Quest to find the #eternal fountain of youth was hard. But, i’d done it! Thru faraway lands beasts & traps; hidden within the #rock-y Devil Hill cave, on sight I jumped in.
— Fizzy-ShouldBeResting (@Fizzytwizler) September 4, 2021
Reunited with my once strong self, I set off to reclaim my stolen kingdom. #vss365#scifansat#satsplat
It wasn’t the price that bothered me. No, it was the name of his ship, “The Sisyphus”. I couldn’t decide whether it was a joke to name a freighter after a man whose #eternal punishment was to push a #rock uphill or whether it was just an inauspicious sign. #SciFanSat #vss365
— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) September 4, 2021
Eternal savage
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) September 4, 2021
Hewn from rock
adrift in ever darkness
energized by shock
Capitulating to no one
with passion
that is rare
Courage threading
the starlit dim
Ancient solitaire #SciFanSat #Poetry #vss365 #rock pic.twitter.com/UYvRmrTOIA
the moonrocks tell her
— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) September 4, 2021
stardust sparkles in your veins
we're all knit from light
our eternal oneness is
long lost but not forgotten#vss365 #ScifaikuSaturday#whistpr #SciFanSat #FromOneLine #tanka
📷 @tengyart via Resplash pic.twitter.com/WaRhLv1yMC
The shimmering silver rain portal was an open doorway to the Eternal, the old man had realized.
— Irene 💫 (@_Irene_Dreams_) September 4, 2021
He had long grown weary of traveling world to world, wandering endless passages of space and time.
Then he met another traveler, and this one carried a very big clock.#SciFanSat
His heart pounds. “I’m a software designer.”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) September 4, 2021
“A god of technology,” she says.
“I’m not, Hephaestus.”
“You were. Gods are eternal, but we’re mortal ideals that reincarnate as notions change.”
“I—”
Her lips hover close. “Remember.”
“Aglaea…”
“Yes.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
He'd wanted to retire to a #candle-lit #cottage, y'know like in those old #sepia photos?
— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) September 4, 2021
Instead, here he was sat on a space-#rock, an #eternal-ly frustrating AI badgering him about hygiene.
Guardian? Ha, prisoner more like.#vss365 #vssdaily #vssmagic #autumnwrites #scifansat
“This #rock,” he said, holding up a shard of granite, “is eternal. Not like flesh. That goes fast.”
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) September 4, 2021
“Is that why you’re a sculptor?”
He didn’t answer, just calibrated his lasers. A barrage hit the asteroid, carving out a sentinel for the edge of the system. #SciFanSat #vss365
Beyond the Oort Cloud, the computer they had called the Prime Minister knew nothing of time or loneliness as it calculated the digits of pi, trillions and trillions of numbers behind the decimal point, where the infinitesimal becomes eternal.#SciFanSat #eternal
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) September 4, 2021
"Remember the #rock that wiped out the dinosaurs? Another will come: it's only a question of when."
— aran (@AranPotente) September 4, 2021
Who wants to live forever, he would snap back, as if #eternal existence would ever be possible even w/ the swift advance in science and technology.#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt
The eternal flame burns just outside of reality. Paper-thin universes spin by like pinwheels, as the candle dances in the cosmic wind. But reality is more fragile than that flame, and with each sweep by, the multiverse comes ever-closer to its out-of-timely demise #scifansat
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) September 4, 2021
Clasping my knees I #rock back & forth
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) September 4, 2021
Curled into a small ball
When I met #Vasanus for a #reunion I hoped to see my friends
Not vacant eyes, grasping hands, gnashing teeth
Now fingers scratch at my door
To drag me into #eternal darkness#satsplat #vss365 #AchtenWrite #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/Xzy1cmzn4o
Fore… I looked at the word. Well, its beginning, that is. It wasn't a long word. Nor tall or wide. It stretched off somewhere, into a blur of watercolour. Beyond my grasp. My comprehension. Though I strove for what seemed like ever to see its every letter#scifansat #eternal
— 🐕Steve🐝after🐇all🌳🌸🖋📚 (@PatchieSteve) September 4, 2021
Flames and smoke belch and sputter, occasional coughs exploding as the vessel dies. A small android sits on a #rock, scanning the horizon.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) September 4, 2021
"Nobody will survive," it says to itself, turning its gaze toward the star's eternal glare.
"And nobody knows I'm here."#scifansat#vss365
#Rock, paper, scissors. The #eternal game of every school yard, unbeknownst to us, it plays out far above our heads in the realm of dreams and nightmares. Cosmic horrors, the chthonic gods of old, make their bets over a little blue marble. #SciFanSat #vss365 #scifisat #scifi
— Laila Amado (@onbonbon7) September 4, 2021
We’re near the north frontier when we hear footsteps in the woods. Light. Biped. Familiar.
— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) September 4, 2021
Mal draws her sword, but I signal for her to hold.
A deinonychus emerges from the trees, head bobbing. An Eternal Sun amulet dangles from his neck.
“Drengr?” I say.#SatSplat #SciFanSat
extinct to everything known the night
— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) September 4, 2021
is eternal deeply dense of impenetrable
thought i am caught in its throat aware
of all behind the scene spirits weep#SciFanSat#vss #mpy
Eternal gods
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) September 4, 2021
your star song flows in our veins
We journey to you#SciFanSat #eternal#SciFaikuSaturday #vein#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi
📷 iStock (modified) pic.twitter.com/WLxuifrat2
Legend had it there was a mushroom in the forest that granted immortality.
— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) September 4, 2021
Phil cheaped out on a robot guide.
'That's poisonous,' it said. 'I can't stop you, but I need permission to try to save your life.'
'No need,' said Phil, mouth full of eternal summers. #366FF #SciFanSat
timeless
— (Cosmic) Storm ☽✪☾ (@MadQueenStorm) September 4, 2021
eternal
this moment
this breath
this now
can you make me live again
when the next heartbeat comes?#poetry #microstory #scifansat
I am continually awed by the talent and creativity of the authors that grace SciFanSat with their voices. Above are highlighted microfiction tweets that I feel exemplify that talent, all compiled from our 09.04.2021 “Eternal” prompt and event.
All tweets, art, and rights belong to their respective creators. No ownership or responsibility on my part is inferred by this post, just my admiration.
~Jason H. Abbott
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