“Patient”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

The patient laughs inside the padded cell. “This has been fun, but I must fly now.”

“You’re a delusional woman, not a shapeshifting dragon,” her doctor says in the hall.

A cell door is thrown off its hinges, and a huge saurian eye peers out. “Oh, am I?”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 5, 2022

They target our planet, dehydrated.
Their aim to take our #sweat glands, merge—leech, whatever it takes to survive.
They can no more be #patient, biding their time.
Earth isn’t the only planet affected by their own—triggering of global warming…#vss365#SciFanSat #satsplat

— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) February 5, 2022

In the land of lost keys, time ticked by with the sound of a rusty gate hinge, but the old man was patient as he waited for the shimmering rain portal to transport him to the next world. The scent of old metal rusting in the sunshine took him back in time.#SciFanSat #ScifiSat

— Irene 💙 (@_Irene_Dreams_) February 5, 2022

The city was in ruins, ancient and empty. Wide streets had become fields of wildflowers. Trees were growing on the rooftops of buildings. Slow sculpture of forests, how patient the moss-covered rocks.#SciFanSat #patient

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) February 5, 2022

They used to hold hands on red sands and wait, patiently, for The Earth to appear in the Martian sky. They had gone in search of alien life, but were left only with each other, stranded, with no fuel, so close to home, and yet so far away. #scifansat #satsplat #FromOneLine

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 5, 2022

The new pathologist seemed confident and self-assured. We all hoped he'd be able to survive more than a few weeks, unlike our last one.

Still, we noticed a bead of #sweat form, when we exposed the first body.

Alien autopsy – the first is always surprising.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) February 5, 2022

Unorthodox they called me, turning a blind eye while ever they benefited

But their #patience has worn thin

What was once whispered in hushed tones is now a roar, as they push back against what they fear

Watch them #sweat & recoil at the monster they created#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/NTvNStllEO

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswriter) February 5, 2022

I had been #patient. Now finally the video system was ready.
My finger trembled.
I tapped the screen.
"Am I not what you expected?"
"You look human."
"You Earthlings are so preoccupied with physical appearance. I took a form your ocular system could handle."#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) February 5, 2022

“Hold her down!” I shout.

“But she’s in agony!” my nurse says.

It’s true. My #patient is covered in #sweat. Convulsing. Weeping tears of blood.

I am killing her. But I’d do all this and more to create my army of super-soldiers. My enemies must pay.#vss365 #SciFanSat #SciFiSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) February 5, 2022

The first #patient came in at two in the morning. By seven we were overrun. There wasn't time to figure out what it was.

At noon the few of us left saw their ships begin to land.#SciFanSat

— David Ratledge (@DavidRatledge) February 5, 2022

The hospital's concourse is packed with survivors. We sit by a bed with an immobile patient, scanning the faces.
"They're here?"
I nod
"How will we—"
"Identify them? #Sweat." I push my hair back, hand wet. "The air con's out again."
"What?"
"They don't sweat."#SciFanSat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 5, 2022

#SciFanSat
He was a huge success in his field once before delusion took over after his fall from grace.
Penalized for a grave mistake but worse still he ended up a #patient in a rehabilitation facility where forced labor sapped him of blood, #sweat and tears.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) February 5, 2022

"Patient Zero has been displaying some, uh… promising new traits."
"You're sweating, sir."
"Yes, well. Vyonians aren't exactly known for their love of confined spaces."
"Nor for their mercy, sir. Be careful."
"Just finish the genome report, Elsa."#SciFanSat #SatSplat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/NA4aCGs2NO

— Jasmine Arden-Brown (@JazArdenBrown) February 5, 2022

Luther knew what was coming. The pain. The screams.
But he noticed the sweat on the doctor’s forehead, the rapid breaths fluttering his medical mask.
The man didn’t *want* to do this to his patient.
He was just following orders.#scifansat#Satsplat#scifisat#slapdashsat#vss365

— Christopher Slagle (@christopheresl2) February 5, 2022

His kiss was soft as daisies & perfumed me like the arbor in gran's garden while his friend's mere presence flooded an area w/ how I thought a melted rat would smell.
"You'll get used to it," Tasha said. "But earth people are usually hospitalized." #SatSplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) February 5, 2022

"You are suffering a #huge #delusion if you think you can become a master of the #scimitar without blood, #sweat and tears. Practice. Be #patient, not a patient."

"What do you mea… ow!"

*sigh* "That's what I meant. Medic!"#vssmagic #vss365 #2WordPrompt #Scifansat pic.twitter.com/E1RImN8tHo

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) February 5, 2022

Anything can be a "key" to stupid existence, trust me. Wake up every day to dumb shit, humanity's petty nonsense, wondering: Why care? Thank Bob for jokes & drugs & love & sports & shit (he mumbles while collecting boob sweat off a coma patient).#bravewrite #vss365 #scifansat

— Occam Razor (@BeKindHumans) February 5, 2022

No sweat. That's next. Be patient amigo. 'No sweat' they dug phrases like that.
"K, next an Earth dance classic from 2591."
Everyone was on psychedelics & tequila.
Outside the dome, marzipan skies & frozen ammonia.
Inside, dancing & fake Palm trees Ridiculous!#SciFanSat #vss365

— RicPELong (@RicPELongSC) February 5, 2022

Fear crawled down my spine#Sweat chewing up my eyeballs as I strained to keep my movements economic—judicious
The #patient, drowning under a fluorescent light and a cacophony of tubes, lay still—silent
Exhaling sawdust
I crept forward—#SciFanSat #vss365 #amwriting

— 𝐿𝒶𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒟 @ 🅱🆁🅸🆃🆃🅻🅴🆆🅸🅽🅳🅾🆆🆉 (@BrittleWindowz) February 5, 2022

Be #patient they said. Everything would go to plan. #Sweat beaded on my brow as they began the closing statements. In less than five minutes they would pass sentence and if the others failed the ritual, I would have no magic to protect me. #SciFanSat #vss365

— Lexikon (@Lexikonical) February 5, 2022