“Theory”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

What started as a #theory turned into years of obsession, became no fool’s #gold.
Mum ran out of the shed shouting, “Eureka!” She’d created a Time Machine.
By night we’d seen dinosaurs & the Beatles arrive in the US. Tomorrow I choose where next. #vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) December 3, 2022

The weight of their incredulous stares pulled at him, fanning that ember of doubt. And no wonder. They’d been awaiting a golden hero from out of myth. Not some scrawny boy whose only skill was lying. Hilarious.
In theory this was just another ruse.#vss365 #SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) December 3, 2022

I have a theory that all streams run with gold in the sun. At night, they are moonlit silver. Some say they flow into the sea, I say the River of the Milky Way. #SciFanSat #theory

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) December 3, 2022

Goodbye simulated civilization: beat bots, drones, space elevators. Ubiquitous sounds of high voltage and oppressive humidity.
From my sky tower, I've seen the gold spires of Zhuangzi City to the east. If my theory is true, this will all have been a dream. #vss365 #scifansat

— Irene (@_Irene_Dreams_) December 3, 2022

My grandfather
gave me a gold coin
from the old days
back on Earth
Before the theories
came true
and Earth lost her blue
Our rescue
came from the stars
The lifting sun
on a different world
brings a future at last
that's ours #vss365 #SciFanSat #Scififri pic.twitter.com/nNFaPUYvTm

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) December 3, 2022

"Without your help, my people are doomed."

"I'm not the hero your people have awaited. I'm not a Merlin or a Gandalf: I'm a grad student whose physics theory turned out to be world-bridging magic. I'm here by accident!"

"And yet, you are here, wizard."#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) December 3, 2022

~Incomputable~

“In simile of likeness
and in metaphors
of implied comparison,
you humans
go on about an
incomputable #theory
of intertwined connection.
What is it?”

The chains rattle
as the galactic poet
looks up into the A.I. void
& says,

“Love” #SciFanSat #SciFiSat

— Flooded Ember (@FloodedEmber) December 3, 2022

He'd spent hours in that phone booth, her voice pressed to his ear, her face in her window across the street. Quarters dripped like #gold. Decades later, he was out of quarters and her words were just a dial tone. He could move on. In #theory.#vss365 #satsplat #scifansat #vsspic pic.twitter.com/RxJmVcuixw

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) December 3, 2022

In #theory we're just friends. No, it's more than that, right? We've flown across star systems together. We fought aliens, side by side. I'm sure we have a connection. He can't leave now to another post. I won't let him.
"Hey, get me out of this cell, now!"#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) December 3, 2022

#SciFanSat
In #theory a hero possessed a heart of #gold, selfless & gallant. For years they'd await the day of his coming.
But in their dire need along came a lesser mortal, a villain once, still, but he elected to rescue them against another despicable evil.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) December 3, 2022

That evening, sand-winds hammer the shields and the mood tastes of ozone and grit. We listen to Librarian's escape theories. Hidden in her words are pieces of #gold—nuggets of advice obscured among her grandiloquence. We polish them so they shine in the dark.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) December 3, 2022

Her AI bot finally bypassed Neuralink's filters, immersing her in a #gold mine of cosmic knowledge.

Resurfacing reality, the "#Theory of Everything" drains away, leaving her analog brain splashing through a puddle of vague profoundness.#vss365 #SciFanSat #StableDiffusion2 pic.twitter.com/uIwY1BifQ6

— Seiryu (@seiryu_art) December 3, 2022

Quantum theory fails
To explain the pull of your
Gravity on me#scifaikusaturday #SciFanSat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) December 3, 2022

In theory you break gold into tiny chips, and bake them into gold-chip cookies, and serve them to people who are slightly naughty, and they become good as gold.

I don't believe it.

Well, people who eat the cookies also become more gullible too.#vss365 #SciFanSat #SciFiSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) December 3, 2022

What are rainbows like in other dimensions? Simon's #theory was they'd be brighter and then the treasure would be easier to find. After billions of dollars, multiple deaths, including his own, Simon saw the rainbow was #gold with a pot of colour at the end#SciFanSat #vss365

— sam carr (@sam_c4rr) December 3, 2022

“Wait, don't shoot me!”
“I don't serve augmented animals in my bar.”
“But I have money, and, in theory, I'm more intelligent than many of your clients.”
“In practice, I own the bar, so I set the rules. Besides, you ate all the peanuts.”
“Sure, I'm a rat.”
“Exactly.”#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/aQyxHZT5f5

— Luis (@elauraeterea) December 3, 2022

“Your theory about life in the galaxy doesn’t explain Humans,” said Professor ¡x.

“Strange race, yes.”

“Humans are everywhere! An affable, agog race, but where is their origin?”

“I have a theory of a water planet once called Earth. It had streets paved with gold.”#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/POEr6L6sBP

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) December 3, 2022

Sunset drops into the #Lymire in a splash of red and #gold. Waves with peaks like #cappuccino froth upon the barges
I toss a coin to test my #theory
It spins midair, generating an error message:
"Your #Obsession is real"#vss365 #Achtenwrite #scifansat #satsplat #bravewrite pic.twitter.com/3qoaeDNELz

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad – The Bone Master is HERE! (@debbieiancu) December 3, 2022

The #gold shone & pulled but the #theory spoke of practicality Investment was crucial & sometimes you had to take stock of what you had Grimtaw sulked but got on w looking for a larger home#vss365#Scifansat

— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) December 3, 2022

"When the rumors #abate," he said, the room stilling, "I've a #theory. #Gold #await-s the #hero, but they must be pure of heart, hence so many have failed."

I hid a smile. They'd failed because I'd sabotaged them. The treasure was mine.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) December 3, 2022