“Transfer”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Getting caught wasn’t supposed to happen; I was the best!

Hack the system, #take file, #transfer to chip in wrist.

I’m panicking like hell!
These bastards don’t straight up kill you.
They erase all your memory, then stick you in a padded cell. #vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat

— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) April 9, 2022

“Doctor, is there a problem?” I ask.

“You weren’t supposed to wake up,” he says.

“I’m not in my new body?”

“It’s called a mind transfer, but your clone gets a copy of your memories. You, don’t go anywhere.”

“What?”

“Nurse, terminate life functions.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) April 9, 2022

breakfast on the moon
canned eggs fly sunny side up
hold the beans

this dusty view
at least our thoughts transfer
back to Big Blue

let's take the slow boat
sail these high dry lunar seas
to tranquility#ScifaikuSaturday #vss365tbt#SciFanSat #vss365

— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) April 9, 2022

The procedure shouldn't #take long. It's simply a transfer of thoughts. We've had no complications so far, although there was one time…oh, it doesn't matter. Deep thoughts are sometimes tricky to extract. But you'll be fine, being as shallow as you are. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) April 9, 2022

It's lonelier than I expected on this barren rock floating in space. I could have served my sentence in a community prison, but I asked for this #transfer. This isolation serves me well. No sun. No moon. Dark like my soul. Perfect place to plan my revenge.#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) April 9, 2022

Transporter malfunction. The transfer didn’t take. Now I’m stuck, incorporeal and alone, bouncing back and forth in an infinite loop, between the space station and the planet. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat #scifisat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) April 9, 2022

Take me home. Please, the old man said to the shimmering silver rain portal.

He stepped through and felt the familiar sensation of being spaghettified as the portal transported him.

He arrived at a transfer station for scrap tech.

Really? He said.#vss365 #scifansat

— Irene 💙🌻🇺🇦🙏 (@_Irene_Dreams_) April 9, 2022

Transfer Day+1: This is great. Not even sure I want to go back to a body when the time comes.

TD+40: I hated people, anyway.

TD+57: I miss the touch of her skin, though. What was her na—

TD+156: Not a dream you stupid fu—

TD+755: 0100111001#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) April 8, 2022

The moon's deserts are dry, no more than dust and grit grounded by feral winds. I #take another drag, the stale water a balm, calculate the silver. This transfer's been lucrative, if grim.
"It's time." His word cuts through static. The others scramble. I shadow#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) April 9, 2022

"#Nurse!" he cried. "Please… #take me #anywhere, let me #transfer off this station, anything – just help me!"

If only I could. He was in isolation for a reason, really we should've airlocked him. No one else wanted to be infected with… that.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) April 9, 2022

I sell information. No one knows me, and I don't know them. A simple transfer to a secure account on Rigel.
I hide among the ones and zeros. #SciFanSat #transfer

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) April 9, 2022

I've been exposed to an alien biosphere, so I need to be in isolation while they take me home. My transfer pod is separated from the ship by 50 meters of cable.
I shut off the light. In perfect darkness and silence, I can see and hear my new friends.#satsplat #scifansat #vss365

— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) April 9, 2022

#SciFanSat
In the meantime he's out of danger. His #transfer from the battlefield to anywhere safe was required to nurse him back to health. It'd #take weeks to recuperate, months to full rehabilitation & back to the war he was rescued from against his will.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) April 9, 2022

Intrinsic Radiance speaks from
her throne. The apprentices bow
their heads in adulation. The realm
has been in decline for some time
now since transfer began. Most
of these novices will go take posts
at the front to pursue the war
on evil. Hope battles doubt.#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/XpEhXKaLgY

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) April 9, 2022

Must she flee to sparser grounds alone, facing pitchforks?
She can't suddenly be 'rural.' In a city of millions connection looms even less possibly.
Those living on large estates somehow transfer themselves into the bodies of those who don't, just to pretend.#scifansat #satsplat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) April 9, 2022

My steps are the only sound, so I stop. The fog glazes over the lamp, the trees, the stars like a still lake over another world. I am at once in and through the lens.

I hear a distorted scream as I'm seen. I didn't mean to #transfer through.#Satsplat#liminalspace#scifansat pic.twitter.com/fa5aavFYGh

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) April 9, 2022

Strapped to the bed he faked unconsciousness as the #nurse administered another strange #transfer
What were they doing to him?
He needed to escape
He didn’t care where, he’d #take anything#anywhere was better then this torturous place#2WordPrompt#SciFanSat #vss365

— Amanda 🖤☠️🖤 (@AmandaJK_) April 9, 2022

“You request a #transfer,”Bass snorted, “because you feel alone?”
“It’s dark 24/7, all I hear is static and howling wind. Then there’s Malcolm,” Portifoy’s eyes watered.
“Malcolm?” Bass lifted bushy brows.
“He scratches at the door and soon he’ll get in.”#SciFanSat #satsplat

— Valery Dion (@ValeryKaye) April 9, 2022

I could feel his pulse through his palm, transferring to me, mingling with my blood to the very pit of my stomach. And the way Deacon looked at me – he truly saw me. It was elating to really be seen. I felt free. #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SlapDashSat

— Jen Anderson (@jenanderson731) April 9, 2022

some thought
you have to have
a 100 x
until it settles in
the power of your mind
then new waves
live on no matter
ages come
and gone
transfer to what is
this changed life
with fresh dreams#SciFanSat#micropoetry #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) April 9, 2022