One of Saturn’s many ring King’s eldest had been caught #grift-ing all the way in Neptune.
— Fizzy-AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) August 27, 2022
To avoid a cosmic conflict, the #rebel prince was banished into the marsh lands of Earth, area middle England.
Thus, the legend of swamp man was born. #vss365 #scifansat #satsplat
Everything had gone sideways. It should have been hysterically funny that a simple grift had ended up with his face on wanted posters as the leader of the rebellion. Him. He wasn’t a leader.
— R.S.Bass is writing (@RebBassWrites) August 27, 2022
Except with that sobering bounty, he didn’t have much choice about it.#scifansat #vss365
#SciFanSat
— Kimberly (@bionicanadian) August 26, 2022
With a #rebel yell she TP'd his cadaver of lies, flushing them to curve the edges of space where his empty promises were Frankenstein(ed) by some unhinged force damaged by the repeating of a darkened history… Love your offspring let them color beyond the edges…
Anastasia takes her father’s hand. “Papa, we must run!”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) August 27, 2022
“Is it a White Army rescue?” the Tsar asks.
A figure grabs a screaming Bolshevik rebel, its hunched back’s skin stretched diaphanous over a coiled worm.
“No,” she says. “The things from Tunguska!”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
She left the begonia behind, blooming on the windowsill. In her bag, a black sweater and a notebook. The cafe where the rebels gathered was closed now. The subway offered shelter, and the tunnels led to freedom in the countryside. #SciFanSat #rebel
— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) August 27, 2022
Quibbling over the immensity of this invention he crafted was not in the rebels' makeup. He strode confidently forward as his fingers danced on the screen. An eerie blue phasing light swallowed him as guards drew weapons and fired, Freedom finally!#SciFanSat #SciFiFri #vss365 pic.twitter.com/UIfjcA4HTX
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) August 26, 2022
Jaime and his rag tag group of #rebel friends were no longer welcome on Earth. This planet provided the hope of a fresh start, but now two men had gone missing.
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) August 27, 2022
"We found the bodies."
"Bodies?"
"It's bad, sir."
"OK, listen up. No one is to enter the woods."#satsplat#SciFanSat
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) August 27, 2022
Her ear-shattering scream warned the rescue squad they're late, the #rebel hierarchy already passed the death sentence on her. For sure she failed to #grift her way out, a fatal miscalculation.
"Blow it all up," he roared.
Nothing mattered anymore.#vss365#2WordPrompt
They found traces of star light in your pockets. Evidence of your #grift gone wrong.
— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) August 27, 2022
Stealing from the Universe always ends badly.
You wanted to be a hero, but you're just a rebel without a clue. #vss365 #SciFanSat
It's a simple third-moon #grift, a straight-up ID theft—least that's what the sys-cops are saying.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) August 27, 2022
Yet there's something. Hal eyes the footage, his identical double entering the port. Something rebels—a memory trace—yet he was on Earth, thousands of miles away.#scifansat#vss365
"So that's your #grift, is it? #Scream for #rescue, wait for someone to #rebel, then shop them?"
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) August 27, 2022
She started laughing. "You fool."
Maybe not. I let go of the rope, and watched her eyes widen as she fell. Jaws opened and stretched up to meet her.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #scifansat
We’ll outflank the rebel force here.
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) August 27, 2022
…
What, soldier?
How can we outflank the rebels, sir? They’re fairies. They’ll just fly away.
Don’t try to grift me, soldier. Fairies don’t exist.
Tell that to Cho. She’s got fairy-pox!
Fairy-pox doesn’t exist either.#SciFanSat #vss365
hunger was non abating
— Rose (@Rose_in_Frost) August 27, 2022
splinter rebels drove us out
forced to breathe toxic air
the grift & grind of surface life foraging for any morsel
nuclear fallout corroding our skin
not long before organ failure
but what choice did we have?#vss365#SciFanSat#BraveWrite
Art:Samuel Araya pic.twitter.com/IEcFPh0s65
Squelch
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad – is done editing Tar&Bone (@debbieiancu) August 27, 2022
Hairs rise on the back of my neck
Before my eyes a creature rears, #grift together, as if moss, rot & swamp water had a baby
Trembling, I #rebel against the truth
This hungry #vsaler used to be my baby sister#AchtenWrite #SciFanSat #vss365 #satsplat #midjourneyart pic.twitter.com/nLZyymEV6o
Jax mostly works the Ghal quarter. Lower-class folks, all suckered into fighting for the rebellion by the powerful. Maybe he should feel guilty for taking advantage, but the Ghals have let themselves get taken in by a bigger grift than anything Jax sells.#scifansat #vss365
— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) August 27, 2022
After hacking thru the underbrush, they reached the GPS markings of the old mine.They were deep in the trees of the shadowy mountains. Weary & exhausted they rested. They were ambushed by a spry 157yr old man in Confederate rebel garb. He ate them for dinner. #Satsplat #SciFanSat
— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) August 27, 2022
Artemis I launch
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) August 27, 2022
The countdown to Mars ticks on
Will rebel Musk win?#NASA#Artemis1#ArtemisI#SciFanSat #rebel#ScifaikuSaturday #countdown#ScifiSat#Scifaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi#PoetryCommunity#WritingCommunity
📷 and mission patch: NASA pic.twitter.com/MeDf7vS7oF
the moon who grifts light
— shivendra 💀 (@shivohamasmi) August 27, 2022
for a journey in the night
rebel for a cause #vss365 #scifansat #haikuchallenge
Dream last night: Find out our existence is a micro-verse, the internal biological universe of a larger physical specimen. Our "host" is a cosmic grifter w/ eyes on political ascension. I lead a rebel hunger strike. We refuse to digest food and die.#bravewrite #scifansat #vss365
— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) August 27, 2022
The tall, thin stormtrooper removed his helmet and sang, “rebel, rebel you’ve torn your dress.”
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) August 27, 2022
Princess Leia looked down at her skirts. “So I have. Han, who is this strange creature.”
“🎶he’s a star man…”#vss365 #SciFanSat #starwars #bowie
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 08.27.2022 “Rebel” 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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