What's the worth
of living there
If your Spirit
gets eaten
and your Soul
withers?
A lot...
for I know what
not to do
in the future.
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He turned to glare at the elder priest, tightening his grip on the dark glass bowl that held unsorted magic beads. His tone barely concealed his fury.
"You may look older than me, but I'd been here for more than a thousand years before any of you. Do not tax my patience."
#hbp122 (from #hbp113)
"Is it really worth living there?" Bailey commented on the military owned housing near the SWA base. As much as it was terrible living in the desert, it felt like the government was messing around with the shoe shaped house.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Not good enough for you Officer?" Cosmo said. #hbp113
Carol leaned on her cane, smiling softly at the old house. They might both be worn & wrinkled, but beneath the paint, there was still so much life.
High above & far away, birds sang as they swooped & glided.
Yet even in the quiet, she could still hear the echoes of children on the breeze. #hbp113
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"Is it really worth living there? In the past?"
He thought of his grandmother's hands, the soft folds and liver spots, the scent of lily of the valley and burnt paper as she showed him the map. Words glowing in the candlelight which she bade him remember as it curled and crisped. 1/2
Is it really worth living there?
-The place is... strange. You feel like someone’s watching.
Sounds unsettling.
-It gets worse. I’m sure now.
What do you mean?
-I found my name written on the wall this morning.
That’s impossible. You never told me—
-I know. And it was in my handwriting.
#hbp113
Coat of arms of the former borough, now quarter of Berlin 'Wedding'. A golden arrow with wings on red. Above: merlon made of red bricks, in their middle on greyish white a black bear.
angel wings
lift the poor ones - shot by arrows
of amor
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#blueskyrelay #love #marriage #wedding #berlinwedding #hbp113
#isitreallyworthlivingthere? #yes!
#2wordprompt #fly #stardust #inkmine #blueskyprompt11 #fearfulsky #haikufeels #fort #protect #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
I often find myself asking the same question about these two in Huntsville, Texas!
I’m certain the builders thought it was worth living there! #hbp113
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#photography #dialogue #prompt
There was an old man
Who lived in a shoe
Early life promised parties,
Lights, action & booze
Years ground down life
Until it was sand
Now he tends his laces, flowers and rose beds #hbp113
The planet was rife with poverty, gun violence, a poor education system, overpopulated prisons, and corruption. So the people of Mehheeko wanted to leave.
Sadly, the closest planet was Amerikkka.
"Is it really worth living there?" they asked...
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"Abel, were you not blind, you'd be able to see I'm deaf and disabled. Leave the old boot. Is it really worth living there?"
"Ma, I'm unable," sighed Abel.
"Truly damnable!" inserted Dr. Scholl. "Woman, were you not deaf and disabled, you'd be able to hear us pray for your sole."
2/2 #hbp113
Dr. Scholl, more than a footnote in this fable, arrived as quickly as able. Abel had only just arrived.
"Abel, is that you, son?" shouted the deaf, disabled woman.
"Yes, Ma, it's me, Abel," said Abel, enabled yet barely stable. "Are you able to hear me?"
1/2 #hbp113 #microfiction #writing
Far and beyond the old world’s imbroglio
Tightly clasping our #whispers and fears
- 𝐼𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒? -
Others have chanced The Crossing
Few returned; none quite sane
Stay and be hunted
Flee - perhaps live
Time’s sands fall
#Midnight
Tolls
#hbp113 #moonmystic #vsspic #etheree
"Is it really worth living there?"
Her words slid out of her mouth like worms as I hallucinated her visage popping open and waggling an errant tongue-like tentacle in a hideous display.
My home; a charming 19th century 4br5ba murder house shuddered in the distance.
"Yeah, it's $890 a month."
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"Is it really worth living there?" An elder priest asked him, placing a hand over a particular glass, which shook for a few seconds before it stilled again.
"No, not really, yet that's where he escaped to. He took my wife."
"But she's not really your wife; it's just a facade, isn't it?"
#hbp113
“Loud neighbors, shattered windows, creaky floors. Is it worth it to live there?” Frank asked.
“Yeah,” said Jack. “ The rent’s cheap.”
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Dialogue: “Is it really worth living there?” #hbp113
©OddlyMe
Teen: "Why do we have to live in this shoe park full of screaming kids?"
Dad: "Because town is louder."
Teen: "Yeah, but they have Wi-Fi!"
Mom: "And no bedtime stories."
#writing #OddlyMe
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#hbp113
After squandering his earnings from the sale of his life story, all he has left is this place. Occasionally reporters find him or his wife, Dottie, outside and it’s always the same question: Is it really worth living there? Same non-answer as door closes - Tequila plays in the background…
#hbp113
‘But it’s so original,’ Rosie argued. ‘I really want it.’
‘Looks like an old boot,’ Philip replied. ‘Is it really worth living there?’
‘It is to me.’
‘Your choice – me or this,' he said, walking away.
‘My dad was going to buy it for us.’
Philip halted.
'You can keep going,' Rosie said.
#hbp113 #vss
Photo: The Haines Shoe House in York County, PA. Source: PLBthetoonist, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
Dialogue: “Is it really worth living there?” #hbp113
