The gorge is nestled between 2 furbished towns, its stream an azure laser poised to take everything you love. They say a vengeful spirit waits at the bottom, half-detached head perched on swamp-bloated shoulders. Few know she's victim of grief's necromancy. #SciFanSat #SatSplat
— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) March 12, 2022
Water over rock carved the gorge on Themistos, layers of time exposed to the effects of wind and sand.
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) March 12, 2022
What did they see with their calcite eyes? Dr. Ferning said, running her fingers over the stones. The ancient fossil appeared to wink at her. #SciFanSat #gorge
“The super-laser left a deep gorge before overheating, but the thing is still coming!”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) March 12, 2022
“I believe you mean, gouge,” Ed corrects.
“It’s a walking mountain of living stone. I said GORGE and I meant it!”
A town-sized foot falls like thunder.
“Now run!”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
We set fire to our houses and watched them burn. The gorge ran dry, its walls watermarked by time. Our children cried themselves to sleep beneath the stars, and dreamt of water worlds beyond. #SciFanSat gorge #SciFiSat
— Irene 💙🌻🇺🇦🙏 (@_Irene_Dreams_) March 12, 2022
I #gorge myself on raisins, dried apricots and other desiccated foods in my echoing #exurb. I welcome the dehydration.
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) March 12, 2022
Even the end of the world has passed, and only I have survived.
Perhaps I too can dry up and crumble away like the rest of humanity.#SciFanSat #vss365
She pushes the echoes of herself to the #exurbs of her mind, beyond invisible fences and imagined forests. The ghouls that #gorge themselves on her most precious memories won’t be able to find them here. Maybe.#vss365 #SciFanSat
— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) March 12, 2022
I tripped over my feet and fell. The ground opened, like a gorge, and I fell through emptiness of the abyss. Reality rushed by on all sides, as I descended through spacetime from the Big Bang until the moment I hit the floor. #FromOneLine #SciFanSat
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) March 12, 2022
Dissonant whine as the rotors fail, smoke streaking our view of the fading city. We crash in the gardens of the #exurb.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) March 12, 2022
"Hunters will be close." Lin's android eyes scan the sky, gorge themselves on possibilities.
I breathe honeysuckle, oil and burnt plastic.#scifansat#vss365
The sixth lunar cycle of every new revolution marks the day. Two rival families send their best warriors to meet by the #gorge. At sundown they transform, growing extra limbs, teeth turning into fangs, and fingernails into claws. At stake, mating privileges.#satsplat#SciFanSat
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) March 12, 2022
Billionaires Row, surrounded by high-tec security, in the #exurb of the former capital, was a grim, derelict place now.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) March 12, 2022
Where the wealthy once gorged themselves on the dreams of the poor.
Of course, the Dream Factory closed down years ago. When hope died.#vss365 #SciFanSat
A deep #gorge divides the #exurbs from us. It never occurred to them aliens might start their side, seep in, #gorge on residents, all the time using social media filters to look normal. Those of us working there should have said something, but aliens pay well. #SciFanSat #vss365
— Latte Thinking (@lattethinking) March 12, 2022
The gorgons gorge on
— Beth Cusack (@BethCusack9) March 12, 2022
Exurb turbulence until
The landscape grows still.#SciFanSat #gorge #vss365 #exurb haiku
The biological mission team worked their way down the gorge to the submarine portal. They'd lost 3 crew members on the last exploration, when a giant geyser erupted from just beneath them. Once they got to the sub and submerged everything would be OK. #SciFanSat #SciFiFri pic.twitter.com/YxK9X2vbJ6
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) March 11, 2022
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) March 12, 2022
He's talk of the town, the exclusive #exurb whose guarded residents seldom mind other people's business.
Who'd have guessed that right in their midst there's a mad recluse whose invention would #gorge electricity then firing laser beams to the sky?#vss365#2WordPrompt
They built their homes in the #gorges of Lumina, where the planet's suns didn't shine as harshly. Instead, silken moonlight sunk into the gorges at nights, soothing them. Slowly, the settlement came to be known as the #exurb of Lunam Vallis, or Moonlit Valley.#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/T9hwoeU9xp
— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) March 12, 2022
His gorge rising, he squatted in the fetid pool and groped for the talisman. Somewhere in the dark, he heard a scratch of flint, smelled its metallic tinge. A line of fire brightened the chamber to reveal his rival, talisman in hand, laughing his ass off. #SciFanSat #Satsplat
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) March 12, 2022
Ethereal green smoke trails my craft: an awesome sight when the ionic wakes aren’t from impacts on my failing shields. The reentry flare gave me space but vultures are circling. I invert, diving for the #gorge. It’ll be my salvation or doom, but it'll be on my terms.#scifansat
— Scurra Ignavus (@ScurrasFolly) March 12, 2022
The Dragons’ Gorge was
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) March 12, 2022
the Land’s most forbidden place
There, dragons are born!#SciFanSat #gorge#Fantaiku no theme#Haiku#Poetry#Fantasy#PoetryCommunity#WritingCommunity
📷 pixabay | Torulus pic.twitter.com/oGfSg9rQge
The princes had been fighting all day. Tumbled buildings knelt before their unbridled power. The skies darkened sorrowfully with the ashes soaring from the fires.
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) March 12, 2022
"#Gorgeous," I whispered, hiding the stolen crown that had started it all behind my back.#Satsplat#scifansat
The gorge divided rival realms who warred over its prize-headwaters renowned as the alchemical wellspring for distilled joy. Innumerable souls perished over the centuries for the source of an elixir they could never afford.#SciFanSat#SciFiSat#SatSplat#Bravewrite#InkMine#YA
— Peter J Gilbertson (@PeteJGilbertson) March 12, 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 03.12.2022 “Gorge” 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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