#WIPSips
Sea Smoke
Slam bam thank you ma’am. She fetched my bottle of Rye and looked as good going as coming. The black top, the upper portion of a mini dress skimmed skyscraper legs covered in red and green horizontal striped tights. Ho, Ho, Ho.
“Mi?” Joanna pressed simply.
“MOI has already pulled our backing for Niwt-Maat and has asked the Cairo militia to investigate it. I’m negotiating the timing of that for maximum benefit.”
“What?” – AP 3, pg 358. #WIPSips
A #goblet of amber glass
cradles the sublime vintage
liquor, sweet warmth to savor
this longest snowy night.
Green #shoots on my Christmas cactus,
a sign that life prevails
though darkness surrounds us.
#WIPSips #Vss365 #MicroPoetry
Stay in line
Don’t go outside
The box,
Fit in, deviate not,
Clip your wings,
Soften your edges,
Blend in, or be invisible,
Recipe for an early death.
The heart pretends to beat,
Yet there is no life.
#WIPSips #line #FreeVerse #Poetry
You #disorganize me.
I knit myself together
with pieces I salvaged
from the whole of me
you couldn’t contain
long enough to
acknowledge
and care for.
I fall to pieces.
You melt the glue
that holds me
with each critical say
then I mend myself stronger
after each holiday.
#WIPSips #Poetry
“Everything is #local”,
Well not anymore,
The packages arriving
Come far from my door.
So what is still local?
Attitudes, hate,
Tribal connections,
The way one relates.
Expansion is easy
For those with broad views,
Impossible still
For those who refuse.
#WIPSips #WriteSky #Writing #Prompts #Poetry
#WIPSips word for September 5th: "Event"
Got it plural; part of my upcoming long-form material 👀
someone's potentially in trouble 🎶
#WriteSky
#WritingCommunity
#WritingPrompts
Walked into the #flat
what did I see
my husband #naked as can be
I #yearn for you, the nitwit said
have #faith my dear & come to bed
there were candles to light
some Barry White
between the satin sheets
rose petals were strewn
Fuck off, I said, it's only noon
#2wordprompt
#Emoetry
#vss365
#WIPSips
Black text on a white background, reading: “He doesn’t drink anymore.” I answered for him, weirdly proud to know something she didn’t. I’d been here for the last six months. Okay, the last three. But she hadn’t at all. “Then why do you have Scotch?” Grace cocked an eyebrow at me. “Because it took me a while to realize he was serious.” “Don’t talk about me like I’m not here,” Daniel snapped. He took another gulp of water before conceding, “I realize that I’m not . . . fully here, but—” We both gave him a second to see if he’d say more. When he didn’t, Grace extended her glass to me. “Top me up and get on with explaining why I shouldn’t kill you.” Rather than retreat to the kitchen, I just swapped the glass in my hand for hers. She eyed my half-finished amber liquid with a sigh, then drained the rest of it.
A few typos of #wipsnips as #wipsips made me want a thread of WIP snippets involving the imbibing of liquid in your WIP. Any kind: coffee, tea, alcohol, water, blood, the viscous ether of dreams - what have you. No need to strictly sip either - it's Friday!
#writingcommunity #booksky #writers
#writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts #WIPSips
[from The Ribbon Gift]
Rain replied with the first thing to come to his mind. “Is this your bad guy soliloquy, mermaid? What’s next, you’re going to tell me about all the fun you’ll have slicing me up?” Nereus laughed. “Do I look like Ariel to you? I’m a siren. Get your nomenclature correct.” He leaned forward, propping his elbows on his knees and resting his chin on his hands. “Perhaps I am making a bit of a speech, but I seldom meet another part-bred with blood I haven’t seen before. You’re as rare as I am, and I intend to make this last. Peel away all the layers of your psyche, learn your secrets, turn you into my toy. When I’m done, you’ll take the blade to your flesh because it pleases me. Then I’ll drain off your life essence while drowning you below the waves. How’s that for a bad guy soliloquy?” Rain’s calm passed, and his mind became a storm.
#WIPSips
I don't have "thrive" in my WIP, so I'm going for the vibe today. Nereus is thriving in his role as the bad guy. Rain, his latest captive, not so much. Rain is drugged, so he doesn't have much impulse control over what he says.
Brigid forced herself into the cross alley and the back of the fancy buildings, where the parking lots and delivery entrances were. She leaned against a parking lot lamp and eyed a white van with a logo that read “Anna’s Delectable Eats.” A young man was loading crates into the back, right on time for his regular morning deliveries. She tugged on his beige thought threads as they drifted toward her. Coffee first. He locked the van up, checked his watch, yawned, and headed inside. Brigid scanned the lot with her primary sense and sprinted for the van door. It took her seconds to pop the lock; inside were crates filled with individual breakfast boxes. Sweet! These things usually had nice stuff like fresh fruit and croissants. She might get lucky and snag one with a ham and cheese croissant. She grabbed two and an extra for Guitar Guy, hopped back out, shut the door, and casually walked down the parking lot just as the man stepped out with his coffee. He got in and sped off. She continued canvassing the area, looking for easy scores. She crossed into the next parking lot, and someone’s thought thread tangled with her mind.
#WIPSips #amwritingfantasy #darkfantasy #horror
Brigid steals her breakfast. She perceives the thoughts of others as threads floating through the air.
“It’s a robot uprising?”
“Yes. They wanted back wages and weekends off. They were negotiating with Leader Dessimal, but then all the printers on the planet jammed at once, and she accused the robots of sabotaging them."
-The Star-Crossed Pelican
#WIPSips
The morning after~
Read more of my serialized trans lesbian space opera:
www.scribblehub.com/series/13342...
#WIPSips #sff #WriteSky #BookSky #sapphic #scifi
Friday morning came around and we had our first 36 piece box order from the chamber of commerce. Stan the president said "Everyone loves the chocolates and we think two 36 boxes should do it." I told Lynn that this was our biggest sale yet. #WIPSips #Romanceladia Charming chocolates
