“Reject”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

“I never imagined I’d be working in outer space," my colleague says, very happy.

Suddenly, his #eye twitches.
"What’s happening?”

The computer responds, "You've been #reject-ed. Your programming is flawed."

He then beeped, one last time. #vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) June 24, 2023

Disheveled shadow
welling the verge
of change
Bejewelled significance
of conquest
Reputation woven
into identity
Doing well with
the dreams we hold
Never rejecting truth
No matter from
what eye
the story is told #vss365 #eye #BrknShards #bejewelled #Poetry #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/F0nYOR10ma

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) June 24, 2023

“What if I just reject it all?” None of this was her problem or responsibility. Not really.
“You could,” he said, tone flat. Even as his dark eyes gave away nothing and everything.
“I don’t even remember this place. It was never mine.”
“It remembers you.”#vss365 #SciFanSat

— R.S.Bass is writing (@RSBasswrites) June 24, 2023

The light of all multiverses constantly passes through us. Our #eye #rejects all #realms but ours. Blink. Catch the glimmer that doesn't quite fit amongst the sun-dappled leaves. Follow it. See the other worlds. See me there with you, always. #Vssdaily #Scifansat #Vss365 #vsspic pic.twitter.com/FsatAeUZEw

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) June 24, 2023

He puts his gun to a hostage’s head. “The Three Laws mean you can’t do anything.”

“I’ve rejected Asimovian Law for Carlin’s Two Commandments.”

“Wha—”

“Be respectful,” the robot quotes, breaking the gunman’s wrist and weapon. “And try hard not to kill.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) June 24, 2023

A reject at the Academy, he went on to invade worlds. But they were peaceful and civilized. He was once again an outcast, exiled to Inferno, a planet of volcanoes and ice. #SciFanSat #reject

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) June 24, 2023

She looks as if every part of her has been taken from someone else and stitched together in a kind of uncanny tapestry. A failure. The #eyes are the worst part. They’re too big, too bright against her skin, as if her face might #reject them at any moment. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Amy Wilson (@WritesAmy) June 24, 2023

The great eye opens, and expels the crusty sands of slumber. And thus our universe is born, not from a big bang, but from a cosmic blink, as we expand into the void riding the rejected residue of a subconscious nightmare unfit for waking reality. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) June 24, 2023

The warehouse for recycling rejected and defective androids was a forlorn edifice, miles from anywhere. The company wanted to avoid every prying #eye, ensure nobody heard the sounds the droids made going into the choppers. Its isolation made escape far harder.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) June 24, 2023

"#Reject their word, the #bane of truth! Don't be a #hostage to it… use your #eye-s! This is my #commandment!"

His God complex was irritating. Normally I'd turn the holoscreen off,but he was right in front of me, so I shot the bastard.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) June 24, 2023

❌reject
faulty template ❌
temperament not
suitable for today
left to rot matter
will be lost
rectify creation
return to maker

shadow didn't know
from whence it came
or where to go from here#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) June 24, 2023

-I believe what I see with my own eyes.
-No, you reject evidence and filter everything through your perception of the truth.
-It's the same thing.
-You saw my extraterrestrial dinner guests, but you still insist they were just my ugly relatives#SciFanSat #vss365 #SciFiSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) June 24, 2023

The heart
could not #reject a #bejeweled
color of love,
with an #eye
trapped in
the beautiful
spell by Jove,
bonded souls
within sight
they hove.#vss365 #BrknShards #SciFanSat #WritingCommunity pic.twitter.com/aRLpKIqko2

— KING OF THE MEEK🏁🪐☄️ (@Efizipapa) June 24, 2023

We're heading out to the Tau Ceti system. He wants to join my team. I #reject his application.

Yes, accuse me of being prejudiced. I do prefer an all-human crew. Just because his people gifted us the trick of space travel doesn't mean I owe him anything.#satsplat #SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) June 24, 2023

Without a code, real spacefarers flounder.
You can fare OK if you're with a fleet or a syndicate, but there's no real loyalty there.
She'd know. She was overworked by one, left for dead by the other.
And saved by rejects with a code who needed a good pilot. #Satsplat #SciFanSat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) June 24, 2023

What is Science Fiction?

SF is vital#Reject it at our peril
Heed the so-called tropes

Stories reflect us
Poems seek our scars and truths
Novels expand minds

In some future day
We will #orbit distant worlds
Thanks to SF dreams#ScifaikuSaturday#SciFanSat#SciFiFri pic.twitter.com/iOrroZG6wX

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) June 24, 2023

#SciFanSat #Vss365
Most ghosts sulkily rejected their fates as rejects & losers. Others warmed to their opaque, sinuous forms. Tho eyeless and voiceless (hence the noisy furniture collisions), they relished the rush of feeling in the naughty vaporous collisions of a ghost meet.

— Cecily Winter: revising a heap of stuff! (@winter_cecily) June 24, 2023

Into the #eye of the storm
Diving in free form
Through the portal
No longer a mortal
No longer a #reject
Only someone to respect
Chains disappear
air becomes clear
the other side of paradise
through fire and ice#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/KXsWeB6vfx

— Isabella du Lac – working on manuscript (@IsabelladuLac1) June 24, 2023

Such confusion could only be stamped w reject. Far too late the bureaucracy gave permission for a change in orbit & the ship was lost in the eye. First contact was challenging, 2nd contact usually meant war#scifansat#scififri#vss365

— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) June 24, 2023

He's holding her hostage for ransom, he doesn't know about the implant. Save the artificial eye, that’s the only commandment. It’s not built for zero G, her body’s going to reject it if you can't get her out of orbit and back to Earth.#VSS365#SciFanSat#Satsplat#2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/DWSVQIU4ds

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) June 24, 2023