You're so good with numbers, they said. Invest in the future! Get a business degree.
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) December 11, 2021
Instead, she concentrated on theoretical math and physics, and built a time machine.#SciFanSat #invest
Time was his investment. Other people's time.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) December 11, 2021
He stored it in jars, thousands of stolen moments. All are labelled. Look, here's my particular favourite: 'The slight #pause of hesitancy.'
Final breaths are over there. His is among them, so I'm told. #vss365 #SciFanSat
The clouds are ominous as the hermit reaches the giant seashell that is his beachside home. He raps it with his cane. “Lewis! We need to scram! Storm’s a comin’!”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) December 11, 2021
Huge crab limbs emerge from the shell’s bottom.
“This is why I invested in a mobile home!”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
Flames lick her body as she tells us positions of our enemies. Being short on weapons, defense is our best strategy.
— Bithi Paul (@BithiPaulAuthor) December 11, 2021
I take her place in a haze of fear. After investing eons in guarding us, she gets to pause and rest in peace. The brave do not die.#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat pic.twitter.com/J1qqMgldMY
she's called Despoina
— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) December 11, 2021
this new world beyond our ken
but names don't tame her
she pauses her storm
we invest moments in hope
her weather changes
man won't hold her in his palm
while we're cowered by her eyes#ScifaikuSaturday #vss365 #SciFanSat #vssnature
We #pause at reason and#Invest in the madness
— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswriter) December 11, 2021
That paves the way to hell
Falling bowed, broken
At the crossroads
Of nightmares
Only to be swept up by
The arms of shame#vss365 #SciFanSat #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
"I heard of the man who once found a moment" said the time-traveller "and #invested in it. He planted it like a seed, & saw it grow into the Tree of Time"
— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) December 11, 2021
"The one under which I sit" the hermit said, #pausing to smile "One day, I'll tell you more about him"#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/kdZp9bdJ43
The sky-train is smooth, despite its age, invests an unwise serenity. An ochre sky tracks our progress.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) December 11, 2021
"You think they're—" I #pause. The carriage shudders.
"—following?" She places an almost still hand on mine, hides behind a surface smile.
Silence answers.#vss365#scifansat
Invest in reality, my friends. It's safer. I just portaled to a blank space, live-world adjacent, as if Bob paused mid-impasto for a smoke break. Not dead but I'm not breathing. Colors run to me, then stop, jagged edged. What tom-fuckery is this?#vss365 #bravewrite #scifansat
— Occam Razor (@BeKindHumans) December 11, 2021
I #pause the #vlub.
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚📝 (@debbieiancu) December 11, 2021
Should've #invest-ed in invisibility shielding but I didn't, so I'm sitting here exposed
My hands tremble
The bank door bursts open like my aching heart
Vic pounds on the locked door as
I gun the engine
"Bye cheater"#vss365 #AchtenWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/PKcv7xAFMV
"This," he said, "is a #wondrous chance! Don't #pause or delay, #invest today!"
— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) December 11, 2021
"SkulKrusha beer? I think not." said the Queen.
"Give me 50% for no money," smirked #GrumpySwearyFairy, "and Draco won't &$%!ing torch you."
"I hate Dragon's Den."#vss365 #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/Na7zNNaqJq
Planet Pause was unreachable by most forms of contemporary communication. It was a popular sanctuary among rich investors until the Big Crash, when unbeknownst to them, many of its clients found themselves suddenly too poor to pay the bill. #SciFanSat, #vss365 #scifisat
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) December 11, 2021
1 by 1, they halted their tipple to see where the children were investing much attention. "Naughty naughty," the creature sang before puffing gales to turn the room tenebrose. "Hide & seek. Become invisible or become my last meal. Ho ho ho." #vssChristmas #SciFanSat #macabrewords
— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) December 11, 2021
Briefed about a beach side hotel, he recalled why its name was eerily familiar: it was a suicide/alleged murder site.
— aran (@AranPotente) December 11, 2021
When coaxed to #invest a long #pause & a heavy sigh summed up his reply. Never a superstitious fellow but the ominous rattled him.#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt
"I think you should #invest less in your future and spend more on today."
— SalisburyWriter (@SalisburyWriter) December 11, 2021
"Really Doctor?"
The DocBot nodded, a smile on his face.
"Your scan results say you only have 4 tomorrow's."
The #pause, programmed for effect.
"The good news…you have 5 today's."#SciFanSat #vss365
A new age of patrons, those who invest in the spinners of tales, the weavers of light; privilege for the chance to breathe life into art. These makers, courtesans of word skill and soul felt emotions, now plying their trades in digital streets.#microprose #microstory #scifansat
— (Quiet) Storm ☽✪☾ (@MadQueenStorm) December 11, 2021
He banged his fist on the console. I almost fell off my seat.
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) December 10, 2021
"All the time and resources we #invest-ed, WASTED! The experiment is a failure."
What he didn't say was that he had used our last bit of energy to fuel the lab. We were stranded on this remote, barren moon.#SciFanSat
hurly-burly lives
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) December 11, 2021
we live without taking pause
invest in your dreams#SciFanSat #invest#VSS365 #pause#Haiku#SciFaiku#Poetry#SciFi#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity
📷 pixabay pic.twitter.com/PfzIoP8vxR
Worker XZ71 pauses to take a measured breath after inserting the next piton. They are investing their life in these trigonometry calculations. If they have enough oxygen to ascend this rock face, then they complete this current Mars mission. #SciFanSat #invest #vss365 #pause
— Beth Cusack (@BethCusack9) December 11, 2021
#Satsplat #SciFanSat
— Micah Palmer, Author (@AuthorMicah) December 11, 2021
The planet turned slowly beneath J'sca, unaware of its doom. J'sca didn't plan to invest too much time worrying about the consequences of his actions. Not that he would admit to fear. Courage was facing fear, so he pretended not to have courage either.
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 12.11.2021 “Invest” 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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