Sign in

Tower727

@tower727.bsky.social
217 followers 214 following 253 posts

Microfiction writer.

PostsRepliesMedia
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The dread warlock pored over the grimoire, then intoned a string of profane commandments, mystic words of power. There is a click and his eyes shift from the book. Crouching beside his skull altar is a young man hastily swapping cartridges in his cassette player. They make eye contact.
120
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“It’s the headless horseman.” She fixed her glasses. “Now see here. That’s no headless horseman!” “He hasn’t got a head!” “Sure he has! It’s right there, he’s holding it in his hand.” The head glanced to the body, who shrugged. It was honestly just glad she didn’t think this was a prank show.
041
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The necromancer gestured. A skeletal arm rose from the rubble and flipped him off. “The dead here are loyal. They won’t rise for me” He gestured to a skull. Across the room, a set of hipbones made the main rude gesture that really only a disembodied pelvis can make.
063
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Witchhiker’s broom is broken. But she’s found something else to fly her, today. The Passenger. A flying shotgun.
001
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Your boyfriend is three goblins in a trench coat. They don’t know you know. Tok wrote you a poem. Gorp remembers your birthday. Fleem holds your hand while you fall asleep. Your boyfriend is three goblins in a trenchcoat. And it might take all three of them to be up to the task
151
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It once rained for three to six times longer than humans have existed as a species.
040
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Werewolves had a serious renaissance when they realized they could put a zipper on the ol’ wolf skin
030
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
She felt the scar where her ring had once been. Devils liked making deals for the power they granted. She’d been traded in one such deal. Her divorce had been extremely final. She’d given him the finger and he’d kept it. But at least now she was free.
010
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Horned Crown of the Tornado Siren. Its lamenting song warns of the coming storms. Not a watch. Not a warning. Not a threat.
042
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The knight’s blade finally pierced the dragon’s skull, and it crumbled to dust. No, not dust. Sand. And there, by the water’s edge. A boy with a bucket, a shovel, and a dangerous look in his eye.
021
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“Hey buddy. Grow a pair! Grow a pair of beautiful wings! Turn into a bird.”
030
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
It takes one to know one It takes two to find one It takes three to kill one
041
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The soil here is dark purple in color. A testament to the land’s sordid past, that leaden vorpalite might be so highly concentrated as to turn its mud and dust deeply bruised violet
120
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The kids were excited. They’d seen the camera truck driving past last week, updating the street view of the neighborhood. She’d pulled up the map. She knew he was leaving. But it was still strange to see this side of him—to see the regret as he pulled away for the last time
010
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
King and crown. King and crown. Princes are born, age and die. But the king is eternal. All who wear the crown are the king. Or rather, the crown is the king. It matters little whose head labors under its weight
010
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Picnic Pete looked at his timer. “I’m sorry, but these eggs have a very precise marination and I’ll be devastated if they’re not perfect.” The porcine sentry shook its trident again, but without conviction “I’ll share.” Pete smiled enticingly Trident touched floor. “Ajitama?” It asked, hopefully
010
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Feet thunder past you in the dark, an athleticism that is intense and precise and mindless. You make a note of the car’s license plate. Someone has agitated the Runalong
020
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
He turned off the alarm on the first beep. It was early, but he felt good. Well rested! He’d gone to bed at a reasonable hour the night before. It turns out the key to a good night’s sleep was deciding your dreams were fake and replacing time wasted chasing them with a healthy eight hours of sleep
030
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The doors burst open and the mob rushed in. “This castle is full of monsters! Werewolves and vampires and hunchbacks!” The music screeches to a stop. One of the werewolves pats Igor’s hand protectively. A vampire snatches the glasses off a villager’s nose. “Look out! It’s a monster with MYOPIA!”
040
Reposted by Tower727
Pablo Naruto @atpablonaruto.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It is suspected by some to be related to the impossible visions reported by sailors, of horrifying sea-muensters, cheesecloth-rigged ships sailing inverted in the sky, mighty Roqueforts clinging to clouds, their cheesebrick-crenelated towers reaching nearly to the horizon: The legendary Feta Morgana
011
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“Victor! I don’t think we can be friends any more.” Victor lowered the brain, stunned. He didn’t know his Assistant thought they were friends. Or that Igor might even be capable of having a friend. He realized with shame that he did not really even consider the man to be human.
020
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The Mad Bleu is a sentient cheese of the Cold Forests. An emissary and extension of the penicillin fungal networks that allows the forest to communicate. You’ll smell it before you see it. You’ll need to taste it to understand.
120
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
“How exciting it is to travel.” He thought, curling up in his hammock. “How wonderful it is to be home.” It was good to be in his own bed.
062
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
He stared for a moment, understanding dawning on his face. “Oh. ” He turned back to find the door closed behind him. “You know that moment when something you couldn’t understand suddenly clicks into place?” He tried the knob. “Well I finally figured it out.” Urgently. “Why I should be scared.”
060
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Lava chicken: it’s spicy
Lava chicken
040
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A polyglottal strix has been stalking you. You hear it muttering to itself, alternating languages as it struggles to catch your scent.
030
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The wise man smiled apologetically. “I could not bring the mountain to you, so—“ He was interrupted by a catastrophic boom. “I could.” Said the golemacher. “It should be here soon.”
050
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Wasn’t there three?
051
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Shrines are often marked by growths of hiderangeas, huge stands of dark flowers that absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity to run the shrine’s defenses.
071
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If you follow the creek south from Main Street, there’s a dungeon under the Park Lane bridge. Until 1997 it could be opened with the Song Of Secrets, but local cuckoo birds learned the melody and now it can only be opened with the Magepie Key.
091
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Abner regarded the tiny Thesean House with its pulsing ghost lights.
A man, a ghost, and a tiny haunted house
040
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The children of the forest must never leave its borders. If they do, they’ll die. Yessir, outside the borders of the forest they barely last seventy or eighty years
070
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The M727 Donor Buzzard hovers over the battlefield, seeking organs to harvest for infusions. Although technically medics, they’re universally hated and attacked for the morbid display of medical cannibalism.
030
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
As you’ve run your route, something has been wrong all day. Your Deja vu is so unbearably strong You see the boy. He is the only one off script. He is bleeding. But there is a look of determination in his eyes He’s going to try again. Alright, one more yesterday. Then maybe you can face tomorrow.
050
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
He frowned and looks at the cookie. “I’m scared. I know how this fight ends for me.” He looked at you sadly. “But I don’t get to know how your story goes.”
010
Reposted by Tower727
Pablo Naruto @atpablonaruto.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
If you calibrate your karma just right, say by doing mostly the right thing but being very passive-aggressive about it, you can achieve a horseshoe orbit
021
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
It’s running down a long hallway. As it gets closer to the exit door and the light there, its shadow gets bigger and more terrifying. That’s how shadows work. Yes. That is a perfectly rational thought. No reason to fear. You still wish you could undo these handcuffs, though.
020
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Walking on dunes at night, you spy something, bobbing out at sea. A life preserver, all orange and yellow. And there, floating on the Silent Sound, is the Kokovoko. And there, on the horizon, is the tower
030
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The ghost ship Kokovoko sails on treacherous waters. Across whirlpools and shallows. Over reefs and under storms Some think it’s to lure ships to their doom. Others think it’s to rescue the souls of the drowned I’ve seen the ship. I know what pursues it, and what treasure they must never plunder
020
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Each planet in the solar system is a level in the dharmic wheel. Behave well enough and your spirit will ascend onward, to Mars. Behave poorly and you will be punished, drifting down to Venus, or Mercury. Hell is real, and it’s located somewhere between the photosphere and the corona
140
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“Kill the troll. I need his ribs for a project.” Sneered the artificer. “Don’t kill the other two.” “Why not?” Asked the brigand, who had unexpectedly found himself fighting for his life. “Because I don’t need them dead?” The artificer sounded puzzled.
030
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The Ranger took off her boots and walked carefully, dragging her feet through the grass. Suddenly she stooped, grabbed a handful of leaves and plunged her knife into the soil. She pulled a struggling thing out of the dirt. A mandragora with its mouth sewn shut, wearing a little key on its neck.
031
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The vampire hunter moved through the club like a grim kabob, leaving only a choking wake of dust. With their haunt cleared, he steels himself for sunlight and disappears, off to find another vampire den. The dust sussurates in the breeze: “is he gone?” And “anybody got some blood?”
070
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Music to play as you watch your reflection fall off a skyscraper
130
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
There’s a wrench golem in the parking garage at work. So, good news: your car is engine is going to get tuned up every day. Bad news: you probably shouldn’t keep more than a gallon of gas in the tank
050
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The skeletons regarded him with baleful eyes, as he realized the true gravity of what raising them had meant As long as their bodies were alive, their souls were here, shuffling around in the dirt This is why necromancy is so dangerous. The dead do NOT like schlepping back to the living lands
041
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is the Forest of Thought. It is easy to get lost here. This the Lake of Reflection. It is a place you end up while lost in the Forest of Thought. And there, under the surface, under the roots, lurking in the deepest places of that lake are weird and strange fish… The School of Thought
040
Reposted by Tower727
🦋ShouldBeWriting🦋 @vanellopemint.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Microfiction - Moral Compass
"What is this?" asked Dr. Philbottom, picking up a round brass device.
"That, my good man, is a Moral Compass," replied the bazaar vendor. "Instead of pointing to true North, it allows you to divine the most moral decisions."
"Yet it is telling me to steal it."
"Indeed! The poles are reversed by default. You see, I mostly sell these to businessmen...."
032
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“We plant trees under whose shade we shall never sit.” The detective turned the card over. “You find anything else?” there is a gentle clatter as corpse’s hand falls open and an acorn rolls across the floor
010
Tower727 @tower727.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Go to the Tower Archives. For every concept the Tower understands, it has a file that summarizes that concept. Don’t open a drawer for too long, though; the longer you look the more detail it renders. QUERY_THE_ARCHIVE? [y/n] <reply here to query>
240