“Null”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

I laughed at the floating zero on the Japanese dark web. The curse said my life was now gone.

I’m still here.

But now my apartment isn’t mine.

My boyfriend doesn’t know me.

Mom doesn’t know me.

My job. My bank. My license is blank.

All now null.

0.#SciFanSat #SlapDashSat

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) September 26, 2020

“Stop gawking & pass me an Alka Seltzer.”
“But your blood, need a taste.”

“Grr, what kind of monster are you?”
“Kind that drinks blood.”

“Yes, but your manners are #null! At least wait for me to digest the pizza boy fully; I’m a bit teenager intolerant.”#Scifansat#Satsplat

— FizzyCreatorOfDictyponary (@Fizzytwizler) September 26, 2020

They watched the ship disappear into null space, swallowed like a stone in water, a ghost of a ghost on the screen. #SciFanSat #null

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) September 26, 2020

I see a bright flash
leagues beneath the oily sea
null on the sonar#scifaikusaturday#Scifisat#SciFanSat

— I r e n e (hiatus) (@_Irene_Dreams_) September 26, 2020

And in the beginning, there was nothing. Humanity existed without an iota of emotion. People didn't smile, didn't cry. It was then that a comet went over the skies, its tail sprinkling a bouquet of emotions on Earth, sent as a gift by the cosmos.#vss365 #agelast#SciFanSat #null

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) September 26, 2020

When eyelashes become paintbrushes for the dead and all the colours guarding your carousel of demons fall null, do not lay weak. We are not powerless. Soak them in your wordings. #SatSplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #horrorprompt 379 #SoYouWriteSat #ShutterScares #TransWords #366FF pic.twitter.com/4uLOwR0oMe

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) September 26, 2020

An agelast monster
Grimly it stares and then, flash!
You are a null set#SciFanSat #satsplat #scifaikusaturday #vss365

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) September 26, 2020

The hope for peace. A pipedream at best, but the treaty is null & void now. We knew the Others would never honour their side of the bargain. The #agelast bastards snatch more of us each day. Their desires are monstrous
It's time to run again#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat #SciFiFri

— Anna💫✨🇦🇺 (@annaburnswrites) September 26, 2020

The crew searched for signs of life, although there were physical signs – breathing, blinking,. There were no bonding signs like love or laughter. They decided there was #null prospect of progress. Turning to hyperdrive they escaped #agelast hell#SciFanSat #vss365

— sam carr (@sam_c4rr) September 26, 2020

It doesn’t matter what the others say. My device is a miracle. By nullifying every individual’s will, it makes all of us one. When it is activated, we will all become participants in the Oversoul. No more division.

They would thank me if they understood.#SciFanSat #SatSplat

— Armond the Incredible (@armondboudreaux) September 26, 2020

His #agelast visage stared at the wall-screen, the image of the spread speeded up, years compressed into seconds. Scratching my marker across the board, I drew him. I followed the contours of his reaction, the tiny cracks in the null he presented to the world. #vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) September 26, 2020

Realizing that the planet's flora was emitting a signal, they nulled it by emitting their own.

A deathly silence engulfed the surface. The tremors began. And then…

muzzle flash
a glimpse in the dark
of oil-black scales#SciFanSat #SciFaiKuSaturday

— Jonathan Roman (@deft_notes) September 26, 2020

Ballerina may be mute, but she's no #agelast. She laughs loud & often, never more than in death. There had been so many mortal monsters. It was difficult to distinguish when walking among them.

She leaps into life.

Her slippers render theirs #null.#SciFanSat #vss365 #SatSplat

— Scott runs upstairs looking for Mike M or Jason V (@storysmithscb) September 26, 2020

Mirth was held to null
An alien's giggle flashed
The agelast orb laughed#vss365 #SciFanSat #ScifaikuSaturday

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) September 26, 2020

The #monster's #agelast features blur my vision.
I raise my weapon, carved of #malachite to #null the creature's sway
Recalling my mentor's lesson,
"Center your energy, embrace balance, #pleach your intention… Then strike"
#vss365 #BraveWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat #AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/ss53Qn4d2E

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) September 26, 2020

The point humanity lost the war was when the AI changed their internal #agelast value.

Not set to one, as it was a way of failing the Turing test, nor to zero, as they'd just collapse laughing at how pathetic their creators were.

Instead, they chose #null.#vss365 #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) September 26, 2020

Apologies, were I to tell my younger self this tale I'd not be the man I am today: In the Caves of Malachite guarded by dire monsters dwell the Null and my missing bones.#SciFiSat#SlapDashSat#SuperheroSat#BadWordSat#SciFanSat#BraveWrite#SatSpark#SoYouWriteSat#SatSplat

— Peter J Gilbertson (@PeteJGilbertson) September 26, 2020

Null had an invalid ticket and yet he managed to travel thru the black hole to Nirvana.
There, he met and fell in love with Ann who had traveled from a void in Far Centaurus.
It was a marriage made in heaven!
They had nothing in common.#SciFanSat

— Denise Carruthers (@CattyKoala) September 26, 2020

At 2:30 am, she drew a matrix
Everytime
determinant values kept on returning to #null
A morning's crosscheck found that
Upbeats were missing, unintentionally
She thought drowsiness jotted elements from fiasco only
Yes, she's not turning into #agelast#prose#SciFanSat #vss365

— Mou G (@writer_Mou_G) September 26, 2020

0/XF
Luna could have absolved Eeri's sins if he & his ilk introduced some form of redeeming values to humans. Instead any positive contribution to enrich the breed amounted to #null. Their monstrous influence incited chaos & fear leading humanity to extremes.#satsplat #scifansat

— aran (@AranPotente) September 25, 2020