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Challenge #00421 - A046: A Peculiar, Yet Typical Argument

If no-one from the future comes back to stop you, is it really that bad an idea?

“Yes it is,” said Rael, gently shoving Ambassador Shayde onwards. “Especially when time travel is a theoretical impossibility trapped in the realms of science fiction.”

“They said tha’ about goin’ tae the moon. Now look at it.”

“That’s not the point and you know it.”

“Ach, why’d ye have tae be such a killjoy?”

“Because I’m desperately trying to avoid a disaster.”

“Nah. Reckon ye love puttin’ yer hands on me. I’m irresistible.”

“Moving on! Now! Before the bad thing happens!”

Laughter. “Ah, kiss me an’ get it over with…”

Just another day of sharing public space with the unintentional comedy duo of Ambassador Shayde and Rael the JOAT.

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I remember, wayyy back when the Internutter site was still running, one of the roundrobin things we had was an AU setup where mutants, due...

They probably saw the idea and ran with it. Let’s face it, anything put on the internet (a) lasts forever and (b) can be accessed by anyone.

[Speaking of, I’m still looking for a copy of Getting Away From it All [AKA the Sara AU fic where she obtains Rover the Harp through interaction with Faeries. If anyone can get me that fic, I shall give them priority in my Instant Fictions for a year.]

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Lady slings the booze.

It’s been shown that Mystique (in her comic incarnation, at least), when her ability to focus is sufficiently thrown-off by illness, drugs, emotional shock, or othersuch concentration breakers, that her ability to shapeshift is disrupted, to the point that she can’t maintain a form, often shifting uncontrollably/unconsciously or even sporting features from multiple recently-assumed forms at once in a Picasso-esque jigsaw.  Once I learned about that, I couldn’t help but wonder just what sort of

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Shoutout to all those people who click the $0 option in “Pay What You Want” items. You have NO idea what goes into doing the...

Shoutout to all those people who click the $0 option in “Pay What You Want” items.

You have NO idea what goes into doing the thing.

[Or you’re completely broke, in which case, I forgive you]

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Damn Dame Nature, and Cursed Kismet. Always ready with the sucker-punch. “Two lifesigns in a small vessel with no fuel, limited air,...

Damn Dame Nature, and Cursed Kismet. Always ready with the sucker-punch.

“Two lifesigns in a small vessel with no fuel, limited air, and at least one dying passenger. Initiate Protocol SNAFU.”

Hevun’s Ambassador, now on Smashwords and all good e-bookstores everywhere.

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Challenge #00419 - A044: So Long, Lefty Loosey

It turned out the galactic standard for things that screw onto other things was the opposite direction to the international Earth standard.

“What the– this screw isn’t turning.”

“It’s an old-Earth vessel.”

“Yeah? So?”

“They have it backwards. Counter-clockwise loosens their screws.”

Sigh. “Typical human insanity. How hard is it to learn ‘Counter time, fix it fine’?”

“Given the trouble they keep giving us

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Coming very soon to my Smashwords Profile: One Year of Instants. Three hundred and sixty-five stories, all prompted by readers of my blog....

Coming very soon to my Smashwords Profile:

One Year of Instants.

Three hundred and sixty-five stories, all prompted by readers of my blog. Now in an easy-to-access format where you don’t have to plough through my archives.

YOU DECIDE HOW MUCH ONE YEAR OF MY LIFE IS WORTH!

Yeah. Ultimate power. What’s not to love?

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Challenge #00409 - A044: Intergalactic Ambassador Spot

“We’re here to conquer yo-

Awww lookit the cute little fuzzy. Whooosa fuzzy.”

Sir, the aliens seem to have become distracted.

Only humans, they later said, could take a pursuit predator and make it completely servile. And for some time in the Galactic Alliance, it was something of a mystery as to where and when dogs originally hailed from.

Some refused to believe that such a useful animal could come from the same planet as “a bunch

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“What do you mean, gone?” “Gone, your majesty. Departed, left, vanished. Absent without leave. Decamped, displaced,...

“What do you mean, gone?”

“Gone, your majesty. Departed, left, vanished. Absent without leave. Decamped, displaced, disappeared… they’re simply not there.”

The Majestrix, long may she reign, glared at him as if she wished she could both freeze him and burn him simultaneously. “I am aware of the definition,” she said in tones so cold that they had to be measured in degrees best suited for hard vacuum.

I think it’s

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