Writever is a writing prompt on Mastodon and Twitter, created and managed by Ketty Steward, and described on the Plurality website. Every month a word list is published, one word for each day, in a SF / fantasy / fantastique genre. You can write one story in thirty-odd posts, or thirty-odd micro-fictions, publish everyday or […]
Author: Albert
Writer of stories, doodler of... things
Writever March 2022
#Writever is a writing prompt on Twitter: every month a word list is published, one word for each day, in a SF / fantasy / fantastique genre. You can write one story in thrity-odd posts, or thirty-odd micro-fictions, publish everyday or not, skip whatever words you (don’t) like… My personal choice is to program one […]
Conversation with a dragon
“I thought dragons didn’t exist.” “Yet here I am.” “And I thought dragons roasted anyone they met.” “Only those who want to kill us. We’re not as big fans of the idea as you are.” “I am unarmed.” “Thus you live. Also, had you known you would meet a dragon today, would you not have […]
Writever – August 2022
#writever is a Twitter writing prompt initiative with monthly lists of words. The suggestion is to write, based on these words, science-fiction, fantasy, fantastique stories. It can be a single story in thirty-odd tweets, or thirty-odd one-tweet micro-fictions, written any time one wants. My personal approach is to program one tweet in french, and one […]
Rays of Hope
This is my contribution to #RaysDay 2022. Feel free to comment here, or on Mastodon, or on Twitter! This short story is published by me, Albert ARIBAUD, under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, with the express indication that reproduction MUST be made in a form or on a medium which has NO access […]
Writever – July 2022
#writever is a Twitter writing prompt initiative with monthly lists of words. The suggestion is to write, based on these words, science-fiction, fantasy, fantastique stories. It can be a single story in thirty-odd tweets, or thirty-odd one-tweet micro-fictions, written any time one wants. My personal approach is to program one tweet in french, and one […]
Cruel and unusual punishment
This short story was written based on a prompt at Critique Circle which basically amounted to “The devil, an app and a teenage school kid with a problem”. There was an additional constraint of not editing while writing, which I respected to a degree there, but here I have fixed a few embarrassing typos and […]
Writober
Writober is a list of 31 propositions, one for each day of October 2021. The objective is to create, in at most 280 signs, a science-fiction, fantasy or fantastique story. In the blog post, I collect, more or less regularly, all my productions… 1/ The other side of the dream Each of them believes he […]
Dreamland
This vignette/short story was written based on a prompt at Critique Circle which basically amounted to “A dream/nightmare and its effect on reality for your main character. No more than 3 paragraphs, no more than 5 sentences per paragraph.” (if you like working from prompts like this, register at Critique Circle — that’s free; there’s […]
Late Summer
This short story is the result of @Curator@mastodon.art‘s “challenge” found there. Four images, 50 words per image. It is a followup to the previous such challenge response. I wake up. So I should have died, but I haven’t. Snow did reach the lake side… and then stopped short. Also nausea and dizziness are gone. In […]