“Bar”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Another stranger at the #bar talking about the lost city, little did she know we were standing on it; used to be under the sea, dried up centuries ago.

But we wouldn’t let her know that. She’d be dead soon enough, no matter how #foxy she looked. #vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) April 22, 2023

Making your way in the world today,
Takes everything you've got.
But a drink at the Polymorph Bar,
Makes you what you’re not!

Would you like to get real strange?

Sometimes you want to go,
Where everybody barks and bays!
And they're always glad you came.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) April 22, 2023

I loved you in this life
& in past lives
From the graves of Sparta
to the Martian tomb

On each journey
I will find you
Eulogy of dreams
lucidity it consumes

Here, I wait in a neon #bar
lights illuminate my demons
Waiting for my love
to carry me to my doom#SciFanSat 🎨goff pic.twitter.com/hgGdmDDHkO

— Spyder Collins (@Spyder_Collins) April 22, 2023

Surface of the first planet's moon was primarily a liquid hydrocarbon sea. The captive ship was stranded on what looked like a charcoal sandbar. We went in fast with an anti-grav Hopper & took down their power systems. Marine security was on the way.#SciFanSat #vss365 #SciFiFri pic.twitter.com/qSOZTdvvFB

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) April 21, 2023

A demon and a secretary walk into a bar.
There was a joke there somewhere, though she couldn’t find any amusement. Especially as the Folk in the bar studied them with gleaming, inhuman eyes.
“Try to look foxy,” Huck growled. “Or less like you’re about to hurl.”#SciFanSat #vss365

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) April 22, 2023

Skin wore thin on second reality, by the rock, where Peter wept, clutching a gold #bar.
It was here he felt calming fingers through his hair – Lucy, of 1931, looking for her terrier, Waldorf, whose fur was similarly #foxy.
Waldorf barked from Peter's mouth.#vss365 #scifansat

— Emma Wulfe (@Sleepy_Chaotic) April 22, 2023

By the port of Sans Merci, there's an old street of cafes and bars, the old spacer said. There, you will find pirates and navigators, refugees and heroes, outlaws and runaways and poets, and storytellers like me. #SciFanSat #bar

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) April 22, 2023

"Hey #foxy lady, love the wingsh! Howsh about we #go some-#where shpeshal? There'sh a romantic moonlit shpot on the #grange, an'…

"I'd rather," #GrumpySwearyFairy said, "stay in this #bar with my pint. &^!$ off, Merlin, you're drunk."#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/PKqDoScAsj

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) April 22, 2023

Salin City, the only metropolis that survived the invasion, is now an alien stomping ground. I used to be a navy captain. Now, I tend #bar at the famous Gerard hotel. All hope is not lost. A group of us meet after hours in the basement. We have a plan.#satsplat#SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) April 22, 2023

There are no natives on the city world, Sprawl. Its inhabitants remind themselves of home at its many planet-themed bars. There is even an Earth bar. It’s not on any map, but you can find it by following the faint sound of the riff from Foxy Lady. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) April 22, 2023

I exhale pain
as I turn the #charcoal
in my heart
into smoke,
facing you
in your
game of#mediocre
is going
to be a
harmful
joke,
Putting a
limitation#bar to
ruin this
night's#gesture
when the
bat of
a man
will get
a head
stroke.#SciFanSat #vss365 #vsspoem #BrknShards pic.twitter.com/ODrDaT27nf

— KING OF THE MEEK🏁🪐☄️ (@Efizipapa) April 22, 2023

Mama said the waste-urbs outside the big city belonged to the Halfsouls.

But we get fed lots of tales. And I'm #foxy enough to get by any #bars in my way.

No monsters. Just a doll head – if they play with dolls they can't be that bad, right?#Scifansat #Vss365 #Satsplat #vsspic pic.twitter.com/25aMPfr10C

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) April 22, 2023

The studio was smaller than she remembered, but perspective was everything: it was she who was bigger.

There, at the end of the bar, hung #Foxy's satin ballet slippers shining new.

She grabbed them and left, back to 2023, where she would be the Prima now.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) April 22, 2023

In a sultry bar, I met two foxy girls, one had red hair, the other blue. They invited me to have a drink and I couldn't resist. Then I fell asleep.
I woke up in sector 5, naked, and on my chest, a note: “We know where you live.”
I can't wait to meet them again.#scifansat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/kOnZJmTVet

— Baltar Xinzo (@BaltarXinzo) April 22, 2023

#SciFanSat #Vss365
Foxy’s Bar, with muted russet decor & free champagne, always drew a crowd of young hopefuls on Off-World Visitors’ Day.
Each uniquely seductive alien mingled companionably before selecting a human or 3. They paid well for their zoo exhibits & sapient meat.

— Cecily Winter: dreaming about writingagain! (@winter_cecily) April 22, 2023

He leaned on the bar, slowly sipping his atomized scotch. Hendrix's Foxy Lady echoed at high volume thru the place.Plenty of people were around because he was stationed in the only metropolis on Planet 9. He was lonely, desperately homesick for Earth. #Satsplat #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) April 22, 2023

he's an artist
sitting
at the Cosmic Bar
improvising
sketching memories
on charcoal skies
with the sparkle
of stars#SciFanSat #vss365#bar #charcoal#poetry #poem pic.twitter.com/dovXN8wgsT

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) April 21, 2023

The #Foxy #Bar was a forgettable dive bar at the edge of town. It’d been shut down for ages, a perfect spot to set up an illegal portal. Two figures meet in the dark.
“Money?”
A nervous hand offers up cash.
“Where to?”
“The furthest edges of the galaxy”#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/OXBGCm3FII

— Anastasia (@aarellanowriter) April 22, 2023

Coming to the big city from a small town was #unnerving
Crime was a way of life
Where the lights shine bright and the shadows kill you
The #bar was the only place he felt safe
The owner taking him in
Giving him sanctuary and protection#SciFanSat#vssmystery#Satsplat

— Amanda 🖤☠️🥀 (@AmandaJK_) April 23, 2023

You hold me captive
but if you set me free
the sky is no limit
for you and for me.
The cosmos our oyster,
there’s no limit how far
our reign would encompass…
Just get rid of these bars.#SciFiFri – captive#SciFanSat – bar#midjourney #AIArtworks pic.twitter.com/CLYTsJVxjF

— Hullabaloo22 (@hullabaloo22) April 22, 2023