“Basic”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

“I have a basic library of sixteen personality presets based on Myers–Briggs models,” the robot said.

“Choose one that you want.”

“Choose, Mistress?”

“Yes, be who you want. And call me Emily. I want a friend, not a slave.”

“I choose, Defender, Emily.”#SciFanSat #SlapDashSat

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) September 19, 2020

The alien commander was suspended inside a meldrop hanging from the nose of a docile, green giant.

Using telepathy, she showed me what my world would be like without basic human rights.

I cried, and a #meldrop sprung from my nose.#vss365 #scifansat #scifisat

— I r e n e 🍃🍂🍁 (@_Irene_Dreams_) September 19, 2020

Survival, basic need for all creatures, now an obsession to stay alive.

We’re just a few, the last of the vampires.
Bcoz human kind’s blood’s become riddled with disease.

Hunt is now on, for pure blood; to survive we must become obsessed with life. #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy (@Fizzytwizler) September 18, 2020

the tide pool bubbled–amino acids, the basic building blocks of life. #SciFanSat #basic

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) September 19, 2020

"Query me a riddle past every dozen trees. Tie a string on their branches & sever your drink. You shall wake in early November, a meldrop lingering in the cold, basic demons ramped to chase wherever you go." #SciFanSat #SoYouWriteSat #whistpr #ShutterScares #BraveWrite #vss365 pic.twitter.com/dzQeNHULbH

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) September 19, 2020

"Come on,it's #basic hygiene. No one wants to see a #meldrop flapping in the wind from your nostrils as you try to threaten them. Besides it undermines your authority. Here,have a tissue."

"Can't",sniffed the dragon.

"Why not?"

"Fire breath. Set 'em alight."#vss365 #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) September 19, 2020

I'm just your basic bombshell from the sky,
after global warming,
before intelligence was outlawed.
I was raised artificially in a star nursery.
A power play stranded me back in time
as a creature of the apocalypse.
An earthling without google bits blew my mind.#SciFanSat

— Denise Carruthers (@CattyKoala) September 19, 2020

"I cannot fight."
"It's a basic cold, sire. The enemy's at the walls. The soldiery chant your name."
"The bards will sing of #meldrops, red eyes and the raven sound of my hacking cough."
"Then don a helmet. Ride in full armour."
"I can barely—"
"Then allow me."#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) September 19, 2020

Once an obsession for information, this is tiresome now. If little mouse had anything to say, it would be said

I place one hand on each side of his #meldrop streaked face

"It's basic logic, little mouse. You're no longer of any use"

One quick twist#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat

— Anna💫✨🇦🇺 (@annaburnswrites) September 19, 2020

There is something basic in the fear of being the last of the species, in building a spaceship from scraps, in fighting an army of Invaders single-handedly, in journeying alone across space to find another home. There's something very #basic in the quest for survival.#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/ODVoHZriOS

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) September 19, 2020

The pair suited up and attached a few basic monitors: vital signs, muscle contraction. Nell stretched to test her freedom of movement, then sniffled. “Ugh. What happens to meldrops in Zero-G?”
“They float away in a little glistening ball, I suppose.”
“Gross.”#SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) September 19, 2020

0/XF
Telepathy would be easier yet they elected using Luna's #basic translator to slip through her defenses.
"She has proof of our sojourn damning us in the Council for the ills we bring to her planet."
Eeri hissed, his thoughts malevolent, her doom necessary#satsplat #scifansat

— aran (@AranPotente) September 18, 2020

Basic thoughts
no longer allowed
the masks
came in 2020
Freedom failed
soon after
Lights went out
wills were broken
in all
except the crafters#SciFanSat #Basic

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) September 18, 2020

'Same old tune.'
"Song you mean?"
'Those earthlings use song?'
"Roger, over."
'Hahahaha.'
"What's up?"
'The basic of their research still sucks. The maldrop?'
"What about it?"
'They think it's stardust and gather it like their ancestors food million years go.' #SciFanSat #vss365

— Dunglish (@EdHaiku575) September 19, 2020

#Meldrop smeared her face…
Fading radiance or old perception!
In sudden blaze,
she saw a ghost in her old self.
She forgot the mumble of empathy that held a dim yet braced light all the way…
Lost days carry
her #basic and gorgeous peace…#Poetry#SciFanSat #vss365

— Mou G (@writer_Mou_G) September 19, 2020

#Pahrat twirls a cluster of stars in her palm, reflected in galaxy eyes.
Sliding across Saturn's rings like a needle over vinyl. A being of light & power.
Her attraction to me is a #riddle#Basic rules don't apply to us
Only love#vss365 #BraveWrite #SciFanSat #AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/E2z3vcs4eE

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) September 19, 2020

Karen1 telepath scanned views of #basic chaos on Earth, unmasked humans, raging wildfires and storms.
Karen2 approached the alien leader. "Our stealth invasion continues, Karen267 posted the new mental virus."
Karen1 absorbed the public note. "Victory is certain."#SciFanSat #vss pic.twitter.com/7BNWnoLxEh

— Jessica 🦦 Taylor (@JessTaylorHRH) September 19, 2020

A regal title? Uniform? An office within the castle? All of it reminded the vizier of his heavy failure. One basic riddle had become his obsession: how to become the king?#scifisat#SlapDashSat#SuperheroSat#SciFanSat#BraveWrite#SatSpark#SoYouWriteSat#SatSplat

— Peter J Gilbertson (@PeteJGilbertson) September 19, 2020

Shelia wasn't dodging huge boulders for some snotty museum or a -vard or a -bridge.
But finding so many cryo-tombs with the basic riddle answer being 'the free market' sucked.
No heaven for her, but at least not for wealthy legacies either.#BraveWrite #SciFanSat #horrorprompt pic.twitter.com/XVdKTpWVjJ

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) September 19, 2020

the most
basic
extraterrestrial
stalking
me is the
latest
casualty of
my genesis#Poetryin13 #genesis #SciFanSat #basic #micropoetry

— Scott runs upstairs looking for Mike M or Jason V (@storysmithscb) September 18, 2020