#SciFanSat #Quarter of his people fell into an event of dreaming, like falling lullabies through fracturing words.. He catches dreamers thoughts before the Gloaming, midnights their soul's for harvesting…Hoping in time that science will idea a cure…
— Kimberly (@bionicanadian) August 12, 2022
Flashing graphics and beeping noise fill the empty arcade museum.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) August 13, 2022
“As a kid, I was too afraid to risk saving you for real.”
The 8-bit princess on the screen has aged with me. “I’m still here. Help me.”
I insert the magic quarter. “Player one is ready.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
Spell was booked for #quarter to midnight, Princess would fall at my feet & I’d sweep her away!
— Fizzy-AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) August 13, 2022
But I was an hour late! No Princess, Witch and my bags of gold coins!
The bitch witch had meddled with my clock! Leaving me hella—forever #gaunt.#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat
She was a warrior. Famed for her strength and skill she was meant to die on the battlefield – not confined to her bed. But though she’s frail and #guant now when I watch her do battle one last time I can see she still gives no #quarter. #vss365 #SciFanSat
— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) August 13, 2022
“Mewling idiot.” He snarled, his gaunt face contorting. In the dim light, the bruised shadows around his eyes deepened until they were the sockets of a skull. His mad eyes gleamed, malicious and hungry. “I’ll give no quarter or second chances.”#vss365 #SciFanSat
— R.S.Bass is writing (@RebBassWrites) August 13, 2022
It was a cool August night, and cloudy sky. We were arguing about which moon was the most beautiful.
— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) August 13, 2022
All of them! she said—the evening crescent, the quarter moon, the full moon, the waning moon in the morning sky.
This one, I said, as the clouds parted.#SciFanSat #quarter
Crescent, quarter, gibbous, full. Repeat. Tired of the cycle of waxing fat and waning gaunt, the moon quit all the fad diets and exercise programs. She remained full the entire month.
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) August 13, 2022
The people of earth thought her beautiful, just as they always did.#SciFanSat #satsplat #vss365
I found them amongst the #evergreen-s of the forest, #gaunt, barely alive, #quarter-ed in stinking hovels barely fit for habitation.
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) August 13, 2022
"We daren't #risk it," their leader said, looking at the #arcade of branches. "It's still out there."#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/mvdcEVTstt
We came across a wagon stuck in gray mud. I insisted we push, not for the #gaunt driver, but for his exhausted burros. When the wagon rolled free, the little burros transformed into great, golden beasts. “You’ve earned your quarter,” they said. “Ride with us.”#SciFanSat #vss365
— Lɪʙʙʏ Dᴏʏʟᴇ (@LibbyDoyle9) August 13, 2022
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) August 13, 2022
At a hidden nook in the arcade he found the game machine. A #gaunt figure with a face more pitied than feared stood as guard. He offered the silver #quarter given to him as reward for his good deed.
"You risk not coming back." The warning ominous.#vss365#2WordPrompt
We invited the aliens to dinner.
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) August 13, 2022
"What is a joke?"
"It's when you tell a story that makes people laugh."
"Oh, I understand. Like when our chef asks us to guess how many ways can a human be #quarter-ed?" and we answer, "None cause we like to eat ours whole."#satsplat#SciFanSat
Lithium dreamers stood before a midnight arcade, risking a reaping of paranoia on their hides. As gravity had it, 2 mothers' rage revived. Mouths became label makers, eyes salt shakers, & cheeks pork rinds. Those meddling kids put quarters in the wrong slot. #SatSplat #SciFanSat
— Lexi Lefevre (@LexiIsAWriter) August 13, 2022
unwashed clouds reluctant witnesses
— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) August 13, 2022
hurry across an ancient roman sky
scene of havoc below
she gives no quarter
nil bar disdain
empathic with dark descending
losers in bloodlust
deserving as they were
her eyes see
a million miles away#SciFanSat#mpy #vss
They say its shade once stretched the world around. But a lie here, a gaslight there, pulled the leaves off one by one. Now the tree of knowledge sits lonely and #gaunt in the barren valley. We scald in the rising heat as the sun gives no #quarter.#vsspic #vss365 #scifansat pic.twitter.com/fU02oEON6e
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) August 13, 2022
The vending machine takes two bits, the old time traveler said to his apprentice.
— Irene (@_Irene_Dreams_) August 13, 2022
The kid turned out his pockets. Sorry—I only have two screws, a piece of gum, and a quarter.#SciFanSat #SciFiSat
Midnight’s gaunt quarter
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) August 13, 2022
To abscond with souls, Death’s bliss
All the stars can’t sway#ScifaikuSaturday #abscond#SciFanSat #quarter#VSS365 #gaunt#ScifiSat#Scifaiku#Haiku#Poetry#PoetryCommunity#WritingCommunity
📷 Pixabay | TheDigitalArtist + NASA/HST (modified montage) pic.twitter.com/IEif2pTgSE
Dark buildings line crooked roads. It’s a quarter of an hour until midnight, although midnight has just passed.
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) August 13, 2022
The woman stands at the crossroads. Gaunt rabbits cower at her feet, each one in its own version of hell.
You observe from the shadows.#SciFanSat #SciFiSat #vss365
How do you influence the doorman at a Starbase Cantina? W/credits, of course. My friend went over to make the offer.
— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) August 13, 2022
-Well?
-He said go away
-Why? Did you give him the credits?
-He wouldn't take em. Said he didn't have change for a quarter credit.#satsplat #BraveWrite #SciFanSat
Jesus, I look gaunt. I've lost a quarter of my weight in two weeks playing video games.
— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) August 13, 2022
I know the Matrix movies predicted machines powered by calories from the human body, but I don't think they imagined anyone marketing it as a diet plan.#scifansat #vss365 #satsplat
Well, Sushi's out but we can't find him. My influence over his travels grows increasingly tenuous. Meanwhile, I found a chapter on Curtis. Old fella is stranded on an uncharted, gaunt and mumbling about sentient orbs? No quarter from Bob this week..#vss365 #scifansat #bravewrite
— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) August 13, 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 08.13.2022 “Quarter” 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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