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The Egg (2009)

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227 points jxmorris12 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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geor9e ◴[31 Mar 25 14:45 UTC] No.43535644[source]▶
Is there any website of more science fiction extra-short stories that are this short? I know sci-fi might not be the preferred term for stories that are this philosophical or borderline religious, but I don't know a better term.
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1. gambiting ◴[31 Mar 25 15:09 UTC] No.43535934[source]▶
"The Machine Stops" is one that is always in my memory - not quite as short as this, but very short nonetheless. And impressive given that it was written in 1909:

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...