“Engage”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

As each new galaxy engages, or expels, the ombre develops with passion and grace. Time no longer matters. #vss365 #ombre #SciFanSat #SciFiFri pic.twitter.com/hTeEFsoZMG

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) June 11, 2022

I speak in the general’s chamber, where he’s led humanity’s defense entombed in life support since before my birth. “Sir, the enemy invades Terra.”

“Bring my weapons.”

“Sir?”

Machinery falls away as a ten-meter cyborg body rises. “All forces, engage.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) June 11, 2022

It was a simulation, but the deck felt so real.
I was familiar with the console, and the settings. How many times had I practiced this? Still my heart jumped as the instructor gave the orders—"Warp 3. Engage!" #SciFanSat #engage

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) June 11, 2022

I caught a flash of her engagement ring. It was an opulent #ombrè affair, twinkling light bleeding into dark velvet violet hues.

'It's a real star!' she boasted.

I didn't doubt it. You were vulgar, narcissistic, damaging.

I see the tear in the night sky. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) June 11, 2022

The wolves celebrated the cloudless night by howling to the moon. One of the animals strayed from the pack and entered a cave. I approached and #engage-d it.
"You almost tricked me there for a moment."
The shapeshifter's body contorted into it's true form.#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) June 11, 2022

'Violet, Aquamarina, are you ready?'

'Ready, ma'm!'

'Engage!'

The fwo fairies jumped on the lever and released all the colours: rosy red bleeding into ombre purples, accents of gold and silver splashing in waves of blue and indigo. Sundown.#vss365 #ombre #SciFanSat #engage

— Elizabeth Spring OUT NOW Winds of Transformation (@ESWarriorPoet) June 11, 2022

#SciFanSat #Engage thrusters take me into his imagination, let me see how he science fictions thoughts. How does he planet aliens into his writes? I bet the devil dandelions wishes, he must of conjured a pen from the pit of insanity to orbit the page and dance on his words…

— Kimberly (@bionicanadian) June 10, 2022

As we engaged the phenomenon, the ship decelerated through the spectrum of visible light, matching the speed of each wavelength from violet down to red, each color shifting ombre as we reached the next wavelength. We emerged 30 million years in the past. #scifansat #vss365

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) June 11, 2022

#SciFanSat
Gun's #chamber full, locked & loaded, he waited for the enemy to come into view. His #ombré hair blended with the wall's color giving him advantage to #engage at short notice.
The shadow behind him though was not his, a hint he lost the initiative.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) June 11, 2022

"Captain! We're being drawn into the event horizon!"

"Engage ombre drive!"

"Wait, what? All that'll do is change our Starfleet uniforms to haute couture!"

"Exactly. We'll die in style."

"I'd rather live as a slob, though."

"Okay. Reverse thrusters, then."#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) June 11, 2022

We watch them come and go in their steel boxes on wheels, their tubes that spout fire, their loud feet and bright attire.
They leave trails of debris: food scraps, wrappers. Sometimes we find a meal.
We often engage in contemplating them, examine their habits#scifansat#Satsplat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) June 11, 2022

One moment she's engaged, the next not, then she wakes up stifling tears in plant overgrowth with a snarling mouth chomping at her.
Oh yeah. 'We'll help your chances at a life, but if it doesn't work out, you must help..entertain us.'
Survival instincts..go.#satsplat #scifansat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) June 11, 2022

In the pre-dawn light, he approached the #ombré dome of the city, a sad gray that faded to black. When he reached the substation, he engaged the codebreaker. He’d have one chance to render the dome translucent. Then, when the sun rose, so would the people. #scifansat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) June 11, 2022

For heavy is the haunted in their pre-bedtime engagements. We know. The sin sits hazy in your eyes but is ever clear to these yellowing walls. I'd suggest wiping the illusions from your chin and checking on your family. #vssHauntedHouse 23 #SciFanSat #horrorprompt #vssAfterDark https://t.co/FqfOXiwi6Z

— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) June 11, 2022

When observing wildlife, you never engage. Never intervene. Let them fight, bully, prey on each other.
Not so easy when you come to the surface from Cheyenne Mountain, radiation levels are safe again, and three generations ago the wildlife was human. #SciFanSat #satsplat

— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) June 11, 2022

The Worm Drive engaged
We probe years of yesterdays
Beware the Time Moles!#HaikuChallenge #year#SciFaikuSaturday ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᕮ #worm#SciFanSat #engage#VSSTimeTravel #yesterday#Haiku#SciFaiku#Poetry#SciFi#PoetryCommunity#WritingCommunity
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— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) June 11, 2022

It was not an #equal match: cheating droids posing as common drifters #engaged to monopolise at the #ombre table, but the winnings were too valuable; vital components for near defunct machines, the difference between life & death#SciFanSat #scifi#vss365 #vssdaily

— Karen (@SquiggleGallery) June 11, 2022

Seeking higher meaning, I chose to engage in Bob's pell-mell design. Accepted its veracity, and look it me now mom, meddling w/ words & universes, traveling the ombré of existence!

Just got dealt a winning hand of ombre, by the way. Universe saved.#vss365 #bravewrite #SciFanSat

— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) June 11, 2022

Ombré earworms seek
to engage, looping tonal
hues infuse our minds#vss365 #ombre #worm #scifaikusaturday #engage #SciFanSat

— Beth Cusack (@BethCusack9) June 11, 2022

"Guards! #Harpy in the Queen's #chamber-s!"

"That's," said #GrumpySwearyFairy, "Aello. Not an #enemy, no need to #engage the troops. We're going out to play #ombre, and she's getting the first &^!$ing round in, so don't distract her."#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/l7yCXFS5XC

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) June 11, 2022