Aquarium of Niagara (@aqniagara) on Threads Check out this super cool video of a cuttlefish mimicking a hermit crab captured by our graphic designer, Ian!

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© 2026 Alan Vincent Michaels

#2WordPrompt #entertain #various
#VSS365 #trickery

Inspiration for the flash fiction:

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A cuttlefish lazily swims a sandbar, startling its various denizens. Each hides to avoid being a snack or entertainment.

A hermit crab scuttles in front of the cuttlefish.

“Stop! Trickery!” signals the crab.

“Shh, morsel. I’m full. For now. It’s just mimicry. I like the way you move. Walk, crab!”

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 19-APR-26 is:

Entertain & Various

#Prompt

space travel
the voluntary exile
of billionaires

#SciFaikuSaturday (exile) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

new money new food
an awkward grocery run
exile comforts

#ScifaikuSaturday
#haiku
#senryu

They have cast me out
A universe to myself
At least I have time

#ScifaikuSaturday Exile #Scifaiku

A flickering light
Exiled at the edge of time
Watching and waiting

#haiku
#scifaikusaturday exile

Species in exile
On a far away planet
Same, but not the same

#ScifaikuSaturday

A poetry graphic with a foreground text and background picture. The foreground text reads: Cast out, on cold stone? Exiled. Plots of jealous greed steal all that you sow. Reclaim fame – Your own. All Inspired by bright lead; watching your name grow. Warm thanks... From the throne! Investiture for your deeds: forcing flight to foe. The background image shows: An AI generated image of a mechwarrior being given noble honors by the king on a science fiction battlefield. They stand in ceremony, flanked by surrounding scifi military units.

It never pays to defraud the self made marvel – Especially when your victim got to where they are by crushing their enemies. Not smart... just saying.

The challenge prompts were:
1. Exile
2. Inspired
3. Investiture

#scifi #ScifaikuSaturday #poetry #vss365 #OurPoetryX

A gorgeous image of outer space. Black, with thousands of pinpricks of white and blue stars dotting it. Huge red and dark blue nebulae glow brightly, swirling stately and uncaring.

culled with a keystroke
our tribe scattered 'cross spacetime
null void our home now

#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #exile

prompt: exile

My AIart

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This flesh is a trap
Exiled inside, "Out!" we scream
Magic sets us free

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#ScifaikuSaturday #amwriting #fantasy #haiku #scifaiku #poem #poetry #poet #WritingCommunity #SciFiSat #scifi #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #HaikuSaturday #MicroPoem #Poets #SFF #SciFiSat #BlueskyPoet #magic

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 18-APR-26 is:

Wiggle & Plant

#Prompt

image by Evgeny Ozerov from Unsplash Part of a person's face, gazing to the left, towards a screen that we cannot see. The screen projects green numbers, hundreds of them, in binary, on top of the other wise dark face.

they scorch my pathways
eject me out into the world
code become mere flesh

#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #exile

prompt: exile

The first Star Trek film
First month of Nineteen Eighty
X aisle, seat 13

#Scifaikusaturday
#haiku
#exile

planting flags
upon stolen planets
earth’s exiles
#DailyHaikuPrompt #SciFaikuSaturday

Far away from home,
an astronaut in exile,
point of no return.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#exile
#haiku

axe and pickled shark
planet will eat you alive
space viking exile
#scifaikusaturday

accused of thought-crime
exiled into this vile land
punished forever
#scifaikusaturday

Why were they exiled?
Lack of space-like comporting.
Where was the big voids?
#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

a man wearing a helmet is asking how do you plead ALT: a man wearing a helmet is asking how do you plead

for corrupt judges:
no investiture, exile
theirs is a long walk

#scifaikusaturday #exile #vss365 #investiture #judgedredd

Ausgabe April 2026 - Haiku heute Die Monatsausgabe April 2026 von Haiku heute, mit einer Auswahl der im März 2026 eingegangenen Kurzgedichte sowie einigen Haiga.

vorratsdaten
auf dem speicher im serverschrank
meine marmelade

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #sff
#vssmagic #bravewrite #scifaiku
#haikusaturday #scifaikusaturday
#senryusunday #fantaiku #stock
#inkmine #haikufeels #jam
#dailyhaikuprompt #berry
#thingstowriteabout #jar

now published in #haiku-heute

data
stored on the server shelf
my marmalade

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #sff
#bspp52 #bravewrite #scifaiku
#haikusaturday #scifaikusaturday
#vssmagic #2wordprompt #shelf
#senryusunday #fantaiku #stock
#haikucchallenge #marvel
#inkmine #haikufeels #jam
#thingstowriteabout #jar
#dailyhaikuprompt

SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More! 2026 Themes: January — Ice February — Entrance March — Spiral April — Earth May — Rescue June — Contact July — Combat August — Alter September — Rebel October — Spirit November — Hope December — No Theme, Best of 2026 Issue

Submissions are now closed for April’s #SciFanSat issue, and we have begun assembling it for publication on Saturday, 04.25.2026. 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

On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 18 April 2026 is 👉 👽 👉 🪐

#EXILE

🚀👽🛸🖊️👍

#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts

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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 16-APR-26 is:

Suppose & Leak

#Prompt

A fantasy illustration of a giant tree-woman walking through a field in the glow of a misty dawn soon to burn away. She is visibly pregnant, and her very young sproutling daughter, only the size of a man, follows not far behind her.

“Entmother”

Art by me for April’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of EARTH! 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

SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More! April’s theme for issue 33 is EARTH. The deadline for submissions to issue 33 is April 16th, and it will be published on Saturday, April 25th, 2026.

Authors, be bold! Be boulder. Ground, center, and submit because #SciFanSat is still open to your manuscripts of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More until 11:59 PM EST tonight at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #prompt starting 12 April 2026 is:

#STICK 🏑🥍 🍢⚕️

kite festival
a hybrid of man and wind
emerging

#SciFaikuSaturday (hybrid) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

Mongrel beagle standing vigil in front of a stone barn

Hybrid stares across time
Aeons past wolf’s borrowed bone
Waiting for his mom

#scifaikusaturday #haiku