I spear marshmallows on sticks. The ember fox watches as they toast above him. He yips and gobbles one. I don’t mind. I share from the bag until it’s empty. Then he curls up, nose under his fire-plume tail. I sleep beside a friend’s warmth. It’s magical. #SciFanSat #vss #sff

Yes, there’s a human drive to reach for the stars, but what happens after we fulfill that goal? The 22 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #FULFILL ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 22-NOV-25 is: Solid & Utility #Prompt

Submissions are now closed for November’s #SciFanSat issue, and we have begun assembling it for publication on Saturday, 11.29.2025. Many thanks to all the writers and poets who submitted pieces! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy

Got mine in last night! It's a longer piece, but I'm really proud of it and nervous/excited to see if it gets in!

Just a few hours left to get your stories in to the fantastic #SciFanSat magazine for this month. I've just submitted a piece of flash fiction that is kind of a crossover and has two old friends, character wise, from different universes I've been writing... 👀 👽🐲

Authors! If you still have a manuscript of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More you want to send in, it’s time to burn the midnight oil because #SciFanSat submissions close at 11:59 PM EST tonight at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

“Fireside” Art by me for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! Writers, 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

Just submitted a short story that I'm very excited about for @scifansat.bsky.social 's 28th issue "Fire" I hope it's as fun to read as it was to write!

Last call to the published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Be sure to vote for your favorite piece in the issue twenty-seven peer review poll! Light a warm candle for your favorite writer before voting closes on November 20th, and October’s Bartleby B. Boar Nomination is determined!

“Firemare Paladin” Some extra art for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! I made this one in July of last year, and thought it turned out pretty epic. Authors, don’t get burned: 5 days remain to get your submissions in by 11:59 PM EST on November 20th!

Authors, the heat is on! Five days remain to get your manuscripts of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More into #SciFanSat before submissions close on November 20th at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

He thinks he’s suave in his Ray-Ban sunglasses. “Sorry,” he grins, “I can’t lie, I dig hot chicks!” “Uh-huh,” I nod. He puts on welding gloves and reaches into his pet carrier. Seeing red, flaming little birds, I squee. “Baby phoenixes!” This guy *is* suave. #SciFanSat #vss #sff

There are those who just look at you, but then there are some who can see straight into your soul! 👀 😳 The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #OBSERVE ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

Now trying to work up the *third* concept for a story to submit for the 'Fire' issue of @scifansat.bsky.social... the others just didn't get anywhere 😒. On a related note, does anyone know how to get forehead indentations out of a desk? Asking for a friend. #writerslife #amwriting #sciencefiction

“Encroaching Winter” Art by me for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! Authors, 7 days remain until submissions are due on November 20th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Writers, are you in dark doldrums? Grab a torch, grab a candle! Write by flickering light, as nine days remain to get your Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More to #SciFanSat before submissions close on November 20th at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 11-NOV-25 is: Tired & Wrong #Prompt

Published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Don’t wait until time is short and the heat is on to place your vote in the issue twenty-seven peer review poll! Nominate your favorite piece and author today and put them in the running for the 2025 Bartleby B. Boar Award!

We knap flint until evening. The woman makes fine arrowheads, I’m impressed. She smiles at my half-done spearpoint. I set wood. Placing a crystal, she sings a song of flame. Fire kindles. Sorcery! This woman surprises! I offer the warmth of my arms. We are no longer strangers. #SciFanSat #sff

Let’s get onboard for the stars or maybe for inner space! The 08 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #VESSEL ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

“Flame-Taught Witch” Art by me for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! Writers, 14 days remain until submissions are due on November 20th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

#2wordprompt #scifansat Every #legal dates cycle of each #monthly calendar sent most characters through burnt pages. Although, 1461 days kept battling February 29th curse to compete with at least four distinct Halloween street rushes on October 31st. Including tomorrow.

A new fire crops up, dancing across a peaked rooftop and along the city’s skyline of half-timbered buildings. Church bells toll as the flaming dragon leaps to the next gable, its long body a flaming arc. It turns. It sees him: A last hero against the inferno. #SciFanSat #vss #sff

The 01 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #SYSTEM ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

I was born in a village where it was #legal #monthly to have a a Halloween sacrifice, to ensure the gates of hell would open October 31st. Only I learnt today, being that today, I’m the sacrifice; that the orchestrators are the hidden in plain sight, aliens amongst us. #2wordprompt #scifansat

“Jack of the Lantern” Art by me for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! Writers, 21 days remain until submissions are due on November 20th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Calling all writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy and More: Submissions are open for November’s #SciFanSat issue until 11.20.2025 at scifansat.com/landing.html! Our theme this month is… FIRE! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Fly me to the moon 🎶🎶🎶

The newest edition of #SciFanSat (@scifansat.bsky.social) was out yesterday, and I'm proud to have two pieces in there; a Flash fiction revisiting some old friends, and a poem for my youngest called, appropriately enough, Daughter. Thanks as always to @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social and the SFS crew.💖

I’m over the moon my haiku sequence, “Children of the Moon,” is in the #SciFanSat October issue! The Moon’s odd characteristics have long intrigued me. When Apollo 12 crashed the LM onto the surface, the Moon “rang” seismically, because of its rigid, dry structure. WHAT IF someone put it there?

Delighted to have a poem in here this month ❤️

"As If" our common existences keep shuffling the destiny we all share every month on SciFanSat. Thanks for letting my "Closing Retina" poetry contribution along sides so many talented friends there! ❣️-- You! --❣️ bsky.app/profile/scif...

Pleased to share my poem featured in this lovely issue of #SciFanSat. To read it full, request you to please visit the site and show some love to fab Editor Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social It’s free…and a wealth of other moontastic contributions. #Oulens #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity

Totally psyched that my micro piece "Eidolon" is included in this fab magazine! 🌕 (I'm mostly off the grid for a few more days but will catch up with you lovely people soon!)

My story, a native American werewolf/skinwalker inspired morality tale, is included in this month's scifansat.com Happy Haloweeeeeeen

Delighted to be in SciFanSat Magazine again this month, with my flash science fiction story 'Harsh Mistress' - why not take a look? There's lot of other good writing there as well 😉

Thrilled to have a short story in this issue, Moon. I hope everyone who makes time to read "A Bloodmoon Lament" enjoys it!

From the staff of #SciFanSat and the alumni who voted for their favorite #SFF authors in the September poll, we congratulate A. A. Rubin - @thesurrealari.bsky.social - who earned a 2025 Bartleby B. Boar Nomination for their flash fiction, “True Confessions of Wizard School Dropouts”!

AVAILABLE NOW: The latest issue of #SciFanSat Magazine will send you to the moon and back at scifansat.com! Enjoy our spectacular selenic stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More! Many thanks to every contributing #SFF author, and to our readers... like you! #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy

“Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?” She takes a long drag off her cigarette. “Yes, all his steps are sinister,” the succubus answers. “Two left feet.” #SciFanSat #vss #sff

The 25 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #STRANGE or #STRANGER ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

E.L.-low economy tickets to the moon are now available, with departure commencing tomorrow on board #SciFanSat Lunar Tours. Passengers have their choice of aisle or window seating, and the in-flight music will be György Ligeti's “Lux Aeterna”. Join us for a moonwalking weekend!

“Lonely Planet” My October #SciFanSat cover art for the issue coming out this Saturday. I made this in December of last year, and the composition and subject were perfect for our “Moon” theme this month. It’s inspired by my memory of sitting on an icy cliff in the woods as a boy, lonely but awed.

When I'm reviewing #SciFanSat submissions and finish one that has absolutely nothing to do with the magazine's theme this month...

The Real Reason We Haven’t Returned to the Moon ©2025 Alan Vincent Michaels 📷 NASA *Name of the Apollo 17 lunar module. #ScifaikuSaturday #peace #SciFanSat October #Moon (haiku sequence only) #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF

Cold corpse grey and holding a firefly lantern, he emerges from the reeds with a low moan under a pale moon. “Hey, Zeke,” I answer, “thanks for the light. Cattail Witch got you working the swamp zombie gig again, huh?” He shrugs, rolling his eyes with a groan. “It’s an unliving.” #SciFanSat #sff

The 18 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #PEACE ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

Submissions are now closed for October’s #SciFanSat issue, and we have begun assembling it for publication on Saturday, 10.25.2025. Many thanks to all the writers and poets who submitted pieces! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy

Still a few hours left to get your flash, poetry, short stories and so on in to the fabulous magazine #SciFanSat 👽🐉 on the subject of "Moon" before 11:59 PM! I've just submitted two pieces, one fantasy🐉 flash that revisits characters from Issue 22 (IYKYK), and one piece of poetry; fingers crossed!🤞