Faraway #place in outer space
— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) February 18, 2023
Beneath stars that hang like
Ribbons of lace
Big old moon just a huge ball of styrofoam
Dreams are #transplant-ed implanted by cosmic beings unknown
If Poe had known back then
His heart would have frozen tell tale#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat
Flirting with endings
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) February 18, 2023
genuflecting at the altar
of unguided places
Shadow campaigns
concocted
in backward darkness
Distant sapphire glimmer
pipes sounding
as fledgling demons
slither along the edges
of the transplant zone #vss365 #SciFanSat#BrknShards #atreyasverse pic.twitter.com/xg2jBAhSpM
My love,
— Thelma (ok, fine, I'm back) 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) February 18, 2023
You'll always have
A #place in my chest
Your heart, #transplanted, now
Beating forever
To my will#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat
Grimacing, she leaned on the door of her car. Stared at the warning sign.
— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) February 18, 2023
It was almost funny, really. She’d gone halfway across the country to reach this place, a transplant with no where else to go.
Her eyes lifted to the smear of unreality on the horizon.#vss365 #SciFanSat
“Are you turning into a tree?” she asks, tapping his arm.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 18, 2023
“Heavens no! That arm is a grafted transplant of Walking Wood. I provide it nutrients, and its entwined neural fibers in mine grant me a prosthetic.”
“So, you’re a cyborg?”
“An ecosystem!”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
When they offered me a #transplant to solve my medical problems nobody mentioned dragon wings.
— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚 (@debbieiancu) February 18, 2023
The scaly things grew shortly after the operation, sitting in #place as if they'd always been there.
Bright red with clawed tips.
Useful for keeping off rain. #SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/ziDjtsEWxC
Transplanted to another world,
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 18, 2023
Light years across space—
I stare up at this strange new sky,
The stars all out of place.
I pick out one to wish upon,
For I am all alone—
Unless you’re sent to join me here,
It’ll never be my home. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat #SciFiSat
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) February 18, 2023
Another chance given: leave his home world toward an alien #place they deemed safe. He'd #transplant himself into a strange ecosystem where luck & survival were intertwined. Adequate skills he possessed could make a difference between boom & bust.#vss365#2WordPrompt
The #transplant went wonderfully and I could see again. The visions started soon after, smoky visions of some #underworld, a #place I'd never been. I saw two people embracing. But nothing more. It won't go away. I think I'm supposed to find them.#Scifansat #Vss365 #Vssdaily pic.twitter.com/5LiIrkgqqf
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) February 18, 2023
On the station, she grew zucchini and sunflowers. She rooted an acorn in water. When it grew its first leaves, she would transplant it in the native earth of oak trees. #SciFanSat #transplant
— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) February 18, 2023
“Where I Go, Therefore I Am”
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) February 18, 2023
Stellar currents flow
Streaming from a cosmic place
My mind transplanted
Locked in Earthly place
Infinite currents buoy
Only thoughts transplant#ScifaikuSaturday #current#SciFanSat #transplant#VSS365 #place#Scifaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi pic.twitter.com/DNCHzEGfhy
The Smith's place is normal, and they're nice enough. A little cold. Never say much—always rushing to something.
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 18, 2023
The kid though, he's odd. Hardly speaks, never smiles. Stares with big wet eyes. He had a heart transplant. It's said he struggles to feel anything.#scifansat#vss365
the heart transplant
— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) February 18, 2023
for a failing cosmos
takes three hundred
thousand sullen yrs
to complete but now
the broadleaf looks
fresh as daisy who
appears new each
and every first light#SciFanSat#poem #poetry
Galaxies away
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) February 18, 2023
Humanity #transplant-ed
A new colony
May we treat that world better
Than the one we left behind#SciFanSat prompt: transplant#Satsplat theme: poetry (haiku)
Once we’re settled in the new place, Maisie spends her time up on the hill, singing her songs.
— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) February 18, 2023
“It’s hard being a transplant to a new world,” I say. “She’ll be okay.”
Bre shakes her head. “Humans weren’t meant for this, high aspirations be damned.”#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/sH8qdmo5zC
They believe that you botched the transplant on purpose, Doctor. They've moved the last body to a safe #place and found a new surgeon.
— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) February 18, 2023
You think alien hearts are incompatible with humans, but I didn't tell you about the operation I had when young, did I?#vss365 #SciFanSat
"This takes me, "she murmured, before lapsing to silence, "to a #place thirty #league-s hence, #transplant-s my consciousness so I become completely #entwined with the local #ecosystem."
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) February 18, 2023
I hated what the alien drugs did to the captain.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat
The idea had been to use the bodies of pigs to grow unlimited amounts of human organs for transplant into sick people who needed them. To achieve it, they spliced human and pig DNA.
— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) February 18, 2023
The transplants worked.
The unintended consequences horrified the world. #SciFanSat
“We can't defeat them without upgrading.”
— Luis (@elauraeterea) February 18, 2023
“What do you mean?”
“They transplanted my brain into a cyborg body; I'm enhanced; it's the first step.”
“We must fulfill the prophet's command: follow my example to transcend flesh.”
“Never. You fool!”#scifansat #amwriting #scifi pic.twitter.com/tRqEWoC7aF
She got her ticket. The random transplant program was her only possible escape.
— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) February 18, 2023
She told her only friend in between his shift waiting tables.
'What if the next place is hell? There are worst kinds, you know?'
With a deep sigh, she reconsidered the whole thing.#scifansat #vss365
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 02.18.2023 “Transplant” 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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