A woman sits at a vanity looking at herself in a mirror The composition looks like a skull from a distance
#gothicvss #Only8Words
Mirror reflects Unknown Unrest
A deathly Mind Echo
Art by: Charles Allen Gibert
A surreal image A plant with roots resembling a person sits in a clear vase beside a unicorn seahorse
#gothicvss #thepenflows #haikufeels
Something is Waking
The Rooted Nox is growing
Will you Track or flee?
Art by: Santiago Caruso
A painting of woman with a huge crow
#gothicvss #AcrosticJanuary
C calm endurance
L looking, moving
A always ahead
W Wintering Dread
Art by: Lucy Tipper
⬆️ #writingprompts 3
#ShakespeareSunday
#SenryuSunday
#martialmonday
#mythologymonday
#bookishtues
#WriteStuff
#GothicVss
#10wordtuesday
#TinyTalesTuesday
#LegendaryWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
#WindingWords
#Thurds
#SFFChat
#30WordThursday
#ThursThreads
#vssmystery
#BornBattleReady
#SciFiFri
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Mashup of a crystal and a figurine of a woman
#AcrosticChallenge #FairyTalePoets #gothicvss
S Silhouette Dainty of
T Tourmaline crystal
Y youth remains the
L length of
E eternity
Dieter_G & GDJ pixabay.com mashup
The nightshift wordsmith is back catch me pulling up in a ghostship.
Others? they didn't make it but I was always an eccentric loner.
I couldn't fake it, these words? abstract not romantic / lovesick.
I couldn't fake it, just a new age troubadour.
#SciFiMicro, #GothicVSS, #vssromance, #inkMine
A candle, recently blown out
#Gothicvss June 17 - 24
Prompt: Eccentric loner
Please tag #Gothicvss to share your poem or story
Image credit: Joey F. Unsplash.com
#writingprompt
Space filled with galaxies
#LuaViEr #gothicvss #SCIFIFRI #InkMine
E eternity's
N named
D Domain
L light-years
E expanding as
S Systems
S Spin
mattiaverga pixabay.com
#poetry #acrostic
A bare tree illuminated by red light
#Gothicvss
A Mysterious Stranger
A dark night on a windswept moor
An instant fascination
Prateek Katyal unsplash.com
#Gothicvss
Ominous Warnings were scribbled across the pages. Nothing specific, just tidings of woe. I told myself I didn't believe in such nonsense. Yet I cannot shake this sense of unease.
Arcaion pixabay.com
I could feel it; it seems change was rustling in the wind.
The mysterious stranger? apparently a messenger saying we would win.
Opposition? expected from that enemy of grace..
..trying to reset the timer sending us to another time and place.
#vssfantasy, #GothicVSS, #FoxProse, #FairyTalePoets
A bare tree at night is lit by red
#Gothicvss June 10 - 17
Prompt: Mysterious stranger
Please tag #Gothicvss and/or @Gothicvss to share your poem or story
Image credit: Prateek Katyal unsplash.com
#writingprompt
i felt it in the way the cold, moistened cobbles slipped under my feet, in the uneasy milling of the koi in the pond, in the way the ivy hugged the stone a little too possessively. taking a breath, I plunged through the doorway into the stagnant darkness.
#vss #gothicvss ominous warnings
"Ominus Warnings " (Pic- Pinterest)
Ominus warnings, in her dreams.
Bathed in sweat.
Waking, with screams.
Treachery, masked in dreamy sighs.
Trying to seduce her into being, a consolation prize!
#Poem #Gothicvss
⬆️ #writingprompts 3
#vssmystery
#ThePenFlows
#whistpr
#vssmagic
#fantaiku
#scifaikusaturday
#HaikuSaturday
#ShakespeareSunday
#SenryuSunday
#martialmonday
#mythologymonday
#bookishtues
#WriteStuff
#GothicVss
#10wordtuesday
#LegendaryWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
#Thurds
#30WordThursday
#ThursThreads
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A fly on a book page written in Gothic script This week's prompt is ominous warnings
I'm hosting #Gothicvss this month. It's a Tuesday prompt.
#Gothicvss June 3 - 10
Prompt: Ominous warnings
Please tag #Gothicvss to share your poem or story
Image credit: Arcaion pixabay.com
#writingprompt
A tar covered woman plays a piano
#FireWriters35 #FoxProse #gothicvss #15WordPoet
How Did I Get Here?
Through a Hallway of Cobwebs
becoming just another Phantom Spectre
#imageprompt #fifteenwords #fantasy
A woman hugs herself while smiling
#gothicvss #Vss365 #loveletters
You had an Eternal Desire, for someone to be A Fool For You. But the love that healed was loving yourself
Duckleap pixabay.com
#selfrespect #selfesteem
slowly turning deeper
into the darkness she
sees
the sins of brooding shadows
feels
the yearning from within the flames
wants
the abandon of submission
whispers
the needs of her heart
to He who watches intently
#GothicVSS
Art: Depositphotos; Eugene P.
#Gothicvss prompt for 14th thru 21st is "redundance" (redundancy).
"Presence"
Now her to here from there
#Rigidity his fortitude
Laid bare
A former rectitude;
That she his food, drink, lassitude
Some sanctity ensnared —
And such as would denude
In hermitage reclude
Declare
#Gothicvss #poem
A woman in antique garb holds a well used old book
#macabrewords #FairyTalePoets #gothicvss
In the fairytales, when you are Forever Frozen, you are Still, unfading. The truth is much more Grotesque. You may be Rigid but time does not spare you.
#fantasy #microfiction #imageprompt
A smell of the forest. In her skirt? Something about her hair...?
"Come in," she said briskly as she bent to pull a twig out of her shoe, then rose to her height. It was so warm in here; I was so warm with her. #gothicvss
Ghostly Greetings!
The #GothicVss prompt for 4/17 - 4/23 is:
#moat
Go forth an’ may the divil pass ye by…
The moors' eternal mists crept up and over into the lichyards at the edge of town. The undertaker sighed into his pipe, adding a swirl of smoke to the curls of vapor.
One of the graves, disturbed and opened, meant something was out in town again.
He knew where it was headed.
#gothicvss
If you're only here on Bsky, you can still submit a poem or flashfic for #GothicVss.
This week's prompt (till 4/15) is
"eternal"
Haunted Greetings!
The #GothicVss prompt for 4/10- 4/16 is:
#mists
Go forth an’ may the divil pass ye by…
Hey guys, hear-hear ...
Just this week I'm going to post the link to this week's #GothicVss prompt from over on X. You'd have to submit your short poem or flashfic there since the hostess isn't on Bluesky.
x.com/vivienne_blo...
Haunted Greetings!
The #GothicVss prompt for 4/3 - 4/9 is:
#moors
Go forth an’ may the divil pass on by…
"Wishing I could send you some #time, but mine is all too #rigid, and yours too lost."
#vss365 #gothicvss
