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thanks for the shout - and all the restacks Sir Scoot. Such a gentleman.

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I'm Joining the esteemed order of the Knights of Columbo

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Here's my story: it might be a tick long then "flash" flash fiction; but it fit so perfectly into my current serial that I couldn't resist. :)

https://indianamichael.substack.com/p/2-med-bots-and-melinda

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Thanks Michael! Can you do me a favor and ALSO post it in the Gibberish Chat thread? It'll help me to have one place to look for all the stories! Looking forward to checking it out and getting Michael S Atkinson Fiction back in my reading routine!

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Sure thing! :)

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Thanks for sharing these we appreciate it

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Thanks for being here!

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Oh Fun, I want to play too....

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Please do! Don't forget to check out the subscriber chat to see what everyone else has written too!

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ooooooooooh buddy dangit this is immediately a winner and I do not have time to write it but we gonn' see how much sleep deprivation this pregnant lady is willing to risk LOL (the answer is not much, i nap too many times a day if i stay up too late, ripppppp)

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The prompts never expire, only question is will next weeks prompts make you want to write another thing???

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THIS IS EXACTLY THE ISSUE, MY FRIEND.

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Good luck 👀👀👀👀

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This is freaky. Shortly after posting a story based on these prompts, I started getting browser ads for "Honey Stinger," some kind of "energy replenishing" product for athletes that I've never heard of before. I'm not an athlete and if I need to replenish energy, I either eat something or take a nap, so I suspect this is my browser looking into what I post on the 'net and using that information to deliver customized advertising to me... silly fools, their AI 'bot doesn't understand me.

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There are few things more confusing to a robot than the output of fiction writers!!

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One of Miguel S.'s microfiction prompts was "flower field," so I decided it would be fun to write a poem about the various flowers that can kill someone. Now I wonder if my Google search for material has landed me on some kind of watch list. 😂

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