I ached from having to #exhume my mad masters body at night.
— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) March 5, 2022
But, his gold teeth would provide food and board for months.
Suddenly shocked, I felt my breath #decrease: his metal heart was ticking!
Bastard had done it—he was coming back to life. #vss365#satsplat#scifansat
A healer came to the town, crying, May your suffering decrease!
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) March 5, 2022
I love someone who doesn't love me, a girl said.
Love potions are bitter, said the healer. Take a drop of this a day, and you'll forget. The taste is bittersweet.#SciFanSat #decrease
Enigmatic exhumation
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) March 5, 2022
plucked from
the core of a star
Stricken and driven
by an oracle chameleon
Mean motion resonance
decreased
and rolled onto its side
Rules made to be broken,
by nothing we abide #vss365 #exhume #SciFanSat #decrease pic.twitter.com/racds9LxgF
Gunmetal creatures hid amidst the poplars on hilltops, perfuming nearby properties in mercy & a taunting fear that echoed like cartoon hyenas. There was less evil & more life. We'd never seen as many blue-footed boobies. We'd never seen undead. #SatSplat #SciFanSat #BraveWrite
— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) March 5, 2022
It's been 300 years, had to wait for radiation to #decrease. We're here to #exhume bodies, there aren't any, only rubble, no organic matter. Strange shadows on crumbling walls, a silhouette army standing mute. It wasnt interplanetary, they did it to themselves.#SciFanSat #vss365
— Latte Thinking (@lattethinking) March 5, 2022
My power was decreasing. I had survived for too long on the bodies of wild animals, sewer rats, the odd beloved pet I would always carefully #exhume.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) March 5, 2022
I knew this day would come, but it was still distasteful to me: that first human flesh.
But it revived me.#vss365 #SciFanSat
“My offensive and defensive capacity is significantly decreased in this replacement chassis.”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) March 5, 2022
“A Robo-Pug was all I could scrounge, Warbot. But look, I attached a gun-pod!”
“I may experience a one-meter recoil firing that.”
“Then make each shot count!”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
"I can't," he yelled over comms, "#scrounge any more power from the hyperdrives."
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) March 5, 2022
He'd #recoil at my next order, but I couldn't #decrease the shields. The warship UFP #Vorpal was closing.
"#Exhume the beast."
The bridge went silent.#vss365 #vssmagic #2WordPrompt #scifansat
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) March 5, 2022
A world in rubble the #decrease in dwindling supplies forced them to scrounge around for longer times; radiation be damned.
In dire times anything's on the table. That until someone #exhumed a body & offered it to feast on: he recoiled in disgust.#vss365#2WordPrompt
The whine of the excavator's engine decreased. We peered into the pit.
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) March 5, 2022
"Don't do this."
"The power core of the alien ship alone would change everything."
"You must not exhume power we don't understand!"
"Look around. How could it make things worse?"#satsplat#vss365#scifansat
“Saile says greenleaf faeries suck the blood of newborn babies,” says my brother.
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) March 5, 2022
“Saile’s intelligence continues to #decrease.”
“I saw them #exhume our stillborn sister,” he mutters.
“Hush!”
Outside, a flicker of bright green ducks away from the window.#vss365 #SciFanSat
I got a robot to take care of my mundane responsibilities. I thought that the decrease in obligations would leave me more time to write. Now, I sit here for hours every day, staring at the blank screen, with nothing to distract me from my writers block. #scifansat #Satsplat
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) March 5, 2022
Took work but we broke orbit. Peeled the ship's paint down to gunmetal hue of the hull. Needed a new paint job anyway. Now, to a water planet on verge of war. Exhume a religious artifact w/ hopes of decreasing tensions between three rival factions.#vss365 #scifansat #BraveWrite
— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) March 5, 2022
I called him
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) March 5, 2022
"What can it do?"
There was nothing extraordinary about the cubical device our alien host had sent me.
"You'll see."
The box vibrated.
"Wait, why am I floating?"
"It #decrease-s gravity. You have over extended your time here. Have a nice trip."#satsplat#SciFanSat
-Here's how to kill the monster: you must #exhume a fallen hero and find a #vorpal sword. Next, wait till the temperatures #decrease and the world hangs in the liminal state of half-light.
— Elizabeth Spring (@ESWarriorPoet) March 5, 2022
-A question: why kill it? Doesn't it have the right to exist?#vssmagic #SciFanSat #vss365
The tale works; resentment claws its way out. The grey-hairs #exhume it, hasten its release, grasp the rotten corpse like a long lost friend.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) March 5, 2022
"We'll fight," says one. Others nod and mutter.
"You did well," says the voice in my head.
The light decreases further.#SciFanSat#vss365
At the heart of the clockwork is one quartz gear, whose teeth grow and decrease in perfect rhythm to mesh with the rest.
— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) March 5, 2022
It's rotating too, but in another dimension.
When it stops, an elevator box appears out of nowhere.
The doors are opening.#satsplat #SlapDashSat #SciFanSat
Against the serene background of a velvet cosmos, the flare of a supernova drowns out the light of the Hundred-Suns. A galaxy so far away we only just detected its light.
— Anathea N. Krrill #FBPE (@AnatheaKrrill) March 5, 2022
The ripple of its gravitational waves, however, have been decreasing our life-support forever.#SciFanSat
'Are you ready to #exhume her?'
— Lexikon (@Lexikonical) March 5, 2022
'It's a ship.'
'And? Are we not about to dig her out of the graveyard?'
I looked at the sea of wrecked vessels floating ahead of us but tapped on the display. 'So why is radio chatter on the increase not decrease?' #SciFanSat #vss365
A nova surprise
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) March 5, 2022
“Ancients” tossed it a black hole
Premature decrease#SciFaikuSaturday #nova#SciFanSat #decrease#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi#PoetryCommunity#WritingCommunity
📷 pixabay | Dommk pic.twitter.com/K3FUYmvjaR
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 03.05.2022 “Decrease” 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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