“Interchange”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

At the cosmic station, a #cephalopod greeted me.
“Recruit?” “B6 sir,” I replied.
“Let’s dive in!"
Instantly our minds #interchange; I gasp seeing inside a deep ocean.
“When you see the mermaid—choose wisely the element, to block her magic spear.”#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) July 1, 2023

The squad of #cephalopods had to use the underwater #interchange. Their next stop is the #cool ocean of Europa to fight in the ongoing battle for Jupiter. When the portal reached unity, they were gone. All that remained was inky shadows. #SciFanSat #vss365 #BrknShards pic.twitter.com/hy9C8651b3

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) July 1, 2023

Traffic through the wormhole was like a highway interchange—on ramps, off ramps, detours, accidents, construction delays. To the captain, it looked like a golden dragon, winding through the dark. #SciFansat #interchange

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) June 30, 2023

Someone had used the sign for target practice, but the black cephalopod was still plain under the angry gash of a mouth someone had painted on.
Telling herself one town was as interchangeable as another didn’t help either.
Not when the town was a rift town.#scifansat #vss365

— R.S.Bass is writing (@RSBasswrites) July 1, 2023

In this #cool
liquid
realm
where
lifespan
holds no
range,
may we
find solace
in a time to #interchange,
for like the #cephalopod
we adapt and
grow,
Navigating the
tides that ebb
and flow.#vss365 #BrknShards #SciFanSat #WritingCommunity
📸 Maria Tiurina pic.twitter.com/2HOjyFnLRZ

— KING OF THE MEEK🏁🪐☄️ (@Efizipapa) July 1, 2023

We #interchange worlds. The #cephalopod-like beings now see our sun & moon rise, they build homes in our oceans & deserts. We live in their wireframe world, in their vertex cities & line countries. We meet after an eon, only to happily interchange worlds again.#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/RJZ3qc9axq

— Arvind Iyer (@ArvindIyer15) July 1, 2023

We’re long past warranty. Only one half-functioning power core between us. Thank goodness for interchangeable parts!

Gone is his silver android body, replaced with a boxy chassis like mine.

But here is another sunrise. Our service graspers entwine.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) July 1, 2023

On every world, the cephalopods disappear like magic. Transported back to the mothership, they interchange the secrets of a thousand thousand species. Soon, the great one will rise. Soon, the invasions will begin. #vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) July 1, 2023

-Never met an alien I didn’t like
-What about them jalapeño squirters who aim for your eye?
-Okay, hate them
-And them cephalopods who smash their spaceship into ours like bumper cars?
-Hate them too
-The prickly ones who interchange with chairs?
-Ow!#SciFanSat #SciFiSat #vss365

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) July 1, 2023

The roads cross in layers, cars passing overhead, passengers lost in their journey-dreams. It's a great octopus, a #cephalopod interchange, lights flashing past on its concrete limbs. And here, underneath amidst the weeds and discarded detritus we are all eyes#scifansat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) July 1, 2023

"Did you #remember," he yelled, "to #replace and rewire the hyperdrive #interchange? I need it #function-al to outrun these raiders…"

He hit the button, and Dave and the #Cephalopods' latest ballad came over the intercom.

"Oh shi…"#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) July 1, 2023

mode altered slippage
really believing i would
this different thing
i could not
add nor interchange
there is no moon in sight
crow dark night light
sees her soon
soft red glow through
the last thought
that others will think
you didn't do#SciFanSat#vss #poem

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) July 1, 2023

A dozen wormholes came together at the station. It functioned like an interchange between systems. Aliens who looked like cephalopods dined with aliens who could do magic. But none of them could replace the woman I left behind.#2WordPrompt#SciFanSat#vss365#SatSplat

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) July 1, 2023

He set the rodent and the bird on the counter and poured a liquid over them. Fog enveloped the creatures. When the plumes cleared, a mouse with a beak and wings took two steps and flew off.

"Are you a mage?"

"No, I just know how to #interchange molecules.#satsplat #SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) July 1, 2023

“Alien Interchanges”

crop circles came first
uplifting human thinking
knowledge eggs came next
opening interchanges
with our alien kinfolk#SciFanSat #interchange#Tanka#Poetry#SciFi
🎨 Pixabay | ImaArtist (egg); iStock (crop circle) pic.twitter.com/zLdw56f1Vg

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) July 1, 2023

No choice with the interchange implant, but 'There hasn't been a fatality for a year.'
Glitches though.
First, her clothes switch with someone else's – theirs soaked in blood.
Next, her clothes remain upright in line as she walks naked in blinding light.#vssghosttales #SciFanSat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) July 1, 2023

“Would it work on me?” I ask, eyeing the illicit #cephalopod ink.
“Yes,” he replies. “The ink reacts to psychoactive structures in the parietal cortex. The area is known as the ‘reptile’ brain. Humans and vodyanoy share nearly interchangeable reptile brains.”#vss365 #scifansat

— Eric Gallant (@eric_gallant) July 1, 2023

Interchange information, is our final duty.
“We found one planet suitable for an outpost. It's inhabited by multiple lifeforms, most of them edible, but not tasty. One animal believes to be intelligent. Human, they're called. It can easily be eradicated.”
“Proceed.”#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/X0UKsqLQtu

— Baltar Xinzo (@BaltarXinzo) July 1, 2023

We’re at the Sol Interchange, facing down a cranky old Earther who won’t approve our cargo—a shipment of cephalopods from Alpha Centauri, which are a coveted delicacy on Europa—unless we pay her a thousand credits under the table. Greedy damn bureaucrats.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) July 1, 2023

He'd drove all night on the massive highway & stopped to aid an old lady at the interchange, which resembled the arms of a cephalopod. He was hurried. She'd felt his angst & touched his hand. She said, "Close your eyes." He was home when they opened. #Satsplat #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) July 1, 2023