#micro monday

[crimsonrune]

Comm - Mass Mares (Macro/Micro)

This week's Macro Monday also rings in Macro March, with a collaborative commission by @SugaryViolet and @GoatTrain! Here we see the magically ascendant Jinx and Scarlet (as wide as they are large) traversing the stars. At least one of them looks to be having some fun with it.

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[elgaberino-mcoc]

MICRO MONDAY: GOTTA LOVE A GOOD COVER

Micronauts Vol. 1 #44 (August 1982)

These characters' recent ranks:

405 Princess Mari (“Marionette”) • vote 401-425 

467 Acroyear • vote 451-475

544 Bug • vote 526-550

[unusedsthingz]

Have a good macro/micro Monday!

[itsthecatinthewindow]

Buzz. Beep. Slam and up and run the shower – hiss – ah, that’s better! Must I get out? Yes, you must, and get dressed, left and right, and tie and tie and tie and go.

Getting chillier, isn’t it? And so it is, commute comrade, and so it is – isn’t it? Yes, so it is. Every morning. Late, also, every morn– oh, there it is! and queue and beep and watch where you’re going, the little you can see through wishful doodles of the sun on misty windows.

Off, hurry, the bustle, the crowd, the loose slab that says hello with a bump and accepts the splash of coffee in return, really doing better than the rest of us.

Beep and ping, going to the fourth floor by way of the first, the second, the sixth, the third, after you, no, after you—

Morning, morning, not too bad, you? Smashing—let me just… Buttons, passwords, wrong, blasted, typo, what’s the--I’m in! Oh, that email, I thought I’d— log in, and in, and in, in too deep to leave, Miss 1d0ntwannabeh3r3.

Ringing beeping alerting, ringing beeping alerting—alarming! click and click and click and God I need a break—where? Balcony? Boss. Stairwell? Painters. Street? Forget it. Kitchen? As if… “The meeting—”

Run now.

Wait—really?

The kitchen. Empty.

A miracle. A haven. Heaven!

And when did the sun come out?

When did it all start to go so wrong? How much longer yet? What do you think, little bird – lucky to be on that side of the glass. Not much? An optimist. So was I, before—

SLAM

“Here, you are! We’re starting—”

Sigh, yes, coming, and sit and talk and sit and talk and course it’s pouring out there again and was there ever a bird at all?

[justinemdunn]

Micro Monday - A Story In 99 Words

I Dare You

“Run Spook Alley - alone, midnight, on Halloween.” I said.   “Easy.” Amy said. She ran, I waited. I heard something but saw nothing, the police found not a trace. Half a century later, everyone still talks about the girl that vanished. They say her ghost walks the alley each Halloween night, searching for a way back to life.  There is no ghost; I am the figure they see each year. I walk the alley filled with guilt, why did I make her do it? I search for the spirit of my missing friend, whispering her name into the night.

[justinemdunn]

Micro Monday - A Story In 99 Words

Sleeping Beauty

I watch you sleeping and still find it hard to believe you said ‘I do’.

I run my finger gently over your cheek and you stir a little. I chuckle to myself and do it again, this time pushing the hair from your forehead. You open your eyes and scratch your face, then sit bolt upright and your body pushes straight through me.

You wake the man next to you. “He’s here again! I felt him.” You scream.

“Shh, it’s OK, it was just another bad dream.” he tells you.

But you and I both know that it wasn’t.

[justinemdunn]

Micro Monday

Summer Madness

We’re shielded from the summer storm by a giant umbrella. The sound of the church bells breaks into the day, we smile and pause our conversation. A young girl catches my attention. She’s barefoot, felt tip drawings all over her legs and is playing with some sticks. Unconcerned by the rain, oblivious to the sun, so totally absorbed in the game whose rules and purpose reside entirely in her own pony-tailed head.   So free she looks, and so happy. I watch her for some time, wishing it were me with ink on my limbs and twigs in my hand.

[houghtonlib]

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Houghton Library, Harvard University