include some of the things the panelists said. I’m copying this over from my handwritten notes, so assume I’ve paraphrased unless I put something in quotes.
First, the panelists introduced themselves. Among other things, each shared which indigenous tribe they are a part of. Because most of these tribal names were unfamiliar to me, I didn’t know how to spell them, so I looked them up afterward on author websites and twitter.
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