“Mouse”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

In a world where mice have evolved to possess paranormal abilities, a #wistful witch dangerously opens a wormhole, in a bid to find her missing familiar.

Shockingly she finds her #mouse forced to work with a gang of terrifying ghost cats—on Earth. #vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) May 20, 2023

Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock.
Wistful for a time before it was bound by the monotony of the endless cycle, it channeled the clock’s power to open a portal.
The mouse ran through, back to its carefree childhood.
Hickory dickory dock.#vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) May 20, 2023

She pressed deeper into her cramped hiding place, mind casting about for comfort. Wishing she was home and safe. This wasn’t her fight or her world.
Wistful dreams and nothing more.
“Little mouse.” The laughter raked up her spine and sent her heart racing.#scifansat #vss365

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) May 20, 2023

I can’t sell the house, because of the mice.

They escaped forty years ago, as smart and long lived as humans. My walls became their sanctuary. I, the keeper of their secret.

Three generations. Two dozen families.

And the lab is still hunting them.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) May 20, 2023

There's a mouse in the basket with the cat toys!
Please don't hurt me, he said. I'm really a prince. Free me and you can save the world. You will have fame and fortune, too.
And where are the cats? Sleeping in the sun.
Is this what they are dreaming?#SciFanSat #mouse

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) May 20, 2023

"The Prince," the new maid said,"has retired to his #secret #sanctuary feeling #wistful. Even a #mouse couldn't find him!"

A sound echoed.

"He's gone," said #GrumpySwearyFairy. "to void his bowels. Open a &^!$ing wall, let some air in."#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat pic.twitter.com/1CtNOcYxzR

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) May 20, 2023

Narr touched his shoulder. "How are you feeling?"
How would a #mouse feel that has just been shoved around by a panther's playful paws for what felt like hours? Vindt shot a #wistful glance at the arrow in Narr's hand. This one up the panther's ass.
"Fine."#SciFanSat #vss365

— Thelma 🖊️ 📖 🖤 (@ThelmaMantey) May 20, 2023

"Look at her," I said, smiling #wistfully. "Quiet as a #mouse, lugging her big teddy. Where's she off to with that thing?"

He frowned at me. "That road goes to the old quarry."

"Oh, should we warn her?"

"Honey, there's no one there."#vss365 #scifansat #Satsplat #vsspic pic.twitter.com/y2mCRq5A2p

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) May 20, 2023

The image of a mouse holding its snout in one paw and staring off toward the horizon has a faded charm. The Wistful Mouse, an equally tired-yet-appealing coaching inn is open. Light and noise spills from its windows as we turn from the darkness of the highway.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) May 20, 2023

They encarcerated my family because we can communicate with all forms of nature and spirits. Only I wasn't captured.

I've trained this #mouse to travel through pipes and deliver parts to the prisoners. They will form them into tools they can use to escape.#SciFanSat#satsplat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) May 20, 2023

By day, the lost skyship’s crew felt the agonizing clench in their stomachs as their foggy eyes gazed #wistfully at tiny bones in the empty cooking pot, then recalled the awaiting nightly infestation, when ghostly rats overran the ship.#YA#SciFanSat#SciFiSat #SatSplat#vss365 pic.twitter.com/tVPwlqwHyw

— Peter J Gilbertson (@PeteJGilbertson) May 20, 2023

#SciFanSat #Vss365 #SatSplat
The last mammalian survivors on Earth—lab mice, foxes, and a handful of wistful humans, hardier and more adaptable than most—fed on grubs & those ghouls risen from the brittle bones of the long buried. The taste was acquired, the calcium crucial.

— Cecily Winter: dreaming about writingagain! (@winter_cecily) May 20, 2023

He stalked the alley, growling, “The secret dies with you.” Crouched in a dumpster, putrid sanctuary, mouse to his feral cat, I pushed off wistful memories: before his fall. I had to warn them all: Spirits were real and claimed the unwary#2WordPrompt#VSS365#SatSplat#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/FIhrmEbNIU

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) May 20, 2023

'you don't look like a mouse'
doubtfully pressing left buttons
i squeak with pleasure
will reveal my true nature if
you give me your toothy grin i say
normally a sabre
would frighten my wheels
but it's been the longest time#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) May 20, 2023

By himself in the station for months, he thought of little else: the other inhabitant, a mouse, terrified him.
Then new settlers came, claiming corridors & making them pristine by dumping whatever they didn't want elsewhere.
He became so wistful for that mouse.#vss365 #scifansat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) May 20, 2023

He looked wistful? The s.o.b had been playing cat and mouse with me for months and now he looked sad it was over!
'This isn't how I wanted it to end.' He walked closer to my cage. 'I hoped you'd figure it out. And stop him.' His eyes flashed a deep red. Damnit. #SciFanSat #vss365

— Lexikon (@Lexikonical) May 20, 2023

Hawk and dove. Spider and fly. Wolf and deer.
My love and I have feasted on each other a thousand times. It's become an art form. One day, we'll be reborn into the same species and resume our relationship properly.
Until then… cat and mouse.#FridayKiss #satsplat #scifansat pic.twitter.com/qDpDiH0VZW

— Paul Briggs (@paulproofreader) May 20, 2023

I've seen things who mice wouldn't believe. Warships on fire falling in Aldebaran; the blind aquatic monsters of Triton; cities engulfed in radioactive fire. But I never heard of a planet where a mouse has to live in fear, hiding. I say those are Lies!#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/uQNfOSeqEG

— Baltar Xinzo (@BaltarXinzo) May 20, 2023

I saw a #mouse. It plagued my dreams during the long years of cryosleep. They said don't worry, but I couldn't let it go. As I wake to blaring alarms, I worry they were wrong; but duty sends me into the dark passageway. There, thousands of glittering eyes stare back.#scifansat

— Scurra Ignavus (@ScurrasFolly) May 20, 2023

#Mouse scampered across the #wistful garden, dodging rotted pumpkins and an eyeless scarecrow #created to terrify fools
Contemplating the #usumas shape he squeaked as it lurched into motion
Heart beating wildly he hid in a can#scifansat #vss365 #AchtenWrite #satsplat #SCIFIFRI pic.twitter.com/cCKzzSGito

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚 SPFBO9 (@debbieiancu) May 20, 2023