“Connection”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

We share a connection, the old healer said. Blood and branches of trees and rivers. We are all one. We are made of mud and stars. #SciFanSat #connection

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) February 20, 2021

Magnificent connection
Two planets kiss in space
Gravity the obsession
that brought them
face to face
The beings left long ago
to watch
from a safer place #SciFanSat #Satsplat pic.twitter.com/BV4HQTpYLu

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) February 20, 2021

He squinted at the floating eye at the center of spinning, concentric circles of wings. “I was seeking a connection with an angel.”

“I am Ophanim-Seraph,” she said.

He sighed. “I was seeking… a kind, beautiful, romantic partner.”

“I am free tonight.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 20, 2021

We run the grey awakening, past the silence, the watching aerialists, the empty recs. First sun will rouse them, second, ignite the shields. By then we'll have made our connection.
She glances back, eyes as heavy as the #load she wears.
"You sure 'bout this?"#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 20, 2021

I marched in to the cafe, straight to the green eyed boy at the counter, head butting him out cold. Snatched the jade key from around his neck & ran.
I’d made the #connection earlier when I’d had lunch there. We had the same eyes but my key’s black. #scifansat #satsplat 1/2

— FizzyV20.21’s A Giant Midget (@Fizzytwizler) February 20, 2021

Tiffany the Mermaid takes the handsome fair-haired WWI soldier by the hand, shushing him. He stays quiet as they #load through a rusty pipe to one side of the Red Sea then come out the other side of this magical #connection to the Atlantic & his mortal family.#vss365#SciFanSat

— 🐝🕸️🧜‍♀️🌻✍️🛤️Poetry in 13🗣️🌹💫👣🌈💞 (@Poetryin13) February 20, 2021

Ghosts

From dangers underneath the soil
Unearthed as they implode,
The strangers measured in the toil
Of weapons they #reload.
Connections over, under frost
As demons haunting hang,
But lovers sing of nothing lost
Expiring the bang.#vss365 #SciFanSat #BardBits #TheDarqueBard pic.twitter.com/oUuhaJScgU

— James Matthew Byers (@TheDarqueBard) February 20, 2021

Slowly the uplink #connection to Earth #loads. The pressure rising #inside the solar system disrupts the signal#Gandry's face is ashen
"The sun is going nova. It's up to you now"
Static
The screen whites out
I whimper
"They're gone"#vss365 #BraveWrite #SciFanSat #AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/3JZwgKhlnf

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) February 20, 2021

—Let’s move. We’ve got to load this thing or we’ll miss our timeslot.
—What’s your obsession with punctuality?
—Punctuality? If we miss the transport, it’s not like we can take a cab to the connection at 42nd st. The goddamn planet’s being evacuated. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 20, 2021

Hush love it's 3am
You can't trust your
Thoughts at this time

The witching hour
When your demons
Lure with #scrambled rhyme

Tasting deceit
On hollow tongues
The most obsessive lies

Seek no #connection
With cursed words
Best not to even trust mine#vss365 #SciFanSat #crowcalls pic.twitter.com/yGRUzGh2YX

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) February 20, 2021

It was underneath the #stars I first felt a real #connection to you.

Sure, I'm only a psychotic AI embedded in your skull, but as I watched you #load the #leviathan with #mutilate-d body parts, I finally felt something… love?#vss365 #vssMagic #vssDreams #vssmurder #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) February 20, 2021

#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat
It’s a wide gulf b/w standard Homo Sapiens & their AI-loaded lunar cousins who obsess constantly about life on Earth. Chosen emissary for her throwback looks, D’s mission is to forge a diplomatic connection. If she can avoid the seduction of freedom.

— Cecily Winter: find me in the marginalia! (@winter_cecily) February 20, 2021

A collapsing star relaxed for a moment, & a wave of time, lost in its gravity, found itself free again. And so it undertook a journey, across light years, carrying a #scrambled message from Htrae, Earth's long lost #connection in the indefinite bounds of space.#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/Dprt1eaGVw

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) February 19, 2021

0/XF
Time witnessed how he'd never bow to Luna's superiority; whatever it took he'd sabotage what she'd wish to accomplish.
What happened to the red planet taught her a grim lesson; his #connection to its ruin proven. Hence, she changed strategy w/ the blue.#Satsplat#SciFanSat

— aran (@AranPotente) February 19, 2021

"I have established #connection & now I just have to wait for the files to #load."
"Make it quick, I won't be able to keep him subdued for long!"
"I'm trying! But his brain is full of junk & porn. So much filth! Oh? Beyonce is a lizard?!"
"Search for the key!"#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Valiente Rook | Poet • Writer (@valienterook) February 20, 2021

Staring up at the military guard he sensed the fear behind his otherwise confident gaze. The man gave a subtle nod & he knew he'd made the connection. Slowly, Trevor guided his family away from the fenced compound, now realizing it for what it was. A cage. #SciFanSat #SlapDashSat

— C Lee (@cleestories) February 20, 2021

Debate raged on whether to allow electricity #connection to the Capitalist Internment Camp

Humanists argued morality

Others said the prisoners' profit #obsession killed thousands; they were an immoral #load on us all

One bomb solved the debate#SciFanSat #satsplat #vss365

— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) February 20, 2021

Summer had chosen her name because her people didn’t use words. They shared a telepathic connection, even across vast distances. When she learned of the famine she left with a #load of grain for her hungry people. He doubted he’d ever see his Summer again. #SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) February 20, 2021

She came in & put on her headphones.
Noise from the generator by her window was reduced 60%.
A robot poured her coffee.
'How was your day?' it said.
She played a prerecorded 'Not great.'
'That's unfortunate.'
'Yes,' she said about the lack of autonomous connection.#scifansat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) February 20, 2021