Friday Flash

Super Maja [opowiadanie]

Od dawna nie napisałem żadnego opowiadania, skupiając się na blogowaniu, rozkręcaniu e-księgarni i publikowaniu nowych książek. Na szczęście pałeczkę przejmuje Kasia. Oto jej pierwszy w życiu #FridayFlash:-) Super Maja Widzimy kawiarenkę. W środku siedzą: Doktor Zło, Super Maja (w przebraniu), Pan Kubek. Wszyscy ubrani są normalnie. Po chwili Doktor Zło wyciąga pistolet, podbiega do Pana [...]

An Impulse Purchase [short story]

Will your Christmas shopping look like this? Maybe not this year, but it will. Balbina Wachowiakowa was doing shopping with her husband and son at the veryhypermarket. Their cart was already half-filled, and they only just reached the food section. “Mom! Mom! Look! Cubicar! Cubicar!” Rafik shouted while looking at a meter-long model of a [...]

The robotic intelligence test

Anna was afraid like never before. Another employee evaluation day was coming up. The most important part of it was a test of a robotic intelligence RQ, determining the level of robotization of a human mind regarding reliability in performing standard tasks, speed of work performed, error ratio, length of work performed without the need [...]

Happiness in a four-pack

I Write Like says I wrote this story in David Foster Wallace’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. A leading world corporation in the field of extremely rapidly degradable products, Hipsi Co. decided to introduce onto the Polish market a new, revolutionary product – ingestible energizing happiness, under the brand name Happi. [...]

Coma longer than expected

According to I Write Like this story has the style of William Gibson. Get it for free with Password Incorrect collection. It was on a Wednesday evening, during the seventh episode of “The Murderers from a Residential Cell”, when a handsome man from the early-reanimation unit fell into a coma, that is, he couldn’t be [...]

Mr Copypaste

I Write Like says I wrote this story in Cory Doctorow’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. Roman Fretard, known to himself as Gonzo, and to others as Tard wanted to make a career for himself quickly, nimbly and with all the effort comparable to a yawn. He thought about ways to [...]

Dobre opowiadania na piątek, czyli #fridayflash

Co to jest #fridayflash? To tag służący do oznaczania na Twitterze wpisów z odnośnikami do nowo publikowanych opowiadań w światowej blogosferze. “Friday” dlatego, że wpisy pojawiają się co piątek, “flash” – bo dotyczą bardzo krótkich opowiadań, do 1000 słów, czyli flash fiction. Jest to jedno z nowszych zjawisk literackich na Twitterze, ale bardzo szybko się [...]

An Orbital Flight With a Small Surprise [short story]

George Pearinsky was disappointed. They stuck him into this thing resembling a caftan, not a flight suit, and he couldn’t even take a photo of himself, but maybe it was better without one anyway, because in this vomit-green inflatable quilted shit, he looked like a huge pear, even though he weighed only 125.5 kilograms. “And [...]