“End”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Unsure of closure
searching for an end
Metal words
imbued with treasure
that fate
could never bend
Paths paved
in brambles
Planets
born of stars
Dimensional collisions
embraced as if
they're ours #SciFanSat #end #SciFiFri #metal #vss365 #bramble #BrknShards #imbue pic.twitter.com/Ba00tAZWnN

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) August 12, 2023

#vss365 #SciFanSat
Skin prickling despite the humidity slicking his hair at his nape, he bent to grab his bike by the middle and pulled. The brambles that had held it fast only hours earlier, turned loose so quickly he went down on one knee in the dirt.

When his head lifted,…

— R.S.Bass is writing (@RSBasswrites) August 12, 2023

At the #end of the Milky Way line, there was a sign in many languages—Wait here for the shuttle to Andromeda
Here it comes! The girl cried.
They gathered their bags and a cat carrier.
What's in Andromeda? said the boy.
A new beginning, their mother said.#SciFanSat

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) August 11, 2023

"You humans took paradise and turned it to hell. The #end has come for your race."

The witch started her mission, traveling from town to town.
Each person she touched with her #gnarled hands let out a blood-curdling scream before turning to stone.#satsplat #SciFanSat #vss365

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) August 12, 2023

“Thus, in fire, fell mankind’s civilization.”

The children are silent for a minute after his tale, until the youngest speaks. “Is that the end of our story?”

The dragon looks at the nine human survivors. “No endings, younglings. Only new beginnings.”#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) August 12, 2023

Yes, the #end
apocalypse
if you prefer
came
in a silent fall
& w/o a stir
Darkness swept in
with an eerie bite
A stark emptiness
not a soul in sight
Labor now
ur sins
time is done
Purgatory’s perch
w/o a rising sun
science
humanity drowns
forsaken & shunned#SciFanSat 🎨rhys pic.twitter.com/KBAjwZFxQa

— Spyder Collins (@Spyder_Collins) August 12, 2023

Memo: Will the last one out of the universe at the end of each reality please remember to turn off the stars?

Thank you,

Management#SciFanSat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) August 12, 2023

almost believe they are gone
so much like a still life
the end shining with illusion
plus a certain set of fears
and now your mind
is filled with other things
will you never be satisfied?#SciFanSat#poem #poetry

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) August 12, 2023

The #bramble I was hiding in blazed in the #torrent of magic. I was going to die. They'd won.

A dragon rose from the smoking ashes, belching fire.

"This is not the #end," it said to me. "Time to write a #new #story."

The mages fled.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssMagic #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/iDozkVl5Gu

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) August 12, 2023

The android crouches under a mat of dead #brambles. Above her, fire and smoke scrape a great X in the sky.
“I can hear the sound of the end,” she writes.
It seems poetically pertinent to use these words—her ex-Twitter friends will appreciate them.
But what now?#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) August 12, 2023

I tread the storied bramble path
Dark spirit waiting at the end.
He wields an old temptation: wrath
But I repent, and so transcend,
My new advice in aftermath?
The gentler way I much commend.#vss365 #SciFanSat #SatSplat #2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/FeLjzefC7Y

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) August 12, 2023

With a last gasp, the engine died. Getting out, she ran her hand over the hood, tears streaming. The sinking sun softened, as the wind sighed. Like her dad on distant Ganymede, his beloved car had reached the end of the road.#microstory #mywords #SciFanSat#art by Jason Abbott pic.twitter.com/JzToGLRtKx

— (Quiet) Storm ☽✪☾ (@MadQueenStorm) August 12, 2023

She's trembled like this before the dragon woke up. But now as she lays on her back unable to catch her breath, the end feels like something she can't push out of her mind. Fire's everywhere.
'This is not fine,' she says to the sky – and at the dragon's eye.#SciFanSat #Satsplat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) August 12, 2023

#vss365 #sciFanSat
End of Times warnings stir no panic, no rapture madness. People leave their home to brambles & decay & walk hand-in-hand w/ strangers to the closest beach. Crowded on hot sand & rock, they raise eyes to a leaden sky & mourn the lost beauty of clouds & gulls. pic.twitter.com/VYvJawgH4c

— Cecily Winter: revising a heap of stuff! (@winter_cecily) August 12, 2023

Crawl to the end of the bramble patch and emerge into a tiny clearing filled with dappled light. There's lush green grass and a toadstool table & acorn chairs where hornéd green fairies and baby skunks play Texas Hold'em, betting snail rides and shiny pebbles.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) August 12, 2023

I suffle through dreams of people and replace those with nightmares. A baby cries in sleep. A girl screams. Air is heavy with desolation of people. Terror reigns. Peace #ends. Kids stop believing in fairies. #Brambles are full of bodies of fairies.#vss365 #satsplat #SciFanSat

— Bithi Paul (@BithiPaulAuthor) August 12, 2023

She emerged from the brambles as the UFO rose, a mission over with this epic deliverance. A human, her warnings unheeded, now mutated into an instrument of annihilation, heralding the end a planet plaguing the universe#vss365#vssparanormal#SciFanSat#TemptingOutFate#SatSplat pic.twitter.com/PdUVuWOKPM

— Andi Marchal, Author (@AndiMarchal) August 12, 2023

Beyond #brambles and cattails
on Antebellum Lane
A Civil War crazed host
remains

Colonel Crawdad
pretends friends
He greets fishers of his swamp
then tosses them in

He feigns surprise
so few swim
and suppers #end with him
pinching off pieces of them#vss365#satsplat#scifansat pic.twitter.com/ngO6NYHQTo

— Edward ✍🏽🏃🏾‍♂️Fuller (@fuller_edward) August 12, 2023

He wished to get up & take her into his arms, cling to her as he had done when Overse was still a child, the few times he had lapsed, when his armor had cracked, when the wish to #end it all was all he could think of, but he couldn’t act on it bc he had made a promise.#SciFanSat

— Thelma 🌊OCEAN'S BLOOD🩸 is out! (@ThelmaMantey) August 12, 2023

The world re-woke on a Wednesday. A crystal orb shattered, letting loose a dream spirit. It filled the void of the lonely & enhanced those in love. Most knew it was a delusion but it worked. All refused to track it down because all agreed it was better not to end#SciFanSat #end

— DW Keene (@Dragonandelf) August 12, 2023