The electron storm interfered with Agnes’s jump to 1880s Dublin. Her steps there have a faint irregularity, a stilted flow that Dublin’s cobblestones seem to anticipate. Strangers treat her with a mix of respect and caution, as if she’s someone who sees more than she says.
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the wrap has slipped
and the poet sprite
has stilted flow;
Did the mad hatter
pour the tea
that I drank
last night?
I see it all
and it comes
with cookie
crumbs and
spilled rice

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I tried to make progress
in the stilted flow
to make music
without striking a note
to paint a picture
using my hands
my tongue
and the tips of my toes

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In incremental
Drips, stilted flow of torture
Made time meaningless.
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cold stuttered words fall
stilted flow of icicles
sharp shards in the veins

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You can only hope
you say the right thing
when somebody else is pulling the strings
under instructions
not thoughts of your own
it's puppet logic
that will carry you onwards

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puppet logic
suddenly swings
without warning
in the sweet bloody season
of long-sought embraces
only here and now
do the blow-up dolls
betide in primitive caliber

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#vssdaily #slat #vss365 #illusive #weirdmicro #puppetlogic

Words spoken loosely
Eluding any meaning
As they bridge the gap
From spoken to hearing
Swirling in vocalization
Pervasion of a glottal catch
Halts the understanding
The listener is snatched
Out of the narrative

#weirdmicro #glottalcatch

Puppet logic of
Peons, "Someday, I too will
Be a real person."
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A haiku sequence inspired by several Bluesky writing prompts. White text on a background of stars in space (secured from a "Creative Common's Only" Bing search within Microsoft Word): are you awake queried the voice in the back of my mind attempting to speak a glottal catch stopped me mid-breath [damned hyper-sleep - throats like Pliny’s parchment and raw from harsh tubes] ah, you mean water - something priceless for you to survive silken tones belied dark menace on a e’en darker planet swiftly I nodded and hoped obedience would buy me some time yet in some sectors the stars hold malevolence in high esteem aye, sadly I’m found old bounties placed on my head - their reward, my life - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #ScifaikuSaturday | #mind #2WordPrompt | reward, survive #WeirdMicro | glottal catch #haiku #scifi #vss

#ScifaikuSaturday | #mind
#2WordPrompt | reward, survive
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wood bows to the beat,
puppet logic, sharp and true
threads that never cross

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#WeirdMicro #empathy_test #glottal_catch #emoetry #ignored

Empathy tests on escalators:
first the glottal catch of the comb
Footwear ensnared then the fall--
Anybody who this has ever ignored,
fails it and should climb one,
in wrong direction, while it's moving.

Good morning, writers of the strange and beautiful. Here is today’s #WeirdMicro #Writingprompt:

Glottal catch

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At your name, I pause,
a glottal catch in my throat
sound of missing you.

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Wet chuckle, glottal
Catch, viscera dribbles from
Rows of needle fangs.
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oddly poetic — hail
in March signalling winter's
last rearing up

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your name stops halfway
held in a tight glottal catch
only a sigh slips

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A raging tempest
Of terror and hate
An empathy test
Failed on the take
Thought it in jest
A laughable fate
Railed in the press
Corrected too late
With nothing left
There is no escape

#vss365 #tempest #weirdmicro #empathytest

Deep in a trance
camped in an opium pleasure dome
felt giddy and euphoric
began reciting words
oddly poetic
words flowing like rivers
into a sunless seas
downing the milk
from paradise

#WeirdMicro #OddlyPoetic

#weirdmicro #oddlypoetic
#poetry #prompt
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Oddly poetic
the ceaseless loud rhetoric
magpies chattering.

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Oddly poetic,
How quickly society
Collapsed in ruin.
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street-side broken sink,
a bird sips from the rainfall,
oddly poetic

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We saw change in front of us; did it transform or was it gooey morphing?

Its not strange; these players? acting goofy in the sport again!

Some claim amnesia after we saw the results.

Plus the empathy test? its not given in all those cults.

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#WeirdMicro #Toxic_Lexicon #Fake_Citations #Empathy_test

The GrimScribe's Empathy Test

She spotted the toxic lexicon
and fake citations but the true heart
underneath; so asked for a real test
on whom she fully empathized with.
Others had bet on Ted Bundy and such.
The answer was Snufflephagus.

Good afternoon, writers of uncanny tiny tales. Here is today’s #WeirdMicro #Writingprompt:

Empathy test

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Pouring acid drops
into a cup of tea
failed empathy test
telling rancid lies
looking over a newspaper
with demons eyes
will bring you a low score

#weirdmicro #empathytest

Yawning along with
strangers on the bus, I pass
the empathy test.

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Failed the empathy
Test, you would expect no less
From a soulless void.
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