Didn’t even try to #hide or wait 2 ambush me, these 2 metal like humanoids from the portal.
— FizzyV2021SemiHiatus🚫TagsPls (@Fizzytwizler) April 3, 2021
But the thing that rose fear to my mind’s #attention was, I’d just bazooka’d the f*ck out of them 5mins ago.
How the hell were they now standing, all new. #vss365#scifansat#satsplat
Splintered boards#Hide my cache
— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) April 3, 2021
A tale of revulsion
Measured in false chapters
Pluck the shape of a
Lonely soul
My love, &
Leave it forever
Devoid of #attention
Pressed between pages
Of a cruel & unsettling story#vss365 #SciFanSat #amwriting #poetry #poem #micropoetry
"Now," the knight boldly called," pay #attention you #ferocious beast!
— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) April 3, 2021
"I didn't fight my way through the #labyrinth just to #hide behind a #shield! Come out and prepare to be vanquished!"
"Miaow," said the unnamed terror.#vss365 #vssMagic #vssDreams #vssdaily #scifansat pic.twitter.com/VhjvexAlHl
Under the domes, we make our own weather. Temperature controlled, days of light and evening rain. Someday, someone will write poems about daffodils. For now, there are other ways to pay attention to the seasons and the clouds. #SciFanSat #attention
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) April 3, 2021
The thousand new stars
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) April 3, 2021
couldn't hide the attention
we'd given to the rescue
#vss365 #SciFanSat #Poetryin13 pic.twitter.com/hloKi40zBP
Resurrection is a tricky one: You must hide your life force so deeply in your subconscious, even you can’t find it—divide your attention so you believe you’re dead while knowing you’re not. If you can pull it off, they’ll worship you like a god. #SciFanSat #satsplat #vss365
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) April 3, 2021
'They #hide in plain sight.' His words were a corny sci-fi drama, yet on Main Street, something was off. The guy with his kids, the two outside the barbers. I avoided attention, sat nursing coffee and watched.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) April 3, 2021
Nobody smiled. In twenty minutes, not one grin.#vss365#scifansat
“Is my human form unconvincing?” Ordo asked.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) April 3, 2021
“No, it’s handsome,” Jane smiled.
“I wanted to avoid attention,” the alien sighed. “Modeling my appearance from your popular media was a mistake.”
Her arm entwined tighter with his. “Maybe, but I like it.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
Nobody paid me much attention, so one millennia I ran away to #hide on the dark side of the Universe.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) April 3, 2021
When the tunnel collapsed behind me, I didn't much mind. I've got a great view here and, being alone is luxury.
I am the youngest spaceworm, you see.#vss365 #SciFanSat
#vss365#scifansat
— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) April 3, 2021
The boys were in bed. Samara and I were savouring a rare moment to ourselves.
"Huh. I thought I heard music," she said, puzzled.
It got my #attention, too.
And then I realised what the horns and drums meant.
"Take the kids to the old mill and #hide. Now!" pic.twitter.com/lB5FB3Uacz
We die and are reborn in secret, slipping into new lives when no one's paying attention. Getting hard to do that these days. Soon it'll be time to act.
— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) April 3, 2021
There's a reason all civilizations fall. It's us. We immortals need chaos to hide in.#Satsplat #scifansat #vss365 #SlapDashSat
0/XF
— aran (@AranPotente) April 3, 2021
He was as much responsible for the resurrection of their feud as he assiduously demanded her undivided #attention.
Luna stayed away, far far away from him but he still sought to challenge her, subverting what she created.
"I will triumph!" His roar flat.#Satsplat#SciFanSat
Space is silent for a reason
— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) April 3, 2021
In that vast void where echoes don't exist, countless creatures do, some with morals, some without
The only safe approach: #hide
Don't attract #attention
Radio waves smell like meat
Spacecraft with maps & recordings—a dinner menu#vss365 #SciFanSat
It's hard to spot the #seagran on the rocks. You have to pay #attention.
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) April 3, 2021
They move slowly.
Whiskers twitch, gray tails flap, luminous eyes
My legs grow numb as I #hide, waiting
The leader removes her fur
Revealing pale skin
Tonight she'll be mine#vss365 #SciFanSat #AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/cmuTRFw73c
I'll get her #attention, I'm not going to #hide. I came from another dimension, to make her my bride. I loved her on my world, but she was taken. Snatched by revolution, a cause mistaken. I shot her, to save our nation. But her now, I will save: that's my vow.#scifansat #vss366
— Valiente Rook | Poet • Writer (@valienterook) April 3, 2021
regimes
— Poetry in 13 (@Poetryin13) April 3, 2021
hide within
attention for novas#scifisat#SatSplat#sixwords#SciFanSat #123words #vss365 #hide#sixwordstory 889
“A-TEN-SHUN!”
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) April 3, 2021
The cadets stiffened their backs.
“What’s this about?” one asked.
“Someone stole the captain’s ring.”
“The one from old Earth?
Just then a multi-armed beast appeared and flexed its many fingers. “You cannot #hide your prize from me, my lovelies.” #SciFanSat #vss365
Even after the plague, no one leaves their homes. Robots deliver food and other essentials.
— Yosen (@yosenspace) April 3, 2021
The VR consumes all our attention. Everything happens in there now – sports, gambling, violence, sex.
We have found paradise.#scifansat
Daf says, "Well, Jeg is a wildcard."
— Occam Razor (@BeKindHumans) April 3, 2021
"Yeah" I say. "He's always liked attention."
"Surprised he agreed to hide. That clown business..he's losing it."
"Ha! If you've never had an angel squirt you in the eye with a trick flower, have you truly lived?"#vss365 #BraveWrite #scifansat
#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat
— Cecily Winter: find me in the marginalia! (@winter_cecily) April 3, 2021
Cursebreaker’s baby swaddled in space-serpents’ cast skins dozes on a free Cruiseship far beyond the reach of The Force. Soon he’ll scream for human attention, & when War can no longer hide behind Falsehood he will be the path to Earth’s resurrection.
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 04.03.2021 “Attention” 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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