What's the difference between hard scientists and soft scientists? They look the same to me.
— I r e n e 💙🌻🇺🇦🙏 (@_Irene_Dreams_) April 16, 2022
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the soft ones are more #succulent, the alien replied as they inspected the University students.
Ok—Let's take those ones then.#vss365 #SciFanSat
Their new home party was full, but I only saw her; after a long #hard stare at her #succulent lips, I went to her.
— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) April 16, 2022
She only felt cold air, as I kissed her.
Her life force melding into me.
This century’s new life as a sexy lady would be…fun. #vss365 #scifansat #satsplat
Hailstones were falling, big as baseballs. The landing party ran for cover under the overhanging rocks.
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) April 16, 2022
A hard rain, the science officer said.
If only they were diamonds said the captain. #SciFanSat #hard
“89 seconds before the refugees can spacefold,” the AI says. “We are the last escort.”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) April 16, 2022
“Seconds to the enemy fighters intercepting them?”
“75.”
“Intercept time if we interdict and force them to destroy us?”
“95 seconds.”
“Hard to port, Ship. Do it.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
He stares, grinning as we taste the #succulent meat. At first, we're cautious—despite our hunger—but soon we're licking fingers.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) April 16, 2022
"Slow. You'll be sick."
He's right. It's been 12 hard days. "'Tis good, what is it?"
His smile cracks wider, revealing his teeth.#scifansat#vss365
Spirits whispered to the immortal. He roused from deaths' womb, readying instinctively for the hard jump he knew was coming. Images flashing in the wind as he focuses on his destination. Sudden scent of fire & taste of rain, and he was off again.#SciFanSat #scififri #surrsat pic.twitter.com/NkBwKCowL7
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) April 16, 2022
She’d tried so hard to forget. Figures it had to be her. She jammed the syringe into her neck and slid into the mindscape.
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) April 16, 2022
“My #succulent girl!” he said. She held her ground, looking for a clue, anything they could use to find this dimension-hopping monster.#SciFanSat #vss365
The journey had been hard on all of us. Night terror visitations were real, but their echoes grew less as we pitched through time & space.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) April 16, 2022
The dark was inpenetrable when we landed;everyone was afraid. We needn't have been.
A #succulent sunrise heralded hope.#vss365 #SciFanSat
"It's so #hard."
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) April 16, 2022
"What?"
"This creature. I kill it and kill it, but it keeps coming back."
In the mirror, it stares at me with those ghoulish eyes. I hear the demonic laughter before it plunges the knife in my neck.
"Talking to yourself again, are you Stan?"#satsplat#SciFanSat
“Take a bite,” he says.
— Amy Wilson – Vanishing Night out now! (@WritesAmy) April 16, 2022
I look again. I should be repulsed by the writhing, living redness of it, but it’s started to look tasty. #Succulent almost. In the end the choice isn’t #hard. As I chew, the #discord fades away & all at once, I #understand everything.#vss365 #SciFanSat
After the battle, the Origenian chaplain kneels beside the pile of Augusti dead.
— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) April 16, 2022
“Why pray for enemies?” I ask.
His face, hardened by years of intersolar service, glistens with tears.
“My hope is the resurrection of all,” he says. “Friend and foe alike.”#SatSplat #SciFanSat
The fog of Great Lies
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) April 16, 2022
Falls hard like cherry blossoms
Aliens are real!#SciFanSat #hard#ScifaikuSaturday #fog#SciFiSat#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi#PoetryCommunity#WritingCommunity
📷 iStock (modified) / animations by Motionleap (Lightricks) pic.twitter.com/2ipC9Omo8S
"You know that #mythril isn't real, right? So why #force the human #refugees into #hard labor mining for it?"
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) April 16, 2022
"Because their despair is #succulent, and the #resurrection of their fear divine. Have a taste…"
"Delicious…"#vss365 #vssmagic #2WordPrompt #SciFanSat #Satsplat
Indecision haunts her. How is one to know the best way to climb out of a hole? There's only so much life to try to be part of.
— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) April 16, 2022
Luckily it's such a deep hole. If she agrees to sacrifice herself the hardest way, the Fatality Show will pay her exorbitantly.#scifansat #horrorprompt
The purple succulent native to the desert planet of Goth is unique in the universe. Its juice, like many earth cacti, can provide succor to the thirsty traveler, but its hard skin is difficult to crack, and one must be careful. The…
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) April 16, 2022
1/#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat #vssmurder
#Satsplat #SciFanSat
— Micah Palmer, Author (@AuthorMicah) April 15, 2022
Raising the dead shouldn't be this hard.
J'sca hadn't counted on The Church getting involved.
They had to stop him at all costs, they said. "Resurrection is the purview of the Almighty."
J'sca knew other gods who weren't so parsimonious with their gifts.
It's hard to focus on the present when the past and future are accessible.
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) April 16, 2022
I keep traveling back 3 years. Every time I go back and tell my husband how much he means to me, his heart softens in the present. I haven't dared go forward… yet.#SciFanSat #SciFiSat #hard
To be Back with the beginning of Mine
— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) April 16, 2022
A Peculiar dream all one could ask
but Populations come go never stay
I am stuck in cedars' revolving Doors
between the Myriads and hard places#SciFanSat#vss #mpy
"Why is writing fiction so #HARD?"
— David Ratledge (@DavidRatledge) April 16, 2022
"Because it isn't make-believe like most think. Our brains are perceiving other worlds. Real places, people, and events. Perhaps in other quantum realities."
"How do writers do that?"
"There lies the mystery, and the magic."#SciFanSat
In the crucible of the sewers he fought hard to control his spasming, pulsating new body. Now he returned to the sterile hell of a lab where a convict died & something else rose in his place. And he would bring true hell to the demons toiling there.#SciFanSat#Satsplat#scifisat
— Christopher Slagle (@christopheresl2) April 16, 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 04.16.2022 “Hard” 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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