“Magnificent”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

The meteors were falling like rain. We could see them from the lakefront, cheering on the magnificent show. Some used binoculars. Someone had brought an umbrella. #SciFanSat #magnificent

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) August 29, 2020

Gorp emerged from the sculpting chamber: A giant turz of living stone now carved down to human proportions.

Maka looked up, then down as the other humans stared. “You… look magnificent.”

“I used Michelangelo’s David for the model.”

“You need, pants.”#SciFanSat #SlapDashSat

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) August 29, 2020

"Magnificent, Charlie!" the dance teacher said to the girl's avatar robot.

Avi-bot's face screen lit up, showing Charlie spinning in her wheelchair at home while Avi-bot did a pirouette.

"Five minutes of class left–now you may do the robot dance." #scifansat #Satsplat

— I r e n e Worksalot (@_Irene_Dreams_) August 29, 2020

“I’m bored, I’m out.”
“Wait! got dad’s library card.”
“Reading? Dweeb, you been cosplaying as humans again?
“No, it’s a magnificent prototype. Hold it in your 3rd claw, think of a time in Earth’s history & you’re there!”
“Wow! 1999 Imma party with Prince.”#Satsplat #scifansat

— FizzyTwizler (@Fizzytwizler) August 28, 2020

what magnificence
drips from the stars
such boundless glory
in a cosmos full
of negative space#vss365 #negative#scifansat #magnificent#micropoetry pic.twitter.com/Kqe8QV0LeI

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) August 29, 2020

A grubstake no longer mattered. The city fell into negative space & every building was coated in ice—a magnificent apocalyptic throne. Swindler became doom bringer. #SatSplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SoYouWriteSat #SaturdaySurvival #FP #whistpr #ShutterScares #FlexVSS #vss365 pic.twitter.com/GVJ3HdYTKV

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) August 29, 2020

He adored her. Her magnificent thighs astride a blood-red dragon, her acid wit, the way her squadron wilted at her slightest #negative remark. Cursed with sight, he knew she would die unless he stopped the war. Let him be reviled as a traitor. She would live. #SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) August 29, 2020

The mansion was magnificent.
Eye catching, expensively built; a structural masterpiece.

But much like its owner, it stood oblivious to all its surroundings.

And on the inside?

Empty.

Completely empty.#SoYouWriteSat #Scifansat #Satspark #satsplat #slapdashsat #scifisat pic.twitter.com/2UymHO4OAZ

— chel (@CallMeChel_324) August 29, 2020

One night that stretched toward endless, we walked this same path, towards the city, only it was not a city then, more a spasm of growth, erupted from a crack in the skull of the land, a magnificent thought, evolved from a negative into a nightmare.#scifansat #vss365

— Kevin Sand (@KevinSa07052659) August 29, 2020

When crimson skies reign
Blood will set the horizon
The moon in her stolen
Magnificence
Will shatter
Filling the #negative space
Between you and I#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Anna💫✨🇦🇺 (@annaburnswrites) August 29, 2020

The passage through the ravines was magnificent: polished surfaces, reverse cascades and precipitous drops. I gaped, while Pilot monologued: debt, #negative equity, face-sculpting disasters.

He'd stopped seeing.
I stopped listening.

We both missed the ambush.#vss365#SciFanSat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) August 29, 2020

Was in a world of abstract now, that recipe was recorded n recording still, at the back of his new & negative eyes. The path was a dark pyramid, pulled in by perspective to the base of flame, pink edges with darkness folded against a dark & magnificent centre.#scifansat #vss365

— Matabu (@DarkLordMatabu) August 29, 2020

"I'm so sick of your #negative attitude"
He aims the #phrampt at me and I #register a sharp energy burst hit me.
He claps his hands,
"#Magnificent. The adjustment works"
I drift closer to him before pouncing
"Think again"#vss365 #BraveWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat #AchtenWrite

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) August 29, 2020

0/XF
"They're impressed w/ themselves. Nothing #magnificent w/ their crude visuals."
Luna materialized into human form, a stinging rebuke to his harsh tirades.
"We're much better, are we?"
He turned mist red.
She's right: their own affairs were as tumultuous.#satsplat #scifansat

— aran (@AranPotente) August 28, 2020

The first radio transmission SETI received was a magnificent milestone … now it’s just incessant chatter – who knew the aliens were such busybodies! #transword² #SciFanSat #SlapDashSat #SciFiSat #satsplat

— jfx mcloughlin (@jfxmcl) August 29, 2020

The aged stone townhouse had been in her mother’s family for centuries, situated on a tree-lined street with views of Notre Dame on the neighboring Île de la Cité. The majestic medieval icon towered on the tip of the island directly across from her home. #SciFanSat #SlapDashSat pic.twitter.com/TF711AWXSd

— C Lee (@cleestories) August 29, 2020

This #encounter was inevitable, given the #transmission of Earth's empathy. I lie still and allow his acidic breath to drag over me. It reawakens my dormant censors. Our #metric system is defied, looking into six of his #magnificent eyes.#scifansat #scififri #transwords #vss365

— Helena Fools (@TransGurlWriter) August 28, 2020

the optical
magnificence
of integers in
our metric
system are
reflected by
Polaris#Poetryin13 #optical #vss365 #metric #SciFanSat #magnificent #SatSplat #scififri#micropoetry

— Scott's editing #QuintessentialUniversalErotica 🐝 (@storysmithscb) August 28, 2020

"My 6 scouts and I are here to save the station."
The Mayor's face lit up. "Magnificent! And what do you call yourselves?"
"Never put much thought into that…"#SciFanSat #scifisat #SlapDashSat #Satsplat

— Pat, I got nuthin' 👽🎩🍻 (@PatRyan259) August 29, 2020

As the enemy army circled the castle, the king watched with his genie from the tower.

"It's time, my lord."

"I wish-" king said. "I wish for my kingdom to be saved."

A magnificent steed burst down from the sky, coat black as night. It breathed hellfire on the king.#scifansat

— Yosen (@yosenspace) August 29, 2020