“Date”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

A #lissome shadowy figure fell from a sudden portal; at the Presidents Oval Office, warning of a soon danger to Earth.

But before she could tell a #date, she was pulled back into the portal. As it vanished, a voice spoke, “Her warning is too late."#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) May 27, 2023

#Lissome
with a
weightless
vision of
mystery,
like the #opal
gems of
wonder
ascrided
to history,
as eons
passes by
centuries
fade,
seeking
wisdom that
stars cascade,
from ancient
myths to
present
state,
love
continues
to
intertwined
with#date#vss365 #SciFanSat #BrknShards pic.twitter.com/gbDsYV1wCf

— KING OF THE MEEK🏁🪐☄️ (@Efizipapa) May 27, 2023

We were passing through a region of temporal anomalies. In the cargo hold, it was the day after tomorrow. In engineering, it was Friday.
What's today's date? the captain said.
That depends, said the science officer.#SciFanSat #date

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) May 27, 2023

“Pretend you’re on a date,” he said, his long fingers on her shoulder squeezing. “You do cut a lissome figure in that dress. Slinky and svelte.”
Eyes narrowing, she wondered if she should be offended. The way the demon was grinning, she was sure she should be.#Scifansat #vss365

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) May 27, 2023

i've been on my own for so long now
a single date, seriously?
Medjool! it is one of the best
super juicy!
you didn't mean to take me out
did you?
sorry malysh
i couldn't
my mind can do dreadful things#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) May 27, 2023

On the #anniversary of her death I open the album
A #page I've never seen before slips out, bearing the scent of her perfume & today's #date
"It's TIME you learn the truth"
Is written in her #lissome cursive
Startled, I look up
"Mom?"#vss365 #SciFanSat#2WordPrompt #satsplat pic.twitter.com/3i6mTJZxds

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 📚 SPFBO9 Author (@debbieiancu) May 27, 2023

A #date falls in the rift between midnight & the second to follow, & today isn't today anymore, but tomorrow & tomorrow is the day after. Maybe one day a #lissome tree laden with events will rise from the crevice, & we'll know of the things that were to happen.#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/imMflaFaKQ

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) May 27, 2023

A #lissome figure sidled into the seat opposite me, bony fingers placed a translator on the table.

I looked into his wide grey eyes, blinking rapidly. He sniffed toward me and licked his thin lips.

Another intergalactic blind date where I felt like prey.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) May 27, 2023

“May fourteenth,” he smiles tapping the calendar page, “a date I can’t forget!”

“Mom’s birthday?”

“No, the anniversary of our first date. Also of discovering I’d become a werewolf. And that she was into that.”

His daughter squints and flinches. “Awoo.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) May 27, 2023

After the incident, we could only restore gravity to 85 percent. We survived, but from that date forward, our children grew up lissome. They were doomed to a life lived within the metal walls of ship and station, unable to return to planet and its gravity. #vss365 #SciFanSat.

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) May 27, 2023

"Ten years," they told me. "Not a day more."

I should have checked today's #date. Android mobsters are both precise and ruthless. I don't have the payment ready. The two guys outside my door don't blink. They're too stiff. Maybe it's a coincidence, but…#satsplat #SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) May 27, 2023

"Such an auspicious #date," the Queen said. "Our #anniversary! I've asked the #Page to find us entertainment."#GrumpySwearyFairy sniggered.

"What?"

"He's booked a &*$%ing table at The #Lissome Wench strip joint."

The King tried to hide a grin.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #scifansat pic.twitter.com/TO9kHjGWkB

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) May 27, 2023

The shapeshifter chose a #lissome form, naive face and second-hand haute couture. She examined her new reflection: a passable shadow of his anima. The date would go well. He'd be smitten. And then? She practiced a smile, curving painted lips to reveal teeth.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) May 27, 2023

#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat
Her hatching was foretold, the long eroded date once carved on the chalk cliff where the lissome creature emerges from her egg & absorbs the fire of Sol’s glare. Her appetite whetted by a whiff of human spice, she tests her wings & flames scarlet. pic.twitter.com/eFPd4Nmkyw

— Cecily Winter: dreaming about writing again! (@winter_cecily) May 27, 2023

Her face was lissome enough to reinforce a smile even though she wasn't feeling it.
Useful on dates, which she struggled to enjoy even when she liked someone.
She'd never visibly broke. Not on Proxima, not here. Maybe it would help her coast to a smile at ease.#scifansat #vss365

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) May 27, 2023

They told us never date sirens from Epsilon-4. Despite their alluring voices, they were real man-eaters, but I was sure Euterpe was different, not to mention she had asked me out. So I was terrified and exhilarated when, fangs bared, she leaned in for a kiss.#SatSplat#SciFanSat

— Scurra Ignavus (@ScurrasFolly) May 26, 2023

These #lissome bodies made of myth and shadow, the feral hunters in the bowels of the ship, we call them cats for they remind us of Earth we left behind. The #date we picked this infestation up eludes the record, but our trip around Pegasus is most suspect. #SciFanSat #vss365

— Laila Amado 🇺🇦 (@onbonbon7) May 27, 2023

"Our first step on an extrasolar world! A new page in history! A date never to be forgotten! Forever, they'll mark this anniversary."

The creature emerged from the fog, lissome, serpentine, advancing on the open door to our craft.#Vss365#SatSplat#SciFanSat#2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/RFGu0ZDJja

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) May 27, 2023

Translator wrapped an arm around my shoulders as we looked at the #water in the crystal clear lake. "Some #date," I said, smirking at him.

"Is today wrong? Would tomorrow have been better?" His eyes were wide…and worried.

"No, I mean…never mind."#SciFiFri #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/IhcFToVC0P

— Nancy E. Dunne📚 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈 (@nancyd_writes) May 27, 2023

Drenched in sweat, her #lissome form moved with precision
Evading lasers and hacking security, she reached the vault.
The #date was set—#solve the puzzle, access the #strength-enhancing serum, inject herself & evolve before he comes for her#vss365#whistpr#SciFanSat#vssfantasy pic.twitter.com/0X5gGLTYcV

— Keren Kassian (@PriestessOfPen) May 27, 2023