Scrithe Mendacious

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

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“Luther, I Suffer” by Scrithe Mendacious

Submitted to Contest #15

“Arcturus, I need you to try harder.” The robot blinked at him. The robot was beautiful. With no friendship, with no purpose, what was it to do but perfect itself? There was no philosophy for robots but aesthetics. The man raised his eyebrows. “Get the Matrioshka Brain to do it,” Arcturus said. “I cannot.” The man sat back and picked at the lapel of his lab coat. Crossed his feet. Uncrossed them. “Mat can’t do it because she’s busy sustaining the entire city. As much as I wish we could install a few hundr...

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“Aquarius Veturus and the Terribly Important Letter” by Scrithe Mendacious

Submitted to Contest #14

Concerning yet another elaborate adventure of           AQUARIUS VETURUS, Pirate Extraordinaire— When last seen, Aquarius and his crew of the unparalleled Shining Wanderer were grum at their malsuccess in all things piratic. Instead, they turned briefly to lemon farming, given Min’s proclivity toward sour things.  I tell you now, Aquarius and Co. achieved such success in this endeavor, in spite of snow, blights, hurricanes, cannibals, wolves, birds, auctioneers, and the ever-pr...

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I am the running sentence wide That covers gifts with flaxen tide, For when I run my tin machines The darkest caves do grin and lean.