“Cat”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Exploring ancient Egypt, I found a glowing amulet.
Suddenly, whisked 5000 years into the future, I was petting a glowing bioluminescent #cat. "Our technology now accounts for the very time fabric itself," the #cat purred. "#Quality is our priority."#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) May 13, 2023

We set out to imitate the peculiar quality of cats which allows them to turn perpendicular to reality and disappear into other dimensions. But we couldn’t control the time element, and unlike the cats, we cared about the when as much as where we were. #vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) May 13, 2023

Silent as a cat somehow, the robot slipped out of the shadows to join them.
He swore, startling as he glanced at her. “You knew it was there?”
She’d known, but how to explain? There was a quality of the uncanny that made the fine hair at her nape prickle.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) May 13, 2023

My heart
becomes
powerful
when our
world
expects
me to let
the #cat
out of
the bag,
these eyes
may #fuel my
emotions yet
words are
unspoken,
the #quality of
silence besieged
our doubts.#vss365 #BrknShards #SciFanSat #WritingCommunity pic.twitter.com/ujPSogPd88

— KING OF THE MEEK🏁🪐☄️ (@Efizipapa) May 13, 2023

It began when the cat knocked a potion into my active cauldron. We were both awed by the results. Not only had a time travel been realized, but the cat and I could see the #quality of returning to simpler times. Bonus, the cat could talk there. #vss365 #Satsplat #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/WG81KdorSC

— Cammie Adams (@CammieAdams01) May 13, 2023

#vss365#scifansat

Strange to see her this way.

Admittedly she's quite the #quality sort in her high priestess garb. So very different from her time aboard ship, where she'd kept all the moving parts purring like a #cat…

She'll always look better in engine grease, to me. pic.twitter.com/dHiAjWQAXz

— JT's clawing his way back up from the guts 💪 (@JohnTannhauser) May 13, 2023

The captain sighed. His 1st officer's bravery had been an admirable #quality, but the man couldn't turn down a dare. On the plus side, they now knew what happens when you grab a Martian razor cat. Turns out they lack a #scruff and they really hate to be touched.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— C. Paulin (@SteadyQuill) May 13, 2023

An error dumped me in the Pleistocene, but the time portal finally opened again. Alas, a giant prehistoric cat snarled in front of it, and all I had was a flint spear of dubious quality. This wretched epoch might yet be my grave.#2WordPrompt#SciFanSat#Satsplat#vss365 pic.twitter.com/pyqvavpPyO

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) May 13, 2023

"We can't have people time traveling. The risk of contaminating the timeline is too great," said the professor.

Instead, he sent the #cat droid through the portal with an urgent message to the past. He never expected it to become sentient in the process.#SciFanSat#satsplat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) May 13, 2023

"The #abolition of #cat food #quality standards is a #grave #error," said Bastet,staring gloomily into her pint. "But what can I do?"

"The Grand &^!$ing Vizier did WHAT!" fumed #GrumpySwearyFairy. "Let's go kick 'im in the $*!!*%@$, eh?"#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/0fYWs1pX4R

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) May 13, 2023

They looked a lot like cats, the cat people, a kind of feline grace. They could jump from world to world. It was also said they had nine lives, and the ancient Egyptians had worshiped them as gods. #SciFanSat #cat

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) May 13, 2023

We knew our cat sensed things, had an uncanny insight, and she spotted the change months before we did. The different #quality in the water, the tang in the air. She kept us awake and stood by the door hackles raised. She told us—it's just, we didn't listen.#scifansat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) May 13, 2023

lit by two beaming eyes
four blackbirds
skipping to & fro the artificial trees
what is that?
it is a cat Sylvestre chirrups
(nonchalantly)
perhaps we ought to chase it off
oh, do not bother with Trills
he eats too much for any real sport#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) May 13, 2023

There was denying the #quality of the visuals; they were incredible.

All day long, he preened, rolled & licked himself clean. But at the sight of the food, he decided game over, and took off the headset.

Being a cat was fun, but he could still feel a tail.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) May 13, 2023

"This toilet paper roll is my Time Locus. I return to this point and the amount of paper left shows how far ahead or behind my origin I am."

"Smart!"

The forest quiets after the time travelers disappear. A cat creeps out of hiding, eyeing the roll.#vsspic #scifansat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/V9qXEZXjIC

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) May 13, 2023

He grips his knife. No housecat will keep him from the woman sleeping in the bedroom.

Then he is pinned under 300 pounds of lioness.

Her breath is hot on his ear. “Mistress is descended of Pharaoh, as I am of Sekhmet. You have made a grave error.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) May 13, 2023

He was still as a #cat stalking prey as he watched the ship crash. It was a #grave #error to let her leave, but a #quality decision to send a spy with her. It brought her back to his realm…New Earth, where she belonged.

She would be his, again.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt #vss365 pic.twitter.com/BsT8sfKtgO

— Nancy E. Dunne📚 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈 (@nancyd_writes) May 13, 2023

*Huge Sale*
The best quality cat pressure suits are available in our online shop! Don't leave your furry feline behind on your next spacewalk!
Buy Now, and get 1 frog-sized pressure suit ABSOLUTELY FREE!#vss365 #SciFanSat #SciFiSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) May 13, 2023

Once fed the new stellar information, the ship's analytical device produced a map of uncanny quality of this region of space.
Today, we found the location of an aquatic planet where cats were outcasted by a race of hairless monkeys. We'll free them.#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/QaJ7Slo6Vy

— Baltar Xinzo (@BaltarXinzo) May 13, 2023

The #cat was early. Or so it seemed. It was not yet Saturday. But he had a time machine and a ray gun. And all I had was a book by HG Wells and a comic called Eagle. But the cat loved to read and settled down in a curl on my lap while I blasted the telly with his gun.#scifansat

— PatchieSteve (@PatchieSteve) May 12, 2023