"So, Holmes, we're in a rainy Dartmoor for?"

"Sacrificing home comforts to smoke out an assassin, Watson."

"That poacher, with the rifle!?"

"No, the gentle, old lady in our train from London. Sipping tea, waiting for us to return to the the Station with that huge hatpin."

#Satsplat Sacrifice #vss365 Gentle

"What's this you're studying, Sherlock? A clue to a mystery? It can't be poetry, it's appalling! The writer clearly thinks he's a genius but... A riddle perhaps?"

"That's a bit scathing, DrWatson."

"A tough riddle, Holmes. Your waste paper bin is brimming."

#Satsplat Poetry #vss365 Scathing

"Stop sniggering Robin, at least you seem to find something in this, even if it's humour . Why can't Riddler's messages be a bit easier & direct. I mean, "your lips around my head. I get bigger when blown."

"There's a balloon fest in Gotham tomorrow, Bats?"

#Satsplat Humour #vss365 Direct

"Wassup Bats?"
"It's Alfred, Robin. He wants to go crime fighting with us, says he's fed up doing all the chores. Says he deserves some fun. I told him to work out in the gym first."
"FS Bats, #deluded!"
"I know, I fear his reaction though. He knows our secrets."
#Satsplat Fear #vss365 Chores

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

"Alfred?"
"Yes, mstr Grayson."
"There's a twinkle in Mr Wayne's eye & I spotted a Mills & Boon book by his bedside table. Has he gone all lovey dovey, romantic over a mystery woman?"
Alfred looks sad, "It never lasts mstr G, he's still the little boy who say his parents murdered. He'll always only be Batman."
#Satsplat Love & Romance #vss365 Twinkle #Superherosat

"Sherlock, as a man of science. What do you make of this Freud chap's new science of psychoanalysis?"
Sherlock nervously picks up his fiddle, then puts it down yet again.
"I um, wouldn't know Watson but a violin is definitely nothing like a man's appendage!"
#Satsplat twist #vss365 psychoanalysis

"Well woohoo! Using Batcomputer to solve that aweful riddle ended with us being in a ghost town hundreds of miles from civilization. Even during the goldrush there was nothing here to steal."

"Get the Batspade, Robin. Riddler has to hide his loot somewhere."

#Satsplat Ghost Town #vss365 Woohoo #superheros #Superherosat

"Where can I escape this fantastical 20th century, Dr.Watson?"

"Sherlock, I can't believe you, a man of science & rational thought, has chucked the telephonium out the window!"

"Driving me mad. I can't think. It's always ringing but never says anything."

"Have you... lifted the receiver?"

"What."

#Satsplat fantastical machinery #vss365 escape

"#Release me!" Gin fought against the Qatu that held her. His hand closed her mouth - she bit his finger.

"#Blast!" He dropped her & she smacked his leg.

"You're it!" Sath watched her fade to invisible, regretting teaching Gin tag. Druids cheat.

#satsplat #vss365 #bravewrite

There is a #place
Where we boldly go
Toward prosperous long lives
Then take a turn
Into the #black
Overlooking the expanse
Beyond a galaxy far away
That awaits discovery.
Will we find banality
Or babylon
Before we dial home, devices worn and tired?
#vss365 #bravewrite #satsplat

(Y'all, I'm a geek, not a poet.) 😉

My love,
You'll always have
A #place in my chest
Your heart, #transplanted, now
Beating forever
To my will

#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

He hadn't planned this. He wasn't even here. It wasn't him holding the #bow, but a ghost from his memories. A ghost who had come 4 revenge.
The buzzing in his head grew until it eclipsed all sounds. His fingers quivered, but it didn’t matter. He wouldn’t miss.

#SciFanSat #Satsplat

I stand before the tribunal. In my heart I know no human jury would convict me, but will the new AI jury be any different? I bow my head and await my judgement. #vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat #SciFiSat

[Satsplat prompt this week is to write a piece that builds tension.]

She hardly knew the #difference between awake and asleep. His voice was always in her mind. She worked so hard to be rid of him & now -

"What have you done? You will #rue this day, Ginny. This is too far."

His voice was in the room, not her mind...

#vss365 #BraveWrite #Satsplat

She was like a dove in this city of pigeons. People wondered what she saw in a worm like me. But to retake the planet, she needed someone who could get down in the dirt. The early bird had caught me, and I’d burrow straight through this rock for her.

#satsplat #vss365 #SciFanSat

“I wonder,” Igrid mused, “What if we both lived here and forgot everything?”
Tan indulged her. “Sudden children might be a surprise.”
Igrid laughed, then after a silence. “I’d fall in love with you. Again and again, every day.”
“You wouldn’t be afraid of me?”
“Never.”
#Satsplat

From behind
A light glows
A shimmer
With each their last gasp
He takes her hand
She clasps his
Two souls always one

2 of 2
#Satsplat

Her hand reached for his
A tentative moment
An ache

His hand reached for hers
A reflexive motion
Yearning

Gets me every time, said the husband's nurse
Whadya expect after 50 yrs? said the wife's
But in different rooms?
Each closed their charge's door & walked away
1/2
#Satsplat

"How does Coral feel about this?" Igrid said, "About her brother trapped down here?"
Leo sighed. "She's angry. Wants to break the curse and bring him home, and Rachel too, whereas I'm..."
"Scared?"
Silence. "Aye, lass. I'm scared."
#Satsplat