“Viable”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

I won a soft toy at the new carnival in town.

I chose a big pink #hippopotamus.
That night I woke up to the hippo glaring down at me.

Now I’m in a wagon tied up. With no #viable reason, why the carnival’s flying out of town, in the night sky. #vss365#scifansat #satsplat

— FizzyV2021FelloffHerBike🚫TagsPls (@Fizzytwizler) April 10, 2021

Every viable embryo in every major fertility clinic in the country was stolen last night, the director said to her team of embryologists. The sperm bank heist was bad. How on Earth do we tell our patients that their embryos were abducted by aliens? #scifansat #scifisat

— Irene 💫 (@_Irene_Dreams_) April 10, 2021

Milkweed seeds from the home world, scattered in a new breeze, would they be viable in the light of a different sun?#SciFanSat #viable

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) April 10, 2021

“A giant robot alone isn’t a viable solution.”

“Says who? This badass is twenty stories tall! Demogon hasn’t a chance!”

“Fifty years of giant monster lore says you’ll lose.”

“Then how do I win?”

“With a partner: A robot-kaiju tag-team never loses.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) April 10, 2021

—If the Infinite Worlds Theory is viable, somewhere in the multiverse there’s a planet with a carnival atmosphere.
—Is that so far-fetched, pessimist?
—No the actual atmosphere is made from harlequins—not gas—with dancing hippopotamuses for clouds.#vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) April 10, 2021

It is a #viable option, the creation of a cyborg #hippopotamus. It can protect our rivers from the kappa populous. Give it teeth as sharp as razors, & eyes that can shoot out lasers. But make sure to implant a kill switch, in the event of an unforseen "glitch".#SciFanSat #vss365

— Valiente Rook | Poet • Writer (@valienterook) April 10, 2021

"So this," he sighed, "is the #archetype of what your #agency thinks is a #viable bioweapon?"

"Yes, Sir"

"You've spent budget on… this? It looks like a #naked #hippopotamus."

"Would you prefer it if it wore a tutu, Sir?"#vss365 #vssMagic #vssDreams #vssdaily #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) April 10, 2021

#vss365#scifansat

All's fair in love and war. We needed every advantage.

The line took ages to perfect. These guys carry #hippopotamus genes: swift, strong, amphibious and resistant to small arms fire.

They also shrugged off control. And it seems they're #viable in the wild. pic.twitter.com/UUpLGqpNbc

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) April 10, 2021

"The #eibmoz solution is #viable" Gal says proudly, holding an adult #hippopotamus the size of a rabbit
"You've fulfilled #carnival owners wet dreams, a whole menagerie fit in a van"
He frowns, "I'm saving endangered species"
"That too"#vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat #AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/PaAEfcH3hh

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) April 10, 2021

The fifth moon is a filthy rock. Brackish waters cover most of its surface supporting a food chain of monsters. This includes the enormous #hippopotamus creature which wrecked our landing vessel.
"A viable hideout?" says the droid.
"We're out of options," I say#scifansat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) April 10, 2021

0/XF
Anything was a #viable endeavor to Luna, one of the longest existing celestials in the cosmos. She had witnessed creation & destruction of worlds, several she initiated herself.
With a primitive star and its planets, she deviated from her experiments.#SciFanSat#SlapDashSat

— aran (@AranPotente) April 10, 2021

#satSplat #SciFanSat #vss365
Only for the brave: Immersive Carnival—a jangling marvel of derring-do & the visions of true seers. Try a carousel hippo w/viable jaws; dive from untethered trapeze platforms; or wrestle w/ grizzly moms. Basic funeral costs are included w/ a ticket. pic.twitter.com/U5H2HkLbub

— Cecily Winter: find me in the marginalia! (@winter_cecily) April 10, 2021

There are laws about animal acts these days, nobody likes clowns, and acrobats are expensive. How to keep this carnival viable?
Robots.
Robots that audience members will pay to fight.
After they sign, like, ALL the waivers.#SatSplat #scifansat #SlapDashSat #scifisat

— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) April 10, 2021

“We first identified the Zxanth armada as friendly. Now, we battle to save Earth,” said Admiral Blohärd, “there’s no viable option“

Space Nick crashed out a porthole, covered in Zxanth viscera, carrying two severed heads.

“Hey, eejit! Where’s the bar?”

#scifansat #scifisat

— Alex K. Logan (@AlexKLogan) April 10, 2021

Despite an odor of bad cheese, the physical atmosphere was viable.

But as excavation progressed, strange emotions overcame the crew.

The final mission logs read like a carnival ride of paranoia and murder. #WeirdFiction#SatSplat #badwordsat #flexvss #SciFanSat #whistpr

— The Cosmic Liminal (@CosmicHorror77) April 10, 2021

A yellow airboat sliced, speed of light, through sky arriving their destination at a quarter past five. It works! cried Lou, they said it was no longer viable but here you are, in time for beans on toast and darjeeling!#SciFanSat#vss

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) April 10, 2021

Turning lead to gold
Hippopotamus stuffed jar
Is it viable?#ScifaikuSaturday #SciFanSat #vss365

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) April 10, 2021

‘Our only viable plan,’ Kajea said. So here I am—disgusted as a Neptunian arms dealer and mixing it up with masked system politicians at the Mascherata Solare. Hired guns everywhere, watching for spies and assassins. People like me, in other words. #Satsplat #SciFanSat

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) April 10, 2021

Eibmoz had the jar
Found in the first tomb on Mars
Viable life forms #ActenWrite #eibmoz #scifaikusaturday #jar #SciFanSat #viable pic.twitter.com/auo89TVZ9I

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) April 10, 2021

A science team scrambled to find a #viable solution to the space-time fissure that opened in downtown Toronto. Nothing computed.

Devinder S. went in. Found relaxed people. Serenity. No clocks. Smiling, he exited.

“So, how do we fix it?”

“We don’t. We widen it.”#SciFanSat

— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) April 10, 2021