“Complete”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

“It got a complete overhaul?”

“It’s a 1986 Dodge Aries. I did what I could, bub.”

“Which was?”

“Machine guns on the hood, a roll cage, some armor,” the mechanic sighs. “Yer nuts to drive this in a death race!”

“You’ll see.”

“Cash payment only, bub.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) July 31, 2021

She almost made it out this time, before the box in the corner flicked into life. She sank back into the cushions, didn’t notice the electrodes attached to her skin. She’ll spend her life that way, trapped in her #comfort zone until the cycle is #complete. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) July 31, 2021

Rumours of comfort
on a world
incomplete
No birds
and no ocean
just air
bittersweet
Portals of chaos
echoing grief
I yearn
for a blue world
with touches
of green #vss365 #comfort #SciFanSat #complete #SciFiFri #chaos pic.twitter.com/NWkRtbbslc

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) July 31, 2021

#vss365#scifansat
Martha relaxed into the #comfort of the pilot's chair, her term on the punishment planet #complete. Enduring the warden's attentions for this chance was bad enough, but then a message flashed on her HUD, "Thank you for your service." She hit the eject button

— Mαɾƚყɳ R. Wιɳƚҽɾʂ (@UKHamlet) July 31, 2021

#vss365#scifansat

There was a time when there was resistance, but in this meat the work is now #complete.

Now this unit is ready to bring the #comfort of Oneness to other meat.

Any fluid transfer is sufficient. A bite proves maximally efficient.

Soon this world will be One. pic.twitter.com/dsnJCeB11G

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) July 31, 2021

Our #complete story is incomplete without your voice, your smile, your sorrow. All your words are there beside mine. Our worlds breathe characters through time. But the space where you should be spins silent and starless, a darkness in which sleepers sleep#scifansat

— 🐕Steve🐝is🐇for🌳Stephen🌸🖋📚 (@PatchieSteve) July 31, 2021

I'll find no #comfort in the oblivion at the bottom of the bottle. The visions of hell on this empty ship are still too raw, the terrors too real

I close my eyes in an attempt to shut out this reality, but it's the sounds I hear that are my #complete undoing#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswrites) July 31, 2021

Mama told me of the #fountain of youth
"Can we find it Mama? So you'll never die"
Mama's eyes soften in #spurrierel #comfort
"We all die, love"

"Never" I whisper

I #complete my descent, water sparkles
I found it
"Hold on Mama, hold on"#vss365 #SciFanSat #AchtenWrite #satsplat pic.twitter.com/uvexIi6kuh

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) July 31, 2021

A late whisky, couple-a-inches straight, sat in the dark. It's #comfort enough. I keep still, curtains drawn, listen to crickets, ignore the skittering.
"Come to bed." Her voice is smoke.
I check the locks, complete the rounds, resist an urge to look outside.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) July 31, 2021

Space Pops–A world in every box! Plastic planets, the sun and all the moons. I had Mars and Venus, Saturn and its rings, tiny Pluto, giant Jupiter, our blue Earth and the moon. Did you collect them all? A complete set would be worth thousands today.#SciFanSat #complete

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) July 31, 2021

When the #vagrant arrived offering #complete #comfort and #kindness, #TarlaTheBlack was, she hated to admit, intrigued.

He promised her #ataraxia, so she fed him to Pickle, headfirst.

"You know, I *do* feel calmer", she smiled.#vss365 #vssDreams #vssdaily #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/wtBOQ7bdbK

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) July 31, 2021

I watch them from afar. They congratulate each other, their mission #complete. The celebration won't last too long.

While they were busy stealing precious metals from our sacred burial grounds, we infected their space craft's software.They're not going anywhere.#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) July 31, 2021

After the cruiser’s life support systems die, they find their final comfort in one another. While the rest of the crew fight over the remaining oxygen packs, they hide in a shipping container. There they wait to sleep, shrouded in complete darkness.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) July 31, 2021

Warmth. Softness. How long since she’d rested in complete #comfort? Things gnawed at her memory but she was too tired to care. She closed her eyes.

At command, they struggled to establish contact with their lost pilot in that strange world of gelatinous seas.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) July 31, 2021

Feeling dirty? Walk through the fountain of flames for a complete soul cleansing. Guaranteed to work or double your demons back.#satsplat #SciFanSat #SlapDashSat #digitalart #screenshotsaturday #VisualNovel #DoomsDaisy pic.twitter.com/nGuIwSwTfi

— DoomsDaisy™ (@DoomsDaisy) July 31, 2021

Green night swallowed us, dissolving our bodies but not our minds. Is there a nightmare more #complete than being aware of such loss?We floated without #comfort or understanding.Had we become ghosts, maybe all would've made sense,but we weren't dead.We were fog.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Elizabeth Spring (@ESWarriorPoet) July 31, 2021

Twin galaxies spin around each other’s gravity, like a yin yang, deep in space.

“You complete me,” one says to the other, across the space where their centers intertwine.

#SciFanSat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) July 31, 2021

Running up the mountain didn't make her feel more complete.
Nor a sense of relief.
'Hey,' said a robot jogger behind her. 'Can I just say how much I admire beings like you who stretch their parameters?'
'Sure.'
With a nod, the robot leapt back down the mountain.#366FF #SciFanSat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) July 31, 2021

We were the only intelligence and Earth was the center of all — a lasting egocentricity.

After science changed us, our understanding wasn’t complete.

What we see at night is but an infinitesimal sphere of the myriad stars and galaxies.

We bow our heads in humility.#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/maeyCYlEs3

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) July 31, 2021

"I've encountered so many of our magnificent creatures. But a unicorn, sir. It's said that to stand in their presence is to know true joy. If I can play even a small role in their preservation, I'd say that's a career made complete." #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SlapDashSat

— Jen Anderson (@jenanderson731) July 31, 2021