“Resent”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Toxic waste from a secret alien tree top jungle visit, had mutated a #sloth living there.
He now ran & had an extremely high IQ; he #resent-ed this, gone were his days of peace.
But he made a tree touch portal jumper—no more need to crawl or run.
#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) February 4, 2023

Red dawn palette
ingratiating monopolists
rise slothlike
from the agency of night
where palindromatic
whispers
silently resent
the bureaucratic flash
aligning
the coming day#SciFanSat #vss365 #BrknShards pic.twitter.com/Gyta8Rrg5v

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) February 4, 2023

500 years on, there was no resentment over the robot uprising. Humanity leaned into its sloth, moving back into the forest, and devolving into tree-dwellers. The machines hummed on, oblivious to the disappearance of their creators. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 4, 2023

#SciFanSat
When he received the last transmission urging of rescue he turned cold, reminded how he was verbally abused, called a #sloth for slow reaction. He'd give them satisfaction though they'd #resent him later if they survived their current predicament.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) February 4, 2023

"Your human body is just not made to hold on to such bitter resentment. We need healthy organs, not diseased ones, so I've scheduled you for therapy that will relieve you of any ill feelings," the alien explained. #SciFanSat

— I r e n e (@_Irene_Dreams_) February 4, 2023

Do I resent the way things are, that the young and beautiful are favored, that the elites flourish while the old are obsolete? I did not make the laws, but I am an outlaw now, and not too old to fight.#SciFanSat #resent

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) February 4, 2023

The #sloth neared event horizon, and it was now traveling super super fast. In a few seconds, it had crossed a quarter of a light year. It woke up all grumpy, in general #resent-ment of having abandoned its leisurely ways, and that too in such a crazy dream!#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/bVDhEBxyZl

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) February 4, 2023

His fingers flexed, a constant slothful curl and straighten against his thigh as his jaw worked. Definitely angry. Probably resentful, too.
“What did you see?” He asked, rasping voice low.
She sighed. “It’s not like I can control it. It’s part of the healing.”#vss365 #scifansat

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) February 4, 2023

This day passes slow like a #sloth crossing the road.
I peek out of the factory window and #resent every person outside.
The #thyphinert jerks to a stop
Boss calls, "Happiness extractor broke down. Go home men"
Free at last!#SciFanSat #Satsplat #vss365 #Achtenwrite #scifiart pic.twitter.com/e2DPUvtj6B

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚 (@debbieiancu) February 4, 2023

He knew the demons were there
Deep in his mind
Heard their whispers
Felt their #resent
They wanted him to not #struggle
Give up that #last fight
Submit to the #transmission
Become their body bag of evil
Yet something deep inside stopped him#rise365#2WordPrompt#SciFanSat

— Amanda 🖤☠️🥀 (@AmandaJK_) February 4, 2023

Of course, I resent what they have done to us.
To save her life, they built this beautiful body for her; that was fine. But, I wanted the strength to fight our enemies, so they put my brain into this monstrous armor.
We won't be together, ever.#scifansat #amwriting #scifi pic.twitter.com/CtFBOq4kkH

— Luis (@elauraeterea) February 4, 2023

"Technology makes life more pleasant here on the space station. This contraption and I feed everyone here. The whirring of its engine is music to my ears. Yesterday's garbage is today's gourmet dinner."

"The meals are barely edible."

"I #resent that."#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) February 4, 2023

First, we competed with the robots. More order. More efficiency.
The turning point was the day that robots were no longer working to help us solve Humanity's challenges, but we lived to help solve theirs. What's to #resent? We make great robots…#scifansat #vsspic #satsplat pic.twitter.com/3bt45zOIwr

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) February 4, 2023

#Sloth-like, I crawl from under, the dawn long past. Dark shadows line my face, my delicate cheekbones.
I examine the sky, follow contrails, the arcs too sharp. Distant clouds are smoke.
She resents my presence. Her brusk movements state—"I should've left you."#scifansat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 4, 2023

A.I. was the dream
Our progeny resents us
They’re now our nightmare

We gave them control
They hacked our DNA code
They can reboot — us!#ScifaikuSaturday #reboot#SciFanSat #resent#ScifiSat#Scifaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi
📷 iStock/Pixabay pic.twitter.com/XpCU9Hn7JO

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) February 4, 2023

Command given, the unscheduled transmission was resent and received thirty-six hours later:

DO NOT VENTURE THIS FAR OUTSIDE YOUR SPHERE AGAIN FOR SIX HUNDRED YEARS.

Followed by the probe’s last message:

I AM NOT YOUR VOYAGER’S VOICE. I AM THE METATRON.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 4, 2023

Time for a #sloth meant survival It didn't understand #resentment Such fleeting things died before they could be hooked Its world hung upside down alongside bats They were sacred to the Petans and their wrath with worlds who harmed such beings was legendary #vss365#scifansat pic.twitter.com/DjTK4i3SLL

— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) February 4, 2023

-So, lemme get this right. Your #sloth wrote a letter—
-Yeah, and it took 15 years!
-…and the letter got returned and has to be #resent. But it wants to write it all over again?
-It’ll take longer to change its mind than for it to rewrite the letter.@SciFanSat #vss365 #SciFiSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) February 4, 2023

sky dense we sit
amid a pile of stories
read thrice over
fancies fade bit by bit
along the way an
inclination to resent grown
of all that remains
a task too hard to quench
hungry little leaps aflame
a fire you will never conquer#SciFanSat#poem #poetry

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) February 4, 2023

I was beginning to resent being volunteered for this.

At the least, I should have someone with me. But the Captain was convinced there's not a damn bit of life on this planet.

Only I spotted something earlier: a #sloth like creature, huge with crazy eyes.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) February 4, 2023