Sometimes the mind just played tricks.
— R.S.Bass is writing (@RebBassWrites) September 10, 2022
Like now. The loathsome sensation of a cold, damp hand on his ankle that made his breath hitch in his chest.
If he looked down he’d see it reaching from under the bed. A ghost of the mind. A trick.
He didn’t look.#scifansat #vss365
“You wrote me to be your true love,” the young woman says.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) September 10, 2022
“I was a teen writing you in draft. I’ve found my love now.”
“So, I will just never be? Or be loved?”
I touch her tears. “Hush, I’ll finish your story.”
“With a prince?”
“No, someone better.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
Why do ghosts just appear one at a time, where someone died alone? Never en masse at disasters, bombings, massacres?
— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) September 10, 2022
I wondered this until I died in the plane crash. Now I know.
We don't need to seek out mortal attention if we have each other.#scifansat #satsplat #vss365
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) September 10, 2022
The part of the hero was already taken so he #just stole to the role of the villain and deprived someone the life of a loved one. It sounded so simple.
But there's no #ghost of a chance he'd remain unscathe as he courted vengeance of the aggrieved.#vss365#2WordPrompt
After a 2 bottles of wine party of one, I was hungry & peered into my barren fridge. Shit, just one plastic container. I opened it & a smelly funk rose out of the mossy green miasma. Then a elf hopped out of it & spit in my face. What da hell? #SciFanSat #satsplat #BadWordSat
— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) September 10, 2022
You think you speak the speech of the just, wizard, but you merely regurgitate words written by men long-dead. True justice is in the moment. I shall trust the whispers of my heart over the prophecy of ghosts. Right or wrong, the decision is mine. #Satsplat #SciFanSat #vss365
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) September 10, 2022
I step inside. Incense. Daenan chant. Postulants meditating in alcoves. An abbot levitating just above the altar.
— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) September 10, 2022
A novice approaches me.
“What do you seek?” he says.
“To be great,” I say.
He shakes his head. “Strive to be small. Then you will be great.”#SciFanSat #SatSplat
I shivered from the chill of those dark trees. The Forest of Seers showed my mother the crown she went on to wear, my father the axe he would bear in war.
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) September 10, 2022
I saw their #ghosts. Blood. Fire.
"I #just saw a mill," I lied. "I'm to be a baker."#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat #vsspic pic.twitter.com/1gG3CMFFfj
#Satsplat #SciFanSat
— Micah Palmer, Author (@AuthorMicah) September 9, 2022
The king was wise and just, everyone respected and loved him. It was his wife they feared. She may have been just, according to some, herself included, but she was considered cruel by most. No one knew her secret heart, how cruelty was her last resort.
"Are they still chasing us?"
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) September 10, 2022
"#Just keep running."
I expected everything on this job except this. Rabid alien pixies were giving us a run for our money. Our shuttle wasn't too far, but I tripped over a stupid rock. It was over. Sparkling dust engulfed me.#satsplat#SciFanSat
“I’m gonna ghost that Danielle Ste. Just.”
— Danielle Ste. Just **Popping In & Out!** (@DanielleSteJust) September 10, 2022
“But why?”
“Because she thinks her little bizarre characters she writes about are real. Look at her now, talking to no one.”
“You don’t see him?”
…
“Just joshing you, heh.” (Sotto voce: So I’m crazy too?)#vss365 #SciFanSat
The planet was in the Goldilocks Zone—not too hot, not too cold. The breeze was refreshing. There were trees, and flowers. It was just right. A perfect place for shore leave, the captain said.
— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) September 10, 2022
Are those bear tracks, said the first officer.#SciFanSat #just
Vine tentacled kudzu elephants
— Edward V. Fuller (@fuller_edward) September 10, 2022
stampeded towards us
Nature had found her solution to crush
the human virus
We created the cephalopod tree vine chimeras
It was comically #just
and all types of oddly shaped kudzu monsters
shook
and charged at us from the brush#Satsplat#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/Fw5Z11VHUm
"It's just a #ghost."
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) September 10, 2022
On the frozen tv, a presenter's face holds a scathing frown. The politician, a frozen grin. And next to him, overlapping and out of alignment, a shape. This one doesn't smile—a misaligned replica with wings of smoke.
"That's no tv glitch."#scifansat#vss365
"Inevitably, even stars die. Their matter scatter and spread through the vast space to join ongoing processes and begin new ones, forming new stars and new planets. Just imagine – so many brave new worlds that have not yet been born." #SciFanSat #AmWritingSciFi
— K.E.M Lindblom (@the_egghunter) September 10, 2022
#Qask the mighty rears
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad – The Bone Master is coming (@debbieiancu) September 10, 2022
Silvery see through scales sparkling in the moonlight
A silent roar preceeds a plume of cold flame
Deadly if he still lived
He blinks in surprise at our continued existence
Lucky for us he's #just a #ghost dragon#vss365 #Achtenwrite #Scifansat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/5VSueHdCiN
If it was all just a dream, she'd heard tell she could return to it at the edge of this world – the last jagged edge before a just world devoid of abandonment. She survived dragons to get halfway, but people..they felled her with the thought, No such thing.#satsplat #scifansat
— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) September 10, 2022
moon is an airship
— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) September 10, 2022
not to be confused
with werewolf
vicious
dead fantastic
unromantic
non mirrored
images
stare back looking awful
silver belled and
shimmering
just#SciFanSat#poem #poetry
He seemed to be made of water, a wayward part of the ocean, momentarily molded into the shape of a man. Any second, he would #just dissolve & vanish through the gaps between the ship's wooden planks, return 2 his element, leaving nothing but a #ghostly imprint.#SciFanSat #vss365
— Thelma takes a break 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) September 10, 2022
Just finished negotiating immunity on a new planet for the last of a peaceful species whose world was devoured by Timmy. Intercepted by Jeg on way to next assignment. He's a ghost of himself. Few things more disconcerting than a terrified angel…#scifansat #vss365 #BraveWrite
— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) September 10, 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 09.10.2022 “Just” prompt and event.
~Jason H. Abbott
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.
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