By the quiet night time #harbour, odd #sunshine-glowing eyes, peek out of the still waters.
— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) February 26, 2022
One by one as they rise up fully, large green scaled torsos are exposed: boats shake & sink.
Toxic waste monsters from innerspace, had arrived. #vss365 #scifansat #harbor#Satsplat
She wanted to be human, and I a mermaid. So in the moon harbor we touched the trading stone.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 26, 2022
But I was tricked. Her sister’s hidden touch traded my remaining human half, and left a full fish.
That, merman, is why I am the shark that hunts your kind.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
On this moon, it's always dusk. The sun goes on shining the ocean to copper to the hum of lazy bugs.
— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) February 26, 2022
As it's cocktail hour all day long, the beach is in bars. The most unholy is called Vespers. The dingiest is Harbour Lights. Avoid Crepescule.#vss365 #vssnature #SciFanSat
There was no harbor, no home. The plague ship distress message repeated. In their dreams, they saw the medical ship, bringing vaccines. They heard the static message–we have come to help.#SciFanSat #harbor
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) February 26, 2022
For years I’ve sailed the seven seas
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 26, 2022
Beneath the azure sky
Many lands I’ve seen
In harbors far and wide
Today I set myself a course
For a voyage new
Beyond the sunshine and the stars
Never have I sailed so far
My ship, the clouds breaks through
1/2#vss365 #satsplat #SciFanSat
The Codfather owned the Harbor Café, but it was run by shady fugitives like Sid the Squid. Sid knew a guy who knew a girl who smuggled coffee beans. Sid kept the coffee flowing and money poured in like a bottomless cup at Mars' best fish 'n' chips place.#SciFanSat #ScifiSat
— Irene 💙🌻🇺🇦🙏 (@_Irene_Dreams_) February 26, 2022
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) February 26, 2022
The moon accompanied him throughout the night until the warmth of #sunshine stranded him on the #harbor. For hours he tried to fish out from memory the details of the extraterrestrial encounter. But he could not, whatever it was. Or was it a dream?#vss365#2WordPrompt
I #harbor great love for #sunshine. And rain. The susurration of leaves. Petrichor after a soft summer rain.
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) February 26, 2022
Why, you ask, do I choose to leave it all behind? Because I want–no, need– to see the stars. To find a new world, maybe. To live my dreams.#SciFanSat #vss365 #SciFiSat
The ship drifted lightyears short of a harbor, transfixed in the confluence of sunshine from the sea of stars. He looked out at them. Maybe somewhere someone was looking back. It was nice to not be alone.
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) February 26, 2022
That's why I always wave at the stars.#vss365#satsplat#scifansat
We'd been searching for safe #harbor for months. Our ship burned to a crisp by alien #sunshine. Hungry, tired, we drifted, galaxy to galaxy. We dont like milk but the name was sweet. Then we saw it, a bright blue orb, water, oxygen, and the locals were edible.#SciFanSat #vss365
— Latte Thinking (@lattethinking) February 26, 2022
The #harbor opened up to a sea the color of blood. Our hosts were a people different than any we had encountered in the galaxy, amphibious creatures able to live under water and on land. We proposed an alliance against the humans who had invaded our world.#SciFanSat#SatSplat
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) February 26, 2022
We find "safe" harbor on an uncharted planet. Not many of these left, honestly. Not sure how this little guy went unnoticed, though it is obscured by the gas-giant it shares orbit with.
— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) February 26, 2022
Scant sunshine but the air is breathable. No hostiles, yet…#vss365 #bravewrite #SciFanSat
Wormholes
— James Matthew Byers (@TheDarqueBard) February 26, 2022
Every scar is beautiful
beneath the #harbor
of #sunshine,
spacecraft and starships
crossing the cosmos
along saline salt lines,
mines of spice enticing
two interstellar pilgrims
traveling time
becoming one love.#SciFanSat #atreyasverse #vss365 #TheDarqueBard pic.twitter.com/Xe3jHedrqf
The third day of darkness is preceded by a flash—not of early morning #sunshine—but something less luminous. It spreads across the western horizon, a cadmium stain.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 26, 2022
Like previous days, we suffer the harbour defences, scan the grey swell and ebb of the tides.#Scifansat#vss365
no harbor
— Poison Ivy Did Nothing Wrong (@IpsaHerself) February 26, 2022
on an ocean planet–
orbital mechanics#SciFanSat #haiku
In an ever-changing universe, where energies flow and colours fluctuate, the endless fabric of the Inbetween shifts, connects, and reconnects the realms…
— Anathea N. Krrill #FBPE (@AnatheaKrrill) February 26, 2022
In the beautiful and terrifying chaos that is space, I found you. My harbor!#SciFanSat #scifi
Scant vital sunshine
— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) February 26, 2022
Murky dark habor water
Aquatic life zapped#SciFanSat #BraveWrite #vss365 #scifaikusaturday
We'd pray for the safe #harbor of #sunshine; after all, everyone knew that the #brute stalked the hills by #moon light, #fish-ing out the unwary traveller.
— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) February 26, 2022
Today though, was different. We were woken by a howl and the reports of gunfire.#vss365 #vssmagic #2WordPrompt #SciFanSat
The #Harbor of #Rodegle is steeped in #sunshine
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚📝 (@debbieiancu) February 26, 2022
I inhale the scents of fish & brine
Tickling my lungs, they catch my heart like a hook, tugging me towards the boats
Among bright bobbing sails is a dark mast only I can see
A soul ship#vss365 #AchtenWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/JIpbWnrkS4
Azel wife of the Sea god Qsgail, gave me a cloak It keeps me dry She knew my kind don't appreciate the wet In her kingdom it is a punishment to wear it but in the harbour it disguises many things I was wrong to have retrieved it yet it gave me life Gods give but want#SciFanSat
— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) February 26, 2022
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 02.26.2022 “Harbor” 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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