RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><strong><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> 2025.08.26 — Has anything unusual happened to your MC at school or work?</strong></p><p>Well, lots, since one story takes place with her attending a "magic" school. After being enrolled, the vice principal snags the top student, who happens to be an arrogant bully, to show my very capable and dangerous MC around. Well, I'll let her tell the story, redacted for <em>reasons</em>.</p><blockquote><p>[Bully:] "So, show me what you got."</p><p>[MC:] "What I've got?"</p><p>"Please don't blow a hole through the city all the way to the lake. That's been done already. Wasn't funny."</p><p>I laughed <em>brightly.</em> A real <em>comedienne,</em> I thought, as we climbed a staircase. Two could play at that game, and since I felt appearing harmless was my best strategy for staying on the good side of the school brainiac bully, I decided to do something every one could do but with an extra-goofy flare.</p><p>As we circled back around the central open area of the school on the third floor, with the banners of the school's sun logo waving, I spun up <em>Illuminate.</em> I scrunched up my nose as I applied my stolen simplification codicil to ramp the miracle up to fifth level. I stopped walking and ensured all the math balanced. My halo lit. Blinding digits zipped across my vision in my arithmocosm, but I held my numbers together as I wiggled my nose harder and harder.</p><p>I sneezed.</p><p>I performed the miracle as I did so, my head propelled into chaotic motion. Mostly, the bright luminosity sprayed across the atrium, spattering the long flag depicting the Director of Home [who was also the principal], but I managed to splat banisters, floors, lockers, ceilings, two dozen students who squealed and ducked or banged into one another, and one teacher who immediately stomped toward the stairs. </p><p>My escort looked down. Her chest and legs glowed in all the colors of the rainbow, all in the proper prismatic order.</p><p>It wasn't snot, but I said it anyway. <em>"Ewwww!"</em></p></blockquote><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2023, 2024, 2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/flashfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flashfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/smallstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smallstory</span></a></p>