“Young”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

The old man was filled with such despair as he and the rusty robot traveled the road of bones.

The robot glitched. It emitted a noise like that of a skipping vinyl record. Then, the wondrous sound of a Neil Young song: Old Man.#vss365 #despair#scifansat #young

— 💫 I r e n e 💫 (@_Irene_Dreams_) November 28, 2020

“Are you the beast that devoured my daughter?”

“No,” the young dragon says. “Her offspring.”

The old peasant woman nearly falls. “You talk? With her voice?”

“With her soul and mind,” she answered. “There was death and pain, but Mother… I still live.”#SciFanSat #SlapDashSat

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) November 28, 2020

All of a sudden my eyesight sharpens
All of a sudden there’s a need for mayhem
All of a sudden in my view
Stands you
The new full moon
All of a sudden I howl through fields
No #despair I feel #young
Lusting for blood
My hunger has no bounds#vss365 #scifansat#satsplat

— FizzyHeadingIntoTier2🇬🇧 (@Fizzytwizler) November 28, 2020

That night, a young woman with porcelain skin and no eyes visited me in a dream. She dragged a beaded necklace around her ankles which rested over footless ground. I woke up to smoke and cold hands on my feet. #SatSplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SaturdaySurvival #whistpr #Sunthing pic.twitter.com/IiIPOa2ru2

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) November 28, 2020

The island was young, new-formed, lava rising from the sea.
In time, seeds of grasses would grow there, and birds nest among the rocks.
Creatures, too, would crawl out of the waves, leaving footprints in the black sand. #SciFanSat #young

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) November 28, 2020

So I wait for the young hearts, new & pristine under an opaline moon

They chase rapture under a wide canopy of stars, with no thought of tomorrow

My blade glints in the moonlight

Let them have this moment

Their #despair will taste all the sweeter#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) November 28, 2020

The young universe
Runs away from its center
What terror lies there?#SciFanSat #ScifaikuSaturday

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) November 28, 2020

We groan
And #despair
Against the
Young generation

Shake our heads
When they use
Their voice
Utilize their power

But why?

Are they not
Our future?
Our legacy?

Or are we so
Naive to think
We will
Live forever?#vss365 #soyouwritesat #SciFanSat #vsspoem #SlapDashSat #scifisat pic.twitter.com/BLkagP31vE

— chel (@CallMeChel_324) November 28, 2020

They were #young when they started the journey through the wormhole, & still young when they completed it. But something else had grown. The extent of their #despair. They were no closer to finding what they were looking for. But there it was. Another wormhole.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) November 28, 2020

Do not #despair, they said to me. You are #young, agile, and will surely defeat Mylakrea, she who is afeared by all. Your armour will protect you.

Transpires that "she" is an 80 foot long dragon who likes the meat in her pre-packed ready meals to be tender…#SciFanSat #vss365

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) November 28, 2020

Like everyone he knew this day would come and now the moment of its start has arrived. Feeling the despair of his transformation from young the old mixed with the unknown journey ahead back to the end of the start, no one ever returned from.#Satsplat #SciFanSat #scifisat #vss365

— Dunglish (@EdHaiku575) November 28, 2020

When I was #young I looked out of the window at night. The twinkling stars, instead of filling me with wonder, filled me with a deep sense of #despair. I'd explain to my teddy that the light was from dying worlds. Teddy would say, 'like this one?' #vss365 #SciFanSat

— sam carr (@sam_c4rr) November 28, 2020

After the flood, the pale twins flee. Sirens, the whipcrack of his chastisement, their virtue. The two moons are young as they hide. Bitter torches reach, and voices holler in tones of #despair. They are already lost, and this night will see no end.#vss365#satsplat#SciFanSat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) November 28, 2020

0/XF
"It's easier to transfer the consciousness of #young minds when their vessels expire," Luna clarified.
"What about the loved ones?"
"A temporary #despair, sister."
Amari kept quiet.
"I perfected the switch. No one can tell the difference. Especially Eeri."#vss365 #scifansat

— aran (@AranPotente) November 28, 2020

Stars experience #despair, like being hungover after their novas fade. Ballerina rides them, soothing #young wounds to weary dust particles with older slippers than they feel. Her smile overrides their horror stories to which she can listen, forever.#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— Scott ❤️s how you write 🥰 (@storysmithscb) November 28, 2020

Interpretations
a young centre freed from life
resurrected now#SciFanSat #scifaikusaturday #Haiku pic.twitter.com/AXPvSWPAjp

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) November 28, 2020

“Mesmerizing isn’t it? Plough snails feeding on a dead jellyfish.”
“It’s creepy.”
“Nonsense. How else do we avoid the #despair of our mortality but to recognize our place in the cycle? We die and are consumed. We make way for the young.”
“Speak for yourself.”#SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) November 28, 2020

Young and full of #despair, the princess donned a disguise to experience life as a commoner. With lots of money to have fun of course. She made new friends. Was honest with them. They got revenge for a reign of terror and lies. Gifted the king with her head.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Natasha Simmons (@natasha_writing) November 28, 2020

A semi-straight line on the road
too could find a destiny
but this roving winter leads
the #young stopgap
on the slipping wheels
Assurance secretly meets
with everlasting memoirs
As #despair pours
the upcoming miles
in the suit of fate#poetry #SciFanSat #vss365

pc: unplash pic.twitter.com/63C6i9jMiw

— Mou G (@writer_Mou_G) November 28, 2020

When#young#mazes
of#despair
were
handled
with#panache
but
not
soul#enriching#Poetryin13 225#SciFanSat#whistpr#vss365 #poetry#BraveWrite #poem

— Silentcrystals (@silentcrystals) November 28, 2020