Saturday, January 31, 2026

Five hypershort SF microstories


His lockscreen background was just a bunch of text.
It said some really boring stuff that barely made sense.
But it was the secret of everything.

Beyond planets, stars, galaxies, great walls. . . all matter in space was part of a much larger structure, that extended beyond the boundaries of the observable universe.
It could be seen in the spin alignments of all particles, a slight bias which gently curved across billions of lightyears. An unimaginable type of hyper orbit, drawn by something far weaker than gravity.
A force of destiny perhaps, an infinitely weak force or even negative. . . thereby travelling faster than light.

She had created an AI character, and generated a detailed story description of his life.
However, that AI character had created a detailed description of HER life.
The problem was that the description created by the AI character was much longer. In fact, it was more elaborate and detailed than what she could remember of her own past.

The new religion spread like a pandemic.
It stated that God was omniscient but impotent. Everything you thought, and felt, and did, was perfectly known with infinite precision by God. But it was strictly a one-way transfer.
God could do nothing to affect you. You existed for God, but not vice versa.
The only reason the new religion spead so fast was because it just happened to be true.

From space, it appeared as a mirror-smooth dark blue ball.
It was a deep ocean world, with water pressures of up to 50,000 atmospheres.
Small, unspeakable monsters had evolved in the deep darkness. There was an incredible diversity of shapes and functions.
Down there, they didn't even know that space existed.
But somehow, they could travel to similar high pressure ocean worlds all throughout the universe. As if the laws of physics were made for them.

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Five hypershort SF microstories

His lockscreen background was just a bunch of text. It said some really boring stuff that barely made sense. But it was the secret of everyt...