“Notice”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

They knocked on my door a family of four; seeking shelter for the night.
Their home had been washed away by the deluge. Much the same for the rest of their #community.
But I was speechless, I just could not, not, #notice they were talking beavers. #vss365 #scifansat #Satsplat

— Fizzy-AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) July 2, 2022

Grasping for straws
as I fall
tilting precariously
through notice
toward hell
The inverted caricatures
of these puppets
that shine
& the community
that backs them
& holds them divine
Lisping wild madness
shaking out clean
Time & its evidence
plateau obscene #vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/ZzISZ8nbXo

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) July 2, 2022

He hasn’t noticed he’s dead for six months. Unlike the others, I can see him working in his still vacant office.

“Hey Boss, I brought you coffee,” I say putting a cup on a dusty desk. “Let’s take a break.”

“There’s too much work.”

“No, there isn’t.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) July 2, 2022

#SciFanSat #Notice how shadows align with the unfolding of time? Yes, my brain has been scrambled by strange matter, can't trust what I see… too much fiction in my science that leaves you doubting my inner thoughts, but there's an alien in your pants, let's see what he thinks.

— Kimberly (@bionicanadian) July 1, 2022

There were four of us crossing the ridge, under the moons of Mars. We didn't notice the bootprints in the dust, and then there were five of us.#SciFanSat #notice

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) July 2, 2022

Overnight, across the #community, notices were pasted on walls and fences. The words repeated, but each image was different. We recognised neighbours, friends, then found ourselves, printed in greyscale. We stood a long time reading the text:
WANTED
for murder.#vss365#SciFanSat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) July 2, 2022

We were the first two families sent to test the Atmospheric Space Pod, ASP for short. Everything was going fine until we #notice-d the plants were not producing enough air for all of us. Dad called a special meeting.
"We'll make sure they don't suffer."#SciFanSat #satsplat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) July 2, 2022

“Thinkin’ bout gettin’ out,” Jax says when we’re alone in the airlock.

My throat turns dry. “Out of the family?”

“Can’t kill for them no more,” he says.

I grasp his hand. “Ever notice how folks who leave end up dead?”

“Better that than bein’ the killer.”#SciFanSat #SatSplat

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) July 1, 2022

In their notice to the community, our robot overlords let us know our schedules down to the microsecond. It is their way of showing love.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) July 2, 2022

With eyes like diamonds, you see differently. You look at the world hard, but notice things others don’t. You see multi the world multi-faceted, each person a family, a community of personalities, a collective within each individual. #scifansat #FromOneLine #vss365 #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) July 2, 2022

"I saw the #notice the bar is closing? It's bad for the community."

He smiled. "No, the #community is closing."

The green pool tables bubbled.

"Every family is here," he said. "Now perfect amino acids. The community has finished evolving."#scifansat#satsplat#vss365#vsspic pic.twitter.com/nyPdgzE4ER

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) July 2, 2022

Despite the genuine sense of #community aboard the ship, I still feel out of place.

I joined the StarCorp primarily to make friends, but realised painfully quick that I am, and always will be, a loner.

At the next drop, I think I'll stay: no-one will notice.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) July 2, 2022

Two days w/ Daf & the kids, then I receive a copy of a tender notice for three unverified souls living in captivity. Don't know who's tryin to buy them. All I know is they're being held on a cult ship named Community, ran by a dude named Miss Ogyny.#vss365 #bravewrite #SciFanSat

— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) July 2, 2022

I was seven when I got the #Dastra #notice
My #family expelled me from our home like yesterday's trash
Living in the woods, protected only by the writing on my skin and a #community of outcasts like me
We never spoke, but we are a clan#vss365 #SciFanSat #Achtenwrite #Satsplat pic.twitter.com/FkA7DcfiCF

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad – is done editing Tar&Bone (@debbieiancu) July 2, 2022

How to escape this creepy #community? Every creature, even the tiniest insect, had camera implants in roving eyes. Then they remembered the #notice they'd seen in the curious #Oyster Bookstore. Invisibility Charms. Maybe it was time to try the number#vss365 #vssdaily #SciFanSat

— Karen (@SquiggleGallery) July 2, 2022

No one pays attention to our little #community. We keep our place neat. We’re quiet and careful with our molting. Our only chance is to escape notice, at least until we work out a plan to get home. Until these lame-ass humans have some tech worth stealing.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) July 2, 2022

Who am I?
Where do I belong?
Is there no #community
In silence?
If I held your tears
Would you #notice me,
Or disappear
Without a trace?

So much fear
To separate us

Don't ask where I'm from,
For I created myself
Out of rhymes and music
And fantasies in space#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Elizabeth Spring (@ESWarriorPoet) July 2, 2022

only meant for fire
but nobody will notice me
in the center of this chaotic life
i need a rush of blood
to keep on going who would stop
blazing like a mid burn sun
careering from one mishap to another#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) July 2, 2022

We #notice it too late. #One small smudge of black, a kernel of darkness in the umbilical cord linking the nascent colony to the mother ship. Infection spilling into our minds turned the #community of builders into a crowd of bloodthirsty ghouls. #SciFanSat #horrorprompt #vss365

— Laila Amado 🇺🇦 (@onbonbon7) July 2, 2022

Do not give notice
from a space-pirating life
Can’t hear screams in space!#SciFanSat #notice#SciFaikuSaturday #pirate#SciFiSat#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi
📷 iStock montage pic.twitter.com/rcCl0n525K

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) July 1, 2022