The #past #civilization, I’d got were #pack-ed shoulder to shoulder, in the pod.
— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) March 19, 2022
Getting to #uplift it into the ufo—impossible; intel’d failed to mention their size.
But damn—these Amazonians were beautiful; shame I’d to have to kill a few. #vss365#scifansat#2wordprompt pic.twitter.com/c6KLVHFTZF
“What happened to the world?” she asks.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) March 19, 2022
“We thought of time as immutable and set. It’s not,” he said. “There’s subduction and uplift. Usually gradual, but sometimes—”
“There’s a timequake.”
He nods. “Civilization is now the past of a dinosaur present.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
His sleep-pod was empty. He was a #joker; we didn't take it seriously. Laughing about the scream, we made light of our scramble out of slumber. Hair awry, waiting for his reveal, we felt uplifted.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) March 19, 2022
We should have fled, quarantined the dorms, said our goodbyes.#scifansat#vss365
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) March 19, 2022
"Why not travel back in time to #uplift the lives of people of a lost civilization?"
Easier said than done even with the technical means on hand. He couldn't just #pack his bags & tinker with the past.
"What if it changes what we have this minute?"#vss365#2WordPrompt
You think #past #civilization-s #uplift-ed themselves by learning to hunt in #pack-s?
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) March 19, 2022
Oh, to be as naive as you.
What they did was #summon me. So stop gawping, put the lantern down and tell me what you want. I need my beauty sleep.#vss365 #vssmagic #2WordPrompt #scifansat
Jokers uplifted
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) March 19, 2022
Traveled to orbit blue and
yellow
Reflection of peace #SciFanSat #SciFiFri #vss365 #haiku
Russian Cosmonauts arrive at ISS
Thanks to: @thetimes pic.twitter.com/AnxRbriCjn
After the Uplift, your kind will have peace throughout the world. No more sorrow. No more war, the alien said.
— Irene 💙🌻🇺🇦🙏 (@_Irene_Dreams_) March 19, 2022
And all I have to do is—
The alien nodded both its heads.
I handed over my Keanu Reeves memorabilia and bobblehead Yoda.#SciFanSat #scifisat
Oh the lightness, the uplift of the creatures of that world with low gravity! Like murmurations of starlings, or lines of geese across the sky. They had no wings, but they floated though the air. #SciFanSat #uplift
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) March 19, 2022
He towered from the podium like the full moon, words changing the crowd into a rabid #pack of revolutionaries, every morsel fuelling the fiery #uplift surging in the public square.
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) March 19, 2022
Now they were his people. Now they would scorch the planet together.#Satsplat#SciFanSat#vss365
After the transmitter got taken out by space junk, LeSean turned #joker, doing silly dances and making bad puns to uplift our mood, help us forget we were stranded. He wasn’t funny, but it worked, his badass self trying to cheer us up. Made us feel special. #SciFanSat #vss365
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) March 19, 2022
The disintegrator had been banned long ago, but then again so had the bourbon.
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) March 19, 2022
Sometimes you needed a hero to uplift the galaxy and make history, but sometimes you needed an asshole who would make sure human history would continue.
He took a swig, and fired.#scifansat #satsplat
#Uplift, downturn, banging on about the economy. Earth is a galactic backwater obsessed with its own systems, unaware of the #joker in its pack, the house of cards its perched on. We need their sun's energy. We should ask, but we're just gonna blow it tomorrow. #SciFanSat #vss365
— Latte Thinking (@lattethinking) March 19, 2022
Savage Crucible
— James Matthew Byers (@TheDarqueBard) March 19, 2022
Ancient lands #uplift
the patrons of soil,
cartographers stalling
as axes are calling
wolves returning from their hunt,
a #pack leaderless and lonely,
only embers on the wind.
Standing on the threshold,
I fade.#SciFanSat #TheDarqueBard #vss365 #SavageCrucible pic.twitter.com/zNwsEOnyMl
She begrudgingly took a trip on the underwater tram. An hour in, a merperson tapped on the glass. She looked it in the eye then heard in her head: 'Mind sharing an uplifting memory?'
— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) March 19, 2022
'I don't have any.'
'If you let me, I'll search and we can revel in it.'#SciFanSat #BraveWrite
Inside water shells
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) March 19, 2022
they sense the fields of warped space
Cetacean Uplift
Cetacean pilots
have a warped comedic sense
“Black Hole Peekaboo”
Octopuses wait
Cetaceans will uplift them
“Eight Arms” to the stars!#HaikuChallenge #shell#ScifaikuSaturday #warp#SciFanSat #uplift pic.twitter.com/QzuasUWBBu
#Satsplat #SciFanSat
— Micah Palmer, Author (@AuthorMicah) March 18, 2022
J'sca watched the city burn and stubbed out the cigarette he'd used to start the fire. He had tried. He had tried to turn the city around, to save the planet, even. But as much as he tried to uplift the citizens, they insisted on stupidity. Well, he was done.
The line at the #uplift to #Nlarl is longer than usual this morning. Workers in company blue press & shove toward the doors
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚📝 (@debbieiancu) March 19, 2022
"Sardine express is here, all aboard" a #joker cries.
I finger the detonator
When I reach the top, I'll end this#vss365 #AchtenWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/0JCsxPVH9h
Stop calling me "The Furry Joker." I'm a MAMMAL UPLIFTER. Okay? I can get your dog to use the toilet and understand complex commands. Keep pissing me off, and the rats in your basement will become sapient and plot your overthrow.#satsplat #scifansat #vss365 #SlapDashSat pic.twitter.com/oqd7wjcPxT
— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) March 19, 2022
Tree-cavern hidden
— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) March 19, 2022
She wove the weft &warp here,
the youngest of 3
Her nimble fingers work nearly as fast as thought Time was lover to 3 yet 1 They came as a pack to Uplift & confuse the lonely lives of humans#Scifaikusaturday#SciFanSat#vss365
Packed and excited
— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) March 19, 2022
Spirits uplifted to joy
Warp speed through space#vss365 #SciFanSat #ScifaikuSaturday
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 03.19.2022 “Uplift” 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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