It was a very distinctive sound the way their #sightless eyes kept following me from empty #sockets, the life once present in there long gone and forgotten.
Their #regret permeated the air like a foul smell, while they #abode for forgiveness never to come.
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Lila rotated the candles widdershins & examined the altar critically. She counted the clock's 12th stroke before lighting the central candle. Nan could never abide sloppy craft in life & her shade was as exacting. Lila needed her approval before asking questions.
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In the manor where the dread lord resides, one must by his rules abide. To those that do not there is no place where one may hide. His reach is long and quick is his stride. So hark, take heed, listen and remain on his good side.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 31, #abide.
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In my restless dreams I can hear the frantic scratching of #fingernails against wood and each time I wake, I am tangled up in sweat drenched sheets.
The sounds are getting louder each night.
And this morning I found fresh scratch marks on the inside of my wardrobe.
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When the body he had strung together from fresh corpses came to life, he felt like he was God, making the universal laws #abide by his will.
Her embrace to thank her creator was tight. ... A little too tight...
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Apologies for the spam. I'm curious as to how well my #vss posts do over here.
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Oct. 14 Prompt #vsscrossroads #impious
Prompt for #vsscrossroads Oct 15 #Derelict
Have to admit I knew what I wanted to do, and this one I pretty much stole from what has to be one of the coolest in game cutscenes I have seen.
#vsscrossroads Prompt for Oct 16 #fingernail
Didn't really know what I was going to do when I saw it, so I went with the first idea to pop into my head. Fingernails to claws, and it went from there. We'll be seeing this lass tomorrow, too.
#vsscrossroads Prompt for October 17th: #cattails.
Two for one. Cattail plants and a cat's tails. 😛
#vsscrossroads Prompt for Oct 18, #forfeit.
Struggled with this one. In the end decided to go with something funny
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 19, #avenue. I like this one.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 20, #canal. This one might be worth expanding out into a short story.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 21, #winnow. Had some issues coming up with an idea for this one.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 22, #hedgerow.
Had fun with this one. Originally, he was going to run into a werewolf, not a fairy.
And the six word story version:
From the duff rise zombie squirrels!
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They rise from the duff, hungry and hateful. Their chittering songs a discordant melody that haunts the gloom 'neath the boughs. Fear mortals, for it is the night foretold in lore, the night of the zombie squirrels!
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 23, #duff.
This was a fun one.😁
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 24, #juxtapose.
Note that this isn't supposed to be a political allegory for anyone one or any party. Given what's happening in less than a couple of weeks, I feel I need to point that out.
"What decision is there to make? All paths lead to suffering and death. It is our doom to die a flickering flame before the storm," the old king bemoaned, so lost was he that he never looked up from his black despair.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 25, #dilemma.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 26, #unconsecrated.
I seem to have a theme through these of characters acting on pride, and it leading to their downfall. Pretty sure I stole "The Knowing Ones" from Daughter of the Lilies by Meg Syv and Yoko Weaver. If you haven't read it. Do it!
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 27 (Happy b-day to me!) #socket
Was thinking about going with something a bit silly, like a mechanic who finds all his sockets are the wrong size or a sysadmin who can't solve a web sockets issue, but then this one came to mind.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 28, #rutted.
This one stumped me, not because I couldn't think of something, but because the two ideas I did come up with before looking up what else rutted could mean weren't stories I was keen to tell.
#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 29, #sightless. This one was inspired by this post:
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#vsscrossroads prompt for Oct. 30, #regret. Only one more to go after this, then I need to find some new prompts.
I wanted to convey a sense of thisness with this one. Hope I succeeded.
He drew out a ball-shaped bottle, holdly a stormy green liquid the color of regret. He uncorked it & inhaled, sighing in something like relief to feel the mantle of grief settle over him. His tipped some into his whiskey glass, swirled the liquids together, & drank it down.
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It was too late for #regret. He was stuck, here, now, in hell, bound for another lifetime. When he turned away from the eternal light, he thought he'd build heaven on Earth with her. But upon coming back, he found her body void of life, after her heart broke.
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The shadow beasts, no taller than poisoned apples, turned sightless eyes on Clem.
"Your critters here're mighty clever. Feller could make money sellin' these. How long they last?"
Tam bared her teeth. "Long enough." The beasties pounced, devouring Clem in minutes.
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#Sightless, she stumbled through the dark. When heavy breathing became audible, she stopped in fear. His arms wrapped around her. The familiar touch of her lover felt calming.
She couldn't see his fangs grow when his lips touched her neck.
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Teeth, eyeballs, & a host of sins rattled in her head as the cart made its arduous way down a rutted path with the audacity to call itself a road. Tam passed the time shaping the shadows in the cramped space, fashioning a tiny nightmare army to greet her captors.
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He looked at the #rutted road ahead and wondered, how many generations had walked it before. It was built by the Romans, but there might already have been a Celtic path.
He didn't know he was about to find out when he stepped over the secret threshold, unawares.
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