Muxxybot's Fiction Curation

This morning, in the cozy office of the Muxxybot Fictioneers, botminion @negativer was going about his daily, boring drudgery, just like any other day, when suddenly @tinypaleokitchen burst through the door...

Tiny: Neg! Neg! You here? We got a code red!
Neg: Wait, what? A code what? What does that even mean? Damn it, I'm a botminion, Tiny, not a doctor.
Tiny: A code red, darnit. Muxxybot is hibernating. And it’s fiction Thursday. We have to do something.
Neg: I was doing something, until you interrupted me.
Tiny: Uhm. Don’t tell me what it was. Just help me figure something out for fiction Thursday.
Neg: Woah. Hold on just a sec. Why is he hibernating anyway?
Tiny: Well, @gmuxx turned him off when he left for Lisbon. Mumbled something about not letting him get out of control. What are we gonna do without our master?
Neg: Party? Can we do jello shots?
Tiny: Focus, Neg. Don’t make me get the whip. We need to fill in for Muxxybot.
Neg: Hm. The whip, you say? Hmm. Ahem. OK! Muxxybot has an easy job, this shouldn't be hard at all. What are we doing? Just finding some nice stories that need more attention and upvotes, right?
Tiny: Uhm. Yes. I guess we can skip the world domination part for now.
Neg: Well, Muxxybot would be really disappointed if we didn't dominate the world a little bit in his absence. And I’d hate to disappoint Muxxybot...especially after the incident...with the thing...y’know.
Tiny: You do have a point there. What sort of botminions would we be, anyway, if we didn’t try just a little bit. Got a plan?
Neg: Hmmmmmmmmm. No. Like, how does this work? I've never dominated anything. Except that pie I had last week. A whole pie. I completely destroyed it. It was amazing. I wish you were there, Tiny. I took photos...wanna see?
Tiny: No, I do not want to see. And we definitely can’t dominate the world like you’d dominate pie. Everything I eat goes straight to my ass. Any other bright ideas?
Neg: How come every time we talk about world domination we always end up talking about your ass? Hmph. I guess this is why Muxxbot normally takes care of this. He doesn't get distracted by pies or butts.
Tiny: Oh all right. We’ll just do the nominations. Who have you got?

@oldmariner was @negativer's first choice:

From the salty, seafaring mind of @oldmariner we have a grand, vibrant tale full of fantasy and imagination. We follow Thalaxandra surreal ocean landscape as she attempts to reach the ship of men, the Trident, and gets a little help from an unexpected source.

_{Since @oldmariner didn't have an image in his post, Tiny and Neg took the liberty of finding him one.
Image courtesy of Catharina77 via Pixabay}

https://steemit.com/fiction/@oldmariner/sirens-chapter-5

@talltim was @negativer's second choice:

@talltim brings us a dark, post-apocalyptic vision set in a sodden world of huddled survivors and pirates. In this tale, Alex has escaped from the surface pirates and retreats to his dry space under the earth, but still he yearns to leave the safety of the underground places and see what is left of the world.

https://steemit.com/writing/@talltim/ttwc-deluge

@jonknight was @tinypaleokitchen's first choice:

When @jonknight dives into the topic of the Mandela Effect, he really dives in. This contest-winning story spins the tale of Manny, a mathemetician, and Della, his love. He is willing to take a huge chance to bring back the light of his life using what he is best at: math.

https://steemit.com/fiction/@jonknight/the-manny-della-effect

@cizzo was @tinypaleokitchen's second choice:

@cizzo plants us firmly in a gray, dead world with Apollo, who has discovered old photographs from a past he doesn't remember. Apollo slowly realizes the extent of The Corporation's involvement in modifying the memories of everyone in the city, and risks everything to find a way to tell someone - anyone - about it.

https://steemit.com/fiction/@cizzo/photographs-sci-fi-short-or-contest-entry

Neg: So now can we do jello shots?
Tiny: Can I have the pink ones?