It was nothing #elaborate, nothing I could’ve #predict-ed—a fluke!
— Fizzy-AllSortsOfAllSorts (@Fizzytwizler) May 21, 2022
Pointing my camera up at the red dawn, I got a shot of a big winged beast; as it swooped me up…camera falling down.
He spoke, “They’ll find it & believe. & then dear Queen—war!”#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat
In that city of elaborate doorways, funerals are simple and grief is a private thing. People plant trees to remember the dead. Around their wrists, they tie red strings that unravel over time. #SciFanSat #elaborate
— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) May 21, 2022
It laid bent in Rose's Victorian garden, cinders radiating an elaborate clamor from its hide. We sat still as the dark, watching it shape into something feline yet alien. Then, snow in midsummer—but it wasn't snow, & we'd killed the messenger. #SatSplat #SciFanSat #vssmurder
— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) May 21, 2022
"An ultra-black, alien leviathan, you say? What an elaborate delusion," the ship's doctor muttered as he examined the traumatized first mate. But when he used an opthalmoscope to look into the man's eyes, Dr Poe began having dark thoughts, too. #scifansat #scifisat
— I r e n e 💙🌻🇺🇦🙏 (@_Irene_Dreams_) May 21, 2022
The child’s room is a static maelstrom of interconnected, elaborate, non-euclidean Lego constructs.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) May 21, 2022
“Our son sees the world differently, Professor. But can you explain this?”
The mathematician pales seeing it whole.
“He calls it, Azathoth’s Cradle.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
We traveled the stars to escape tyranny and should not inflict it on others. I cannot #predict how the beasts will react. Nor can I elaborate on their place in our body politic, but let us not condemn them because they roasted a few of us on spits.#scifansat #vss365 #satsplat
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) May 21, 2022
"Before we let you and your beast on this craft, let me #elaborate on the ground rules."
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) May 21, 2022
He waved me off.
"I know, I know. No fire breathing near the warp core and the Renalians are not to be considered an afternoon snack."
I sighed and prayed for the best.#satsplat#SciFanSat
We spend our childhood around the vast factory, the surrounding grassland dotted with workers' homes. At night their lights scatter like stars while we smoke stolen cigs and tell elaborate lies. Sometimes we #predict brighter futures, but mostly we remain real.#vss365#scifansat
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) May 21, 2022
The mutation of the virus is difficult to #predict. I'm sorry but I don't have time to elaborate further. It's just that I've been selected to join the Doomsday mission and the shuttle is waiting.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) May 21, 2022
But in answer to your last question. Yes, everything will die.#vss365 #SciFanSat
When you reach the upper echelon of Time Travel Co., Inc. hierarchy, you will never have to try and predict what life holds for you, because you have an army of staff scouting your future. It’s an elaborate way to ensure stable share prices and market cap.#vss365 #SciFanSat
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) May 21, 2022
No more elaborate plots: the entity’s capabilities dwarf ours. If we are to defeat it, we must think like the simpletons we are. Theseus solved the minotaur’s labyrinth with a ball of string. The rebels took out the Death Star with a snub fighter. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) May 21, 2022
An elaborate lattice of scars marred the snout of the big beast. It bared its teeth.
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) May 21, 2022
"You have about three seconds," Mason predicted. "Let's hope music soothes the savage beast."
I fumbled with the record needle.
Please hear this, Mom.#vss365 #Satsplat #scifansat#vsspic pic.twitter.com/jIRs7hf64Y
The philosophy of it is more elaborate than it needs to be. I'd come across several galaxies to realize life, spirit, & God are all the same. Matter is the receptacle. Even the smallest grains of stardust carry the torch. Age old predictions had it all wrong#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/T5dvtSxNwl
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) May 21, 2022
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) May 21, 2022
Eeri dreaded Luna's temper as she displayed in the past. How could he forget the #elaborate maelstrom she unleashed at a world she loved that he invaded?
He's testing her limits but even he could not #predict what she'd try the second time around.#vss365#2WordPrompt
Moon will fall
— Rajiv Kumar (@rajiv1india) May 21, 2022
All they #predict
As comets collide#Elaborate that fun
How to escape
The lost velocity
Moon will fall
With a push
And own pull
Intersecting orbits
Touch their skin
Moon dust around
Clouds with moist
It will rain for decades#scifansat #vss365 #satsplat.
there's a boat high up
— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) May 21, 2022
in the wandering sky
from places not yet
seen suspicious
minds fill the air
in broken voice
the cat stares
questioning eyes
but she doesn't care
to elaborate#SciFanSat#vss #poem
#elaborate #script
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) May 20, 2022
glowing within ancient stone
searing light skyward
a signal, no doubt
the world pharaoh’s tomb defiled
our egress vanished#elaborate skill
to entrap us where we stood#script we couldn’t read#SciFanSat#SciFaikuSaturday#SciFaiku#SciFi#Haiku
📷 Pixabay pic.twitter.com/YzaroueYSc
"I #predict," said my AI, "that the raiders will disable our shield in 3.7 seconds, and…"
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) May 21, 2022
I didn't need her to #elaborate. The only way to the #world's surface was via the #maelstrom in the #cloudbank ahead.
"Oh shiii…" she yelled.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/RNRJtkPBLm
The Cassandra 2000 had made such #elaborate #predictions all about warming over 2 degrees & levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. No one listened. When they finally switched it back on after years of disuse, it spat out three words on ticker tape: It’s Too Late. #vss365 #SciFanSat
— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) May 21, 2022
Poisoned rose hued words
— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) May 21, 2022
Elaborately written
On a lethal script#vssmurder #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 05.21.2022 “Elaborate” 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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