Alan Vincent Michaels

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#SFF Speculative fiction author & poet | SFWA & SFPA member | archaeohistorian | genealogist | photographer #Prompt host: #ScifaikuSaturday #SFStoryPrompt #Fantaiku (@Fantaiku.bsky.social) 🌐

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Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Jul 10

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 11 July 2026 is 🍥 🚀 👩‍🎨👨‍💻🤖🦾⚙️💡🏢 #DESIGN 🚀👽🛸🖊️👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🎨 See image alt text

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.

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Jun 29

Thank you, Jason, for publishing The Rains of Mundus Aquae in June’s “Contact” issue of SciFanSat! I appreciated your editorial intro: “Alan Vincent Michaels’ The Rains of Mundus Aquae is a classic demonstration of how the best-laid plans might not survive first contact.” 🙏🏻 A “classic,” you say? 😉

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Jun 28

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Jun 27

(I love those two kids with their existential thinking, and I haven’t even met them. 💯) I think it can be both. When a spirit visits those left behind on Earth, being a “ghost” is an excellent way to present. Being a “star,” however, would NOT be the best Earthly presentation! LL🌟

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· May 30

Hybrids ’R’ Us! By & © 2026 Alan Vincent Michaels I splice lifeforms Hybridization It’s the Uber-Game… #ScifaikuSaturday #hybrid (Even the “hybrid” haiku aren’t using the typical 5-7-5 syllable format. 🤔)

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· May 30

❤️👏🏼👏🏼 Ooo! This hits too close to home. We have them #hybrid-humans everywhere down here on the west coast of Florida / Gulf of Mexico! Then, they have audacity to fall out of the trees when it gets cold. (Hard hat season.)

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· May 25

OMDGB!* 😱 😳 😆 🙂‍↔️ I DID NOT miss Earth’s “Happy Towel Day” this year. It’s today, May 25, and I’m delighted to report my #1 “life hack ”remains DON’T PANIC!! *Oh My Divine Galactic Being #HappyTowelDay #DouglasAdams #HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· May 17

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· May 4

It’s that Special Day, again! Here’s your annual reminder and a gallery of images to spread far and wide! #WithYouThe4thMayBe #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #MayTheForceBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #StarWarsDay2026 #StarWarsDay1977 #StarWars #SciFi

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· May 1

The T---p administration’s lies about and its inability to protect our citizens by supporting THE TWO ELEMENTS essential to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” will hasten its demise. Our FUTURE fails without DEFENSE *&* HEALTHCARE. We’re an advanced civilization. Let’s act like one. 🙏🏻

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 27

Shouting from the tallest mountains on Earth… #HAPPYBIRTHDAY TO THE #UNIVERSE! Yes, “today” is the actual “birthday” of the Universe, so sayeth Johannes Kepler. 🤔 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Public domain images of Johannes Kepler and a supernova explosion, emulating the “The Big Bang Theory” of how the Universe came into existence. The following text from @AlanVMichaels.bsky.social covers the lower-left quadrant of the image: “On April 27, 4977 BCE, the Universe was created! This amazing ‘fact’ was calculated by the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler who is considered by many to be a founder
of modern science, proving that science cannot
determine everything.”

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 27

A meme from Alan Vincent Michaels’ “Life Is Only A Meme™” series that displays a black and white image of a young Caucasian boy and girl at an internment service standing with a group of adults. The young girl is holding a stuffed monkey toy, and her lips are drawn tightly as if stifling tears and the anger she feels from words she hears from the officiant: "We are gathered here today, because all your 'thoughts and prayers' didn't work."

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 26

🤔 It’s time to speculate about what really occurred during the WHCD event of 25 April 2026.

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 17

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 18 April 2026 is 👉 👽 👉 🪐 #EXILE 🚀👽🛸🖊️👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🎨 See image alt text

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 11

No “maybes.” Diversity *is* strength . . .

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 10

👏🏼 👏🏼 💛 I wish I had seen this haiku 35+ years ago. I often wonder where my Tangerine Dream s would have taken me… 🤔 www.alanmichaels.com/biblio_nonfi... See the piece at the end of the page link above.

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 10

Here’s something to think about on several different levels…

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 10

@maddow.bsky.social: What an example of “All Politics Is Local”! “…been built on facts, records, legal pressure, public health evidence, and relentless visibility..." Extrapolate and you find… @dhumph.bsky.social: I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you. 🙏🏻 We all have eyes and ears…

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 9

[This not-so-subtle, regular reminder was not prompted, necessarily, by the current US/Israel/Iran War…] Can we ALL just get past this Human CHILDISHNESS already, so we can earn the right to have EARTH’S #DISCLOSURE DAY? #UFO #UAP #MUFON #ExtraterrestrialsAreReal #ETsAreReal

Three gray-green aliens on a dark background. This text overlays the top and bottom of the image:

YOU KEEP VOTING FOR CORRUPT POLITICIANS, DESTROYING YOUR PLANET WITH PIPELINES, USE SOME STRANGE DEBT BASED ECONOMY AND TEETER ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION

YOUR PLANET IS BASICALLY A GHETTO AND YOU WONDER WHY WE DON'T VISIT YOU!

THEFREETHOUGHTPROJECT.COM

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 7

Rest in peace, Nick. We’ll keep pushing for full disclosure. #NICKPOPE #UFO #UAP #DISCLOSURE #FULLDISCLOSURE #ALIENCON #ANCIENTALIENS

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 5

NASA Artemis Il astronaut Christina Koch is staring out a viewport of the Orion spacecraft. Her face and floating hair are silhouetted against the Earth in background. Christina is the first woman to see the Earth in its entirety.

Overlaying the image is Alan Vincent Michaels’ scifaiku:

Christina’s Countdown

The longing between
Gazing at her first full Moon
All of us on Earth

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Apr 3

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 04 April 2026 is 🔄 ⬇️🚦🚀 #COUNTDOWN 🚀👽🛸🖊️👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🎨 See image alt text

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Mar 22

❤️👏🏼👏🏼 True. Cats are quite perceptive, aren’t they? Plus, the xenomorph was only really afraid of one character in the movie. 😏

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Mar 22

👏🏼👏🏼❤️ I wondered how many “Alien”-themed scifaiku would appear today. 😏 I also wondered how Ridley Scott would have made “Alien” if he had gone ahead with the shorter version of the script he also received. 🤔🧐

An AI movie poster for “Alien: The Short Version,” depicting Jonesy, the ginger tabby cat in the 1979 film, “Alien,” striding down a corridor of the USCSS Nostromo mining spacecraft carrying a dead xenomorph alien in its mouth.

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Mar 22

❤️👏🏼👏🏼 Okay, that scifaiku creeped me out. Now, all I can think of is writing a screenplay for an AI/robotic version of “Village of the Damned.” 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳

A frame taken from the “Village of the Damned” movie showing six young children with glowing eyes and white/platinum blonde hair.

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Mar 15

❤️👏🏼👏🏼 I remember my test tube birth. 😱 And whenever I come up with weird #ScifaikuSaturday prompts, I remember my mentor Bender’s advice…

An image of Futurama’s Bender character dressed up as pimp wearing a white fur coat and three gold rings on his left hand. The hand is pointing to the viewer and the voice bubble is “Well try harder, Meatbag.” A female robot prostitute is standing behind Bender.

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Mar 15

❤️ 👏🏼👏🏼 I knew *someone* would wrangle Soylent Green into a scifaiku! I had this “kernel of truth” ready to go. This *was* a real, limited-edition, marketing promo back in 2022! They're "out of stock" now. 🤔 😳 Original webpage saved here: web.archive.org/web/20220521... See image alt text.👇

Alan Vincent Michaels@alanvmichaels· Mar 14

It’s Pi Day! #HappyPiDay #PiDay