She #imagined a #voyage beyond the stars, spaceflight and satellites, gravity and the orbit of the Earth round the Sun. She imagined creatures too small to see, and some too big to believe. She smiled, as her tinder caught, and her smoke rose over the savannah#vss365 #scifansat
— In🦗a🐝deep🐞Steve🐜 (@PatchieSteve) December 19, 2020
“You’re not how I imagined the pilot of a giant robot would look like.”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) December 19, 2020
“Not expecting a fat, old sci-fi writer, were ya, Kid?”
“No,” she says.
“Well, imagination is why I’m here,” he smiles. “It’s how we pilot these things. And you have it in spades.”#SciFanSat #SlapDashSat
"#Imagine, if you will, a #voyage through the #snowfall to kiss a #giant under #mistletoe…. such ethereal Christmas treats await!"
— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) December 19, 2020
"I'm imagining something right now. It involves burying an over-jolly elf in horse dung."#scifansat #vss365 #WinterWords #vssMagic #vssChristmas
The Area 51 alien, was escaping! Noone ever had to #imagine.
— Fizzy’sReallySanta🎅🏼🤫 (@Fizzytwizler) December 19, 2020
Fast on his long legs, but the guard was an ex champion discus athlete.
He threw his metal security badge, hitting the alien smack between the eyes!
It was back inside, for this alien guy.#Satsplat #SciFanSat
They did not need a faster than light drive or a gateway that was also an inter-dimensional portal. Having mastered space and time, they could imagine worlds that were not there before. #SciFanSat #imagine
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) December 19, 2020
The city burned.
— Yosen (@yosenspace) December 19, 2020
The general hadn't imagined it would be so simple. He had been prepared for a long drawn out siege.
But all it took was a few spies to stoke the embers of resentment, until the city turned on itself.#scifansat
Because of the pandemic she had to #imagine a #voyage this year. Lying on her sofa she pictured the beach, the sun caressing her skin, a cocktail in hand. Opening her eyes she sighed and turned on Netflix, but on looking down she noticed sand between her toes #vss365 #SciFanSat
— sam carr (@sam_c4rr) December 19, 2020
Imagine silent nights in black & white, eggnog kisses among plants of blight, voyages through fields where hellebore flower as mistletoe siphon via spells by the hour. Fancy trading your soul for stockings filled with coal? #horrorprompt 403 #SatSplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #366FF pic.twitter.com/DpM6VcxOh9
— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) December 20, 2020
The plastic spaceship spins, catching sunlight and dropping sand.
— John Everex 🎄 (@EverexJohn) December 19, 2020
"Rough #voyage, cap'n?" The android child imagines, his voice taking on a salty twang in the game.
We watch, making Turing Test notes, searching for a crack, a non-human slip-up in his behaviour.#vss365#scifansat
Imagine a world
— Haiku Rambler (@HaikuRambler) December 19, 2020
Where no situations were
Hypothetical#SciFanSat (imagine) #haiku #senryu #PunKu
0/XF
— aran (@AranPotente) December 19, 2020
"Nothing he does amount to anything but woe & misery. He feeds on them, his insatiable greed voracious."
Amari understood Luna's rage; her paradise desecrated.
"Just #imagine my former giants adapted to land, sea & air, any #voyage swift & w/o difficulty."#vss365 #scifansat
#Imagine a #voyage to the #1950s?
— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) December 19, 2020
I did. Built a machine, and I'm experiencing wonders
But the mechanism is flawed, it: smokes, guzzles liquids, needs pampering, prodding, pacifying
I call it
The Writer#SatSplat #SciFanSat #vss365
A voyage into yellow
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) December 19, 2020
and then beyond
to green
Traipsing along
lines of blue
bright red
then makes you scream
An imaginary monolith
composed of all our parts
Audience cheering wildly,
the colours
of our art. #vss365 #voyage #BraveWrite #audience #SciFanSat #imagine pic.twitter.com/kozIoB0J26
what better place
— 🐝🕸️🧜♀️🌻✍️🛤️Poetry in 13🗣️🌹💫👣🌈💞 (@Poetryin13) December 18, 2020
to #shop for
stars than
within#imaginations?#hangtenstories 1478#SciFanSat ✨
I imagined alien worlds and traveling between the stars in an eyestalk blink.
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) December 19, 2020
Since we met “The Others” in orbit, we’ve a different perspective on the universe.
We’re no longer alone!
I #imagine one day I’ll fully understand their “fish tacos.”#SciFanSat#SciFiSat#SciFi
Fear!
— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) December 19, 2020
Suspense!
TERROR!
Imagine a world of MADNESS!
Witness humanity turned against itself by devices of OUR OWN MAKING!
Can the world survive the coming of the…
𝘗𝘖𝘙𝘛𝘈𝘉𝘓𝘌 𝘛𝘌𝘓𝘌𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘗𝘜𝘛𝘌𝘙 𝘡𝘖𝘔𝘉𝘐𝘌𝘚!?#SatSplat #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/IIWZ3kVQUP
Waves crashed on the hull
— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) December 19, 2020
Aquatic life imagined
Voyage to seabed home#vss365 #SciFanSat #ScifaikuSaturday
"#Imagine a world without #misery. No more hunger, sickness, war, or poverty."
— KGLewis (@KGLewis5) December 19, 2020
"That sounds wonderful."
"It does, doesn't it? And it will all be possible once we rid the planet of you humans."#SciFanSat #whistpr
The #audience sat mesmerized#Fristy's voice took them on a #voyage they couldn't #imagine Each note a miracle of sound, climbing higher to a crescendo
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) December 19, 2020
After the last lingering note the silence shatters into applause
The singer falls#AchtenWrite #vss365 #BraveWrite #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/mcmSbVHUlK
Imagine there’s no people
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) December 19, 2020
For they all must die
On the planet that’s below us
With that oddly-colored sky
Imagine all the countries
Groveling at our feet
Our voyage now is ended
Our destination reached
Just remember when we meet them
To say we come in peace#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/d5R3LLUhZD
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 12.19.2020 “Imagine” 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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