“Phenomenon”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Black holes, novas, I've seen things, said the man with auroras in his eyes. But there are phenomena you can't even imagine out there. The cries of ghost ships. The songs the quasars sing. #SciFanSat #phenomenon

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) January 16, 2021

Odd #phenomenon 3 nights now. Big shiny black eyes my scared face a #reflection in them. Silver jumpsuit, jade skin cold room. She hits my arm with a hot branding iron, I awake sweating.
But today the scar on my arm isn’t a circle; it says..Love U!#Vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— FizzyV20.21 (@Fizzytwizler) January 16, 2021

The shimmering rain portal was a phenomenon that the nomadic Mars rovers had never seen. The curious little chopper, Valor, kept a safe distance. Galileo analyzed the portal's energy. The rusty robot studied the rovers. The old man was lost in reflection. #scifansat #vss365

— Irene 💫 (@_Irene_Dreams_) January 16, 2021

Surging intention
Phenomenal reflection
Stars that burn for art #SciFanSat #Scifaikusaturday #vss365 #haiku pic.twitter.com/GoHHxfndMV

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) January 16, 2021

I am but a #reflection of the truth
Inconsequential in the greater scheme of things
A #phenomenon easily forgotten
If not for you
You give me purpose, meaning
Like a flower striving towards the sun
I follow your radiance
If only you knew I existed#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat pic.twitter.com/rZbX786eoC

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) January 16, 2021

The mirror showed things not as they were but as the observer wished them to be. This phenomenon caused war, strife, unrequited love.
Now, I was going to destroy it. But as I raised the hammer, I caught a glimpse of my reflection and I couldn’t do it.#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) January 16, 2021

0/XF
It was a #phenomenon even she couldn't fathom.
Given all the beauty & splendor of a paradise, fragile bodies would make sure they're be spared of harm.
But her love was no match for their insanity to ruin their world, pretending they'd be redeemed again.#Satsplat#SciFanSat

— aran (@AranPotente) January 16, 2021

The phenomenon was beautifully named 'Aurora of Our Ancestors', a miracle witnessed once in every 978 years. The light from Earth, as it was then, captured by the cosmos, and #reflecting off inter-planetary gases– the past shining like a mosaic in space's void.#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/aqBzzSgE4u

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) January 16, 2021

I wonder at the strange #phenomenon—the mirror in the armoire not showing my #reflection. My thoughts shift to the night before—long legs, black silk, neon lights gleaming on a sharp fang, my ecstasy, your laughter. I have all eternity to find you again. #SciFanSat #vss365

— Laila Amado (@onbonbon7) January 16, 2021

#vss365 #SciFanSat
A reflection of the city’s ongoing lawlessness, that new phenomenon in the night sky. It’s the roll call of the day’s miscreants, complete w/ pixilated image. I must say, I like myself in negatives. Anyway that’s not my name & they don’t know the half of it.

— Cecily Winter: find me in the marginalia! (@winter_cecily) January 16, 2021

A #phenomenon
She smiles, she soothes
She hides her own pain
But she cries and regrets
Alone
She'll never know God
Telling tales of battle scars
To the sepia #reflection
But still, she dreams
In colour#vss365 #SciFanSat #Atreyasverse

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) January 16, 2021

They're cosmically drawn to each other, free of outside entities to influence their constant meetings.

One day he looks directly into this majestic being. "How do you explain this #phenomenon?"

The other's lips moved like his, but counterclockwise.#SatSplat#SciFanSat#vss365

— 🐝🕸️🧜‍♀️🌻✍️🛤️Poetry in 13🗣️🌹💫👣🌈💞 (@Poetryin13) January 16, 2021

At the altar of ectoplasm a phenomenon
of dead fairies appeared.
The planet's doctors so-sowed with gossamer
& knit their brows.
Only a sprite found success.
With an application of snuff soon sneezing
the life back into those lil frail lungs
& that's fair enough.#SCIFANSAT

— Denise Carruthers (@CattyKoala) January 15, 2021

We Come in Peace

Through fields of #reflection,
the phenomenon appeared
as a beacon in the rearview mirror
as ghosts and ghouls and spilling tools
etched into my psyche like maize
growing in some alien garden
where I am fertilizer.#vss365 #SciFanSat #BardBits #TheDarqueBard pic.twitter.com/0Heh0z9fVN

— James Matthew Byers (@TheDarqueBard) January 16, 2021

They'd conjured something in the disgraced Alpha HQ. Jewel-like hail ruled alongside flashing explosions in the sky for a month followed by death in each quarter; and on the other side of the world, similar phenomenons terrorized people on city rims. All went dark. #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/fO5k0e18Rg

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) January 16, 2021

To forgive is not only a reflection of heart and soul, it is a genuine power. A phenomenon of consequence, weighted currency in the universal struggle for balance.#bravewrite #SciFanSat #vss365

— Occam Razor (@BeKindHumans) January 16, 2021

To the Zxanth, the sudden and sporadic appearances of Zenobia Stankphist berserking amongst their ranks with two laser katanas—slaughtering them, was a battle #phenomenon. They hated her as a brutal enemy, but worshipped her as a warrior goddess.#SciFanSat #SlapDashSat

— Alex K. Logan (@AlexKLogan) January 16, 2021

The first time I noticed the phenomenon, toothbrush vibrating against my lower jaw, I glanced at the mirror to see a damp, unkempt bathroom and no me. Touching the mirror, I felt its cold surface, but saw no #reflection. I checked every shiny surface. The same.#vss365#SciFanSat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) January 16, 2021

Her love for life may be unrequited.
Order to vacate premises. Nowhere to go.
Never even liked living there, until the phenomenon that night where the heater gave off a warm feeling.
Not heat.
It had stored her love so she could live in it.#Satsplat #SciFanSat #vss365 #scifisat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) January 16, 2021