“Artist”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Wrathful, she fills her canvas
Fury painted with an#Inelegant hand
An #artist no longer,
She blackens the stars
In your night sky
With hues of rage
And nightmares#vss365 #SciFanSat #poem #poetry

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) July 10, 2021

Stones carried
and stacked
on this planet
too far from home

The artist's cache
stowed beneath
the rubble

an inelegant cocoon

A place
to finally
be alone
A bite from the fruit
of life
Sage
at last
marooned

#vss365 #inelegant
#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/EOElC04dsm

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) July 10, 2021

The artist dips their brush into the void and paints the universe into existence. All is perfect save for one inelegant brushstroke, a tiny blue marble in the western spiral arm of some insignificant galaxy. #vss365 #SciFanSat

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

“Why strand my town in the Cretaceous?” she asks.

“I’m an artist!” the futurian says. “My medium, #paradox. My #canvas, the multiverse!”

“Wait—”

His time jumper beeps. “Too late.”

“There’s a deinonychus!”

He laughs, then feels hot breath on his neck.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

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

"There are marks—" The astronaut stops speaking. The lunar cave opens, rock scratched with #inelegant streaks.
"What did you say?" The radio crackles.
"You seeing this? There's an artist here, somewhere." She traces the violent daubs into the watchful darkness.#SciFanSat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) July 10, 2021

You are an artist of a different kind: a painter of nebula, standing on a ladder of stars in an #inelegant pose with one foot askew on Earth and fingertips that are always reaching and reaching… #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) July 10, 2021

Emi Chez was an artist of virtual worlds. More real than reality, people said. They loved the bubbles of forests and cities. Then one day, she created her own world, and went there.#SciFanSat #artist

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) July 10, 2021

Sandwich artists
Use refrigerated pallette
Choice of floury canvas
On paper, sans plate
Only earthbound mortals
Practise art
Angels insist on pita
Divine quirk
Made me bitter#inelegant angel jerk
Devil on my side
It's sandwich-a-geddon
On malted rye

G Reaper#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/AkGCw0iKDG

— Ross Young (@InkDisregardit) July 10, 2021

The natives took us to a mysterious woman.
"She has all the answers," they chanted.
She pulled out pastels and textured paper.
"We didn't come here for a drawing."
"I am a special #artist. Come look."
The drawing perfectly depicted the crime scene and the murderer.#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) July 10, 2021

Botha travelled space by weaving stories to the rapt audiences in dockyard taverns.
"Come travel with us, Botharavitch," a captain says, "entertain us for your passage."
An #artist of penetrating discernment, Botha knew he could entertain by day and feed by night. #SciFanSat

— Mαɾƚყɳ R. Wιɳƚҽɾʂ (@UKHamlet) July 10, 2021

Ah, its #inelegent, its uncouth. But the client asked me to paint the truth. As an #artist I value aesthetics. Alas, the path to #freedom does not hold any ethics. So vexing, to have a canvas stained with red. Azrael will hate me, but peace will follow the dead.#vss365 #scifansat

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

#vss365 #SciFanSat
Everything about her was #inelegant: the way she held her tools, her working class accent, her unbrushed hair. But the #artist knew how to create. Her colleagues were efficient, but her robots had something else: the contoured limbs, those bright, scared eyes.

— AllOneWord (@AllOneWord5) July 10, 2021

I wasn't much of an #artist. My technique was self-taught, my compositions #inelegant at best. No, a different kind of talent brought clients to my door. They sat in the studio and unburdened their past. I caught a flash of vision and painted their future.#SciFanSat #vss365

— C. E. Rose (@CristenERose) July 10, 2021

#vssmystery#scifansat

Watch as the floor is painted in lines of red.

Her #cryptic utterances turn to howls of fury, as though something within strives against its fleshly bonds.

Only once the design is born does calm return to the #artist – her prisoner ready to be unleashed. pic.twitter.com/3NqYYwVV8t

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) July 10, 2021

Their effortless physical/spiritual shifts enabled space travel, made them renowned #artists.

Loving Earth, aghast at its #inelegant inhabitants, they shrunk us into an exhibit called “Destroyers.”

Critics scoffed, saying “No race could be that stupid.”#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) July 10, 2021

#inelegant thoughts circled the #artist as she stumbled—the path crawling into the abyss.
Nerves clawing, she pushed on as disembodied eyes reimagined the treacherous landscape. Crumbling it into dust.
With only her instincts left to trust—she leapt—#vss365 #SciFanSat

— 𝐿𝒶𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒟 @ 🅱🆁🅸🆃🆃🅻🅴🆆🅸🅽🅳🅾🆆🆉 (@BrittleWindowz) July 10, 2021

Rest for the weary?
Not artists who dream their work
into existence

👉 Excerpt from my SF story, “Through Stones, the Dreamer Walks”#SciFanSat #artist#SciFaikuSaturday #rest#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#AmWritingSciFi#SciFi
📷 pixabay | elvina1332 pic.twitter.com/A4v2II697y

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) July 9, 2021

My planet is overrun with slums; neglected areas rife with derelict brick walls & buildings, are playgrounds for a graffiti artist like me. Ever since the Tagger’s Anarchy created holographic, digitized spray paint, I can now animate my designs, bringing them to life. #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/XhcIi2fUwk

— Jamie Kovalsky (@ThePuckishPen) July 10, 2021

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"He also calls himself the ultimate #artist," Amari mentioned offhand how excited Eeri bragged about his biological creations.
Inexplicably Luna took human form, laughing so hard tears fell down her cheeks.
"The #inelegant pretender is so full of himself."#SciFanSat#vss365

— aran (@AranPotente) July 10, 2021

"That is a very #inelegant solution, Major!"

"But it will prevent the end of the world, Colonel! And I would say is rather poetic!"

"Okay! Deploy the Night Sky #Artist. Paint the cosmic skies with celestial monsters. Let's hope that scares away the aliens!"#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/ZWf0QRsh8T

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) July 10, 2021