“Extravagant”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

At the funeral, we reminisce about how #kind you were; no job was too big or extravagant for you to help with.

Like that time you helped me build a spaceship in my parent's garage. It disappeared the same night as you.

The coffin looks heavy, but it's empty.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) November 20, 2021

Nothing is extravagant on grandpop’s freighter. Everything’s old. The food dispenser only serves chili. The hyperdrive is a cobbled monster… and faster than anything made in fifty years.

They don’t make them like they used to.

Just like grandpop.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) November 20, 2021

one misplaced digit
in the moon's algorithm
the first algae bloomed

extravagant greens
breathing out the atmosphere
our kind's breathing in#ScifaikuSaturday #SciFanSat #vss365 #vssnature

— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) November 20, 2021

I pinned my dream against the wall and shot it twice. Head and heart.
It was internally extravagant, yet the others wouldn't know. Might notice a dimming in my eyes, a #kind of stoop. Silence in my smile. My obligation to endure.
It nearly worked.#scifansat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) November 20, 2021

At the starting line he received #extravagant praise for his distinguished getup & high tech gear. How fash he'd be raised eyebrows.
"You need this."
A spectator was #kind enough to hand him a natural booster.
"Ready?"
Bang!
He swallowed the chili.#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) November 20, 2021

Last night on Mars called for an #extravagant party.
Tho’ with a crew of 3 + Bot—a small party.
In their spacesuits they danced around, except Bot.
He’d coated the insides of their helmets with #bits of deadly Mars mushroom, he wasn’t ready to leave.

#scifansat #vssmurder

— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) November 20, 2021

You said we couldn’t be together in this life. The Galaxy would never sanction a union between our kinds.
I killed him extravagantly. I took no pleasure, but I had to ensure my offense was capital.
I await you, darling, impatiently, beyond the stars #SciFanSat #satsplat #vss365

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) November 20, 2021

"You're too #kind" I murmur as the king clasps an #extravagant #ooblosen on my neck.
My fingers caress the opulent jewels
My eyes lock with Julian's
His expression is pained, raw emotion flooding his eyes
I sigh,
"but I can't accept it"#vss365 #AchtenWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/t1PQh9ddSM

— 🤩 Debbie is 36.4/50k Nano21🍒 (@debbieiancu) November 20, 2021

Equity lives on the edge of a razor, impossible to achieve without wetting the blade. Yet, in the history of history, have we seen forever peace returned in kind by violence? No. When justice is an extravagant lie, your only peace exists within.#bravewrite #scifansat #vss365

— Occam Razor (@BeKindHumans) November 20, 2021

A dark Alley stinking filled w/life in its Crushed quarters An old woman heard a cry, turned black eyes onto the creature It was the #kind of mini dragon that you avoid w/an extravant flame You shouldn't be here she said &scooping it up carried it to the forest#vss365#SciFanSat

— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) November 20, 2021

#vss365 #SciFanSat
It seemed an #extravagant 10th birthday present and I was unsure of the way the handle glowed. Gran tried to reassure us and said it could only be used for #kind deeds, but the blade still looked awfully sharp.

— AllOneWord (@AllOneWord5) November 20, 2021

#Extravagant gift
He sent #down to his lover
Immortality #satsplat#SciFanSat#HaikuLust

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) November 20, 2021

The creature's skin was an extravagance of shifting iridescent colors, like the auroras of old Earth. We marveled at its beauty, and wondered at a world where this was protective coloration. #SciFanSat #extravagance

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) November 20, 2021

Not extravagant
to have numerous digits
Ice world survival#SciFanSat #extravagant#SciFaikuSaturday #digit#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi
📷 iStock (modified) pic.twitter.com/uTFni86Hkr

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) November 20, 2021

In the #woodshed
She surprises me
My handiwork
Is #extravagant
kissed into my neck
Longing for connection
I rest the framework
This #kind of sadness
is curable, my lips answer
but it may take a few nights#vss365 #vsslocation #scifansat

— 𝕁A⃒𝕐 (@Jay_de4uture) November 20, 2021

“Is that a sparkly new bauble looped around your gazelle neck?”
“Apologies,” blushed the queen, “I simply had to have it!”
“But how to pay for this #extravagant gewgaw?”
“Raise taxes? Start a war?”
“We Invade Karnos! nothing’s too good for you my dear!” #SciFanSat #satsplat

— Valery Dion (@ValeryKaye) November 20, 2021

#scifansat

I had seen this Rodaner at many of the #extravagant parties I was required to attend.

As part of my cover.

When he suggested a meeting, I knew him for a spy.

Cazik City's reply was swift: "Recruit him!"

My meeting thus sanctioned, I was one step closer to freedom. pic.twitter.com/PgV12Xfpgg

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) November 20, 2021

For months I bathed with a sparingly wetted cloth, never able to forget that every drop had passed through someone else.

Then I walked into Mars City and saw the #extravagant tumble of an enormous waterfall. A river. Beach. I didn't even have to collect my tears.#SciFanSat

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) November 20, 2021

Shay's new landlord said veils here were astonishing.
Later, Shay saw an extravagant display in a store window – gray mannequins adorned only in colorful veils.
Finally. Shay had only found vales to fall into behind most doors, and she rather liked the landlord.#366FF #SciFanSat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) November 20, 2021

Welcome to Hawking Prison. There’s no parole. No breaking out. It’s easier to toss our #kind into a black hole. No one will waste the #extravagant energy to pull us out. They seek to be rid of us writers. But we’ll still be here when their time runs out. #VSS365 #SciFanSat

— Mark BurningHawk Baxter (@MarkBurningHawk) November 20, 2021