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They'd prepared for digital chatter.

ATTACK COMES TMRRW. BE READY.

Their eyes were peeled for spies amongst the ranks.

STRIKE BACK. ALL HANDS.

They'd subdued the army & air forces.

STRONG 2GETHER. ALL WAYS. ALWAYS.

But no one had expected crop dusters & farmers to be a serious threat. #hbp136

"Did you recently have a fight with Carmen, our sky writer?"
"Just a small trivial dispute, but we settled it."
Well then, how do you explain the arrow-shaped cloud pointing at you, with "I'm with stupid" written on it?"
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#hbp136 #horror #prompt #snippet
He saw himself, strapped into a seat, a terrified expression frozen on his face. He had never left that plane. As the ground was suddenly rushing towards him...just before everything went black, he understood.

He should never have pissed off a skywriter.

I wanted to become a skywriter, forming chapters from clouds—but the nosebleeds kept me from my skywriting dreams.

Eventually, I learned to stop picking my nose when I flew—a vice that cost me the skies—but by then my path had been grounded, long before I learned how to trim my fingernails.
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Kurt Kerf2: What'd ya do?
Peach Schnapps: Me? Nothing!
K2: Uh-huh. So why does our ad in the Tka System say 'COMING SOON: New pink album from legendary lunks Piss Schnozz & the Cuckolds'?
Peach: Umm...
K2: You slept with their spouse, didn't you?
#hbp136 reasons not to piss off the skywriter

Reasons to not piss off a skywriter. #hbp136

1. They have a big canvas.
2. Their public platform is well-established.
3. They'll schedule your skywrite message for a rainy day.
4. They'll spell it wrong.
5. Savage #sabotage.

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In plain daylight, for everyone in the city to see, the unspecifics of her affair with the skywriter were written...in the sky.
Her husband was blowing up her phone, and her boss was trying to elbow in, but realistically there was nothing to be done.
The wiggly underline didn't help.

"That's quite a remarkable cloud formation, sir. I see your name and, uh... I don't think you should look," his assistant said, but it was too late. The landscaper read out the words he already knew by heart. It was his sixth rejection of hers after all.

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The sun beamed down on Constitution Avenue as Presidents Trump and Putin admired the military parade, the highlight of the lavish state visit. With all dissidents locked up, they contentedly watched the flypast until the skywritten message of friendship slowly emerged: 'Slava Ukraini.'
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"You slept with Harold's wife didn't you?" Bailey told Cosmo. The words 'man slut' was over the desert sky.
"I was seduced!" Cosmo couldn't stop laughing. He tended to smile every time he lied.
Bailey facepalmed. "We wouldn't have these problems if you kept your dick in your pants!" #hbp136

#hbp136 #prompt #writingcommunity #writesky

"Ya pissed Miss Lucy off real good this time."

"What happened last night?"

"Ben, I warned ya 'bout dem gals dat fly planes."

"What'd I do?"

"Ya drank too much an kissed Tawny!"

"What?!"

"It's written up 'ere in the sky. Your full name...the rest starts with an f & ends with u."

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#vss

Lou’s rival for the hand of Ms Trudy was a skywriter and Lou was ready for a sassy last word from he who was known as the local “Bard of the Sky,” but not this. A large O for a face, two x’s for eyes, a lower curve for a sad face, and a large L on the forehead for Loser. “Wysocki” ID’d Lou.
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I hired a skywriter and invited our friends and families watch a live instagram feed of my proposal.
Clear as day he wrote 'MARRY ME MELISSA'. Great, except her name is Marissa.
She said no.
So I refused to pay him.
The next day he wrote 'CALL ME MARISSA' with his #
They're now engaged.
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"I won't hear you say that again, Dad," I said quietly. "Skywriting is not a family disgrace. It's a noble and necessary profession."
The whole family stared in horrified silence. So did my father; after all, rabbits can't talk.
I smiled and added, "And witchcraft is an interesting hobby."

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Words are funny things
Look at this one over here..funny
See, it's funny
It's black on white that's all
Except in our heads where the magic happens

Every word needs redundancies
To make sure meaning gets through
Be wary, if you get it wrong
You may upset a blue sky writer
And that's no fun

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"Unbelievable..."
Looking up, eyes wide like a child's before the majesty of their first snowfall, I watched in a trance as the jet flipped and twirled through the air. Looping, circling, and diving--It was like watching an artist at work, like watching the drag of an author's pen.

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Photo: A sky writer painted [a smiley face in] the sky during the Arctic Thunder Open House on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 1, 2018. During the biennial open house, JBER opens its gates to the public and hosts multiple performers including the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, JBER Joint Forces Demonstration and the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Jamal Wilson). Jamal Wilson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Concept: Reasons to not piss off a skywriter. #hbp136