“Memento”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

The cyborg's ability to experience emotion was attenuated, but sometimes ghostly feelings arose in response to certain sounds or smells. Little mementos of its former self. #scifansat #scifisat

— I r e n e Worksalot (@_Irene_Dreams_) August 1, 2020

Out here in the cold desolation of space, he needed to reminder of death. He carried a flower in the pocket of his spacesuit, a momento vitae to remind him to keep struggling for life. #SciFanSat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) August 1, 2020

My grandmother's most treasured item is a gold filigreed plate she found under her pew while reciting an oath she's forgotten. A week later, my grandfather was killed for protecting it because it made her smile. #SatSplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SaturdaySurvival #BardBits #whistpr pic.twitter.com/SRUQCuesFc

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) August 1, 2020

A tinkle of bells, and the time vortex opened.

"You did it."

"The #math was complicated but I got it."

"Do you have to go?"

"Here. A memento." She gave him her hat. "Christmas 2050. Noon. Don't leave me hanging!" She stepped through, and she was gone.#vss365#scifansat

— Yosen (@yosenspace) August 1, 2020

We eat & leave, leaving behind a #memento for the waiter. It scoots up to the table, lines of digitised blinks in blue & red. It sees in dots, pixels, #maths. Robots have feelings too. He clears plates, finds what they left. A picture of him as a boy. With them#SciFanSat #vss365

— 🌳I❤BeSteve🌸In🐕You🐇 (@PatchieSteve) August 1, 2020

As the light dies and the shadows reach out, I examine his array of mementos, the beads, gold and bones hanging in elaborate necklaces around his neck. I try counting them, the #math slippery in the gloom.
One of them marks my father's death. Another, my sister#vss365#SciFanSat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) August 1, 2020

As sound filled the pod, the man cradled his baby. “A memento of your mother,” he said. “She composed these harmonic patterns for you. She called them musical #math and said they were the closest she’d ever come to perfection until she laid eyes on you.”#SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) August 1, 2020

Tim was ecstatic
"I've done the #math. Using the #memento uncovered by our #intrepid leader here I can get us through to #Lindion.The parallel city where London stands in the other reality. We'll bring him to #justice"#vss365 #BraveWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat #AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/V8LH810XHI

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) August 1, 2020

They sent him back to fix the world, dispensing #justice with #maths.#Broken timelines restored, #contradictory pasts erased.

Including his own.

The locket was a #memento of a life no longer lived.

But he could fix it.

In time.#366FF #vss365 #SatSpark #SciFanSat #SatSplat

— Nicklaus Kruger (@ThatLousyNick) August 1, 2020

Mora waved to the metal man.
"2+2=4." (Hi.)
"1+1+1+1=4," he replied. (Hello.)
She opened the memory file in her mind, a precious memento.

"Why do I need to learn math?" child Mora asked her teacher.
"You want to be able to speak to robots someday, don't you?"#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Kristen Black Lives Matter (@KristenSeikaly) August 1, 2020

The man with the serpent branded on his face sits alone.

Bruck shouts at him across the pub. “Ay, what’s ‘at on yer face? You som’ for’ner?”

The man stands slowly and draws a blade. “It’s a memento of your king’s justice. Want to know why I have it?”#SatSplat #SciFanSat

— Armond the Incredible (@armondboudreaux) August 1, 2020

I was a supernova
In your heart
Exploding it
Breaking it to pieces
That I couldn’t catch

Despite that we
Could never be
I still kept
A small part of you
As a momento

Reminding me
Of when
I was too much
Yet not enough#soyouwritesat #slapdashsat #SciFanSat #Satspark #Vsspoem pic.twitter.com/Kp6IC46Xaf

— chel (@CallMeChel_324) August 1, 2020

lost memento
searching every pocket
dimension#SciFaiKuSaturday #SciFanSat

— Jonathan Roman (@deft_notes) August 1, 2020

How could Ed have known that the rock he snagged as a #memento of the beautiful planet was really a type of egg, or that carrying it in his suit pouch was an ideal way to hatch it? Or how could he guess that something so cute could be so vicious?#SciFanSat

— Debbie Cribb Owens (@CribbOwens) August 1, 2020

10 y/o me watches Seku the miniature painted turtle's mouth, #agape awaiting fish to wash up his rock.

"This HAS to stop."

"Don't sound the alarm"

"Have you no shame?"

"This is God's gift shop. They're #mementos."

"You aren't religious"

"Details, baby"#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Scott's editing #QuintessentialUniversalErotica 🐝 (@storysmithscb) July 31, 2020

0/XF
"They'd know you've interfered," Amari inferred, her concern relevant to the recent peace between enemies. "You'll be punished."
Luna shrugged, her intervention served a benevolent purpose, the #memento in place.
She cursed the truce: traitors deserved only death.#scifansat

— aran (@AranPotente) August 1, 2020