“Path”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

His #demons won, his #hawkeye sight blurry.
His focus on the righteous #path ahead gone…

Once a worshipped caped superhero, he was now just a villian on the run.
For her he’d killed an innocent & for her…he’d do it all over again. #vss365#scifansat#vssmurder#satsplat

— FizzyV20.21’sSunshineDrunk (@Fizzytwizler) March 20, 2021

The wormhole opened, an eight-fold path. Humans had compared it to origami, or the meanderings of a caterpillar on a leaf. They did not understand the space-folds, or the many paths unfolding. #SciFanSat #path

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) March 20, 2021

At birth, everyone is assigned a destiny, a #path they have no choice but to follow.

However, recently a new phenomenon has come to our attention. Those with keen foresight who can change their fate. We call them #hawkeye.

They must be eliminated. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) March 20, 2021

There's now a well-worn path between the moon, the Earth, and Mars. We've cleared the way for exploration and innovation. Our future generations trekking amongst the stars.#scifansat #scifisat

— Irene 💫 (@_Irene_Dreams_) March 20, 2021

“Thanks for saving me,” Ales said.

The satyress winked. “Welcome! Now take this path home, not the goat trail.”

“Why?”

“It turns you into a goat! I only walked it halfway, but—”

“I’ll do the same,” he smiled.

“What?!”

“I’m crushing on a satyress.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

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

The monster who guards the threshold was bored—his super-strength wasted on cracking nuts in his massive paws, his hawkeye gazing down the path looking for the next would-be hero who would call him villain. Hopefully, this one would be worth the wait. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

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

"A #toothless #opponent!", the #hawkeye-d priest screamed, ending the exorcism.

He didn't see the #path to the #hills behind him start to undulate as #demons broke the surface, bloodlust in their eyes.#vss365 #vssMagic #vssDreams #vssdaily #SpringWords #scifansat #vssmurder

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

#Hawkeyed words
Of violence
Slip unbidden
Unknown
Into the minds
Of advancing madness

You weave your broken dreams
As those hollow stories of
Deafening silence scream,
And the novel tales
Of Winter's dark #path
Whisper….#vss365 #SciFanSat #Whistpr #MadVerse

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

His role as a scout was inevitable: his ability to blend into the shadows, his #hawkeye attention.

When he told us the path was clear nobody doubted it. He was the first to go, slipping off under the trees. The others were taken in flurries of dark wings.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) March 20, 2021

Great wealth lay hidden in the planet’s ice. We searched along a path between towering blue walls, relying on the scout’s #hawkeye vision to find our precious things. And he did, right before he led us to the locals and their taste for human flesh. #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) March 20, 2021

I narrow my eyes at my nemesis
He levels a #hawkeye stare across the narrow #path
"To the death" I hiss
"No. To the pain"
"Did you just quote Princess Bride?"
"Shut up & shoot" he lobs an energy ball
I intercept
"Return to #cender" #vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat #AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/nqnL8mvlbl

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

Kat's #hawkeye navigating wound a #path thru asteroids, neutron blasts, and multiverse paradoxes (dodging time implosions). Pouring adrenaline sweat, she smelled like adventure, like life.

Later she’d say, “I can’t find my pen.” And we'd all laugh.

#vss365 #SciFanSat #scifi

— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) March 20, 2021

0/XF
"Why you do it?" Amari probed Eeri for the nth time, baffled why he continued to stray away from the #path followed by their fellow celestials.
"You forced me to," he argued, reminded how his kind was deemed inferior through eons of selective decimation.#SatSplat#SciFanSat

— aran (@AranPotente) March 20, 2021

"Beezy, this man says he walks your path, when he looks down there are two sets of footprints, but when things get hard there's only one-"
"Yeah, and?"
"It's just-"
"Sometimes I climb on their backs because I get tired. Other times I'm at home watching netflix"
"Oh."#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/CMmFYWrtNA

— Ross Young (@InkDisregardit) March 20, 2021

#vssmurder#scifansat

"There is a shortcut to Meerstad. But the journey is perilous – for it passes through the Forest of Lost Souls.

"Know that its #demons will attempt to lure you from the #path. Should they succeed, your shade will be doomed to wander the forest evermore." pic.twitter.com/83ArRIQnxa

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) March 20, 2021

On a throwback path between limbs of stars and the center of the galaxy. Each light year now reveals the gravitational death spiral, halfway between the prayer of gods and home. Hawkeye captured images of the barbed eclipse and event horizon. #SciFanSat #vss365 #2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/mcT90Fgnna

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) March 20, 2021

The path between dimensions is charted neither by space nor time, fracturing you as you move through it, mind a forking wire. They put you together wrong at the end, but you always knew you'd never quite come back, out of sync with the universe.#SciFanSat

— Pippa's Altar to Tardigrades (@IpsaHerself) March 20, 2021

monotonous #paths have
a way of leading toward
villainous behavior

hence, my
lightsaber#SatSplat#SciFanSat

— Poetry in 13 (@Poetryin13) March 20, 2021

They called her Cataclysm, the greatest ship ever to forge a #path across the galaxy. She glinted magnificent, a silent echo of the vastness of space, bearing forth the ambitions of a proud nation.

They learned the true meaning of her name, the day she disappeared.#SciFanSat

— Titania Tempest (@TitaniaTempest) March 20, 2021