“Talent”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Good food was scarce in #lockdown. So I was glad to find cheap fast growing beans. Especially with my no cooking #talent.
Within mins a forest grew with arms instead of branches. The ground shook violently, the trees chanted slow; Fee Fi Fo Fum…#vss365#satsplat #scifansat

— FizzyV2021 (@Fizzytwizler) May 8, 2021

Fay had a talent for languages. There's a signal in the noise, she said. There's a pattern in the signal, May said. She had a talent for numbers and codes.#SciFanSat #talent

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) May 8, 2021

I don’t like to speak of her. Years ago, she was my great student, the most talented girl I ever taught. But she had a hunger that I couldn’t tame. It drove her deep into the Bloodwood. Made her a wraith. Now only children whisper her name.#satsplat #scifansat #horrorprompt pic.twitter.com/iLsctn3L9m

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) May 8, 2021

When he was born, heroes fell. The people feared, & threw him down the deepest well. A dark hole, believed to be connected to hell. But demons arose, breaking God's #lockdown. How? Fate. That baby had an innate #talent, all powers would be broken down.#scifansat #vss365

— Valiente Rook | Poet • Writer (@valienterook) May 8, 2021

The leaves in the enchanted forest are on #lockdown. They didn't bother telling their hosts. It turns out their roots had a #talent for reaching the sea where they depleted the planet of all water.

It's how everyone left.

I'd written this before.#vss365#SatSplat #SciFanSat

— Poetry in 13 (@Poetryin13) May 8, 2021

#vss365#scifansat#Lockdown was in force. Fairies had been abducting teens by night.

Young Oisin had a #talent for stealth, and no fear of fairies. He slipped out to meet his friend Niamh in the forest.

She was waiting by the oak.

"Oisin, now a teen, by Eriu do I claim you." pic.twitter.com/N3g9sjPu4l

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) May 8, 2021

A Jovian jaunt, Proff called it. 'We'll look a gas giant in the eye & be back home in 40 winks.'

She has a talent for understatement.

Like, 'Bit odd these bulbs got onboard. Anyone else feel iffy?'

And, 'Lockdown? What fun – like a rainy Sunday!'#whistpr #SciFanSat #vss365

— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) May 8, 2021

“Yesterday you were white, today you’re black,” Kaylee said.

“Well, my talent is to change races.”

“But which are you, really?”

“That matters? You change sexes. You were Kyle yesterday.”

“I’m always black.”

“No, you’re always you. And I’m always me.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) May 8, 2021

You'll find her in #lockdown
Where she waits quiet, still
Programmed to serve,
No desires of her own until
A switch, a flash of sentience
And a #talent for mimicry
They'll never know the difference
Just wait and see#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/jjG55DDEXW

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) May 8, 2021

The others tiptoe around the #lockdown order, talk about quarantine, a few more weeks.
My talent for comms hacking says different. No precautions here, no extra safeguards.
We've been left as sustenance. The deep-space cargo. The things waking in the hold.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) May 8, 2021

Didn't take #talent to savvy this #lockdown was the worst yet
Guards were tossing every cell, hunting the shapeshifter
Only two cells away. I had to decide what to do.
When they arrived at my cell, one of them said:

“Warden, how'd you get in there?”#SciFanSat #vss365 #scifi

— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) May 8, 2021

My #talent
Defines me
As a writer and poet #SciFanSat #selfmusing #nishtunishaa

— 𝔑𝔦𝔰𝔥𝔞 𝔗𝔞𝔩𝔯𝔢𝔧𝔞 ✍️ (@nishtunishaa) May 8, 2021

0/XF
She knew their weakness.
Humans misunderstood enchanted forests due to their lack of #talent to feel Nature at its purest. It's how Eeri controlled them, arousing their basic fears of the unknown while giving life to the various creatures they imagined.#Satsplat#SciFanSat

— aran (@AranPotente) May 8, 2021

Jeb was sucking down beer in the cantina when the alarm sounded. The exterior plating clanged into place.
“#Lockdown. Damn.”
Soon after, heavies with blasters showed up.
“Well, old boy,” one said, “you got a talent for thieving but you’re shit at getting away.”#SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) May 8, 2021

I have a talent for escaping disasters. The Great Flood. Chernobyl. Pearl Harbor. Hiroshima.

Why would I visit Pompeii on 24 August 79 AD?

I knew the plaster cast in The Antiquarium was of me, holding the time ball. A chill ran my spine as I skip to the day before.#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/wBRPVPRv0l

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) May 8, 2021

As recruits in humanity's first military force outside of the solar system, we were bioengineered with organs that could withstand low oxygen levels, extreme changes in gravity, and radioactivity. Our special talents also included breathing underwater and nightsight.#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) May 8, 2021

#SciFanSat #SatSplat
Her lock-picking talent gets her the so-called haunted forest & she lingers under a canopy of trees gowned in stinking vines. The din of hidden creatures hurts her ears. An old zoo? She walks on. A sign reads: Genetic Blends Inc.
A tusked man-boar screams.

— Cecily Winter: find me in the marginalia! (@winter_cecily) May 8, 2021

She's an adventurer with a talent for negotiating difficult terrains, in any climate, but she'll need to utilize all her skills to survive this particular forest. I doubt she's ever encountered trees with teeth before.#satsplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SlapDashSat #DoomsDaisy #WIP pic.twitter.com/1AqbXpnxYl

— DoomsDaisy (@DoomsDaisy) May 8, 2021

The alarm screeched as she hammered uselessly on the hatch seal. She turned to her companion. “Open it.”
He shook his head. “You’ve triggered the emergency #lockdown. We’re stuck here.”
She raised her gun.
He snorted. “You’ve no #talent for bluffing.” #scifansat #vss365

— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) May 8, 2021

With 3rd-hand food replicators, she has a talent for managing supposedly healthy configurations.
Really, though, as she sorts out what's edible in the enchanted forest (lavatory door, her foot), the result's the same feeling of things crawling under her skin.#Satsplat #SciFanSat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) May 8, 2021