"I fled Ulu, shed my caste and name, and apprenticed myself to the Prognostics. When I returned, I was unrecognizable: a foreign curiosity. I was selective in what I revealed of their future—never lying, but withholding just enough to seed their undoing."
What kind of story can you tell with fewer than 256 characters? This collection of 256 extremely short works of micro length science fiction pushes the limit of what you can do with plot, character, and world building in a handful of words. The stories inside are set everywhere from ten years to millions of years in the future and explore themes from cyberpunk, space opera, and hard science fiction.
Benjamin Kamphaus is a keytarist and semicolon apologist living in the Front Range of Colorado. As PatternShift, he composes synthesizer music set in the same worlds as his fiction. When not in Colorado, he can be found traveling the world in search of a good cup of coffee.