Tech Takeover

Writober 2025: Day Ten Tech>Response Post

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🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge

Today’s Theme: Tech

These are my responses to the prompt post for Day 10 of Writober: They Said it Would Make Our Lives Easier

OctPoWriMo

Compulsory Convenience

they say you’ll never get lost
as they track your every move
predicting what you want to say
with another embarrassing word
so quick to send your message
and receive from countless frauds
every answer at your fingertips
and its contradictions and flaws
evidence for everything
including every fiction
so stand in line for hours for
the latest and the greatest
that must be replaced with
the latest and greatest every year

Writober Flash Fiction Challenge

Core Calculations

I must have gotten turned around in the tunnel. I didn’t hear you ahead of me and found myself sliding down instead of climbing. The tight tunnel opened into a vast cavern, empty except for a large stone glowing green in the center. A giant figure in a stone-colored hooded robe sat in its glow, typing with long bony fingers.

I tried to sneak closer to see what was on the screen. My steps echoed loudly. The figure stopped typing, but only for a moment. “A visitor,” he said, not turning around. “You may approach.”

“Excuse me,” I said. “Could you tell me which is the way out? I seem to have gotten turned around.”

“I wish I could. That’s what this machine has been trying to calculate for a thousand years. A way out.”

Halloween Photography Challenge

For today’s images I played with the glitches I found on Day two. I put some strands of steel wool on plastic as a filter and took the pictures on the HDR Painting: High setting.