“Transplant”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Faraway #place in outer space
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

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) February 18, 2023

Flirting with endings
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

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) February 18, 2023

My love,
You'll always have
A #place in my chest
Your heart, #transplanted, now
Beating forever
To my will#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— Thelma (ok, fine, I'm back) 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) February 18, 2023

Grimacing, she leaned on the door of her car. Stared at the warning sign.
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

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) February 18, 2023

“Are you turning into a tree?” she asks, tapping his arm.

“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

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 18, 2023

When they offered me a #transplant to solve my medical problems nobody mentioned dragon wings.
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

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚 (@debbieiancu) February 18, 2023

Transplanted to another world,
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

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 18, 2023

#SciFanSat
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

— aran (@AranPotente) February 18, 2023

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”

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

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) February 18, 2023

The Smith's place is normal, and they're nice enough. A little cold. Never say much—always rushing to something.
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

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 18, 2023

the heart transplant
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

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) February 18, 2023

Galaxies away
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)

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) February 18, 2023

Once we’re settled in the new place, Maisie spends her time up on the hill, singing her songs.

“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

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) February 18, 2023

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.

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

— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) February 18, 2023

"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."

I hated what the alien drugs did to the captain.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) February 18, 2023

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.

The transplants worked.

The unintended consequences horrified the world. #SciFanSat

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) February 18, 2023

“We can't defeat them without upgrading.”
“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

— Luis (@elauraeterea) February 18, 2023

She got her ticket. The random transplant program was her only possible escape.
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

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) February 18, 2023