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Mike Blackwelder

Mike Blackwelder has been an archaeologist, cartographer, and C-level exec. Now he's a stay-at-home dad and author writing the shortest of fiction. Find his work here at Daily Science Fiction, Crimson Streets, TLDR Press, or mikeblackwelder.com.

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Reduce, Reuse...

The freshly assembled caterpillar inched its carbon fiber segments along a twist of rebar until it got to the ragged end where it began to chew. Its jaws made shiny little divots in the rust. Programmed hunger gnawed as insistent as the real thing but the metronymic beat of tiny…