I was #spooked when I saw you at the empty ice cream parlor in December in July, I noticed you drink hot tea when you borrowed Anne Rice from the library I knew you were perfect for the #oddball me #vss365

It #spooked me because She just knew the way. Like tracks In fresh snow. Love guides #vss365 #haiku #prompt #writesky #writingcommunity

A cat cried loud I was #spooked by the sound The clock turned distinctly midnight Heavy fell silence around As cold drew a little closer I felt a face appear from nowhere In stone her soul set But from deep deep within She had a magic Only the witching hour could ignite #vss365 #spooked

#vss365 #spooked What is the world to me But what is here and now And what is memory Memory of what I did Memory of what was done to me Under the deeper waters of those memories Lie other ways of remembering Dreamers twisting genes together Survival Nightmare life and death Wake me feeling spooked

#vss365 #Poetry the sun, as it rose, got #spooked by a cloud that it mistook for an unkind thought being shy, it blushed - with a pinkish hue but soon, being the mighty sun it’s blush faded, and it burned the shit out of every cloud in sight

What spooked everyone was his offhand remark about the explosives. It was the ambiguity. Did he mean 'display' or 'deploy'? And was it one hundred kilotons or a megaton? They surrounded the house, but there was no one inside. Just a creepy LP with a skip in it playing "I'll Be Seeing You." #vss365

Spooked by his shadow no wonder he learned to live at home in the dark #vss365 #spooked #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #micropoetry

#Spook how strange that our past haunts us in survival’s name we call it learning when mostly it is hardening we’d do better to take the world as it comes trust more in ourselves and less in fireside stories #vss365

Men were #spooked by her age she looked too #mature to strip on the #stage but she felt #justified to #embark so with a #mighty shake of her ass she squatted down #low to #share even more til her estrogen patch fell to the floor #vss365 #2wordprompt #emoetry #vssdaily #inkmine #WIPSnips #vssmagic

#vss365 spooked by my reflection an old woman staring back #spooked

Running through the early pursued by memory: traffic wheeling across the river hiding my steps. Doves, #spooked from breakfast take wing, pale by dawn signaling, merging with commuting clouds. Night's chill flees from warming engines: steam rises to haunt the day. #vss365

#vss365 Spoonraker Spooked by the spooks in spy novels and books. Shook by the looks of the villains and crooks hiding in nooks while they load up the trucks. I'm shaken and stirred at my local Starbucks. #spooked #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity

#vss365 #oddballs #poetry #poetrycommunity

Trick or treating when I was young unsupervised #spooked out fun no store bought shtick we had no dough a hockey helmet and off you'd go some eggs were tossed some pumpkins smashed if mom found out she'd kick our ass pillow cases full of loot a hat a tie and daddy's suit #vss365

STRETCH Time is the Devil, Or at least the Devil's tool, Decapitating eons, Unyieldingly cruel. She #spooked me in the mirror, Said I’m looking like a ghoul, "‘Cos yesterday’s tomorrow Is today, you bloody fool!" #vss365 🕒

"Do not darken the day before it ends". The proverb spins in her head like a phrase she once knew but never said. She walks down the hall. Her shadow, #spooked, limps as if it belongs to someone else. The stroll allows the day to end on an #oddball verb that never fades. #vss365 #amwriting #prose

It’s dark early, though that’s a feeling more than any actual sense of time. I can’t remember when I last slept. The nightmares have blended into reality and I’m #spooked at the smallest things. Did I put the salt shaker there? Why is someone knocking under the sink? I like it. I’m home. #vss365

Spring Love Meadow wild Ears pricked Distant watching Wanting more Spooked horses run free #haiku #vss365 #spooked

No one had lived here for years As kids, we told stories about the place, terrifying our younger brothers I told myself it was just dark, just empty I wasn’t #spooked Until I heard the door breathe #vss365

We keep getting #spooked Ghosts of what used to happen Run to them, arms wide #vss365

Stillness snaps. Pulse spikes. Ordinary turns suspect. Outlines of the body. Knowledge arrives too late. Echoes seep inside. Danger smiles. #vss365 #prompt #spooked #poetry #acrostic #writing #5amwritersclub

Altruism crept into his rotten heart and #spooked a diseased soul. Fear shoved the grotesque new emotion deep below. At this #stage, only violence #matured. Decency failed to grip reality as he sauntered in misery and self-loathing. Hope remained to one day have hope. Not today. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

#FamilyValues #Morality #SaulSteinberg #Cartoonists #vss365 #Spooked by expression, we speak in straight lines and sleep in squares.

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 06-JAN-26 is: Mature & Stage #Prompt

Purple Plum donned his sugarcoat, Twinkie his cinnamon duster. The saucy tart they slapped fruit leather over blew a raspberry as Pez pistols fired. In the shadow of Gumdrop Mountain, Little Debbie dropped a peppermint patty as Sheriff Twinkie fell. #vss #sff

Nissa yawned, rubbing her eyes. Stretching tiny arms over her head, gossamer wings unfolded gently and she felt great #delight in the power returning. Rising winds lifted the fire fae’s flame red hair, filling her with ecstasy and long forgotten joy. Today, all she wanted to do was fly. #vss365

Folks said it wasn’t the insane laughter or the teeth that #spooked ‘em, it was the eyes. One blue, almost human, the other scarlet, brimming with malevolence and despair. They called him Red-Eye Malachi and if he found you alone on a dark night, no-one would ever find you again. #vss365

Hairs on my skin rise Floating down away from the aether #Spooked by the déjà vu voice Oft’ heard in dark dreams lucid Mist engulfs around Like a Victorian era mystery If Cupids arrow be a poisoned dart Please don’t let this be the death of me #vss365

#vss365 #prompt for 6 January, 2026, is #spooked Edgar Allan Poe said "The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls." As John le Carré said “I think that I was always a writer who became a spook for a while rather than a spook who became a writer.”

‘How goes it with your latest #oddball adventure?’ ‘I tried to sell my home drug testing kit to Apple, but they turned me down.’ ‘Did they give a reason?’ ‘They didn’t like my name for the plastic collection cup.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I called it the Apple iCup.’ #vss365

#vss365 This guy’s a real fastball— cocky, smooth, but watch yourself, he plays to amuse. He’s a 'non-starter', if you know what I mean? An #oddball pitch-hitter, all bat and no swing.

oddballs make the world go around #vss365 #oddball

I could say ”Life has no meaning, what’s the point” But i think that it’s pointless i’ll be dead whatever i do Then how about this: It matters now, because i’m not dead I can do stuff because i’m still alive Call me an oddball, but that’s perspective that helps #vss365 #oddball

#Oddball. That word has always felt like violence to me, wielded by those who breathed rejection into my lungs like fresh air. It clings to my skin, damp and itchy, trickles of nervous sweat leaving salty trails, irritating my body long after they have left me behind. #vss365

#vss365 Dissentiment I won’t audition my ache, won’t sand myself likable. Let the oddball remain unsponsored, uncorrected, standing off to the side where the light can't flatter. This is not shyness. This is dissent. #oddball #writerscommunity

#vss365 "Only one #oddball among us... And it ain't you, Steve!!" Lauren spat. Her hand gripped the plushie toy shark tightly. Steve gulped.

If you weren't an #oddball, would you still be a writer? Why is a desire to communicate considered odd? Isn't it the quiet one you need to worry about? Tell us about it. #vss365 #promptshare #flashfiction #writing

#vss365 #vssdaily "Well you're just a delightful #oddball, aren't you?" She chuckled. . He froze. How could she know? WHO did she know?! He wracked his mind, frantically searching for the link. Did she know Stephen? Darrell? Had she met his mother? How did she know he had a third testicle?!

Once upon a time, people thought the moon was one-sided - a plate shifting now and then if you squinted. An oddball wanted to climb high just for it - to turn the moon around. There had to be something more than this, they figured. Isn't that wild? #soulseedlove #writemap #vss365 #oddball

Pt356 “You’re certainly an #oddball kind of Sky Woman,” said Marvin, “not even pregnant. Of what #benefit are you to our world anyway? Sky Women are generally pregnant in our oral tradition, you know.” Meona’hane’e was flabbergasted. “Your world? Our oral tradition?” #vss365 #WIPSnips

You hurl this label as an insult yet to me, poetry is born at the fringes. Oddball, go ahead and say it. Creativity is generative. #vss365 #oddball

exercise balance between grace and #oddball it's important to be free #vss365 #poetry

She approached the creature and cautiously sniffed its nose. A soft pure pheromone odour flooded her senses, making her purr involuntarily. “I know I’m a bit of an #oddball which is normal for the tuxedo tribe. But ‘chosen’? How so?” Ruby’s curiosity had been piqued. #vss365

He had always been considered an #oddball, which made it easy to blame him when the disappearances started happening Everyone had made up their mind about him, so no one listened to his warnings about the creature lurking in the woods #vss365 #vsshorror

Whisper about me Call me #oddball or weirdo Please look far deeper #vss365 #haiku #poetry

Since schooldays, people often see me as an #oddball, mainly people who don't know me too well. Oh, look, what kind of music he's listening too. Yes, & what kind of books he reads. What, he reads books? Even my other half is not always free from it, but at least I am her oddball #vss365

An #oddball can see sights From a new angle, just As a bright bangle can Entice the colours of A zesty dress to dance #vss365

Nobody’s different We’re all the same Same problems Same challenges To relate is to get perspective You either explode or implode Cowards or berserkers All kinds but black or white Shades of darkness On the other side of light I may feel alien but i’m just like you, an oddball #oddball #vss365

When the UFO landed, the media debated what the aliens would look like. Maybe they would be beautiful women, just green or purple or something! But when the ship opened, they looked more like an #oddball of snakes, all yellow eyes and swishing tails. Which was kind of hot, in its own way. #vss365

I didn’t want my perfume to attract men anymore. I was sick of it. I wanted a repellent. “ #Oddball Eau De Parfum repels most people,” the assistant said. “Perfect.” I snapped it up. But I’m still trailed by oddballs, just like before. Maybe it was never the perfume… #vss365