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Unexpected Welcome

Tweet Fiction

Mark Starlin
Jan 23, 2021

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They had been asleep for four years. Their bodies held in suspended animation while their spaceship covered the vast distance necessary to reach a new habitable planet.

So you can probably imagine their surprise when the first alien lifeforms they met greeted them with Y.M.C.A.

Tweet Fiction is fiction short enough to fit on Twitter. I am calling it Tweet Fiction, not Twitter Fiction (which is common on Twitter) because I like the name better, and this is Medium. Plus, it sounds better than Micro-Micro-Fiction.

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Mark Starlin
Mark Starlin

Written by Mark Starlin

Old bones. Young heart. Uniquely arranged words.

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