Here’s the microfic. It is short, check it out over at 365 Tomorrows.
There’s a Shock: session or Diaspora star system in that, I think. The idea of playing a queen married to a planet who has gone feral apeals to me.
Microfic fascinates me. It is kind of like an RPG campaign pitch but with just a touch of conclusion.
Maybe I wll submit.
Submit! 365 Tomorrows has to put up a new piece of science fiction daily, so they love submissions over there.
Flash fiction is lots of fun. I really enjoy writing complete stories in little packages. There is certantly an art to it – an art of starting the story at the last, possible microsecond that you can and then wrapping it up in a neat little bundle.
I wanted to write a story where someone married a planet. The idea of a living planet is an old one, sure, but I wanted to play with the idea that someone might actually be able to fall in love with such a creature, and how that love might change them.
Short fiction allows you to play with a lot of ideas like that – you can investigate them without committing to the length of a novel – then you can decide what you want to expand. For someone with a lot of ideas, this concept is lots of fun.