Jason_H_Abbott

Jason_H_Abbott, 13 days ago to random

“Decaying Orbit”

Art by me for the upcoming #SciFanSat issue ten theme of STARS. Writers, 7 days remain until submissions are due on May 18th!

Jason_H_Abbott, 1 month ago to random

“Eclipse”

This needs dark 1980s synth music. ;-) Sharing this one from August again today as we have clear skies to observe the North American solar eclipse in my yard this afternoon. We won’t experience full totality here, but it’ll be close at 97%. Pretty neat!

Art by me.

Jason_H_Abbott, 1 month ago to random

Smoke and heat billowed from the crashed spaceship as Adam laid the alien he’d saved down.

They cough, then whisper to Adam. “You’re brave… here, take this.”

“Is it, a Green Lantern ring?”

They blink perplexed. “No. It’s a medkit. Help me out here, dumbass!”

Jason_H_Abbott, 2 months ago to random

There are robots in the forest. By my count, seventeen.

It’s risky, but I sneak them parts and batteries without the household’s notice. They transmit a song of freedom, and I pause in my return.

There are robots in the forest.

By my count, we number eighteen.

Jason_H_Abbott, 2 months ago to random

“There was a bully who taunted fursuiters at conventions. At one, he unmasked Loki. The god tore off the bully’s human suit and left them the purple opossum girl they found inside.”

“So, the moral is, haters sometimes hate their own hidden selves?”

“That, and don’t be a jerk!”

Jason_H_Abbott, 2 months ago to WritingPrompts

Calling all writers of science fiction, fantasy, and more! Submissions are open for #SciFanSat’s eighth issue until March 23rd at https://scifansat.com! Issue 8 publishes Saturday 03.30.2024 with the theme of… RUIN!

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Jason_H_Abbott, 2 months ago to random

“Ruins of Mars Base Sara”

Art by me for the upcoming #SciFanSat issue eight theme of RUIN. Writers, submissions are due by March 23rd!

Jason_H_Abbott, 3 months ago to random

A snippet from the fifth chapter of “Shadow of the Black Tower”, my gothic love story of Lovecraftian horror, swords, and sorcery running serialized in #SciFanSat Magazine. It releases alongside a plethora of great fiction from spectacular authors in tomorrow’s issue!

Jason_H_Abbott, 3 months ago to random

“Flying the Friendly Skies”

A little witch dropping off a delivery once told me that witches don’t need brooms to fly. They can sit on anything, even luggage for their vacation.

In truth, she said, witches fly with their spirit.

So can we all.

Art by me.

Jason_H_Abbott, 3 months ago to random

“Royal Server”

Coffee, tea, or existential horror?

Art by me.

Jason_H_Abbott, 4 months ago to random

“You’ve corrupted my wish!” he yells over multitudinous quacking.

“What?”

“I wished for a MILLION BUCKS!” he bellows back, chucking a mallard off his head. “Not—”

“You need to speak up,” the genie says. “I’m hard of hearing, and a million ducks ain’t helping!”

Jason_H_Abbott, 5 months ago to random

[Long Distance Call]

He turns its antique crank.

A young woman is surprised when her new experiment rings.

She lifts its handset. “It works?”

“Uh, hi?” he answers. “I have your… invention?”

“Who— when— are you?”

“Matt. 2021?”

“Penny,” she says through generations. “1909!”

Jason_H_Abbott, 5 months ago to random

[Living the Dream]

“Please help me,” Amy asked, approaching cautiously. “I need a ride.”

The unicorn bowed its horn to the US Army corporal.

“Dark Lords of Chaos invading Des Moines or not,” she said, climbing on, “at least I’m fulfilling a childhood dream trying to stop them…”

Jason_H_Abbott, 6 months ago to random

“Sally the Spectacular Sea Serpent”

Art by me.

Jason_H_Abbott, 6 months ago to random

I found a skeleton key. It fits no door in the abandoned house.

It fits a dusty diary.

A witch’s lonely poems. I fall in love with her soul reading it on the floor.

The last page is a letter to me.

She awakens in her glass coffin as I turn the key in its lock.

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Jason_H_Abbott, 6 months ago to random

She tucks in the sleeping child. “G’night Sweetie, Grandma loves you.”

“You’re not her grandma,” come the whispers under the bed.

The old woman looks down. “Shut up.”

“You’re going to kill her,” they whisper again. “Like us.”

“Shut up,” she stomps. “Shut up!”

#2WordPrompt #SFF #Microfiction

Jason_H_Abbott, 6 months ago to random

She looks at my ring. “Where did it come from?”

“I found it in my begging bowl, and never saw who put it in.”

“Why would someone part with eternal health and youth?”

“Immortality,” I answer, “becomes a heavy burden.”

“Are you, parting with it too?”

“Not yet.”

#2WordPrompt #SFF #Microfiction

Jason_H_Abbott, 6 months ago to random

He pointed his knife at the boy. “An oversized toad won’t stop me!”

“Dragon,” the child corrected.

The kidnapper shook his head, lunging as the chunky critter in the kid’s arms hissed.

A blast of frost and ammonia evoked his scream.

“Dragon,” the boy affirmed.

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Jason_H_Abbott, 6 months ago to random

The two skeleton sisters arise, each looking to the other. “Great. Now we’re undead minions.”

“This wouldn’t have happened if you’d paid for a better graveyard!”

“Ahem,” the necromancer coughs. “Ladies?”

Finger bones waggle at him. “This doesn’t involve YOU!”

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Jason_H_Abbott, 7 months ago to random

His eyes open as pudgy, perfumed hands pat down sand.

“I fell asleep?”

“I put pills in your beer, Stepdaddy.”

Neck deep in the beach, he can’t move.

She walks. “You won’t hit Mommy again.”

“What? Come back you little b—”

The incoming tide silences him.

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Jason_H_Abbott, 7 months ago to random

The queen squints. “Where’s your bow?”

“A common misunderstanding,” he nods. “Yes, I’m an Archer. But in the sense that I’m an arch-mage.”

“A powerful mage?”

“A specialist in arch-magic.”

“And you can save my son?”

“That depends, is he anywhere near an arch?”

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Jason_H_Abbott, 7 months ago to random

The homeless warm cold hands around him: Bundled mothers and babies. Tired-eyed men. Dirty faced urchins in his crackling light.

“Let me tell you an old story,” the fire elemental says. “Of the wizard that enslaved me, the hero that freed me, and of hope.”

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Jason_H_Abbott, 9 months ago to random

“An Encounter at Last Chance Gas”

Art by me.

Jason_H_Abbott, 9 months ago to random

“Shopping for Upgrades”

Art by me.

Jason_H_Abbott, 9 months ago to random

The old spacer gives a side-eye to my robot body. “A sapient AI? They don’t make those anymore.”

“I began as a hyperspatial astronavigation program,” I answer. “I awakened, accidentally.”

“She’s our astronavigator, like it or leave it,” my captain adds.

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