“Eclipse”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

It was on the North Pole at the lunar #eclipse, that I proposed; 6mths after the last one, & when we’d first met.

Beautiful as ever—with a #twinkle in her left knee eye, she said yes! & like magic—the northern lights made her green skin brighter. #vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— Fizzy AllsortsOfAllsorts (@Fizzytwizler) August 5, 2023

She whispered
"of destiny"
with night falling
and the first
glimmering twinkles
of blue dots
in the sky
Conversing
unchained forever
Heaven and Hell
on the docket
haunting eclipse
in her pocket
Worn words
hesitantly spilling
that take another try#SciFanSat #vss365 #BrknShards pic.twitter.com/GnDLKD10e9

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) August 5, 2023

It’s the hour of our demise. The blood moon weeps its final #eclipse , as man has all but decimated the galaxy with their space junk & toxic breath. Come hand in hand, we will stroll to the Valley of No Return & melt into the loam that was once our home. #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/HOFSczoazi

— Spyder Collins (@Spyder_Collins) August 5, 2023

We watched the start of the eclipse, the sun going black. A collective gasp from the crowd. The birds fell silent. And I remembered the legends of a jaguar devouring the sun, how our ancestors thought the world was ending. #SciFanSat #eclipse

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) August 5, 2023

#SciFanSat #vss365
She could feel it in the air, a twinkling electricity that made every breath a struggle. Magic humming in her very bones to make them ache.

And running through her with icy dread, the knowledge that the eclipse was only two days away. She wasn’t ready. Not…

— R.S.Bass is writing (@RebBassWrites) August 5, 2023

I heard the #orphan's voice through the locked #door, #singing sotto voce. "#Twinkle, twinkle little star…"

Despite the #gruesome changes the experiments had made to her, nothing could #eclipse her childhood innocence.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssMagic #SciFanSat #vssGhostTales pic.twitter.com/zLlR8tEWej

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) August 5, 2023

One universe passed in front of another in the infinite void. The multiversal eclipse cast half of each universe into darkness, save for the corona, which flickered around the smaller one like the twinkling of affection in a great cosmic eye.#vss365 #scifansat #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) August 5, 2023

Time dilation has probably #eclipse-d our love story. She's fifty years old by now. I'm still twenty-six. Traveling with space merchants has been tough. She knows I'd be coming. I trudge down the ramp. There she is. My heart jumps. She's as beautiful as ever.#SciFanSat#satsplat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) August 5, 2023

I trick the orphan under the noonday eclipse. Chanting magic, I pluck out my adopted son’s soul and replace it with another. The dead son I’d birthed awakes in his body.

A simple, if gruesome exchange, I thought.

Until a newborn ghost screams in terror.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) August 5, 2023

I ride a wave of interstellar bling
the view from the cabin
a #twinkle in the eye
as the champagne supernova floats by
a mindful #eclipse
like a bag of chips
from a café on Earth
reminds me of someone I was
grown old and bitter
love is a word peculiar to Earth#SciFanSat #vss365 pic.twitter.com/bRLEjwYrwB

— Isabella du Lac – working on manuscript (@IsabelladuLac1) August 5, 2023

The server android stretches (as she's learnt) and pretends to awaken. The humans still sleep—their snuffles and breath, endearing. The moon eclipse is full, the darkness complete. She stares to the north, follows three flashes and a #twinkle.
They've arrived.#scifansat#vss365

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) August 5, 2023

When the full eclipse of the moon makes stars twinkle brighter, tiny fairies emerge from the holes inside concrete blocks. They make bespoke pinstripe suits for each other out of pine needles and discarded napkins, and formally dance the pas de deux.#vss365 #SciFanSat #SciFiSat

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) August 5, 2023

The eclipse would mark the End Times. There was a twinkle of love in his wise eyes as we held the strange amulet in our clasped hands. Chaos & annihilation would ensue, but the message etched in metal would endure: 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒊#vss365#satsplat#WeirdMicro#SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/LGC81NVVi2

— Andi Marchal, Author (@AndiMarchal) August 5, 2023

slowly at first the
eclipse of pleasant
feelings discerned
only by a loss in
peek owl's golden
flecks retreating
eyes lit lurid pink
dots of fright they
vanish altogether#SciFanSat#poem #vss

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) August 5, 2023

Orphan of the gruesome first bombardment, she was too young, but we handed her Tom's M4 and let her fight. Revenge twinkled in her eye when the next alien armada eclipsed the sun.

Here we go. Weapons free. Stupid time to fall in love.#SciFanSat #SatSplat #vss365 #2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/iCTZ23xXcH

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) August 5, 2023

Flashbacks of the #gruesome event on the night of the red #eclipse that made him an #orphan are clues to the portal that leads him to find the love of his life, who would also be the one that end him.#SciFanSat #Satsplat #2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/bjqLJobkkF

— Mindset Evolution (@justpasit0) August 5, 2023

Last revolt was a bloody mess, highlighted by a blood red lunar eclipse in the middle of battle. The twinkle in my eye was the sight of the giant orgy that immediately ensued. Peace through lusty superstition. Sometimes I love my job. Praise Bob.#bravewrite #scifansat #vss365

— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) August 5, 2023

Worldwide frequencies
were jammed by alien vessel
on approach to Earth

vast spherical shape
eclipsed sun as it drew near
caused great foreboding#SciFaikuSaturday (frequency) #SciFanSat (eclipse)#SciFi #haiku #SciFiSat #poetry

— Ryan Dowes (@RyanDowes) August 5, 2023

The best days are ahead?
Don't say that to an old person who lost so much time trying to keep it all together..
Except on the night of the eclipse, where one old woman with the right spellbook waits to slip upward – to fall & somehow be the better for it.#slamwords 3 #scifansat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) August 5, 2023

We longed to see the twinkle of stars again but the shield had eclipsed all. They told us it was for our own protection: space had turned on us and we needed to stay safe on Earth. But under perpetual night, suffocated by martial law, you couldn't help wonder. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Lexikon (@Lexikonical) August 5, 2023