Microficção é uma das formas mais desafiadoras de produzir literatura, que põe à prova a síntese: escrever histórias e expor conceitos no menor número possível de palavras. Essa também é a ideia principal do Twitter, rede social com limite máximo de 280 caracteres por postagem. Naturalmente, alguns escritores aproveitaram para juntar os dois.
Compilei uma lista de contas que eu sigo, cujo foco é a microficção especulativa, seja ela fantasia, ficção científica, e até mesmo horror. Antes de dar início, um anúncio legal: a conta do Usina de Universos está, a partir de agora, ativa no Twitter, e quem quiser seguir para ler microficção, saber quando sair posts novos no site e ver indicações de livros, sinta-se à vontade.
Micro SFF Português (@MicroSFFPt)
"Qual você prefere, vampiros ou lobisomens?"
"Lobisomens."
"Por quê? Vampiros são sofisticados."
"É possível saber quando um lobisomem se transforma em um monstro." https://t.co/yf45DuA7kp— MicroSSF português (@MicroSFFPt) January 15, 2018
Esse Twitter traduz para o português os tweets da Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF), cujo foco são microcontos variados nos gêneros fantasia e ficção científica.
T.R. Darling (@QuietPineTrees)
As our blood became too toxic, mosquitoes harvested our other aspects. Optimism was too rare, and laughter was too often tainted with notes of sadism, so they fed exclusively on love. Young sweethearts counted how many flocked to them, and grew concerned when the air was clear.
— T. R. Darling (@QuietPineTrees) January 25, 2018
Invisible Fonts (@invisiblefonts)
You overhear a group speaking a language you don’t recognize. You imagine they must be from a part of the world you’re not familiar with. Dozens of other people have the same thought.
In reality, the language they are speaking won’t develop for another few centuries.
— Invisible Fonts (@invisiblefonts) December 26, 2017
Tiver Foucalt (@thedoorTHEDOOR)
Magic works because a spell comes from your mind, passes over your tongue, and is cast with your heart. The function of spells is not to change the outside world but to reshape the inner world, clear barriers, and set boundaries. And then you become the change.
— Tiver Foucault (@TheDoorTHEDOOR) December 21, 2017
The Narrarachivist (@narrarchivist)
Planets would wage war by seeding each other with single cell life and then waiting until they developed sentience and tore the other apart.
— The Narrarchivist (@narrarchivist) April 28, 2017
Neotene (@ctrlcreep)
A "unicorn" is any sufferer of licornosy, an illness causing the growth of a painful, pearly tumor from the frontal lobe. Once restricted to horses, it has since spread to pigs, dragonflies, lemurs, mice, and humans
— neotene (@ctrlcreep) January 25, 2018
Night Vale Podcast (@NightValeRadio)
Hope is a thing with feathers. So is the thing decaying in the drywall.
— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) January 16, 2018
A galera do podcast Welcome to Night Vale também lançou alguns livros, e falei de um deles aqui.
Nota da Autora: E trago um Twitter bônus para esse post. Não é de microficção, mas é relacionado à literatura. Mais ou menos.
Brooding YA Hero (@broodingyahero)
To show just how much I love you, I promise to be instantly suspicious of any guy you speak to.
Spoiler: they are all in love with you, so it's a good thing I'm so protective.— Brooding YA Hero (@broodingYAhero) January 23, 2018