Alan Vincent Michaels

Halloween looms again! 👻 My “The Last Science Fiction Story” debuted in #DarkMatterMagazine ’s Halloween 2021 issue. It’s a chilling, unique first contact story from the protagonist-author’s POV. It enabled me to join #SFWA as a professional SF author—a dream since I read my first #SF novel. 1/5

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 27-OCT-26 is: Suspect & Student #Prompt

I’m often empty Drained of essence, blood, and soul I’m but a cold husk I came to this world Seeking knowledge and wisdom I sought communion I’m often empty Restored cruelly to suffer I’m never vanquished Haiku by & © 2026 Alan Vincent Michaels #2WordPrompt #often #empty #Scifaiku

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 26-OCT-26 is: Often & Empty #Prompt

#micropsycho #OurPoetryX #ScifaikuSaturday #SCIFIFRI A Dark detection Resistance Activity The Hunter sent out TheDigitalArtist pixabay.com

#ScifaikuSaturday #SCIFIFRI #loveletters Touch the Edge of space Part of a Howling machine Wired together Placidplace pixabay.com

ship goes on singing always look on the bright side right until we crash #ScifaikuSaturday (crash)

The program crashes And with it reality And yet we live on #ScifaikuSaturday

#Scifaikusaturday Just one more rocket Yet another proving test Falls down with a crash

Aftershocks from crash Impact leaves big impression Forever altered #scifaikusaturday

trailing edge of a long burn cycle with any luck #ScifaikuSaturday (crash) #haiku #senryu

slip-drive ships rarely crash but sometimes emerge in unfortunate places #scifaikusaturday

Stasis field engaged Existence simulator Crashing one more time #haiku #scifaikusaturday crash

Submissions are now closed for October’s #SciFanSat issue, and we have begun assembling it for publication on Saturday, 10.31.2026. Many thanks to all the writers and poets who submitted pieces! Below are our upcoming themes for the rest of the year. #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 24-OCT-26 is: Superior & Title #Prompt

pull back the curtains hit the lights expose the lies crash society #scifaikusaturday

crash out on the couch jack in tune it out turn on digital junkie #scifaikusaturday

Crash out mentally starved a bit for a surprise worth not drifting past. #inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

bad at math the crash, the crash, the crash calculated #ScifaikuSaturday (crash) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

We have crashed our ship Now to find out where we are Seems it's called Roswell #ScifaikuSaturday #Prompt #Crash

From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #prompt for 25 October 2026 is #ELDRITCH (Adj.: “strange, weird, unearthly, or eerie”; read Robert Burns’ poem, “Tam o’ Shanter”) #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Fantasy #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompts

We evolved until We could shape a world fit for The biggest cavemen They played with fire Burnt all they found to instate A measly haven #ScifaikuSaturday #Haiku

can't stop warp core breach? escape in saucer section. doubt you will crash. Shit! #scifaikusaturday #crash #vss365 #doubt #haiku #senryu #poem #startrek #startrekTNG #generations

An asteroid crash, all communication lost; a world out of touch. #ScifaikuSaturday #CRASH #TOUCH #WORLD #haiku

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 23-OCT-26 is: Expect & Product #Prompt

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 24 October 2026 is #CRASH 🚀 👽 🛸 🖊️ 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 19-OCT-26 is: Launch & Instruct #Prompt

Last call to the published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Be sure to vote for your favorite piece that you want to win the Bartleby B. Boar nomination for September’s issue! The peer poll closes on Thursday, October 22nd at 11:59 PM EST!

Via Stellarum Unveils but once in your life Disappears like mist Be ready to step Upon the lucent Star Road Wonders await you Haiku by & © 2026 Alan Vincent Michaels #2WordPrompt #via #disappear #Scifaiku

Authors, don’t let inaction come back to haunt you! Five days remain to send in your manuscripts of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More to #SciFanSat before submissions close on October 22nd at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 18-OCT-26 is: Via & Disappear #Prompt

Star-filled chasms fray Two worlds apart, yet touching Love will be our bridge Haiku by & © 2026 Alan Vincent Michaels #Fantaiku #chasm #ScifaikuSaturday #world #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Fantasy #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFaiku

one day when we’re gone the world will belong to someone else (I’m rooting for cephalopods.) #scifaikusaturday #haiku #senryu

Set themselves flying world always looks ethical high above it all. #fastprompt #inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

Worlds away yet - no need to send a distress signal. #ScifaikuSaturday world #senryu #scifaiku ✨🚀

Worlds and worlds and worlds The great cosmic lottery Which will support life? #ScifaikuSaturday #vss365

Cafe undersea Soylent World of Jacques Cousteau Inspect that menu #scifaikusaturday #haiku

#Scifaikusaturday Our first telescope Pointed exactly rightly Showing a new world

In the Vortex A cybernetic world Breaks free #haiku #scifaikusaturday world

tidally locked world – only the twilight zone is habitable #scifaikusaturday #senryu #pun

left-behind ants finally giving up on world-building #Scifaikusaturday (world) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

meteor shower the world I can see out there already happened #Scifaikusaturday (world) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

stranger from the sky on the run from everything most worlds will eat you #scifaikusaturday

dangerous outside a.i. infected people house becomes my world #scifaikusaturday

We search through the stars For a world we can live on Like the one we broke #ScifaikuSaturday #Prompt #World

in each, new worlds fluffy clouds and particular light the old masters #ScifaikuSaturday (world) #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

forest world these ever restless treetops talk of oceans ocean world each night this dream of sailing lost overstories #ScifaikuSaturday (world) #haiku #senryu

Fireworks recalled Revealed to be teeming With fleeing insects #ScifaikuSaturday

power grid goes dark above us, burning brightly— unreachable worlds #scifaikusaturday #haiku