“Story”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Made from tough skin, and a spine of bold #resilience; them locking me way, didn’t phase me.

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

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) March 4, 2023

With the resilience
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

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) March 4, 2023

Starcat agrees
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

— Jenny Gaitskell (@JennyGaitskell) March 4, 2023

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?"

"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

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

Sing me a story of Old Mother Earth
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

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

The old spacer touched the scar along her cheekbone. I 've seen the auroras of Arverne, she said.
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

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) March 4, 2023

“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.”
Of course. Her shoulders hunched. There wasn’t time, though. Not for wise old man crap.#SciFanSat #vss365

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

“We can’t be the heroes of the story,” she says. “You’re the wizard mentor. I’m the villain!”

“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

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

You must delve
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

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

#SciFanSat
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

— aran (@AranPotente) March 4, 2023

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.

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

— Amanda (@AmandaWordsmith) March 4, 2023

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.

And I gave it to them.#SciFanSat #SatSplat pic.twitter.com/EeZPLUQ6jp

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) March 4, 2023

-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.

"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

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

"It's an age-old #story," he smiled.

"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

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) March 4, 2023

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
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

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) March 3, 2023