“Cunning”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

The landing party hesitated. There was someone waiting for them in the clearing. Everything knew you were coming, the old healer said. The trees whispered, and the cunning vines wrapped my wrist as a reminder. She smiled sharp teeth. Welcome, strangers.#SciFanSat #cunning

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) February 6, 2021

Travelling in the family cruiser, during birthdays is a fun, you’d never #believe. Soon as we enter hyperspace, we turn on the anti-gravity switch.
Dads’ idea the cunning old clown.
Knows mum hates it but flying food all over far & wide? Woohoo!#vss365#satsplat #scifansat

— FizzyV20.21StuffSadness (@Fizzytwizler) February 6, 2021

You human are hilarious. You search for intelligent life—what hubris. You believe you are superior, but have you considered the reason you’re yet to find the “space aliens” is that they’re all more cunning than you? #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 6, 2021

“These aliens are cunning, but nothing’s showing me they’re far more advanced than us.”

“They took out all our satellites.”

“With the equivalent of space-buckshot.”

“After interstellar travel.”

“In slower-than-light ships. We can build those too.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 6, 2021

I'm waiting for the
Setting of the sun
Slow creeping darkness
Not yet begun

Mountains call to
The ebbing day
Before the oceans
Wash them away#Cunning moon turns
Her face from me
A distant #believer
The far side of the sea#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) February 6, 2021

Friends! We are asked to #believe this #messenger when he is a self-confessed #thalassophile? Cthulhu has #cunning and wile! I spit on him.

Let us find proof, not in tea leaves or stars, but in the flames as we burn him at the stake…#vss365 #vssMagic #vssDreams #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) February 6, 2021

Chimera #Cunning can't #believe how much life improved after landing on Neptune. She's greeted by every entity from the sea to panphants (panther/elephant hybrids) living in the trees.

"You're so normal," many gush.

"What's it like?" ask the brave.#vss365#SatSplat#SciFanSat

— 🐝🕸️🧜‍♀️🌻✍️🛤️Poetry in 13🗣️🌹💫👣🌈💞 (@Poetryin13) February 6, 2021

“We never expected it to be so cunning.”
“You let it destroy half the station!”
“We couldn’t #believe what we were seeing, the game— “
“Stop. You’re going to psyche. Maybe the shrinks can figure out why you think we were attacked by an intergalactic Pikachu.” #SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) February 6, 2021

0/XF
The treaty held even if minor transgressions occurred. Who could control the powerful celestials but themselves, adhering to their own code of conduct.
But the vast space cajoled the #cunning for mischief to achieve superiority over others; chaos ensued.#Satsplat#SciFanSat

— aran (@AranPotente) February 6, 2021

Drizzled

The grey sky morning breaks with dawn,
The frozen clouds awake.
The #cunning knight becomes the pawn
When true love is at stake.
And I am by the single chair,
A throne to thus receive
The while I sink into the air
Content to just #believe.#vss365 #SciFanSat #BardBits pic.twitter.com/ZaaEnSzZwo

— James Matthew Byers (@TheDarqueBard) February 6, 2021

The run down Seventh is fine, a couple of shiftless stirrings. Nothing. None of us #believes the sighting; the edge home to jagged remnants, ash, cunning winds. Ancient death.
We mistake her for broken masonry, body twisted.
Yet her skin is flushed with life.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 6, 2021

#vss365 #SatSplat #SciFanSat
Earthers still believe in cause & effect—a residue of religious indoctrination cunning deities imposed to plaster certainties on cosmic chaos. The behavioral algorithms projected by AI-enhanced Lunar spies inevitably croak on those smug convictions. pic.twitter.com/SUZSyOWqdt

— Cecily Winter: find me in the marginalia! (@winter_cecily) February 6, 2021

The Duiin ship flies into the planetary ring to try and shake me, weaving between chunks of ice. Duiin pilots are famous for their daring and cunning, but this is stupid. Even if he makes it out of the—

My ship beeps in warning. The Duiin is behind me.#scifansat #satsplat

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) February 6, 2021

The multiverse's designers were #cunning, hiding access to hyperspace in folded #space, knowing warlike species wouldn't possess the patience to figure it out

We found the 5th dimension in a Milky Way bar

Now we #believe humor is universal#SciFanSat #Satsplat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/COpNr320SS

— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) February 6, 2021

Paranoia is a cunning thing. It turns heritage roses carnivorous and makes the esoteric more frightening than mysterious in allure. Join Pleasure Inc. where nothing and everything are as they seem. #horrorprompt 420 #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SaturdaySurvival #366FF #MusePrompt pic.twitter.com/75W92XRnvV

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) February 6, 2021

Cunning ETs smile
Earthlings believe deception
Details soon emerge#vss365 #SciFanSat #ScifaikuSaturday

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) February 6, 2021

There is true power in conjuration, the cunning magic once well known to the savage souls who came before us. Fear and ignorance has cost so much knowledge over the ages, it's a wonder we've made it this far.#SciFanSat #microprose #microstory #digital #art by Natacha Einat pic.twitter.com/qxuo3biRR7

— (Simply) Storm ☽✪☾ (@MadQueenStorm) February 6, 2021

"The Handoon have always been a cunning nemesis in this quadrant" commented the Science Officer. "Let's do this right," said the Captain. "I want a full bracket across this entire sytem, we can't miss." As the weapons powered up, the Handoon ship appeared.#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/8KmAjRgOv6

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) February 6, 2021

"The Earthlings are #cunning and deceitful! We cannot trust them to be peaceful. They've waged war amongst themselves over petty matters, and blown their planet into tatters! They don't deserve our help or aid! They need destroying, I propose we invade!"#SciFanSat #satsplat

— Valiente Rook | Poet • Writer (@valienterook) February 6, 2021