Umlaut's published ficlets
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Get Me Out of this Nut House!
My train wreck of thought was interrupted by the sudden silence that seemed to engulf the car. Then, a sound of powerful foot…
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Squirrel
On side of road:
Wait for it…Wait for it…go, go, go!
Stop, stop, stop! Big, noisy thing coming.
Run up tree. Flick, fl…
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Trainee
Servos whined as I lifted my left arm against the weight of the rubble that pinned it to the ground. The red warning lights o…
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ThroG - Corridor
“Somehow, someway, I need to get off this ship,” I mutter to myself as I head off down a dark corridor.
The MPU tracker is f…
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ThroG
“Mission time: eleven hundred hours Zulu. SitRep: things are pretty bad and probably will get a lot worse,” I said into the M…
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Photasm
Daylight streams in past your eyelids as you slowly awaken.
You feel warmth on your face, the warmth of a summer day.
Slowl…
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SPOT
20 July 2023 – The glowing area that recently appeared in the middle of my room is still there, unchanged and unmoving. The g…
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Monument - Continued
Quickly, the nanomachines spread across the tortured lanscape. Those that fell on rock began to transform the minerals into s…
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Monument
Primordial ooze stretches as far as the eye can see.
Lightning flashes fill the angry sky as distant volcanoes spew ash and …
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Nados
You squint through the inch-thick Perspex, as if you think you can see more then your instruments. Ahead is Tor863, one of th…
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Control
“Come in, Bellerophon, this is control, Do you read me? Over,” Mission Specialist Sato says into the microphone. The only rep…
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Crawler
Ah, morning! Another beautiful day is dawning on the Methane Plain! But wait, there is something amiss, something awry, somet…
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Sunrise
As you crawled slowly across the plain of frozen methane, you berate yourself one more time for not recharging at the last ou…
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