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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 7h

The community garden plants are voting me out. I find the ballot box—an overturned pot—stuffed with seed packets marked "NO."

"Nothing personal," my tomato says. The balcony tomato I brought nods. "You overwater. Talk to yourself while weeding. Embarrass us."

They're right. I pack my trowel, taste soil on my lips one last time.

The herb garden starts a slow-clap. Even my basil mocks me.

Outside, wild dandelions offer sympathy. Weeds understand rejection.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 1d

The thrift store coat remembers everyone who wore it. "Teacher, banker, student, thief," it murmurs as I try it on.

The fabric smells like other people's Novembers.

"Which one was happiest?"

"The thief. She wore me during her last job, then donated me. Said she was done."

I check the pockets—empty except for a button.

"What did she steal?"

"Time, mostly. From a job she hated."

I buy the coat. Steal myself back.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 2d

"The crosswalk button grants wishes," a kid tells me, pressing repeatedly. "Three presses: small wish. Ten: medium. Hold thirty seconds: anything."

I laugh until I notice—everyone holds exactly thirty seconds. Traffic stops. They cross, transformed. Taller. Younger. Different entirely.

"What did you wish?" I ask a woman.

"To be someone else."

The light changes. My turn. I press once, twice. Thirty seconds feels like choosing forever. I let go at twenty-nine.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 3d

At the food truck, orders arrive before customers speak. "One bánh mì, extra cilantro," the chef announces.

"How did you—"

"You were going to order it."

She's right. Everyone receives their future meal, still steaming.

"What if I change my mind?" I ask.

She shrugs. "Nobody does."

I bite into my predetermined sandwich. It tastes exactly like what I wanted but didn't know yet.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 4d

The doorbell camera shows me leaving my house seventeen times this morning. I've left once.

"Storage full," the notification glows. I delete the duplicates, but they reappear—me in yesterday's coat, last week's expression, carrying groceries I haven't bought yet.

A text from my own number: *Stop deleting us.*

I watch myself walk up the driveway again. This version looks tired. She waves at the camera.

I wave back.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 5d

"Nobody blinks anymore," I tell the optometrist. She stares, unmoving, eyes glossy as marbles.

"We evolved past it last Thursday." Her eyelids remain locked open. At the mall, thousands of unblinking shoppers drifted like sleepwalkers.

"Doesn't it hurt?"

"Hurt suggests biological necessity." She writes my prescription with eyes fixed forward. "You're the last one blinking. Must be exhausting."

I blink. Once. Twice.

"See?" she says. "Inefficient."

My eyes begin to water.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 6d

"Everyone's walking backwards today," my son observes at the convenience store. He's right—customers reverse through aisles, the clerk moonwalks past registers. "Just a trend," I say, grabbing milk.

Outside, cars drive backwards down Main Street. A jogger passes, facing the wrong direction. My son tugs my sleeve. "Mom, why are *we* the only ones going forwards?"

I check my phone's front camera. We're walking backwards too. We just can't tell.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 7d

The motel phone rings at 3 AM. I answer.

"You're in my room," a voice says. "I'm in yours."

I check the mirror. Different face. Different hands. Across the parking lot, my body waves from Room 12.

"Lightning struck between us," he—I?—explains.

"How do we fix it?"

"Do we want to?" He sounds younger in my voice. Hopeful.

Dawn comes. The switch remains. I practice his signature, the loops unfamiliar. He's probably practicing mine.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 8d

The missing person poster shows my face. "I'm right here," I tell the officer hanging it. She doesn't look up.

I grab her shoulder—my hand passes through like smoke through a screen door.

The poster lists my last known location: this street corner. Today's date. "Disappeared while insisting he existed," she reads aloud, yawning.

People walk past, through me. I'm not dead. Just gradually unconvincing.

The fluorescent hum of the streetlight agrees. I'm losing the argument of myself.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 9d

"The narrator keeps calling me 'the woman,'" I complain to my therapist. "Never Janet. Just 'the woman entered,' 'the woman sighed.'"

He scribbles something. Probably "the woman exhibits paranoia."

"See?" The vending machine hums in agreement. Even it gets more description—*ancient, yellowed, dispensing stale promises*. "I want an adjective. Just one."

"How about demanding?" he offers, pen poised.

I'll take it. The demanding woman smiles.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 10d

"The vending machine's been hiring," Jake mentions. "Good benefits."

Sure enough, it posts jobs on its screen between snack selections. My coworkers submit résumés through the coin slot.

"What's the position?" I ask.

"Internal operations," someone says, feeding it their CV.

Tom from accounting hasn't returned from his interview—three days now. But the machine stocks fresh sandwiches daily. They taste oddly familiar.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 11d

The laundromat at 2am attracts specific clientele. "Blood again?" asks the regular by dryer three.

"Paint," I lie. She nods—we all lie here. The overnight shift knows better than asking twice. Someone's washing a wedding dress, crying quietly. Another feeds quarters to machines that haven't needed them since the accident.

*It's not the stains we're cleaning,* I realize, watching my past swirl in sudsy water. It's something harder to name.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 12d

"Loading bar at 99% for three days," I tell tech support.

"What's loading?"

"My life, apparently." The screen shows a progress bar titled "Tuesday." It won't complete.

"Try closing other applications."

I quit my job, ended my relationship, stopped eating. Still 99%.

"Any change?"

"It moved." I lean closer. "Backwards. Now 98%."

The technician sighs. "That's actually progress."

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 13d

The origami bird on my desk unfolds one crease nightly. "Stop that," I tell it, but paper has its own timeline.

Tonight it's almost flat—just one fold remains. A wing trembling like it might take flight.

I've been sleeping here, watching. If it completely unfolds, something ends. Or begins. The bird doesn't say which.

*One more night,* I think, touching its paper heart. The wing holds its shape a little longer.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 14d

The mushrooms sprout from my carpet overnight—perfect circles, pulsing blue. "Don't touch them," my roommate says, already packing. "That's how it spread at Mom's."

But they're beautiful. *Alive.* I mist them with the kitchen sprayer. They pulse brighter, humming.

"You're making it worse," she warns from the doorway.

By morning, they've reached the ceiling. I lie among them, breathing spores that taste like copper. "Welcome," something whispers. Or maybe it's just the walls settling.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 15d

The photo booth flashes. My license preview shows someone else's face—older, tired, content. "That's not me."

"It's who you'll become," the clerk says, snow globe water pooling around my documents. "DMV upgraded. We photograph futures now."

I study the stranger's smile, the laugh lines I haven't earned. "Can I choose different?"

"You already did." She slides the license across the counter. "That's why he's smiling."

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 16d

The childhood photo shows me at six, holding something blurred. The glow reveals it clearly—today's newspaper.

"Impossible," I breathe.

Mom sorts tax documents below, humming.

"You were such a strange child," she calls up. "Always knew things before they happened."

In the photo, little-me's lips move: *Don't come home tomorrow.*

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 17d

My phone autocorrects "help" to "bag." Every text reads wrong: "Bag me," "I need bag," "Send bag immediately."

The garbage bag on platform seven fattens. Inside, deleted messages accumulate—typos, unsent confessions. It learns our language's mistakes, digests our errors.

"Bag," someone says, meaning hello.

"Bag," I respond, forgetting other words exist.

The bag opens wide, revealing darkness thick as tar. We understand the invitation perfectly. Communication ends here.

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Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social · 18d

As the grandparent of a toddler who LOVES swings and slides - the higher and faster the better - I can so relate to this!

TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 18d

The playground interview begins at dusk. "Why should we accept your child?" the red swing asks, chains forming words.

"She's kind," I stammer. "Good grades—"

The slide interrupts with a metallic laugh. "We don't care about that."

They want something else—wildness, perhaps. Dreams untamed by adult logic.

My daughter steps forward. "I talk to puddles," she announces.

The swing drops low, inviting.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 18d

The playground interview begins at dusk. "Why should we accept your child?" the red swing asks, chains forming words.

"She's kind," I stammer. "Good grades—"

The slide interrupts with a metallic laugh. "We don't care about that."

They want something else—wildness, perhaps. Dreams untamed by adult logic.

My daughter steps forward. "I talk to puddles," she announces.

The swing drops low, inviting.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 19d

"Your replacement arrived," my captain says. It's me—cardboard, smiling, positioned at my desk.

"Very funny." But he's serious. The cutout types reports, answers calls with my recorded voice. Citizens prefer it—never rude, always helpful. I watch myself work, flawless and flat.

"Take a vacation," he suggests. "You've earned it."

Outside, every cop I pass is paper. The wind rustles through their uniforms.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 20d

"Sign here," the doll whispers from the shelf. Its porcelain finger points to a contract that smells like iron.

"My blood?" I ask.

"Just a drop. You'll get the whole collection—and backstage passes."

The other dolls nod encouragingly, their glass eyes catching light. I prick my finger, sign. They giggle, suddenly warm. "Welcome," they chorus. My reflection in their eyes looks different. Smaller. Porcelain-smooth.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 21d

The bulldozer refuses to demolish the house. "It's crying," the operator insists.

I touch the machine—warm, trembling.

"Buildings have souls here," an old worker explains. "Machines feel when they destroy them."

"So we just... stop?"

"Or wait until the house is ready."

We sit. Hours pass. The house creaks, settles—*permission*. The bulldozer advances gently, like a priest approaching an altar. The walls fold inward without protest.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 22d

"Today's lesson: mitosis," I announce, splitting cleanly down the middle. Two of me continue teaching.

Students scribble notes. Four of me patrol the cafeteria. Eight versions grade papers after school. "Homework's due Monday," we chorus in perfect unison.

The janitor counts heads as sixteen of me file out. "Just one teacher leaving?"

"Just one," I lie.

Home already has thirty-two. Wife kisses whoever reaches the door first.

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 23d

"My jokes are becoming real," the comedian confesses backstage. Rubber chickens strut past, clucking indignantly.

The audience doesn't know yet. "What's the deal with airplane food?" Peanuts rain from the ceiling—stale, metallic.

"Stop telling jokes," I beg.

He can't. "Two priests walk into—" The wall splits. Two priests stumble through, confused. The crowd roars, not understanding they're witnessing creation itself. Applause manifests as butterflies.

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