It was what they had done in the past. Worst than wolves, when wolves are bad enough - with their teeth and alpha-ness we so clearly see, whatever scientists say. Add a curse to that and all we saw was a monstrous apparition, not a wolf on two legs warning of the king of decay.
#horrorprompt #vss365
Someone told you a jade helmet could protect you from anything. From deception to the softening of the road they put over grabby fissures.
'In the helmet your eyes will find the crystallized path.'
But not like energy crystalized. Unlike saving for the helmet, that'd be silly.
#inkmine #jade #vss365
Old-fashioned-like, friendliest people companies can hire to stand at the entrances of stores that, for all they lack, are more open to ?s than their other-side-of-town-counterparts.
'Do you like where you live?' they ask. 'Do you know about the new undersea apartment block?'
#undersea #vss365
Get enough practicing tricksters together and each one is averagely trustworthy. They've poured themselves into a big pot for that - to look trustworthy, to be able to define it by and large.
Look long enough at their shadows, meanwhile, and something is off. Trickery of the light.
#trickery #vss365
ethereal look
iridescent predator
working with the light
#fastprompt #haiku
were, even -
You followed advice of expert who runs on both ivy league credentials and 'gut-level instinct,' and somehow every syllable of your investiture is sunk.
#fastprompt #vss365
Though you live in a world of little investiture
in the best of you, embrace bits of that process
to build something the Shawshank way.
'Embrace' may feel like it has too much sheen,
for that in the meanwhile, and that is sane and fine.
#fastprompt #vss365
We watched as he
Was embraced by the sea
At edge of the land
The waves met his hand.
Your 1st prompt is: "embrace"
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'I've come so far to get here, and I've got so far to go.
So I'll take what I can get, in matters of the soul.' - tV
Why were they exiled?
Lack of space-like comporting.
Where was the big voids?
#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku
No one works harder than Golish the High Disparager to break stereotypes; Golish feels this in your bones, which he won use of in a tightly contested some-such. And thus Golish has undertaken investiture in your honor, building a vast portfolio only a hero ever could.
#satsplat #vss365 #investiture
Even leap sounds grounded for what it is - two framework machines, each just beyond seafoam, connecting from distances impossible to leap to.
You just witnessed some guys in polos & shorts go through one.
A team has taken the framework & put it into a truck.
You'll follow.
#scififri #vss365 #seafoam
Fixing supposed leak
Manipulative hammer
Inflating caution
#vss365 #haikufeels #2WordPrompt #inkMine #haiku
Feet first
Mitchell P
# art
You, hammered. If not by life, by your own need to feel like you're holding the hammer. But you wouldn't hammer what's just outside your door. You've got to do that hammering at least a stone's throw away, to make sure it's all as bent out of shape as you feel on the inside.
#hammer #vss365
The monster lingers in shadow as some passers-by emerge near the statue under the streetlight. One of them - a woman - is saying something about the statue using a word the deified consider unholy.
The others hush her.
She says it louder & the monster would warn her but..
#horrorprompt #vss365 #word
You extend the loop with trips, you add players. And it looks like you haven't just added to the same old loop; and what else is life but what it looks like? you think dimly, briefly.
#loop #vss365
You, a sentence made up of underappreciated letters
slightly bolstered by reigning tribes, but nifty
by most measures, optimistic or pessimistic.
No. More than nifty, because really the world won't even
leave nifty be and, here, more-than-nifty will
traverse gauntlets.
#inkmine #letter #vss365 #vss
Things to do pile up and only some of them get done. Even the important ones are lost in the shuffle of trying to do more than survive, so here you find yourself with heat exhaustion - having to boil the giant pot of water for an hour unless you want to get necrosis.
#horrorprompt #water #vss365
You, trying to float in a moment, as those nearby fly as part of twisters - collectively going in circles, sucking up air, getting kind of high as a result. Fine, you think, but why suck up the air over here?
The gravity-shifter is broken. Treadmill sidewalk through mean streets, it is.
#fastprompt
Humanity saved by blunder,
but like Homer trying to pull
that rod out of the door
to smash rival as the rest of us
pull him back - and no satire.
#fastprompt
In her last seconds, Laika dreamed of being back on Earth with a crew. The skunk, the cat, the racoon. The four of them not wandering, just walking around the town, laughing as they knocked over the poorly secured garbage of some mean fool.
They feasted and patted each other on the back.
#fastprompt
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You live just outside the new launch zone and would swear upon everything you care about that the ground's sinking. But they've had someone check and say officially that it's not, so clearly you, trying to read a book in your increasingly lopsided chair, have a mind askew?
#fastprompt #sink #vss365
your hybrid ideas
unequal parts genius
and cruel
your willow child weeps
and your waspish woman stings
as crow-kid foretells
you will offer me
the rainbow-striped cat poet
for one drop of blood
#ScifaikuSaturday (hybrid)
#ThingsToWriteAbout
#inkMine
Land of tree-obsessed
where the people never see
willow hybrid beings
#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku #extrasyllableisfree
When you feel trapped, you sing to make someone else feel a bit trapped. I used to think the worst singing was a hum, an attempt to sing, from someone not used to music's soft complexities.
What do I know?
They were trying to harmonize with them, unlike you, trapped singer.
#satsplat #sing #vss365
