Been #training for #years, knocking out the most zombies with an iron bar—under 5minutes! & my #record’s unbeaten!
— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) March 26, 2022
But I’m getting worried; they’re liking it! they get back up, fast. I’m starting to get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. #vss365 #irony #scifansat #2wordprompt #satsplat
The asteroid was hollow inside. It looked like an archive, a library, corridors of blinking lights and what appeared to be records of ancient worlds. Who had collected them? Who could read them? Hello, Mira said.
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) March 26, 2022
Hello, a voice answered. #SciFanSat #record
—Our records show that you should have seen the Zombie apocalypse coming. The signs were obvious. You didn’t have the brains to see it. Ironically, that’s the only reason you survived.
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) March 26, 2022
—I don’t get it.
—Exactly. #SciFanSat #satsplat #vss365 #scifisat
It speaks. “The record you have played is enchanted. You will experience 10 years of wizard training, but only 20 minutes will pass outside this trance.”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) March 26, 2022
“87 years!” I scream. “Make it stop!”
“I am a recording.”
“The record skips!”
“Let’s begin…”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
"Let me go on the #record. This is a bad idea."
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) March 26, 2022
The snarling group of grey-faced creatures barely fit in the cage that dangled from the hover craft.
"We're running low on soldiers. These zombies need to feed. It's a win win."
"Sir, we're going down."#satsplat#SciFanSat
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) March 26, 2022
Years of advance training prepared him to surpass the #record during simulation, entitling him to pick his assignment, closer to his aspiration of serving w/ distinction.
But peace dashed his wish, the #irony of it turned him into somewhat useless.#vss365#2WordPrompt
"I have spent #years #training to take on the #scaled menace, Sire. My #record speaks for itself!"
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) March 26, 2022
"I hope so, because the last one we sent to deal with him, we got a derogatory note back saying 'the ready meal tasted a bit #irony'…"#vss365 #vssmagic #2WordPrompt #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/OtkncT63xp
She's a veteran. Earned her stripes
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) March 25, 2022
on Mars. Became an officer at
the academy on Europa and rose
to flag rank. Now in command
of the Aquarius Fleet, forging peace
in far flung reaches of the galaxy
Ostensibly her record will be
made here, for better or worse#SciFanSat #SciFiFri pic.twitter.com/YEg0fTbBpG
Our Earth Studies tutor tells us she was born back there. She says, let's start with poetry.
— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) March 26, 2022
An old recording loads. It crackles, buzzes, hums and pops.
These are insects, she says. This is their love song to summer nights. Anyone know what summer means?#SciFanSat #vssnature
The recording was so faint.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) March 26, 2022
A long #whistle followed by an almost imperceptible voice, language dating back to the 21st century, English we think, translated as: "Help us."
Definitely human. #vss365 #SciFanSat
The record skips forever.
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) March 26, 2022
She was strangled that night, while they danced slow to their favorite tune. Now her ghost stands in that room, sobbing, listening to the last refrain she ever heard.
The record skips forever.#SciFanSat #SciFiSat #record
A waste of space. She leaned her head on the big iron gates.
— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) March 26, 2022
A baby cried in the derelict house. She climbed the gate. In a cradle, she found a record playing. She stopped it & the house spun as she fell toward a closet that opened to a .. blue sky?#vsshauntedhouse #scififansat
"You're telling me if I play this record backwards at '33, I'll forget everything I know?" I say.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) March 26, 2022
The shopkeeper nods, eyes averted.
"Who—"
"Made it?" His breath whistles between grey teeth. "They all ask that. All want to try it. Most of them don't. Do you?"#vss365#scifansat
Farmer
— James Matthew Byers (@TheDarqueBard) March 26, 2022
Seeds of compassion #record memories of lost lives,
knives out empty plates-#irony of situational boundaries.
We find ourselves the aliens
alone on a hostile new world.
Hope flies higher than saucers,
Geoffrey Chaucer being
Canterbury.#atreyasverse #SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/6rd0vUENRm
#Satsplat #SciFanSat
— Micah Palmer, Author (@AuthorMicah) March 25, 2022
For the record, J'sca did NOT believe in zombies. That didn't stop him from running when they attacked the space station. How they got there was anyone's guess. Must have been a long incubation period for the disease, as most stations had an undead detector.
The sad irony of Covid-19 or Glasfal (Earth-64) possibly being man made is the complete redundancy. All the death for what? We're still destroying our planet. Let the record show "trite unnecessarious." Boss Lady Nature Mom has her own plans, folks.#scifansat #bravewrite #vss365
— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) March 26, 2022
Some of the wax cylinders from Lord Bassenthwaite's jungle expedition are still playable. I put one on and listen.
— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) March 26, 2022
No animal made those noises. The whistling is too varied, too complex. Whatever they found wasn't human, but it was smart and trying to talk.#scifansat #vss365
'Music?'
— Latte Thinking (@lattethinking) March 26, 2022
'Yes, played on something called a #record.'
'A bit primitive, was that a #whistle?'
'Its an acquired taste, human Earth music.'
'Oh, planet near Mars? I think I ate there once.'
'More likely ate someone from there, they're a delicacy 2 planets over.'#SciFanSat #vss365
The metaverse was fun, kind of, but they'd #record everything I did: steps, looks, interactions, and map it into AI.
— Kevin Gooden (@kevingooden) March 26, 2022
Benign they said. Targeted ads they said.
Then my avatar got arrested—when I wasn’t logged in.
Cops outside.
Headset on. I'm gonna fight.#SciFanSat
The outpost offered zilch to do. Iggy thought he’d go mad if he didn’t get a project, so he set out to record the galaxy’s longest #whistle. He gobbled so many stimmies he thought he was hallucinating when they came. They greeted him with a whistle. #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #vss365
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) March 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 03.26.2022 “Record” 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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