<div class="text-justify"><p>Prior to coming to Hive <em>(𝗂.𝖾., 𝗍𝗁𝖾 "𝗅𝖾𝗀𝖺𝖼𝗒" 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗂𝗇)</em>, I was on another site where I learned of "<b>nanofiction</b>." Different people define "nanofiction" in various ways&nbsp;&mdash; <em> some say it must be 50 words, some say 55, etc.</em>, but it falls into the category of "microfiction" or "flash fiction." The point of nanofiction is to challenge the author to write as succinctly as possible, and express a story with few words. Those who were longtime users of X/Twitter might remember the original 140-character limit, and how we were challenged to "keep it brief" and carefully craft our tweets to make them fit the allotted space; nanofiction is similar!</p>

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<p>Someone on Discord was talking a while back about his boat and the barnacles that have to be periodically removed. That inspired me to write the following 50-word nanofiction:</p>

<p><h5>My old boat was lifted out of the water by a large crane and suspended over the dock. I spent the afternoon carefully and laboriously scraping the barnacles from her hull. There were many. Then, I returned home to scrape my own barnacles. They say cleanliness is next to godliness.</h5></p>

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## Nanofiction (55-word fiction) © thekittygirl

<p>So, on that other site I mentioned prior to my coming here, there was a lady who occasionally posted prompts as challenges for us to use in writing nanofiction. Fortunately, I saved some of my favorites to my computer, as the site is now defunct. 😢 I shared them a while back in TheTerminal Discord, and now they're being shared here on my blog. I hope my readers will enjoy them as much I did writing them!</p>

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🔸  𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎: 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝.

I carefully set the date on the Time Capsule control pad to September 18, 1965, and dialed-in the proper longitude and latitude for the beach. When I arrived, I carefully searched until I found the beautiful, antique, long-necked bottle and held it very closely. This is such an epic day! [**Jeannie**](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jeannie>) is mine!

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🔸 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎: 𝚊 𝚟𝚊𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎.

I sat, crosslegged, in deep grass at the schoolyard's edge as if in meditation. The teachers realized I disappeared, so they combed the schoolyard, searching. They screamed in horror when they found me, sitting quietly with ants crawling all over, so many that flesh and clothing were hidden under them. I was their queen now.

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🔸 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎: 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎?

Horton, Horton, heard a Who,
But didn't quite know what to do.
And what if I were Wendy Who,
Looking up into sky so blue?
Would I see old Horton's trunk?
And if so, what would I have thunk?
I think I'd be quite mystified
At that big schnoz my eyes have spied!
Oh, my!

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🔸 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎: 𝙱𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜: 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝, 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝙷𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗, 𝚗𝚘, 𝚜𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎, 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔, 𝚋𝚕𝚞𝚋𝚋𝚎𝚛, 𝚖𝚘𝚒𝚜𝚝, 𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚛, 𝚟𝚞𝚕𝚐𝚊𝚛

His teeth left a moist spot on my skin. I winced and yelled, "Fuck!" He drank, then kissed my vulgar little mouth. We made love galore that night, no stopping us, broke a spring on the mattress. His susurrations of affection made me blubber. Peculiar, my newfound taste for fresh blood. Respect the hineininterpretieren.

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<p>This is the first time I've used the built-in AI-image generation feature in PEAKD, but I did so because I was curious about it. I thought it was worth 0.05 HBD to test it. There were so many "Model" choices and I had no clue which to choose <em>(Recraft V3, FLUX 1.1 Pro, FLUX 1.1 Pro Ultra, FLUX Dev, FLUX Schnell, Ideogram V2, Ideogram V2 Turbo, SD 3.5 Lg, SD 3.5 Lg Turbo, and others...)</em>, so I stuck with the default first-choice. 😂</p>

<p>I didn't spent much time on the prompt, either: <em>"a person scrapes barnacles from a boat hull suspended out of the water."</em> That's exactly what I wanted, and what I got. I know some people who spend much time carefully crafting prompts with great detail, akin to: <em>draw a picture of a young adult woman wearing a raspberry-colored jacket, blue pants, and tan boots, using a blue-handled scraper to remove ocean barnacles from her boat, which is suspended out of the water with scaffolding and ropes. She is standing on a wooden dock constructed of light brown timbers, and a pile of barnacles lies at her feet. The water beneath the dock is blue. In the distance, another dock and buildings can be seen..."</em> Such detailed prompts might be necessary in some instances, but was definitely overkill in this case.</p>

<p>Once the pic came out of the AI-generator, I ran it through my image editing software (PaintShopPro™) to add the "pastel" effect and the mark with the Recraft logo at lower-left to indicate it is an AI-generated image. I was pleased with the results and will consider using the AI-generation feature in PEAKD again sometime, when I am lacking my own photo of "barnacle removal" or some other unusual topic. So, well done, <b>@peakd</b> • <b>@asgarth</b> • <b>@jarvie</b> 😎</p>

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**SOURCES**
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>1</sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle" target=Top>Wikipedia: Barnacle</a>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>2</sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofouling" target=Top>Wikipedia: Biofouling</a>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>3</sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction" target=Top>Wikipedia: Flash Fiction</a>

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many communities during her time here. She co-founded TheTerminal
and LadiesOfHive, is a member of TheAlliance, SilverGoldStackers (SGS), among others.</p><p>Kitty's blog features content on a wide variety of topics, ranging from her
collection of pretty rocks/crystals, silver, photos of old barns, oddities,
skywatching, flower photos, recipes, cats, and everything in-between.</p><p>On a personal level, she is a widow. She enjoys most types of food. most types of music (her favorites are Jazz, Blues, Deep House, & New Age), likes learning new things, and loves watching Mother Moon sail through the sky. She stands proud of the wild, untamed Goddess that she is.</p></sub></div><div class="pull-right"><img src="https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/thekittygirl/23wqpoyR76cidzgvYjrn2CQ3Q5NoEgbtmx8JNfiNyyB8QvaSuSHbjn1Rw6DV6josrJqux.png"></div></div>

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