Daisy stood in a field chewing grass; while #mortar-s fell from above, onto her small village.
— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) April 29, 2023
But they never hit the ground exploding, just hung suspended.
Daisy was the village’s sacred & by evening they’d be dancing under sunsets #fandango.#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat
What he called
— DeRicki Johnson (@derickijohnson) April 29, 2023
MAGIC #MORTAR
Was DEATH
In his kitchen
His bio weapon
In truth
Shared nothing
With Witchin’
He used AI
& brewed a bug
To bring our
Surcease
But now dome
Covers his home
Preventing
Its release
We watch him#Fandango
& rap dome
On dancing feet#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/SLZ4bWA5KZ
Validity of protocol
— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) April 29, 2023
transient sparks
subsumed
into the rufous
power of dusk
Mortars
of emotion
erupting and exploding
along the lines
of this savoured touch
Light fades
to darkness
She and I
in our clutch #vss365 #BrknShards #SciFanSat #Poetry #Art Art Murr pic.twitter.com/WODNTa5fcK
#mortar of
— KING OF THE MEEK🏁🪐☄️ (@Efizipapa) April 29, 2023
war knows
not what
sorrow our
souls bear,
incubated
pain which
may hatch
for our world
to tear,#melancholy
descending
on us by #dusk we
fear,
let us find
love from
peaceful rhythms
of the #fandango
drawing our hearts
near.#vss365 #Brknshards #vsspoem #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/IYZhDJFAS4
Decades later, his fortune squandered, he remembers the gold ring on her finger.
— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) April 29, 2023
Mortar and stone are chiseled away as he opens the wall where he’d sealed his mistress in alive.
“Oh, Darling. I’d hoped it was you.”
A snatch. A scream. A snap.
Silence.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt
I walked down streets of wood frame houses and stucco two-flats, brick and mortar apartment buildings. Where was everybody? Did I hear voices around the corner?#SciFanSat #mortar
— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) April 29, 2023
We danced our fandango across the stars, through a hundred worlds, in every corner of the galaxy. The mortar of humanity’s new civilization was not yet dry, and we were drunk on aspiration, drunk on opportunity, but mostly just drunk on cheap, replicator wine. #vss365 #Scifansat
— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) April 29, 2023
Fists #fandangoed, punches and blocks, until a kick drove his boot into my gut, a #mortar into a pestle.
— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) April 29, 2023
"You will not wield the staff of #fortune!" he growled.
Doubled over and retching, I groaned out, "You #squandered everything!#SatSplat#VSS365#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/8QHTmxtojN
They wouldn't believe her. That behind the cracked mortar was a door to another world where handsome princes waited to row you across a silver lake to a ballroom in a golden palace.
— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) April 29, 2023
She had danced the #fandango all night, and that was why she was exhausted.#vss365 #SciFanSat
Joaq rushes to prepare the #mortar that will bind the bricks. He looks up at the dark clouds. Sweat beads his brow.
— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) April 28, 2023
"Father, what is the importance of this ornament?"
"I must build a tabernacle for the Serenity Globe. It ensures peace in this community."#SciFanSat#satsplat
"Tell me," he spat, "how the #fortune you #squandered on that luxury yacht The #Fandango helps us? There's alien #mortar rounds impacting all major cities, and I'm watching mushroom clouds #bloom abo…"
— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) April 29, 2023
The transmission fizzed and died.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/epikZ0pUZL
Wilfred sped through the #fandango streets of costumed dancing and silliness ignoring every being that called his name. The entire planet was under a terrible spell. He had to get offworld. His heart froze at the sight of #mortar guns pointing toward the city. #scifansat #vss365
— A.G. Lamar is querying (@AGLamar1) April 29, 2023
Eucalyptus fairies' wings are light green with rufous edges. They mainly make cough drops, which they sell at a high premium to exclusive shops. Proceeds fund their competitive gardening. The most recent trend is curved walls of chrysalides with sparkly mortar.#vss365 #SciFanSat
— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) April 29, 2023
#SciFanSat #Vss365
— Cecily Winter: dreaming about writingagain! (@winter_cecily) April 29, 2023
Fandango’s a game-changer for the guerrillas, an AI mortar resembling a baby carriage, wrecked vehicle, or some other trifle. After Fandango rains (F) acid over dug-in enemy bot-troops, local hyper-bacteria convert the decayed metalware & plastic to nitrogen. pic.twitter.com/yJOE0VPyE6
That night, we throw our regrets and hopes in the mortar and mixed with joy to create something new, better.
— Baltar Xinzo (@BaltarXinzo) April 29, 2023
The life we left behind was a bad dream. That night, we celebrated our will to survive, we all danced the fandango of life.#scifansat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/LaU4ENKWCZ
Her hands are twisted, the joints swollen, the skin cracked, yet holding the pestle and #mortar they strengthen. They grind the herbs, the room filling with a wholesome scent that drives out dark thoughts. For a time, even the devils outside stop howling.#Satsplat#SciFanSat
— John Everex (@EverexJohn) April 29, 2023
Rumored as the most secure building ever, I stared at the plain structure. Five failed attempts had been made to steal the world's treasures while I watched. I put on my latest gadget, magic detecting spectacles and sighed. The magic was in the brick #mortor.#SciFanSat#Satsplat
— Cammie Adams (@CammieAdams01) April 28, 2023
I smooth some #mortar over the last run of bricks and start filling the narrow gap that remains in the wall. My prisoner is oddly silent.
— Scurra Ignavus (@ScurrasFolly) April 29, 2023
“No last words, Pascal?”
“Rather presumptuous of you. Death rejects me, time and again; yet somehow you think this will be my end.”#scifansat
The general #wished that history had panned out differently instead of having #blood in his hands, when the autonomous walking #mortars #squandered & delivered ill #fortune #fandango destruction all mankind.#vss365 #SciFanSat #WriteMap 141 #SciFanSat #2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/lWL2h5kILr
— Mindset Evolution (@justpasit0) April 29, 2023
“Stay here! Don’t leave!” The door of the escape pod sealed and I cowered, silent tears dripping as aliens blasted us. Each explosion reverberated in my skull like a pestle pounding on #mortar. Then a shockwave flattened me, violet flame bloomed and I was adrift, alone.#scifansat
— mchyl (@mchyl) April 29, 2023
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 04.29.2023 “Mortar” 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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