Censure
This too shall pass.
The magnificent lines of the Core Expeditionary Force were on full parade formations, that day. Thousands of ships all arrayed in perfect arrangement, capital ships surrounded by droves of smaller combatants.
When the order came to fire upon the ragged and fleeing rebel exodus, not a single ship moved. The order came again, more strident.
And again, in a cold fury from on high.
The admiral promised to reduce the entire force to ashes with the Auxiliary Expeditionary Force. Not a ship moved from its designated place.
At one minute and thirty-two seconds since the first order, the captain of the frigate Spring Blossoms lost his nerve and relayed the order. A single round erupted promptly from its huge spine-mounted cannon, a solid tungsten slug slamming forth at a third of lightspeed.
The round took the civilian hauler Wistful Memory amidships. Ruptured its tanks, all but destroyed it outright.
The formation rotated and reformed to leave Spring Blossoms wheeling in space, alone.
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Comments (3 so far!)
Average reader rating 5.00/5
HSAR
I have found that I now have difficulty writing long-form fiction, however. Over-fitting the format, I suspect. I've written two, possibly three orders of magnitude more on Ficly/Ficlatte than every other style combined in the last five years.
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wolframdioxide
I quite like it. Especially, for some reason, the line "in a cold fury from on high". It provides a nice bit of context to Kinetics.
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ethelthefrog
A little bit of context to the previous story. You have a mastery of the Ficlatté format, always managing to squeeze in details and depth that the constraints would prevent in a lesser author (like me)