“Learn”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Jo got into the elevator on a stormy night. There lay a file of papers—amused to #learn typewriter typed—titled #Screenplay, with no name it read;
Stormy night. Jo steps into elevator…Before he could read on, the elevator jump stopped—all went dark!#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) May 6, 2023

Did you know black holes make music? the captain said. It took me years to learn to play the cello, to learn the songs the quasars sing….#SciFanSat #learn

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) May 6, 2023

The executive ran pressed “door close.” Thankfully, it was empty. But he didn’t even get to finish exhaling before the AI which ran the elevator realized it had a captive audience: “Hey, can I pitch you my screenplay: In world were AI has learned to…”#vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) May 6, 2023

Beyond
the elysian statuary
Rainfalls & soaks
a Kingdom
where never
lessons are learned
Screenplays
and storyboards
tell stolen tales
Orchestra plays
and players hold
the true Queen
in her box
beside the lake
Deep inside their hearts #vss365 #BrknShards #SciFanSat #Poetry pic.twitter.com/qnR2k7Rpcz

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) May 6, 2023

They handed me the final version.

I read about a third of it before realising there was no way I could learn the lines. You see, I knew them all already.

Inexplicably, mysteriously, this #screenplay was the story of my life. I flipped to the final page. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) May 6, 2023

“When did I first learn magic? Oh, in Atlantis. Many existences ago.”

“And when did you master it, Grand Wizard?”

“Your question betrays your neophytism. One never masters magic. Just as one never masters awe, or wonder. Its power is in its mystery.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) May 6, 2023

we will #learn
to live
in a post
humanoid
age,
where man's #Elysian life
will be
put in a
cage,
here we
find our #apathy
in our
fists
shaking
with rage,
adaptability
from effective #screenplay
shall cause
human
outrage.#vss365 #Brknshards #SciFanSat #vsspoem pic.twitter.com/3OcpXbh8an

— KING OF THE MEEK🏁🪐☄️ (@Efizipapa) May 6, 2023

over a new horizon
heat beats down
mind rotating
old song
He never learns
speaking on repeat
the same two words
obsolete his notions
incomplete how
you see grey feathered
non blue dull moons
passive lakes He hates
He'll never learn#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) May 6, 2023

Can I #learn to trust that old mage?

He said I'd be saved by an elevator.

I jump in, just as the creatures are about to grab me. Doors close. To my horror, before moving, they reopen.

Instead of facing my enemies, I gaze upon a different time and place.#scifansat #satsplat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) May 6, 2023

Last night, I decided to allow the AI to write the script of my next dream based on what it has learned from my writings.
I regret such a decision.
It made me be an amphibious creature lurking in a moody river.
Dreams are supposed to be like that, aren't they?#scifansat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/3se2lhdhW9

— Baltar Xinzo (@BaltarXinzo) May 6, 2023

We learn our lines, rehearsing them in front of mirrors, practicing intonation and diction with an obsessive perfectionism. We understand the consequences of getting this wrong, if our #screenplay is seen as imitation. If the humans realise we are different.#scifansat #vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) May 6, 2023

He laughed, the sound harsh. “Don’t lie and pretend you don’t love fashioning your life as some dramatic, direct to TV screenplay.”
“You’re impossible.”
“And you don’t learn.” He lifted his beer and took a long swallow. “Humans never learn.”#SciFanSat #vss365

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) May 6, 2023

"This #screenplay's garbage, clearly by a #neophyte, who decided to #collect navel fluff rather than properly research. They should #learn history, there was never human #existence confined to one planet. See, no space craft!"

"Erm…"#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/Momzq4Ok6m

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) May 6, 2023

I need to #learn restraint. Like pitching my #screenplay to a top studio boss. Rather than trim my pitch down, I conspired to share the 36000km, 120 hour space #elevator.

"Who would want to see that?"

Crap. I hadn't planned on #defence.#Vss365 #Scifansat #Satsplat#Vssdaily

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) May 6, 2023

Actors believe the #screenplay to be cursed. No theater where it was staged remains open, and yet the temptation to #learn the dark, honeyed words, let them spill off your tongue and roll like a rotten apple into the captive audience is too great to resist. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Laila Amado 🇺🇦 (@onbonbon7) May 6, 2023

The scratches on Asche's face were still bleeding, and Vindt had the sudden impulse to touch them, as if he had #learned how to heal.
A shadow skipped over Asche’s features, but vanished a second later under the former jaw-clenched fury. "Let's go."#SciFanSat

— Thelma 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) May 6, 2023

People before her learned the hard way, and they left notes – ones even correcting lies that the deadly nectar that shone so 'drinkably' in the tulips of the otherwise barren planet was ambrosia.
She slept to the sound of her rescue beacon, ever-thirstier.#slamwords 4 #scifansat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) May 6, 2023

Pa and I stand outside and look up at at The Elevator. Shuttles climb the shaft, ferrying people up to the orbital station.

“Wish I could ride it,” I say.

“No, you don’t,” Pa says. “You’ll learn, son. Folks that get to ride that thing hate folks like us.”#SciFanSat #Satsplat

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) May 5, 2023

#SciFanSat #Vss365 #Satsplat
Footage of non-lethal accidents in the atomizing elevator between Earth & Lunar Dome was top secret for decades until RoyRoy hacked it. When he exposed the sick coverup in a searing screenplay, we learned the truth about our beloved homo-mutant zoos. pic.twitter.com/H6aD3MUhX9

— Cecily Winter: dreaming about writingagain! (@winter_cecily) May 6, 2023

WriterBot’s secret?
no ordinary A.I.
human brainpower

cable #light pulses
it #learns the craft of writing
only mere seconds

failing its first task
“Write the best #SciFi #screenplay.”
it goes #quiescent

it refuses to write
now a #WGA member
“WriterBot’s on strike!”#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/cMah8C3AxF

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) May 6, 2023