#Text on the inside of the wooden box, spoke of a #place in outer space.
— Fizzy-AllSortsOf🥶🥶 (@Fizzytwizler) November 27, 2021
This clearly indicated where this dead alien life form was from.
But, the body had grandpas’ face. I never thought after a year of being missing, we’d find him in our school basement. #vss365 #SciFanSat
Beside a cerulean sea, there is a walled city of white marble. Overlooking its harbor of sailing ships, my wife still sculpts and sings.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) November 27, 2021
It’s a place I find in rare dreams now, since she died. I always beg to stay.
“Not yet,” she answers.
And I awaken.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
found you in the stars
— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) November 27, 2021
my textbook of everywhens
and neverplaces
you're a spacegirl's dream
stole my heart so faraway
the impulse to fly#vss365 #SciFanSat #scifaikusaturday
You think the language doesn’t make sense, but the rules which govern its spelling are dark and grave beyond your ken. One letter out of place could cause disaster. It’s a miracle some 2nd grader’s text hasn’t caused the destruction of the universe.#vss365 #scifansat #Satsplat
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) November 27, 2021
I trace lines of #text tattooed into my skin, identical to the writing on the wall
— 🤩 Debbie is 46.5/50k Nano21🍒 (@debbieiancu) November 27, 2021
Magic in this #place is weak draining when I tap into it#Xaanit lies just beyond this wall but it will take a miracle to reach her
A miracle, or magic#vss365 #AchtenWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/19gPvLqlRq
#vss365#scifansat
— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) November 27, 2021
Lines of #text. CLI is key to the ritual.
The sensorium's databank is impressive. Cognac. Music. My armchair.
The smell, the touch of her skin.
Memory recast, here in this #place which is no place.
The pain at driving myself further on this nail is my own. pic.twitter.com/20adW64m2p
The moon would hide when anyone entered, eclipsing into shadow.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) November 27, 2021
Except for me. I'd pretend to read, the #text irrelevant, sit in the same place. With luck, I'd catch a crescent glimpse.
Over time, it became more confident, revealing itself; a cold white eye.#SciFanSat#vss365
Around the corner is a place, he said. It's always summer there. Can you hear the music? Can you hear the thunder? When I turned around, he was gone.#SciFanSat #place
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) November 27, 2021
"What's so magical about this #place called Earth?"
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) November 27, 2021
"The people there live finite lives, but many still have hope in the #miracle of an afterlife."
"That's just some silly notion we instilled in them millennia ago so that they would have some motivation."#Satsplat #SciFanSat
He set aside the #text, kneeling by the prostrate figure. Ready to beg, he nervously reached out.
— aran (@AranPotente) November 27, 2021
It stirred, awake of his presence.
"Please tell me the #place where I can enter."
It purred, stretching its limbs.
He trailed the cat toward the door.#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt
In a place
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) November 26, 2021
where destiny prepares
for solitary crisis
Grafted exegesis
lays waiting with its snare
Iconoclastic barriers
putting emerald
down for dare
Space is just a way to go
another thoroughfare #SciFanSat #2WordPrompt #Poetry pic.twitter.com/IMeooHC9qC
He started small, as gods do.
— Nicklaus Kruger (@ThatLousyNick) November 27, 2021
A #cheap trick here, a #miracle there. Right #place, right time.
They bound him with #prayers, and #texts. And marketing.
But at least he's working.
Ho. Ho. Ho.
Happy holidays.#SatSpark #SatSplat #SciFanSat #vssdreams #vss365 #SaturdaySurvival
We found it in this #place, a way to translate the ancient alien #text to human! This planet's equivalent of the Rosetta Stone, and it turns out they'd communicated through #song.
— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) November 27, 2021
The first one we decoded started "Ground Control to Major Tom…"#vss365 #vssmagic #scifansat
#vss365 #SciFanSat
— AllOneWord (@AllOneWord5) November 27, 2021
Dad lost his job when I was 5 and moved us to this #place. The cruisers fly low every night and there's graffiti on the walls, but he keeps us safe.
New tags appear as soon as the corporation cleans the walls, although one #text always remains:
This is our Home
#SciFanSat
— Kimberly (@bionicanadian) November 27, 2021
"What is this #place, cant you feel sentient life in the endless dark?" Don't know why I thought the dead girl would answer me. Something with an inhuman appetite was approaching, it was Other… a faery with hoofed feet, a demi-god of sorts. "I thought to complain,
The place written of in Plato's text no longer exists. Its bedrock crumbled to silt and dissolved in the sea in a single day.
— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) November 27, 2021
Their apocalypse. Our miracle.
As arrogant and cruel as we have been, the Atlanteans were worse.#Satsplat #vss365 #scifansat #SlapDashSat pic.twitter.com/pJV18gFEq9
We find the #place on the map, the green and the blue of wilderness. No towns. This is where the #text messages come from, with their odd sequences of numbers and symbols. Kevin got his parents’ car keys and I have the sandwiches. We drive out there tomorrow. #SciFanSat #vss365
— Laila Amado (@onbonbon7) November 27, 2021
Singularity
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) November 27, 2021
Our Place in the Universe
We heed The Impulse
Our Raison d'Être
The Stars call us Ever on
The Impulse drives us
The Place we have built
is our Forever Palace
We are The Impulse#SciFanSat #place#SciFaikuSaturday #impulse#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi
📷 iStock pic.twitter.com/PeVjiXfPM6
I know this place.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) November 27, 2021
It is where we say goodbye.
Where hopes fall to earth,
like shooting stars,
from a velvet sky.
And futures only dreamed of
crumple up and die.
Not possessed of a poetic soul, you down a drink and send a #text.#vss365 #SciFanSat
I couldn't help it. Out the rover's window was dust, rocks, more dust.
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) November 27, 2021
"How much longer?"
I don't know how Dad made the back of his head transmit his rage. I locked my eyes on my #text.
It would be a #miracle if we made it to that #place alive. #scifansat#vss365
#satsplat
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 11.27.2021 “Place” 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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