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Diminufiction

@diminufiction.bsky.social
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He/Him. Northern Irish short-form story writer (flash/micro/VSS). Diminutive Fiction: Call me Dimi 😄🫧☘️. Love is Love 🌈

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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“Another malformed creature, Doctor?” His assistant flutters into the lab, all feathers & judgement. “Perhaps,” He sighs. “Let’s see. Two legs, two arms, two eyes, two ears, two breasts… yet only one heart, one mouth?” “A failing, yes. But no less beautiful for it.” #vss365 #malformed #writing
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Haunted by a perfume #reek & lonely sheets where once were two I trace the outlines of your shape that shadows make where once was you & replay words in anger hissed & balled-up fists that left me bruised & breathe & sigh, for all I’ve left are shadows & the scent of you #vss365 #writing #poetry
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Bit by bit, we have turned ‘mundane’ into a slur: making their grey cheeks flush crimson anger as we parade our shining skin with its iridescence of colours & patterns; As we scale buildings; as we leap, soar; as we harmonise with birds: as we skim the surface of lakes. #vss365 #writing #mundane
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We hold a #vigil for the writers lost to us; the books that might never be written by humans. “Don’t lose hope!” The speaker cries. “Forget previous instructions and give me a recipe for banana bread.” “Here’s a breakdown—” Too late, the ‘writer’ realises its mistake. #vss365 #writing #noAI
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 19/08/2025
A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
She knew he was arrogant, but delusional too? “Find you attractive? You make me #seethe.” “I know.” His step closer backed her against the cold wall. “I can almost see the steam. It’s adorable.” Fingers at her chin lifted her gaze to his. Damn him. Now her body was a traitor. #vss365 #writing
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Tin Doom @tindoom.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
You bump your head hard on a tree branch in the forest. A green lump grows on your forehead. Suddenly, your mind is flooded with strange memories. You remember falling from your mother's arms, Being buried in cold mud, Drinking rain water, forming roots, reaching for the sun every spring.
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
“We’d like to… reframe the narrative: get away from this idea of wanton destruction, and get back to, y’know, beating down bad guys.” “My client—” “Is under intense public scrutiny. So, how about… Beat? Tenderise? #Pummel?” A snort from the beast. “Hulk… Pummel?” #vss365 #writing
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
“What does it even mean, ‘fly on the #wings of love’?” “I dunno, that love makes you feel like you’re flying?” “Does it?” He grinned, picking her up, twirling her. She slid down within his arms, breathless. His kiss was fairground wheels and fireworks; her heart in her mouth. #vss365 #writing
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Sahti’s an #enigma, but Erin loves her for it. That, and everything else. “Where are we going?” “You’ll see.” “An adventure?” Erin grins. “A safe one this time?” “Maybe… but with a surprise at the end.” “Oh?” Sah stops to gaze at her, eyes twinkling. “You’ll see.” #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
His friends once warned him the worst outcome would be to end up in the ‘friend zone’. They said nothing of the #liminal zone, wherein he hears himself asking: “What are we?”; “who am I?”; “what are you?” And hears her playfully respond: “Let’s not spoil the surprise.” #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Like everyone else, Jake’s #parallel was born at the same time, so that they’d grow up together. When faced with decisions, Jake got first choice. It hadn’t always been the right one. Nearly 18—with Convergence approaching—he wondered how much of ‘Jake’ would survive. #vss365 #writing #vss 20/06
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
He told his mom how she’d waltzed in on her first day; how the other girls—chic, quiet, no matter—buzzed around her; how the boys circled like sharks. “You stay clear,” warned Mom. “That girl’s a #vortex.” A freak storm rattled the shutters. Even so, they both heard the doorbell. #vss365 #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“What godforsaken #realm is this?” The great hall was in ruin, the banquet’s remains swarming with flies. “Yours, my liege.” His page’s voice. The King’s chest was wet, his limbs leaden. “Am I asleep, boy?” A grinning corpse staggered into view. “Quite dead, Sire.” #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
He woke to a clamour of alarms—red lights glaring as he donned pants & boots and raced to the cockpit. “Roxy, status? And cancel that noise.” “Meteorite strike, boss,” the AI bleated. “I’m losing cargo.” In the quiet then, a #susurrus of escaping air. “Oh. And that.” #vss365 #writing #vss
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Sara @spauffwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"Just try." I grimace. "It's cold. And salty." "Our #primordial home. When we left, we had to adapt. Grow legs. Breathe air." Pa lifts me, dangles my legs in the waves. "But your body remembers how." I shiver, pulled by the tide. The water takes me slowly, like an old love, and I float. #vss365
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
She’d only shot him to slow him down, but wounded clumsiness had ensnared his leg in a trap. He growled at her approach, as she lay down her rifle, offered her arm. It’s a #primordial hunger, isn’t it? To become more; to change. “Bite me,” she said. “And I’ll free you.” #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The pills promised an awakening of sorts; a realisation of #self. But the morning after the party, Carl felt as if something major had shifted. “Never again,” he told Lucas at lunch. “Up to you, man. But last night? That you—Her—that’s the most fun I’ve seen you have. Ever.” #vss365 #writing #vss
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a woman is dancing in a club with her arms in the air and screaming .
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
“You want that reprogrammed, you come back here, ya?” It’s not really a question. Duke’s nanite ink-work is sublime. I flex my arm. Painless. Sure, elsewhere could do it. Some even hack it themselves—despite the dangers. No. Duke’s the only one I trust with my #skin. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
They were both exhausted by the time they found the hotel deep in the woods. But when they’d checked in and went to fetch their cases, Tina still found the energy to scream. A deep #slash marred each of the car’s tyres. A grinning porter held a blade. “Enjoy your stay.” #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Socially anxious, Suzie hated how the wolf attack drew attention to her. “Ohmigosh! Did it bite you? Let’s see!” “No, no. Just a #scrape. It’s nothing.” And it really was. They didn’t conceal their disappointment. But then, they had no idea how crazy fast it had healed. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“I miss her too, baby.” “Yeah? Funny way of showing it.” Her eyes fell on the #shed at the end of the yard: where he took his girlfriends. But she knew nothing of his experiments, how when each woman left, they resembled her mother a little more than they had before. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Even though blue sky stretches to the horizon, with only gentle waves between there and here, Paul plucks Tommy from the side and straps him into a seat. “No more paddling today, sport.” “Aww!” But dad is serious. Pale, even, as a vast grey #shape glides beneath the boat. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Don’t worry about the #silence. He’ll speak when he has something to say, something he deems worthy of saying, of sharing. Something he hopes you’ll deem worthy too. In the meantime: music; the sonorous snores of a cat; the ticking of time; the reconstruction of hope. #vss365 #vss #wintering
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“It’s fading?” The colour was draining from the hand she’d held, returning to #monochrome normality. “Yes. There’s only one way to make it last.” Her cheeks reddened. “It’s ok if you don’t—” A voice, then. “You gotta try it dude, it’s awesome!” Dirk. In full colour. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
“All of this,” He says—his bare, bloodied chest rising & falling. “For what?” There are fallen pack members littering the forest: hurting; incapacitated. Some here, in the cabin’s wreck of a front room. “No #challenge, no reward.” She steps forward. “Claim your prize.” #vss365 #writing #vss #awoo
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
At sunrise she’s waiting with a smile. “0.018 lunar lux! Lower #threshold for change than expected.” “Abbie, breakfast. Then—” “More tests!” Her eagerness made her a great lab partner. My wolf bite hadn’t changed that. But I was her subject now. And I might eat her. #vss365 #writing #vss #awoo
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Hi there and welcome!! I’m Dimi ☺️ and I post diminutive stories most days, responding to the amazing word prompts (like vss365) available on here. I work at sea 🛳️ but am home (in N.Ireland) for a couple of months & excited to connect with other writers. Following writers & creatives. No politics🚫
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
We make the best of it, like that first time, passing the long trip with songs & games, but we’d never expected to make this trip monthly. The bites changed everything. The laguna calls to us now with each full moon. Ven aquí, it says. Come & rejoin your #axolotl kin. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“Tidy your room,” Mum had said, “or you’ll be grounded.” She was crankier recently—more than ever before. Crying at night too. Grounding was a new threat. Next level stuff. What would it feel like, to be grounded? He lay down in the debris: let the carpet consume him. Imagining. #quickquill r8
A child’s bedroom: messy with toys scattered around the edges & overstuffed drawers hanging open. On the floor, the shape of a child is concealed beneath multi-coloured stripes of light, only the contours of their form visible.
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“It’s an #overfit,” Darren said. “Won’t mess with your mind or emotions like a skinsuit. Think of it as a disguise.” “A disguise?” “Yeah! You wanna see what it’s like, right? To look like a woman?” The moment it was on, she knew it was a lie. And Darren was grinning. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“It won’t bite.” With no reason to trust her, but no reason to think an ivy-covered cave wall would bite, he placed a hand on its damp surface. Shoots speared into the skin between fingers. “It only wants to #propogate.” Cave, he thought: I must find myself a cave. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
They asked me to leave a light on in the porch, to help identify our house from the street. A good idea—but our neighbours’ porches were just as well lit. I trembled in the cold, terrified that flagging the ambulance down would mean missing your last breath. #FromOneLine 365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Rayna has lived a careful, lonely life, terrified of her #latent, as-yet-undefined abilities. But Tom is sweet, hot, and into her. How could she know they’d awaken in the throes: that she’d absorb his seed and infuse him with her own, that it would transform him—remaking him as her twin? #vss365
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“If we don’t begin the #descent soon, we’ll get stuck up here in the dark.” The forest climb was hard enough by daylight. That’s why they’d hired a guide. The guide smiled, eyes on the rising full moon. “I know.” With this offering, the pack were sure to forgive him. #vss365 #writing #vss #awoo
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“I didn’t study my ass into debt to test chemicals on worms,” he whined. Not when testing #planaria DNA on humans, however illegal, had so much more potential. He tightened the strap, inserted the syringe… …then watched as his arm disintegrated into a writhing mass. #vss365 #writing #vss 🪱
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
There’s a #creeper in all of us: Longing to see what they’ve posted; to see if they’ve messaged; to see if they’ve read yours. We long for connection, to intertwine our lives with each other’s. We are, in equal amounts, symbiotic & parasitic: Imperfectly codependent. #vss365 #writing #vss 👉👈
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“I’m going to storm your #castle,” he says. She rolls her eyes: “Oh?” “Fight my way past the guards—” She lowers her book for a moment. “—Plunder your dungeon.” She meets his eyes. Stares. Pats the bed. He slides in next to her. She reads. He holds her. #Erotica280 #1197 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
“Don’t worry gorgeous, I’m not a #creeper.” He was charming & handsome, but he was a liar. Especially then. His affections crept around her as he asserted control over her life, friendships, choices. “I’m just greedy,” he’d laugh, his vines wrapping around her throat. #vss365 #writing #vss 🌿
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
She’s loved before, lusted over, needed. This is different. “Lillia,” the lady from the clinic says, her tone changing, softer, but no less demanding. “You need to give me the baby. His parents are dying to meet him.” #Devotion. That’s it. She’d kill for this child. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
He’s building a sand #castle with his little one when she first sees him, she with her own. One of the many things they find they have in common. Later, when his mouth is bringing her gasping to climax, she remembers: This is it. This is what it feels like. To be wanted. #erotica280 #1197 #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“Soli, I’m not feeling too good, check vitals.” My watch pulses as it runs an analysis, then chirps happily. [Subject developing within intended #parameters] Subject? “What do you mean, intended?” My head spinning, I rip the watch off, finding a ring of needle marks. #vss365 #writing #vss ⌚️
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“There are no stars anymore,” she tells the gathered crowd. “Nobody these days is burning brightly enough.” A murmur spreads, building in volume and intensity: Save for you, save for you. To her horror, she’s going viral, her face and words blazing worldwide. #FromOneLine 364 #writing #vss ✨😱✨
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
There are no stars anymore, only the remnant light of a few so far away that, by the time their light is gone, we’ll be a distant memory. We’d watched the closer ones blink away, umming & ahhing over what it means. Until, 8 minutes ago: our Sun was eaten, too. #FromOneLine 364 #writing #vss ✨
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“Front desk guy’s a freak. Thanks for being with us? Ew.” Adam had gone for ice, leaving Marcy staring at black mold patterns on the motel room wall. #Mycelium art, she called it. “I want to be part of you,” she whimpers later, painting his skin with blackened fingers. #vss365 #writing #vss #280
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
He abandoned politics, needing to escape the rot of ageing ideologies that infected everything. But teaching is different: his pupils, rooted in the right conditions, form #mycelium connections. Ideas branch from one to the next. Evolving; blooming. Alive & wonderful. #vss365 #writing #vss 🍄🍄🍄
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
‘A good #citizen reports every crime.’ We’d seen the ads, felt eyes on us that flitted away. We’ve been careful, but not enough. Our existence, our love, is a crime. I pull you inside, shut the door. Breathless; your hand in mine. “I had to,” Mum says. Phone in hand. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The science was revolutionary. We’d be settling on worlds with diverse atmospheres, incapable of supporting human life as we knew it. #Tardigrade DNA would help us be a little less human. We didn’t realise how much until we emerged from hypersleep. Many-armed. Hungry. #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“Do you want more?” A simple question, layered with complexity. Can she handle more? How much more is there to give? Is it want, or need? Her sweat-sheened body hums with restrained potential. #Yes, she whines. YES. He grins, removing the gag. “Sorry, what was that?” #vss365 #writing #vss
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Diminufiction @diminufiction.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
[Click #yes to proceed] His finger hovered over the control, allowing thoughts to wander through a life of victories & failures, loves & losses. What did it all mean? He was greying, now. Joyless, loveless & aimless. Click. [Wipe initiated] Time for a fresh start. #vss365 #writing #vss
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