Alan Vincent Michaels

answering machine
message light flickers dimly
collect call from mars

#scifaikusaturday [message]
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crop circle spiral
alien translation: you have
one unread message

#SciFaikuSaturday #message #haiku

SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More!

Published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Don’t forget to vote for your favorite piece and author that you’d like to see win February’s Bartleby B. Boar nomination! The peer poll is open for 10 more days before it closes at 11:59 PM EST on March 19th!

The shoulders & head of a young, space-suited person, with their eyes closed, floating in space & receiving the words in a book though a wire attached to their helmet.

For the R-SPEC’s April 7, 2026, meeting, please join the R-SPEC Team and @AlanVMichaels.bsky.social to share your story, poem, or any writing roadblocks you’re facing.

We hope to see you there!

Details and meeting link… www.r-spec.org

#Scifaikusaturday

Old time space battler
Appears out of hoary past
Medium her message

👍 🤔

Same thing happened when I took my Rx to the CVS pharmacy. 😡

Technology:
A two-sided sword
Wield it wisely

©2026 Alan Vincent Michaels

#VSS365 #jewelry
#Haiku

👆😞

achingly true
sunlight triumphs
snows melt, evils bared

©2026 Alan Vincent Michaels

#SenryuSunday
#Senryu
#Haiku

red twilight
after the sandstorms
a message

shining unhidden
the dark glass arkology
longago named bliss

oh spellbinding halls
lost arts of decadence
so many mirrors
scrawled with last desires
for shade and rain

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#SciFaikuSaturday
#vss365 #inkMine

Dark matter lurking
Unbending never ending
Universe working

#scifaikusaturday #haiku

👆

©2026 Alan Vincent Michaels

#2WordPrompt #new #zoo

#VSS365 #jewelry

“My hoop!” says Ela.

“Twice told!” hisses the Sirius Zoo docent. “Stay clear new Terran cage.”

The Terran hangs the jewelry over its ear.

“Confusing beast. Wants baubles. Says, ‘I am a Human from Earth.’ Mostly water world!”

“Hoop?”

The docent’s sweat glands bubble.

“Fine. Where my nerve-rod?”

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 07-MAR-26 is:

New & Zoo

#Prompt

Magicat® Mana ©2026 Georganna Hancock with NightCafe AI Flux 2 Kein 9B Fast. This is the most difficult #AIart piece I've concocted. I'm amazed that combining a black & white image of a cat with an image of a spectrum of light worked! I made neither original images.

#Fantaiku mana (with #Catsky) #fantasy #haiku

When the Magicat
Gathered all of his mana
Magic rainbows flew

Haiku-und Tanka-Auswahl März 2026 – Hallo Haiku

botterbloom
an der straße mit den milchkannen
warten auf den bus

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#kidlit #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#haikusaturday #senryusunday
#dailyhaikuprompt #vssmagic
#bravewrite #thingstowriteabout
#haikuchallenge #yearning
#inkmine #spring

published by #sommergras (print)
& #dhg

Spelling IS magic, right #SFFChat?

#Fantaiku is @alanvmichaels.bsky.social’s alter-ego on BlueSky.

We might be the same person or we might be channeling someone else.

Take a look at our weekly writing prompts and decide for yourselves.

Beware of faerie circles!

#Fantaiku banner. An image of a young man standing face to face with a giant lizard. Their chance meeting in a magical land is just the beginning of an amazing adventure. AI-tagged image credit: creativeralph on Pixabay.

From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #prompt starting 8 March 2026 is:

#MOON

🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕

#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Fantasy
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#WritingPrompts

🎨 creativeralph | pixabay

smart cities losing
horror mirrors the dailies
message oversights

#ScifaikuSaturday #haiku

#ScifaikuSaturday | #message
#WeirdMicro | textural membrane
#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP51 | frostline
#haiku #scifi

Surrender Earthling
The message will now repeat
We don’t come in peace

#ScifaikuSaturday

message
after the rain
yonder come day

regina harris baiocchi
#scifaikusaturday message

acrylic & oil on canvas by Sihle Bruce Mthembu @artmonnk

man-made storm clouds
yet no one reads the message
in the sky

#ScifaikuSaturday (message) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

#ScifaikuSaturday #scifi #haiku

No! Don't take my dog!
OK I GET THE MESSAGE
Keep the cows, the wife

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Staring at the stars,
we're looking for a message –
an invitation.

#scifi #ScifaikuSaturday #poetry

Entering black hole
Must get one last message out
My god it’s full of…

#SciFaikuSaturday #Prompt #Message #SciFaiku

Decadent sky feast.
HBO beamed overhead ...
Ground message ignored.

#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #fennelsteuert #haiku

Sunlight breaks across alpine lake

their #message sparked like
#jewelry striking crisp air
#flowing everywhere

#vss365 #haiku #senryu
#scifaikusaturday
#photography #nature
#eastcoastkin #water
#blueskyartshow

Words faded and blue
Ensconced in glass and sorrow
Message in a bottle

#scifaikusaturday #message

Deep space
Hiding thought
Encrypted message

#haiku
#scifaikusaturday message

Some trees in silhouette along the bottom against a deep blue starry sky with the milky way in pink. Link: [https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-of-trees-under-blue-sky-with-stars-during-night-time-Rg7TqYpM5HU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink]

alien jewelry
the starry sky, what message
amongst such beauty

#vss365 #jewelry #scifaikusaturday #message #haiku #scifaiku #sff #senryu #prompt #writesky #haikusaturday

Image by Michael Walk on unsplash