The old werewolf embraced the young one. “Let me guide you back to a familiar skin.”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) October 10, 2020
“We’re monsters,” Noah said, ebbing back to human with her.
Elderly Meri smiled at the black teen. “We’re not horror stories unless we choose to be, Pup. We’re magic.”#SciFanSat #SlapDashSat
You humans sit round the campfire and tell horror stories about us, about the monsters of the enchanted forest, but we’re just defending our home. Imagine the stories my kind tells about you. #SciFanSat #Satsplat #vss365
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) October 10, 2020
She holds my eyes, smirks. Her finger presses the final #round button. I fight the cuffs, tear skin on my wrists; it's no good. Our only means of rescue, the comms module, undocks and drifts into the darkness of space.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) October 10, 2020
"Now it's just the two of us," she says.#vss365#scifansat
I was 9 when I saw a boy #torture a little gecko and snap it in half.
— 𝙻𝚒𝚕𝚊 🗯 (@DelilahDoe) October 10, 2020
I screamed in #horror and bit him like a cat.
As my fangs sank into his neck, I learned my family's dark secret.
I was an animal too.
And humans were no longer top of the food chain.#vssmurder #scifansat pic.twitter.com/8YV6N24Dbo
They're believed to be the dead's voices—souls stolen by basement Resurrectionists. I overheard Mom mention my grandparents' lust for torture, their longtime favourite victims being those who kick as they're dragged to hell, how she hates when they cackle. #7DayTale 6 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/z1k1jvJVIq
— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) October 10, 2020
I don't like that transporter, Yvgeny said. I have seen things in the matter stream. That's where they live, and we aren't welcome there. #SciFanSat #horror
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) October 10, 2020
The cat quietly stalks the woman, & as she vanishes in the middle of an alley, it steps aside. The cat's #round, tangerine eyes see what no one else can. The doors to a ghost galaxy hiding in night's shadow, swallowing everything in its path.#vsspic #SciFanSat #scififri #vss365 pic.twitter.com/WvVbuDnA9Z
— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) October 10, 2020
I slam my glass down
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) October 10, 2020
"Another #round for everyone"
The crowd at #Mudhet shouts approval at my #debase generosity
Too drunk to retain my form I reach a tentacle for my glass
Mouths open in #horror
"Drink up" I gurble
They flee#vss365 #BraveWrite #SciFanSat #AchtenWrite #satsplat pic.twitter.com/eXhm1SMUbo
What is left
— Anna💫✨🇦🇺 (@annaburnswrites) October 10, 2020
Now that I am
Embraced by the
Arms of the earth
A veil of dirt descends
Blanket for my broken sleep
Rage embossed 'round my neck
Drawing a fragile tortured breath
Your horror dies now in my eyes#vss365 #SciFanSat #Whistpr
It was in the tenth season the horror hit. Everything was debased, climate and health.
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) October 10, 2020
Twin amethyst stars appeared in the sky. Round craft descended and all had a sense of bewilderment as the consummation began.#SciFanSat #vss365 #vsspoem #BraveWrite #moonmystic #amwriting pic.twitter.com/ULzO6g9rQu
A horror storm looming, something unusual among the stars old moon and Gemini just impossible surely? I am awake.
— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) October 10, 2020
Awake! I see no one, only Jupiter's eye#SciFanSat#vss
We sat #round the camp fire weaving #horror stories, like generations before us. Giggling, mock terror ran rivers of ice through our veins.
— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) October 10, 2020
The flames danced, listened, and stored our memories. Later, they reasoned, there would be a reckoning. #vss365 #scifansat pic.twitter.com/lBAsOQCY7A
A crying woman says, "How could you take my only son?"
— Scott runs upstairs looking for Mike M or Jason V (@storysmithscb) October 10, 2020
"He wanted it," River hisses through many rippling lips. "I can't help boys come to get swallowed.
A new one dives in.
"Now the continuation of my #horror story."
The sun sheds light on cold silence.#SatSplat #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/edcPWEekSa
More screams in the corridor, closer now. From a tower of crates, she dropped onto a levitating storage orb. Maybe it wouldn’t see her on something #round. But the power failed and the orb fell. So did she, just as the beast struck its first blow on the door.#SciFanSat #vss365
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) October 10, 2020
'Around the corner you'll find the horror you're looking for. Let's take a turn and go straight forward.' "Take a turn and go straight forward? Keep your literature bullshit to yourself!" ''Unfortunately my pen is in charge, my dear mc.' #vss365 #SciFanSat #SlapDashSat
— Dunglish (@EdHaiku575) October 10, 2020
Purpose, just once – that's why the six, stragglers all, decided to try to play its game of wonders.
— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) October 10, 2020
But 'wonders' broke them down one by one, until they were straggling again, holding themselves separately in alleys where a horrible cackle echoed.#366FF #satsplat #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/Js6Ubexg7r
Grim at best, the building sat grimy, covered in barred windows & molding walls. The fog clung to the roof, shrouding the school like a gothic nightmare.
— C Lee (@cleestories) October 10, 2020
“It looks like a prison,”groaned Claire.
“It IS a prison,”scoffed James, the girls gaping in horror. #SciFanSat #SlapDashSat
0/XF
— aran (@AranPotente) October 9, 2020
Luna dematerialized, her essence journeyed through space & time.
Reappearing in the world she populated w/ life, disgust overwhelmed her. Turmoil & chaos reigned; the #horror unforgivable.
A temptation to reset & restart haunted her: Eeri should not win.#satsplat #scifansat
The little aliens gathered #round the dying fission embers. DX5 pointed a light saber under his chin. Told the gang a #horror story about a blue planet that once was. When the mums came to collect them they were crying.'That couldn't happen here mum could it?' #vss365 #scifansat
— sam carr (@sam_c4rr) October 10, 2020
She could make out the screams, somewhere out there in the distance. She couldn't see it, though – there was too much smoke and ash.
— Yosen (@yosenspace) October 10, 2020
Despite the heat, she shivered with delighted horror.
She'd found hell after years of searching.#scifansat
I am continually awed by the talent and creativity of the authors that grace SciFanSat with their voices. Above are highlighted microfiction tweets that I feel exemplify that talent, all compiled from our 10.10.2020 “Horror” prompt and event.
All tweets, art, and rights belong to their respective creators. No ownership or responsibility on my part is inferred by this post, just my admiration.
~Jason H. Abbott
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