JANUARY 2025 SCIENCE FICTION MICROSTORY CONTEST (Comments Only)

[Greg]

Theme: Politics (Human, Alien or Otherwise)
Required Element: A "tablet", any meaning of that word.

[Tom]

Hello, everyone...Welcome to 2025. My story's up.

And, on a side note...4 Star Stories is also up on line with 4 new stories.

My story "Twilight's Arc" is Story #3

https://4starstories.com/stories.htm

[Jot]

Nice, though the graphics look a little 80's.

[Tom]

Nostalgia?

[Justin]

Congrats Tom!

[Justin]

Good story Tom to start the new year!

[Tom]

Thank you, Justin. (I always appreciate your comments.)

[J.F.]

I posted a story inspired by recent events. It includes two alien characters I have used previously in "The Calculations" and "This Little Light".

[Tom]

J.F. wrote: "I posted a story inspired by recent events. It includes two alien characters I have used previously in "The Calculations" and "This Little Light"."

I miss his gentle warmth. His kindness. His virtue most of all. We so need his like right now.

[J.F.]

What most impressed me about Carter was his courage. He often engaged in battles he couldn't win but he went there anyway. Maya Angelou said something to the effect that courage is the most important virtue because without it you can't practice any of the others consistently. We need more courage nowadays.

[Paula]

Agreed, J.F. and Tom. Carter wasn't perfect, but a very long, long step up from what were slugging it out in this most recent election. And I was just reading a book "Confronting the Bomb" on the history of people's movements against the developments, from 1945 to the '00's, against nuclear bombs and nuclear war; it goes into some detail re the risktaking and actions of both Carter and Gorbachev in stopping near-horror/near-disasters in the early-mid '90s. ---Actually, reading the optimism of the book, written several years ago, is, n light of the past few years' direction/s, depressing (I presume some of you here have read either Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine or the more recent book by Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario.

[Jot]

Mine's up

[Tom]

Happy Martin Luther King Day, everyone.

[Jot]

Indeed!

[Justin]

Story is up! It's a new year but I feel like I'm watching a rerun! Best wishes to all in 2025!

[Jot]

Let's hope it's a more peaceful year.

[Greg]

I got mine in and then realized the paragraph mentioning the tablets got lost in the edits. I found it and added it back to the story.

[Tom]

Very good imagery and pacing, Justin.

[Tom]

Jot wrote: "Let's hope it's a more peaceful year."

Yes, let's. (Though the realist in me says 'no.')

[Jot]

Still waiting on a vote from J.F., or anyone else

[Tom]

Jot wrote: "Still waiting on a vote from J.F., or anyone else"

You did get my vote, right?

[Jot]

Yeah, got everyone's vote, except for JF. Though the "anyone" else means those in the group.

[J.F.]

I just sent Jot my votes. Sorry for the delay but I have been so work busy the past few days, I wasn't even noticing what day it was till I just now sat down.

[Jot]

No worries. I have been busy this weekend as well, doing a 16hr hands on class for ice rescue technician.

[Paula]

Ice rescue technician? Sounds daring, dangerous and adventurous, Jot!

[Justin]

Tom wrote: "Very good imagery and pacing, Justin."

Thank you Tom!!

[Jot]

It might be if there was running water, but most places we might rescue people from a small lakes or ponds.