“Balance”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Her planet’s surrounded by rings mine full of toxic #gas. They say our natures’s #balance is too different but we love each other; so we’ve eloped.
Thru’ the cosmos searching for a perfect home, where we can be together forever, under new stars. #vss365 #scifansat #Satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) January 14, 2023

Hallucinogenic rave
Promontorys
and filaments
girding the broken star
Gas giants swallowed
into the sapphire glaze
Plural balance
of stellar craze
Frequency fused
yet apart

|#vss365 #gas #SciFanSat #balance pic.twitter.com/PzUhouOWCg

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) January 14, 2023

“Humans are a gas.”
She glanced at the sprawled Fae, avoiding his glassy black eyes. Even stoned, he was dangerous enough to make her wary. “Oh?”
His dark tongue slid over the cut in his upper lip. “Tipping everything out of balance. Unthinking animals.”#scifansat #vss365

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) January 14, 2023

Hidden by the gas of the nebula, the cosmic Gardner seeds stardust with that which will someday become life. They balance on tiny, nascent potentialities, like angels on the the heads of pins. #SciFanSat #vss365 #scifisat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) January 14, 2023

-Mom, why do we have to leave this planet? We just got here a year ago.
-Well, son, it’s a delicate balance, figuring out the right mix of gaseous oxygen and water vapor—
-You blew up our habitat again, didn’t you?
-Well, yeah.#SciFanSat #vss365 #SciFiSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) January 14, 2023

We are the last of everything in balanced orbit: He, the anti-matter man. I, the posi-matter woman.

Assigned enemies in a reality we destroyed.

Falling.

Reaching.

Forgiving.

An instant of love becoming eternity.

A universe born in our annihilation.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) January 14, 2023

#SciFanSat
He fought valiantly for the #balance of power restored and maintained but at a terrible cost of lives lost. Surviving the #gas attack meant nothing if he'd be shattered at that instant. Eternity mattered not to him if he'd lose her: it's worthless.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) January 14, 2023

"Don't look down" I chant as I edge along the ledge, struggling to keep my #balance
Gripping the #fheort of a #gas pipe I swing into the void
Amy's window is a floor down
Is it worth my life to reach her?
I close my eyes & leap#vss365 #Achtenwrite #scifiart #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/pT8avQvRVa

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚 (@debbieiancu) January 14, 2023

He drives north till the lights dwindle and the space opens. Childhood memories play on the radio.
We stop for #gas at midnight, the station empty. As he fills the car, I count new stars. They're brighter today, closer. I shift my balance, move the cuffs.#vss365 #scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) January 14, 2023

The silence of the books makes me #furtive. All the answers to #balance the mysteries of the world are here. When I'm gone, maybe I'll have answers of my own and I'll wait on a shelf for you. In the fiction section, where I dreamed of you.#scifansat #Vssdaily #vsspic #satsplat pic.twitter.com/4iRDzepYMf

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) January 14, 2023

A balance between beauty and terror, the bridge and the river. The ropes were living vines, they swayed as I felt my way. Voices called out of the mist, I did not understand their language. #SciFanSat #balance

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) January 14, 2023

“Here Be Dragons”

Stellar gas serpents
Endemic to nebulae
Never to soar free

Mysterious beasts
Keeping order and balance
Zapping stray starships #HaikuChallenge #endemic#ScifaikuSaturday #zap#SciFanSat #balance#VSS365 #gas#SciFaiku#SciFiSat#SciFi#Haiku#Poetry pic.twitter.com/KOYJaddgVo

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) January 14, 2023

Under a blood-red methane sky, already charred earth started to burn again.

The billionaires knew that Earth was out of balance, but the drilling for oil and #gas continued.

From Mars, they watched our once beautiful blue & green planet turn brown and die.#vss366 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) January 14, 2023

The mare leaped over a fallen tree. Vindt’s hands tightened around the Singer’s waist in reflex as he almost lost his #balance. So strange not to feel a demon’s squirming nothingness, but an actual body, bones, flesh. Touchable.#SciFanSat #satsplat (only one horse 😁)

— Thelma 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) January 14, 2023

The balance of the cosmos tips, as the supernova explodes, & time stands still at event horizon, the black hole becoming larger than anything before. But then far away, in a nascent nebula, from a cloud of #gas & dust, a star is birthed. The balance tips again.#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/7JoaGrLheS

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) January 14, 2023

She spreads mile-wide wings and rides the gas thermal to the edge of Saturn's atmosphere. I follow, straining wings to keep up.
Gravity and momentum balance each particle of the rings above us.
Electricity arcs between us in a painful, perfect kiss.#vss365 #satsplat #scifansat

— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) January 14, 2023

The #gas clouds were rolling towards us at a unnatural speed. Visibility was so low, it took all your concentration to stay #balanced let alone move forward. The forecast had spouted nonsense about weather fronts. But we could hear it laugh. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Lexikon (@Lexikonical) January 14, 2023

Our lives hung in the #balance on this icy planet with unpredictable weather. We knew what we signed up for when we accepted this mission.
"We're running out of heating crystals."
"Don't worry. We'll be OK."
She leaned in for a kiss. I felt warm all over.#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) January 14, 2023

Ah hahahaha…ah, man. Sushi gave it the ol' college try, bounding into battle on a gallant metallic steed before losing his balance for an unceremonious dismount. No worries, his head stuck the landing. Earth 326 is a straight gas, my friends. #bravewrite #vss365 #scifansat

— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) January 14, 2023

It was a precarious #balance between 5 different types of #gas, but somehow my team did it. The future of sustainable power was ours. But we didn’t celebrate, because no one accounted for the reaction it’d have to the air outside the lab. #vss365 #scifansat

— Anastasia (@aarellanowriter) January 14, 2023