“Give”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

What I wouldn't give for the winters of Iowa, the old spacer said. Snow days, no school. The sky so blue, and the snow so deep there were no roads. The world was like a new page.
Welcome home, the angels said, we can give you that and more. #SciFanSat #give

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) December 25, 2021

I expected Santa, but after the crash I found a witch in my backyard. As a little girl in pajamas, I helped Befana mend her broom and said witches were cooler than Santa anyway.

In the morning, I found she’d given me my first flying broom and grimoire.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) December 25, 2021

the AI concludes
magic exists in yuletide
if given a whirl

💫✨#vsschristmas #ScifaikuSaturday #SciFanSat

📷 Aaron Burden pic.twitter.com/tlIlaCtAXk

— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) December 25, 2021

Of all the #birthday presents he could #give his godson nothing else matched the parachute he recovered from a plane crash.
Jubilant the boy wore it on his back for a long time, opening a door to the future, aspiring to be a fighter pilot someday.#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) December 25, 2021

The cosmic clown blows up our universe like a balloon. The young god claps, and his family takes pictures. The family watches it expand with eager anticipation. They won’t serve the birthday cake until it pops. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) December 25, 2021

As a special #birthday treat to the clone marines, I decided to #give them the #magic of #snow patterned active camo.

They fade into the foreground, and I realise we can now hunt the alien invaders in the Himalayas too.

Merry Christmas#vss365 #vssMagic #SciFanSat #vssChristmas pic.twitter.com/WdgHsoHpp0

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) December 25, 2021

from eternity to there
don't panic when
crossing the space is a trial
holds your breath
lest it be in error
what shall i give
if not my wretched heart
thumping only for you#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) December 25, 2021

Shay and her family were supposed to be happy. Shay's smile was, at best, meek.
'Here you go!' Santa said. 'A cornucopia. Every day the food inside gets more diminutive!'
'Truly,' Shay said bitingly, 'a gift for us that keeps on giving.'
Santa smiled.#366FF #Satsplat #SciFanSat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) December 25, 2021

In a chimney holed cave
A kinda #magic
Seen from drawings
Big guy red loinclothed

On a new day
1st day
A kinda #birthday

He’d #give gifts all been save’
Everything perfick
Wrapped in vine strings
As caveman families hoped#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat #vsschristmas

— Fizzy (@Fizzytwizler) December 26, 2021

We walk the metropolis, sounds of carousing emanating from the neon bars. It's fresh, the gift of a cold northeastern. She takes my arm, eyes on the moon.
"It's my #birthday," she says, "at least it would've been."
There's a flicker from her holo-projection.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) December 25, 2021

To #Give her the stones was to lose her forever. These final two completed the set required to make the jump to her universe. We traveled the galaxy to find them. I would miss her.
"Your family will be happy to see you."
She tossed them.
"My family is here."#SciFanSat#satsplat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) December 25, 2021

I got my family presents in the past but they can only open those presents in the future. #Satsplat #SciFiSat #SciFanSat

— Ted Vician (@StinkenderKase) December 25, 2021

the captain's log gives
life to flora and fauna
from light years away#SciFanSat #give #haiku

— Beth Cusack (@BethCusack9) December 25, 2021

The nights crepuscular Arms reached for her & she wanted to howl like the fairy tale of her youth 'Brother my brother I'm becoming a wolf' Longing for a pack of her own, she couldnt face the shallow smiles of the men who came She wanted to run & give to a new world#SciFanSat

— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) December 25, 2021

I can give no more!

My abduction. Complete.

I can’t go home. Ever.

Wretched creatures cloud my mind.

They probe. Hard.

They peel away my humanity.

I feel nothing. I see. Everything.

It’s the end…

No!

Voices in my mind: <Your DNA. One more thing to give us…>#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/E2YzIzAN6U

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) December 25, 2021

On his last #birthday, I'd #given my best friend my magic. It was only supposed to be temporary for him to pass his trial. He had run the next day, taking my power with him. Now I had two days to find him and get back my magic, by any means necessary. #SciFanSat #vss365

— Lexikon (@Lexikonical) December 25, 2021

#SciFanSat No egg was ever more pampered! Everyone on the ship had to see it and touch it and give it a lick! It was small but appeared perfectly normal, and it could be expected to hatch in another thirty days.

— Lorinda J. Taylor (@TermiteWriter) December 25, 2021

#SciFanFri #SciFanSat

The stricken ship struggled toward
home. Lately, due to shortage of food and other essentials, there had been a spurt of hysteria attacks. The Doctor warned the Captain that she was worried that the crew was about to give.

— Ian Parkin (@parkini422) December 24, 2021

#Satsplat #SciFanSat
J'sca came to his family reunion with gifts for the children. He gave them out with great affability, a feeling he did not really feel, as their elders watched with disapproving frowns.
"Where did you get these?" His mom demanded. "Did you steal them?"
"NO!"

— Micah Palmer, Author (@AuthorMicah) December 25, 2021

#SciFanSat
Tom lapsed into unconsciousness as the alien qokoon tightened around him.
'Now that he's all gift wrapped,' smirked the Bantam queen, '#give him back to the humans, but let them think they have rescued him… a present for their Christmas.
Humans are so easily pleased

— Ian Richardson 🍎🍌🍈🌽🍞✌🏼️ (@IanRich10562022) December 25, 2021