The boy spoke, amazed and terrified. “They call you a second stringer, but you’re my favorite monster.” Under its jagged carapace, sixty-thousand tons of beaten, unconscious kaiju rasped a breath. “Because you never give up.” A truck-sized eye, opened. “Not ever.” #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 09-FEB-26 is: Yard & Vacation #Prompt

The minisub swept jagged monoliths with a silty beam of light. “Thousand-foot structures,” the pilot said. “There’s—” A swarm of humanoid blurs surged from abyssal shadows. ⁂ “DEEP-1, report,” radioed the surface. “What’s happening?” Static. #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 08-FEB-26 is: Slender & Ten #Prompt

Beside a cerulean sea, there is a walled city of white marble. Overlooking its harbor of sailing ships, my wife still sculpts and sings. It’s a place I find in rare dreams now, since she died. At the entrance to her studio, I beg to stay. “Not yet,” she answers, as I awaken. #SciFanSat #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 07-FEB-26 is: Rhythm & Justify #Prompt

Tim Tran’s Auto-Magic Marching Band powered on for the judges. Little more than instrument robots with legs, they clattered into a cacophonous rendition of “Uptown Funk”. All were off-rhythm and off-key, but he winced hearing one particularly bad unit. The cymbal of his defeat. #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 06-FEB-26 is: Hefty & Treat #Prompt

“Do you have a plan?” “I came prepared to rescue a prince from a dragon,” the lady knight answers, “not save a dragon turned human from the prince that stole his dragonhood.” “I, don’t want to remain human.” She lingers on his emerald eyes. “Is it so awful?” #vss #sff

“Last Stand at the Gate” Art by me for February’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of ENTRANCE! Authors, 14 days remain until submissions are due on February 19th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 05-FEB-26 is: Prepare & Thick #Prompt

I’m a boy of ten after the timequake. My family is thirty years younger too. A modern reboot of my childhood. But only I obstinately remember the old reality… and a wife lost to erased future past. She finds me in gym class. Also ten. Also remembering. #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 04-FEB-26 is: Hunger & Fix #Prompt

I search the still smoldering caravan with regret. Another atrocity in the wasteland. Another crime committed by the cruel remnant of my nation. She hides in a jasmine bush. A child. An orphaned survivor. I offer open arms, the self-orphaned son of her enemy. #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 03-FEB-26 is: Darken & Isolate #Prompt

Calling all writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy and More: The doors are open for submissions to February’s #SciFanSat issue with its theme of ENTRANCE until 02.19.2026 at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

“We’re driving a busload of freshly armed teen schoolgirls on a rescue mission through a city overrun by giant, cybernetic, chainsaw spiders,” she says. “Are we mad?” The bus driver grins over his shoulder, passing the teacher a shotgun. “What, me worry?” #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 02-FEB-26 is: Protect & Mirror #Prompt

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 01-FEB-26 is: Zone & Alarm #Prompt

AVAILABLE NOW: The January issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out! Enjoy thrills and chills aplenty with cool stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More from the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow at scifansat.com! Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers... just like you!

They say dream mages aren’t fit for battle. That we don’t command tangible powers like fire or lightning. It’s true: My dominion is the sleeping realm. As they draw their swords, I open the entrance to it. Their sleep is blissful. My knife makes it eternal. #SciFanSat #vss #sff

“There’s no way you’ll get #SciFanSat published in time! Your issue will freeze before you reach the first marker!”

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 31-JAN-26 is: Worth & Season #Prompt

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 30-JAN-26 is: Try & Since #Prompt

“Explorers” My January #SciFanSat cover art for our ice-themed issue coming out this Saturday. Beyond my love of #SFF pulp covers, this piece was inspired by a simple question to myself: Why is it always a caveman frozen in ice? That evolved into this improbable meeting of women explorers.

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 29-JAN-26 is: Improve & Promise #Prompt

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 28-JAN-26 is: Patient & Detect #Prompt

Rest in peace, go in power, Alex Pretti. We will carry on the fight. --Street art by Topsy.

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 27-JAN-26 is: Telephone & Possible #Prompt

After two hours of snow removal today in temperatures well below freezing, my toes were so cold it felt like walking on broken glass. People say cats don't care. But mine watched me struggle to change my socks, then laid down on my frigid feet as I shivered on the couch. She is still there.

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 26-JAN-26 is: Quiet & Glow #Prompt

I'm getting snowed in tonight and all day tomorrow... so it's a great time to watch another one of my favorite films.

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 25-JAN-26 is: Taste & Shallow #Prompt

Subfreezing temperatures today and tomorrow, and a major snowstorm on the way for Monday. Time for the movie my mom let me watch when I was 9 and shouldn't have, yet remains one of my favorites.

A turret is leveled and speakers blare. “Border quarantine! Illegals, disperse immediately!” The zombies chasing us turn to the ICE droneboat following dead men’s orders. It machine-guns them as they leap onto its deck. Maria dives into the river. “Now’s our chance! Swim!” #SciFanSat #vss #sff

This is my fluffy cat, Nephthys.

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 24-JAN-26 is: Parent & Term #Prompt

Nothing is extravagant on grandpop’s freighter. Everything’s old. The food dispenser only serves chili. The hyperdrive is a cobbled monster… and faster than anything made in fifty years. They don’t make them like they used to. Just like grandpop. #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 23-JAN-26 is: Thanks & Bay #Prompt

Authors! If you’ve got a manuscript of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More you want to send in, don’t freeze-up! Grab some hot chocolate because #SciFanSat submissions don’t close until 11:59 PM EST tonight at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

He died fighting for the Confederacy. I met my end helping other slaves escape. Oh, we were feuding ghosts for a century. But forever is a long time. We forgave. We moved on. We kissed. We’re an odd couple, but we flourish… haunting the plantation as lovers. #vss #sff

“Cryokinetic Awakening” Art by me for January’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of ICE! Authors, submissions are due tonight by 11:59 pm EST for the new issue next Saturday. Full details available at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 22-JAN-26 is: Demand & Week #Prompt

The engineer shook his smartphone looking at the metaphysical naturalist. “There’s no signal out here and— what are you doing?” “Listening for changes,” Phil answers, ear to a tree. “The cellulose network always has a signal.” The druid points west. “They’re walking a mile that way.” #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 21-JAN-26 is: Notice & Virus #Prompt

Writers! Despite our icy theme this month, now is not the time to chill! Two days remain to get your manuscripts of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More into #SciFanSat at scifansat.com/landing.html before submissions close on January 22nd! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

“Are you steampunk Iron Man?” “Iron? I implore you to not assume, Old Bean. This suit is orichalcum clockwork!” “Powered by unobtainium?” “No, vibranium perpetual motion and cavorite thrusters.” “And the blaster beams?” “Corbomite reactions!” #vss #sff

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 20-JAN-26 is: Wait & Toe #Prompt

Last call to the published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Time is running out and only three days remain to vote for your favorite piece and author that you’d like to see win the 2025 Bartleby B. Boar Award! The Best of the Year peer poll closes at 11:59 PM EST on January 22nd.

Her finger glides along the flat of the crystal blade. Gripping its ornate metal hilt, the young woman holds it aloft. “Sharp as glass,” says the crone, “hard as diamond.” She gazes through opaline translucence. “Beautiful.” “A hero’s sword… Shardsteel!” #vss #sff