A Familiar's Tome

Category: Micro Fiction

  • Bone (#EmptyOctober 4)

    Sometimes, things need to be broken before they can be fixed.

  • Blood (#EmptyOctober 2)

    Be careful not to cut too often, too deeply, lest you dull your sharpness and lose your edge too soon. A good wielder knows when to strike and when to hold back. Trust in your wielder, weapon.

  • it’s just a game, right?

    [content warning: implied rape, gaslighting] This story is featured in EMPTIED SPACES.

  • Pair-Bonded

    Sharing your partner’s every intimate thought and desire lends itself to altering both selves into a blended amalgam of the two, a swirling pool of thoughts where there used to be two distinct beings.

  • Grey Goo Girlfriend

    Who needs a neural interface when she can just bypass the blood-brain barrier – edit out some troublesome thoughts, add new ones…

  • Not a Whisper, but a Roar

    Alerts blared across the HUD and in the cockpit. She dismissed them with a flick of her eyes, taking stock of the damage and summarily ignoring it. The only thing that mattered is the main gun was still operational, and she could still turn. That was good.

  • The Archetype

    There were many built like her, but she was the archetype. Experimental technology deemed too dangerous or too high-maintenance for her production-model sisters, and an intellect backed with true artificial intelligence made her formidable, even among newer models. The navy deemed her too expensive to produce.

  • Sophistication

    Nearly a kilometer away, its handler watched through the scope of a high-power rifle. It was unaccustomed to being the center of attention – at least, the attention of people not trying to kill it.

  • A Weapon’s Reward

    Victory is to be rewarded, after all. It is a good weapon.

  • A Weapon’s Worship

    “And tell me, how does a weapon show its love?”