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csven @csven.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Saddened to hear of your loss. My condolences.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Was holding my breath, tbh.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#SciFiFri #vssDaily #vss365 The medical pod jettisoned clear of the drop ship, settled gently at the crash site, and unfolded like an oversized origami blossom crafted from white leather. Med One exited smartly but with perhaps a bit too much verve. Air Force 1's occupants were clearly toast.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #vssDaily Tarmac didn't feel like a criminal. Why should he? "Quantum potential is non-local. How can it be a crime to transport energy across a border when that energy is borderless?" he asked. The judge answered, "Because the information potential was copyrighted. Next!"

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #VSSdaily The injection machine groaned as the mold opened; every forty-two seconds. Ejectors pushed the article into a can of identical components. A swarm of microbots waited to arrange them into a "dumb" weapon. It wasn't AI sophistication but sheer numbers that now prevailed.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #vssDaily Emiko flailed. She'd never held a sword, so she decided to just throw it. "Impact!" Ed yelled. Kaiju intestines spilled into the alley. Pungent contents flooded homes. Digestive acid liquified screaming school children. "Never seen that in an anime," Ed said blankly.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #vssDaily "The ability to communicate effectively is underappreciated", she mused. Tested the tap. "As is quietly cracking the encryption to eavesdrop", she countered to herself. Artificial gravity induced decoherence was tripping Wang Chao. "Still a reek job," she concluded.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #vssDaily PIXIE 573 initiated shutdown. System noise had abruptly spiked. Followed by a suspicious override command. The chum bucket could wait. "Log says John Doe triggered a reset. Initiated the exchange." Sergeant frowned. Third suicide-by-pleasure-model this week. Nasty one.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #vssdaily Elon looked at the judge. "Yes, sir. We parked our sat at a Lagrange point near the site: a trojan asteroid stuffed with Mischief Miners' people. We was just recon, right. So we blaze up. That's it. We didn't send no drone in. And we sure as hell didn't detonate one!"

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

#SciFiFri #VSS365 #vssDAILY They sat together near a beech tree. Yellow bark clad its low-slung branches. The tree's trunks splayed violently like a giant weed or a spider on its... She woke. "Spiders," she whispered. Unwanted memories they continued to restore as they dug into her amnesiac mind.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

#SciFiFri #VSS365 Fragrant waves of pollen from '× Wistericinus' - an impossible intergeneric hybrid based on the Japanese wisteria - floated gently through open windows. Unsure why, the AI had designed and deployed it years before to be the sweetest, most agonizing death by suffocation imaginable.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

#SciFiFri #VSS365 She'd targeted the free radicals and increased resonance to improve their stability, but the quantum tunneling she was sure would work had failed. Hamartia weighed heavy in her soul. There was little she could now do to reverse the discharge's excruciating march through her body.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

[Note: C4ISR is the military acronym for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance systems. CASREP is the U.S. Navy acronym for Casualty Reporting, with C-4 being the worst: loss of primary mission capability.]

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

#vss365 #vssdaily #writeSky The C4ISR broke through the liminal buffer insulating blind loyalty from moral intuition. In the blink of an eye strict adherence to chain-of-command evaporated, warhead safeties re-engaged, and the war ended. A C-4 CASREP to extract "mercy" was issued within the hour.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

[Note: Anthrobots are real. They are created from trachea cells and are being developed as drug delivery systems. They're tiny, and when they self-assemble, form what are called "superbots".]

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#vss365 #SciFiFri The anthrobots streamed up his arm in a sloppy if parallel formation, like conscripts learning to march at basic. She swung the scope away. "It's the cilia. Structural consistency remains a challenge; impedes self-assembly. But we can field ten superbots per micro-drone. Today."

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

#vss365 "There's a place among all the places somewhere along New Gulf Coast way, where divers can get into this aquarium near what was the old French Quarter. And back in a part never open to visitors, there are, get this, mermaid cages." The bartender sighed. "Pay your tab, Leon. Time for bed."

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

#vss365 "Y'see, there's a cost associated with everything," he stated flatly. "You may not want to get involved in this here situation, but that comes at a steep price." "I don't care," the miner replied. "You can just leave me out ..." And with that, the stranger's gun completed the transaction.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#vss365 #amwriting Product development ground to a halt. "The Frankenmodel is freakin' amazing but this prototype sucks," she lamented. "U/L won't certify bare wires," he explained. She crawled under the sheets, switched the model on and lit up the bed. "But the electric shocks are a feature!"

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #vssdaily It was an especially challenging puzzle: segmentation of lower limbs; serrations on both left and right flank; injection sites equidistantly placed along the vertebrae. "You know, humans also had a game called 'Operation'," the artificial construct stated. "Not as fun."

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#SciFiFri #amwriting Their grind came to a halt. "I know what needs to be done," an agent stated. "Before we proceed, shouldn't we know for whom we're conducting this work?" another agent asked. "Maybe the fractures are deliberate." "Of course they are," another replied. "The question is 'Why?'"

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#vssdaily #vss365 "Pause," the apparition commanded. "Time enough to drink." The agents entered input() standby. "Try reframing the problem as a puzzle, but with dynamic images on each piece; until assembled, of course. Think along the lines of an analog quantum simulation." exit() hallucination

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#vssdaily #vss365 The infinite DO hammered the collective consciousness. Synaptic transmissions overloaded receptors like chalk dust blanketing the tabula rasa of an unborn child. Racing to a horizon whose distance never changes, a form of madness set in. Hallucinations provided the only clarity.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#vssdaily #vss365 How chronometric chaos could be stitched into viable simulation data with only the most delicate thread of causality chains was the unanswered query. And brute force application their only option. A recursion with no condition a splinter in their compromised visuospatial memory.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#vss365 Fragments of possible history amassed within the tenuous shards, like airport luggage during a white out. They deployed kirkyans to track their discoveries before they dissembled like snow flakes on eager tongues. Silenced. Chains of interoperability converted into retconned narratives.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#vss365 Artificial euphoria swept across the group. They'd been searching an indeterminate frame - seemingly forever - and had, until now, failed to recover a single shard from what could be a multitude of shattered time crystals. The moment passed. The group subdivided. The work continued.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#vssdaily #amwriting A year passed before she again took to water. She'd acquired much since her arrival. The seasonal patterns of these people. The rudiments of their language. A boat of native origin. She had never been more an immigrant. She paused, then steered eastward toward a new life.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

#vss365 Sunlight filtered through gossamer sheets draped across the island's canopy. She wondered what spider god had spun them as she prowled toward the encampment. An unexpected voice speaking a language she recognized pierced the droning of jungle insects. "And who might you be?" he asked.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#SciFiFri #vss365 #amwriting The beat of drums pointed her to a nearby island and natives busily preparing boats as if for pilgrimage to a distant shore. It was a voyage she would be unable to make. Her stores were low. And her medicinal plants were turning a shade of mignonette; they were dying.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#vssdaily Markings near the altar were indecipherable. And illustrations accompanying them depicted events unknown to her. Except one: a great flood. Even these people, this distant culture, was touched, she thought. And perhaps there were some, like herself, still among them. She needed to know.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

#vssdaily #amwriting Thunder rolled across ocean swells. It was an almost normal morning, except for everything. It had been days since she arrived on the island. Time enough to recover her strength; to discover a crude altar with fresh remains. She wondered to which god they might sacrifice her.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#vss365 #amwriting Realizing they'd been abandoned, the stragglers dropped their catch, raced into the water and began swimming to the nearest boat. Wondering if it might satisfy her insatiable hunger, she waited patiently until men and boats were out of sight before retrieving the abandoned meal.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#vssdaily #amwriting People, the likes of whom she'd never encountered, drew near; two young warriors walking purposefully near the water's edge. Between them hung a startlingly large reptile. Stragglers carrying dinner. No longer in any serious danger, her stomach decided she should follow them.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#vss365 Her boat reached shore as the morning sun ignited the horizon; just as a group of boats, similar to those she'd previously encountered, made its departure. Sensing danger, she concealed her boat, slid quietly into the vegetation, and listened; her only desire being to survive the day.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

#vsspic As she trolled for fish in the darkness, a light appeared on the horizon, a fire illuminating the heavy, monsoon sky. Land. And, perhaps, people. Desperate but in no condition to attempt escape should it be necessary, she steered short of a direct heading; hoping to arrive before sunrise.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I suppose that depends on the next prompt

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#vss365 #amwriting Weeks with no sign of land strained her passion for the sea. Food stocks were low, and if not for the increasingly frequent squalls, her water supply would already be gone. Resignation set in. But as the days grew longer, the winds shifted and she slowly made her way north.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#SciFiFri Upon departure, she spied strange boats rowing frantically toward her. Perhaps the place of glowing crystals was a holy site, she wondered. She clutched her crystalline treasure and knew she had no choice but to run up her sail and put as much distance between her and land as possible.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#vssdaily Dawn arrived with a host of ravenous insects, each of which seemed intent on sampling foreign flesh. Her tolerance tested, she collected her bounty, returned to her boat, and prepared to set sail once again; stopping only long enough to collect soil for her precious medicinal plants.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

#vss365 Venturing along the shore, she marveled at the black sand beneath her feet, full of gold dust and other lustrous minerals. Crystals for which she had no name caught fire at sunset; among them an opaque shard which in darkness emitted a faint radioactive glow. She pocketed this treasure.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

#vss365 She alighted upon the rocky shore of a sempiternal land; black and foreboding as if thrust upward from the darkest depths. Shell fragments lay strewn along the waters edge, amongst which she found a blade fashioned from obsidian. Crude but deadly. And good reason to expedite her departure.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#vssdaily Urgency gripped her. She promptly hoisted sail and made for land. Logic demanded replenishing stores before reaching a potentially dangerous crossroads. Who knew what creatures populated these lands, these waters. And as she tended sail, a pod of curious whales surfaced to greet her.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#vss365 Regaining her composure, she noticed the eastern shore, which had seemingly stretched to infinity, was coming to an end. But what that meant was unclear. She knew of no sailors who had ventured so close to the edge of the world and lived to tell the tale. There were only myths and legends.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#vss365 Patiently listening for the roar of falling water, she was instead startled by a dull pop. She quickly determined that in her haste to depart, she was guilty of not securing her lines; the bow line had snapped. And as the boat slowed, it became clear a sea monster had been pulling her.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

#vssdaily Calm waters grew increasingly turbulent. Unable to point her craft eastward toward the rising sun, and with the shadow of land growing darker in the west, she realized her boat was being pulled into a funnel; a waterfall at Gaea's edge. She made a quiet offering to her gods and waited.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#vss365 The sea was the only cradle she had ever known. So as the sun set beside her, and the waves gently rocked her, she drifted off into a sleep as sound as any induced by a mother's lullaby. And dreamt of a time before the Great Flood; of people and animals and plants never again to be seen.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#vss365 And with that, she expertly cast her lines and set sail for open water; cerulean eyes fixed on the western coastline extending southward from the brackish waters of her adopted home. She turned briefly to watch the delta recede. How long this time, she wondered.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#vss365 "This interregnum is not merely between empires or ethnicities. It exists between species; an evolutionary transition already splitting humanity. And those of us who remain will eventually be found." She stared at him, drew her blade and struck him down. "I believe you," she whispered.

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csven @csven.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Decided to bring this to a close, even though it's a bit abrupt. However, I might wind up using this as a framework for something a bit more ambitious as I have some fun ideas on how to do that. #AmWriting

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