“Memorial”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Beyond the horizon, there is a mermaid, and a turtle the size of an island, a world balanced on its back. And on that spinning world is a dancer, a memorial to my friend. #SciFanSat #memorial #ForScott

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) July 23, 2021

departed poetic soul
rockets upward
joining the eternal
celestial dance
starburst spirit
waltzing with comets
those galactic ballerinas
pirouetting in orbit
around #butter colored Venus
fiery tails tickling a
love-infused #memorial
across the night sky #vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/FGQmYhLfAz

— Jamie Kovalsky (@ThePuckishPen) July 24, 2021

She looked as if ‘#butter wouldn’t melt’.

But the goverment had a lot of explaining to do…

Now that every front page news showed clearly, a little green alien, defacing the town’s #memorial statue, on nearby cctv.#vss365#scifansat#satsplat

— Fizzy#ConverstoryHostJuly’21 (@Fizzytwizler) July 24, 2021

I place a poppy on the handsome fair-haired WWI soldier’s picture and leave the memorial. Beside the solace of the sea, I read his stories of Tiffany.

In the waves I glimpse his mermaid, all shades of pink with yellow eyes.

He’s beside her.

They smile.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) July 24, 2021

“He was a sorcerer,” the man said. “He spoke words of magic.”
She felt the tears in her eyes. At the top of the hill was a small marker stone, half grown over with #butter coloured flowers.
“A poor #memorial,” he began.
She shook her head. “It’s perfect.”#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) July 24, 2021

#vss365#scifansat

Fighting virus with virus, #technology retools flesh like #butter under a hot knife. Learning, networking.

Always on.

Pica-fuelled circuitry visibly advances. A slime mould, a tattooist's delirium.

The meat#Memorial to the obsolete
The obdurate
Our target pic.twitter.com/FPUGae94ev

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) July 24, 2021

"Oi,dragon!"

"What?" yawned Clarence.

"Today #terror ends! No #memorial for you."

"Oh, ok. Do us a favour first; stick that #butter in yer armour? Makes yer skin #crackle up all nice for lunch. Ready meals are so argumentative nowadays."#vss365 #vssDreams #vssdaily #scifansat pic.twitter.com/YQHqsjeKW8

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) July 24, 2021

10,000 trees live and breathe in Memorial Forest. Each tree planted to honor a lost member of the Space Force—my best friend among them. #scifansat #scifisat

— Irene 💫 (@_Irene_Dreams_) July 24, 2021

Smoke flavoured skies
cast a butter shade
across the risen
full moon
Celestial memorial
unconditional
this week
for one of ours
who's gone
too soon
Is he there
out in the stars,
a paper ghost dancing
in a virtual cocoon? #SciFanSat #ForScott #vss365 #butter #DeviantArt pic.twitter.com/TVICQIN9Ei

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) July 24, 2021

Her left hand held on to his favorite peanut #butter sandwich while her right laid poppy flowers on his #memorial.
A wave of sadness swept over her, recalling the day she saw him off to his journey to outer space. His dream dashed by a fatal crash.#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) July 24, 2021

The #butter moon, full and bright, led the memorial, sang to the stars of your imminent arrival.

How you would arrive on ballerina tiptoes to dance among them.

And the stars all sparkled with glee and shone just that little bit brighter. #vss365 #SciFanSat #ForScott

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) July 24, 2021

#scifansat
I was the last man in space. We'd fought bravely, but it seemed like the galaxy's autoimmune system regarded as a virus and would not rest. I sighted a golden ship directing operations and plunged into it. This would be my epitaph, a #memorial to my brave comrades.

— Mαɾƚყɳ R. Wιɳƚҽɾʂ (@UKHamlet) July 24, 2021

Ballerina is a memorial in motion as I hold out my cupped palm.

“Hello, cosmic dancer.”

She whirls past, drawing my handful of stardust into orbit around her. Ballerina pirouettes, and stellar motes reignite as a galactic ring.

“Not to dust. We return to stars.”#SciFanSat

— SciFanSat (@SciFanSat) July 24, 2021

We lay back against the memorial's concrete, follow the lights as they ascend like sparks.
"Why are they leaving?" Your voice is soft.
But we know.
I press against your neck, breathe in sunshine and #butter.
"He'd have liked this."
The sparks fade into darkness#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) July 24, 2021

Every year we hold a #memorial under her favorite tree, standing ankle deep in a petulant bouquet of cherry blossoms
Under a #butter yellow sun
Poh holds the #Onscabel in small hands
"Do you hear us Mama?"
The box crackles with static
"I'm here"#vss365 #SciFanSat 🚀#AchtenWrite pic.twitter.com/3WNrziD48s

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) July 24, 2021

I miss your long long legs, your spider webs, your butter fly wings, your beetling bug eyes, your formic acid, your hive, nest, your wriggling worming, your milliscurrypede, your wooded lice…

The light still shines, but you are no longer blue

My #memorial to you#scifansat

— 🐕Steve🐝is🐇for🌳Stephen🌸🖋📚 (@PatchieSteve) July 24, 2021

-Angel 35278, why is that cloud orange?
-It’s a memorial.
-It’s nice. How did you create that effect? Sunset?
-No, CHEEZITZ.#SciFanSat #ForScott

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) July 24, 2021

I ran out of time
To offer my penance
A #memorial to the ones
That will still remain
And ghost-like, I still haunt
The realm of the senses#Butter coloured daffodils
To honour their pain#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) July 24, 2021

They sent us to invade their planet.
Lt. Komar first tried a diplomatic approach.
"We have advanced technology. It's best you don't resist…wait, what is that lovely sound?"
"We are singing a #memorial chant in your honor."
Within seconds half the troops were dead.#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) July 24, 2021

Earth’s talent and force
A cosmic memorial
Always remembered#SciFanSat #memorial#SciFaikuSaturday #talent#HaikuChallenge #force#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#AmWritingSciFi#SciFi
📷 Pixabay | jcoope12 pic.twitter.com/CQCfjihyHs

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) July 24, 2021