“Alternate”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Tiny lights on his chest flashed #alternate colours making his human flesh suit smart. He could hear their unkind words across the road:

“Oh no!”
“What?”
“Creepy new neighbour again—sending love notes.”
“Gosh! Seen the #maw on him? Scary!”
“Yup.”#vss365 #scifansat #Satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) November 26, 2022

He hesitated. The shadowy cave looked just a bit too much like an eager, yawning maw. It was nonsense and he knew it.
But still.
Standing there sodden and miserable, he couldn’t shake the vague sense of dread.
He’d find an alternate route. Any other route.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) November 26, 2022

The dark gaping maw
of this universe
screams at the mirror
of its alternate,

and defiantly
changes the flutter
of one butterfly wing. #SciFanSat #alternate #vss365 #maw

— Flooded Ember (@FloodedEmber) November 26, 2022

There is a special hubris in the inter-dimensional traveler who assumes their own reality is the original and not an alternate one. #SciFanSat #SciFiSat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) November 26, 2022

We #alternate between running and hiding and trying to fight. It never makes any difference. The machine’s hunger is boundless – once it has us in its sights it won’t ever stop chasing us. Not until the moment it pushes us, bleeding, into its gaping #maw. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) November 26, 2022

Mother met Father on Christmas. Once. The rest she keeps secret.

I'd imagine alternate fathers. Even Santa Claus. But this year growing horns and cloven hooves are my early presents.

Mother cries, but I am joyous. "Father Krampus, I am your daughter!"#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) November 26, 2022

In an alternate reality, we all died in a car crash, a head-on collision in the middle of a blizzard.
In this world, it was a narrow escape, but each of us has had accidents since.#SciFanSat #alternate

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) November 26, 2022

I'd give us a push & we'd tumble through time's #maw into an #alternate dimension, where the ice never ceases to whisper in its suffocating blue, where the Fön heralds the apocalypse f/m which we'd rescue each other, adrift like the icebergs, melting.#vss365 #Satsplat #SciFanSat

— Thelma is nearing the and 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) November 26, 2022

We have alternate doors. What's that? Well, yes. They're more maws than doors. The maw on the right leads to a paradise, but first you're ground into requisite components. The left maw leads to a boring place and you stay whole. Which will you choose?#SciFanSat #SciFiSat #vss365

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) November 26, 2022

. Alternate matter .
The quest for ultimate truth
Curiosity #SciFanSat #Scififri #scifaikusaturday #Image Len Crenshaw pic.twitter.com/RKM7M9D2Uw

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) November 25, 2022

There are no alternate universes.

Alternative to what?

Now dawns the age of All Realities.#SciFanSat #midjourneyV4 #AllRealities pic.twitter.com/tXPzMKauWA

— Seiryu (@seiryu_art) November 26, 2022

#Maw & Paw had #Vimily on #alternate weekends
Visitation rights were complex with parents in different universes
Vimily kept losing stuff in the transition
Once it was her math book
Another time her heart
She got the notebook back#vss365 #Achtenwrite #scifansat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/LrZCzb1Hz2

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad – The Bone Master is HERE! (@debbieiancu) November 26, 2022

Sir, the report on Earth.

To summarise: this tiny, once significant planet, alternates between peace and war due to the toxic nature of its inhabitants.

Sentenced to be obliterated, asteroids are now deflected so we must send the giant #maw of a black hole. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) November 26, 2022

Sounds from the closet.

Don't open it, Bly says.

He kicks the door.

Go home!

A growl then silence.

What's in there? Tom asks.

My alternate. His name is Maw. He's always hungry, Bly says. #ScifanSat #ScifiSat #vss365

— Irene (@_Irene_Dreams_) November 26, 2022

They said don't contaminate Mars. It's an #alternate world to ours. Possibly lifeless, but…

I walked there in my muddied boots, carrying with me in every step the seeds and crawlies from all Earth's forests.

Treasures infinite.#scifansat

— To be Stevie (@PatchieSteve) November 26, 2022

#vss365#scifansat

My Evie. T-boned during a police chase.

Four years. Gruelling research. Building credibility on darknets.

Being labelled mad.

My fingers hover over the keyboard, itching to #alternate time at the node. Science will rip her from death's #maw.

Soon, my love. pic.twitter.com/23YPzg4uL2

— John Tannhauser is on the comeback trail (@JohnTannhauser) November 26, 2022

#SciFanSat
Alternate route,
Finding a way then
When dark fog surrounds all around, locked down ahead,
No cause for fear, no source of shadow, Someone fast running behind his own shadow, though it exists behind or beside,
& lays down the opposite side of the truth,

— UJJAL HALDER (@UJJALHA41067774) November 26, 2022

#SciFanSat
His #alternate reality was no different either, more of a twisted nightmare than the present he abhorred. He could have wished he's the fierce villain with #maw so enormous he'd swallow his foster family whole, a father too wicked he'd chew first.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) November 26, 2022

“We don’t need to hunt, Hal. They’re going to take her off the planet, and that means the space elevator. There’s no alternate route.”

“It’s going to be swarming with pigheads.”

“You can make an Earthquake.”

“I haven’t done that in a long time.”

-Exile War Act 2#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/5SIJTcOeI7

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) November 26, 2022

Envy short circuits my energy supply when I see how she smiles at him. She thought it'd be nice to have her best friend's consciousness uploaded in her station's droid assistant. I wish I could get an #alternate assignment. She never knew I always loved her.#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) November 26, 2022