Made from tough skin, and a spine of bold #resilience; them locking me way, didn’t phase me.
— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) March 4, 2023
My pages of spells had already been invoked by my #story in legend told over & over again.
Villains would search for me everywhere and I’d be found!#vss365 #scifansat #Satsplat
With the resilience
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) March 4, 2023
of a sinner
in the tepid glow
of faith
I search these worlds
far and wide
for a place
to just be safe
Magic finds illusion
and pepper fills
my pot
The story
changes everything
as it runs
through every thought #SciFanSat #vss365 #BrknShards #Poetry pic.twitter.com/9eWVxYmK4b
Starcat agrees
— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) March 4, 2023
we are not strong or brave
but we must be
heroes
of our own long stories
so
at the very least
we're resilient#vss365 #SciFanSat
The bartender at the Thrust & Parry Pub was a burly keg of a man who told a story with every beer he served. Dragons. Robot armies. Battles with aliens. Once, I asked him what his story was, and he glitched. Challenged me to a duel at dawn.#SciFanSat#vssfantasy #ScifiSat
— I r e n e (@_Irene_Dreams_) March 4, 2023
Claire fidgeted. "Why do we come to this cemetery every year?"
— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) March 4, 2023
"Maybe it's time I tell you a #story."
"One with adventure, and #villians?"
He looked down. That blonde hair was just like hers.
"And #resilience, and a hero."#vss365 #scifansat #vsspic #satsplat pic.twitter.com/O67seifzzC
Sing me a story of Old Mother Earth
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) March 4, 2023
Forgotten by many
The place of my birth
Sing me a story of Old Mother Earth
Tell me a tale of heroes resilient
Escaped in a rocket
As the planet burned brilliant
Tell me a tale of heroes resilient
Sing me a story of Old…#SciFanSat #vss365
The old spacer touched the scar along her cheekbone. I 've seen the auroras of Arverne, she said.
— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) March 4, 2023
I saw the volcano they call Fumante erupting under the twin moons. I fought with them for freedom. But that's another story.#SciFanSat #story
“Let me tell you a story,” he said, sinking into the chair so slowly that she could almost hear the ancient bones creaking. “Of resilience, pride, and evil.”
— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) March 4, 2023
Of course. Her shoulders hunched. There wasn’t time, though. Not for wise old man crap.#SciFanSat #vss365
“We can’t be the heroes of the story,” she says. “You’re the wizard mentor. I’m the villain!”
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) March 4, 2023
“The others are trapped,” he says, “It’s up to us!”
“We can’t carry a romantic subplot!”
He hands the old witch a rose. “We, can’t?”
“Oh. Oh, Murklin! Yes!”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
You must delve
— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) March 4, 2023
through stories
and distinguish
the fiction in lies.
Find #resilience
to shed the heavy
load, those superfluous
words that burden.
Be strong.
Be ruthless.
Kill your darlings. #vss365 #SciFanSat #sciFiFri
#SciFanSat
— aran (@AranPotente) March 4, 2023
As mentor he trained too many heroes, each #story involved #resilience w/ various degrees of success. The exception to the rule though was his favorite who unfortunately turned into a villain, at the moment standing over him w/ a sword on his neck.#vss365#2WordPrompt
The #story blinked. Opened its eyes. Alone, on a barren moon. It wrote of a rocket and an old, old friend returning real soon.#scifansat
— PatchieSteve (@PatchieSteve) March 4, 2023
We follow the high tide line, collect sea worn plastics, glass, metals. All that's left. Objects of #resilience. Later we place them on the sand, tell their story, trace the remains of markings, fittings and mouldings, wonder about the creatures that made them.#scifansat#vss365
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) March 4, 2023
We collide. Our eyes meet.
— Amanda (@AmandaWordsmith) March 4, 2023
Memories of our future strobe past like the flicker of an arriving train. I see our story through the whole of time in a flashing singularity. In shock, I gasp and search his eyes.
"Excuse me."
The vision fades as I watch him walk away.#SciFanSat
The people wanted a story. A myth. A powerful tale to pass to their children. A legend that could teach their successors and heirs the most important lessons.
— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) March 4, 2023
And I gave it to them.#SciFanSat #SatSplat pic.twitter.com/EeZPLUQ6jp
-This new Sparkledust Factory that opened up in our neighborhood is manufacturing some great stuff. There's these blocks they make that are light as marshmallows but have the #resilience of concrete. We can finally build that 7,000 #story house you wanted.#SciFanSat #vss365
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) March 4, 2023
He rounds them all up and looks them in the eyes.
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) March 4, 2023
"I had your so-called parents executed."
The youngest whimpers.
"Be quiet. I'm not the villain in this #story. I paid them to bio-engineer you. You're my soldiers. It's not my fault they got too attached."#satsplat#SciFanSat
"It's an age-old #story," he smiled.
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) March 4, 2023
"The #mentor turns #villain, a hero shows #resilience and #mercy, they turn to good again."
Maybe, but I'd not reached that stage yet. I used a fireball to take his head off, then went for supper.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/KVrCanrC53
He tried to recall what Asche had played, whether it was a sad or a joyful tune, fast or slow. But he couldn't. He had no idea what he had just witnessed. He felt like waking up from a dream whose #story he forgot, but whose sensations lingered on, unconnected, forlorn.#SciFanSat
— Thelma 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) March 4, 2023
The Phobos Rover
— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) March 3, 2023
Tearing away veils of fear
Stories need reading
Why tell false stories?
Evidence is before us
Dare we ignore it?
The monolith looms
The Rover reads etched stories
Another veil falls#HaikuChallenge #veil#ScifaikuSaturday #rover#SciFanSat #story#SciFi pic.twitter.com/uwZzIuGpzF
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 03.04.2023 “Story” 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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