“Mystery”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

The dark-eyed, #mysterious girl hissed at her spider, who had chased the nasty boy into a firethorn bush. The spider skittered over to her, climbed into her mouth, and curled inside a pouch next to the cheek. A sliver of #shiver shook her body.#vss365 #scifansat

— Damien's Coming – "It's all for you Damien." (@DanielC55186873) October 9, 2021

It’s a mystery to me how I woke up in this girl’s body. But here I am, unlocking my apartment door, expecting to find the twenty-something formerly in this body freaking out as an old lady in mine.

But I don’t.

I find my murdered body in the kitchen.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) October 9, 2021

When the first mysterious message from space advised us to search for the answers underground, a team was despatched to the deepest cave and began to dig.

Weeks passed before they discovered a #sliver of starlight.

The next message told us to stop. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) October 9, 2021

A sliver of mystery
a harbinger
of what's to come
This rejoinder
is irrrefutable
Transformative
once it's done
Unique ritual
Words
that try to run
Sectarian abolition
at last
the game is won #vss365 #Sliver #SciFanSat #mystery pic.twitter.com/2HaYYbEWRd

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) October 9, 2021

inside the wormhole
spacetime's imperceivable
and yet we believe

we count on machines
make theories for mysteries
shake slivers of doubt#whistpr #scifaikusaturday #SciFanSat #vss365

— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) October 9, 2021

The cruiser is mostly quiet now, a #sliver of light beating under the barricade, the click of cooling metal, a drag-scrape.
I tap out another mayday, send into the mysteries of the void.
But it's too late. Nobody's coming. They know what stalks this vessel.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) October 9, 2021

The portals sing, the old spacer said. Spotted foxgloves, and the smell of rain. Why do they sing? Where do they go? Who made them? Everything about them is a mystery. #SciFanSat #mystery

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) October 9, 2021

Despite the heat and the bugs we trudged on. The reward of a #mystery solved motivated our every step. This trip to our supposed ancestral world had been planned for millenia. A planet called Earth. Was there any intelligent life left here after The Last Great War?#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) October 9, 2021

"I had a #vision," the old wise woman said. "You were #soak-ed in the King's blood, with #sliver-s of bone in your hair. I've never seen… it's a #mystery."

I acted horrified, but the crown and bloodied machete weighed heavy in my pack.#vss365 #vssdaily #vssDreams #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) October 9, 2021

If you'll step this way
Avoid #sliver-s of flesh from the #massacre#Vuadib who reveals all #mystery will receive you soon
You have traveled far to see him
Meanwhile rest, enjoy a snack
Is that a finger?
Oops#satsplat #AchtenWrite #vss365 #SciFanSat #vssmurder #FromOneLine 111 pic.twitter.com/awhUVLwu56

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) October 9, 2021

A sliver in spacetime opens. Date we go inside? Dare we explore the mystery?#vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat #scifisat

— A. A. Rubin is at #NYCC—Artist Alley, I-8 (@TheSurrealAri) October 9, 2021

Landed in the heart of a bizarre, planet unknown. Humanoids trade, chatter multiple dialects and sweat acrid herbs and spices. Two moons hang, one full, one a sliver. I lay a plan of action. Jeg drools, mumbling "degust" and "mystery meats." Degust?#vss365 #bravewrite #SciFanSat

— Occam Razor (@BeKindHumans) October 9, 2021

Inside the apartment flashes of light no longer invited wonder from the neighbors: the alien #mystery was debunked by a lie.
Twenty transformations later he chose the #silver outfit.
"How do I look?"
"Unfortunately you're too early for Halloween."#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) October 9, 2021

Mysterious clue
Perceived by geneticists
A sliver of hope#ScifaikuSaturday #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) October 9, 2021

I now perceive the
Mystery surrounding us
Once God’s sole domain#SciFanSat #mystery#SciFaikuSaturday #perceive#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi

🖼 Colorized version of the 1888 print of the Flammarion wood engraving (public domain) pic.twitter.com/25iYksqPnx

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

#ScifaikuSaturday #perceive #scifansat #mystery

Greatest mystery:
While we do not perceive them,
Do they know of us?

— Hawk&Young (@HawkandYoung) October 8, 2021

#vss365 #SciFanSat
How many of you are real?
That's the #mystery now. I chat to people in the street or at the bus stop and you seem to be the same as me. Last week I just assumed we were the same. Then I saw my wife coming out of the shower.
Saw that #sliver of metal on her back

— AllOneWord (@AllOneWord5) October 9, 2021

we peer into space
searching for the mysteries
in the hearts of stars#SciFanSat (mystery) #Haiku #SciFi #Poetry pic.twitter.com/iHJeUozO3y

— Celia Reaves (@Celia_Reaves) October 8, 2021

The troops expected more lab-grown mystery goop. Instead they were served tender slivers of choice meats. The aroma was enticing, yet familiar. It was the scent of the enemy's scaly, laser-scorched flesh.

They pushed away their trays & went hungry.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Jonathan Roman (@deft_notes) October 9, 2021

"Quick, I need the demonic record."
"It's under the TV guide."
"There are rings on the furniture, the coffee table, bookshelf, everywhere."
"Oh."
"This #mystery vexes me. This could be it, the end may be nigh."
"Um, Grim, could you pass a coaster?"
"Of course, Beezy."#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/s0KEkP1min

— R-ossified💀 Young monsters👾 ,🎃 (@InkDisregardit) October 9, 2021