Horror Writing Prompt #2171: #lesion #horrorprompt lesions I scrape the top of my skin to see what's underneath the raw flesh only whispers of bargains unfulfilled. 05-20-2026

Favorite Shakespeare plays? Othello Macbeth Measure for Measure Midsummer's Night Dream

Horror Writing Prompt #2187: #insomnia #horrorprompt 3:30 vigil anxiety stirs insomnia, the gift of the distrusting gods 05-19-2026

Yeah...I think I like this one for my journal, but with this slight nudge: surviving the wild you walk in the tall grass where pasture meets wood. the bramble longs to hold you: you set yourself free. 05-18-2026

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1737: #poison #haikuhorrorprompt #nothaiku untitled you lash out with venom and I take your poison it burns as I swallow I'll do it again. 05-18-2026 / 01-04-2025

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1757: #eoten #haikuhorrorprompt #nothaiku eoten way dwellers of fens and waters they exist to dine on the company of men, these baseborn children of Nod. 05-18-2026

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1755: #quicksand Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt #nothaiku caveat quicksand and killer bees -- these are things I was taught to fear. no one warned me of you. 05-18-2026

#APoemADay surviving the wild you walk in the tall grass where pasture meets wood. the vines could not take you; you set yourself free 05-18-2026

Welcome to the vast and wondrous Universe...which appears to be looking at us like we smell of rotten socks.

An 80s show I love?

And what does your getaway vehicle look like?

#APoemADay just a little polish...I like the idea, but I'm not sure if approve of my execution: negligent folly she thought if she fell without ever landing she would be destined to fly. she followed directions without understanding that consequence need not comply. 05-15-2026 /2025.09.05

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1754: #cull #haikuhorrorprompt #nothorror #nothaiku prodigal sifting wheat from the chaff casting pearls before the swine culling the unworthy and harvesting the poor will you still come home?

A little sunshine, dressed in velvet. #Photography #Nature #Flowers #FlowersOfBluesky #FlowerPhotography #BeardedIris #Iris #Garden #Gardening #Gardens #EastCoastKin

I'm behind one poem for this week -- I'll provide two tomorrow. But for now, it's my bedtime. G'night, Bluesky!

Horror Writing Prompt #2185: #ocular #horrorprompt cephalgia it starts on the right, a bright burst of lines an elegant kaleidoscope of affliction inside your eyes. 05-14-2026

Horror Writing Prompt #2186: #slice #horrorprompt #from_the_archives just a little vein nick a little vein for me let the body bleed for me let it pour out on this page let it fill this empty cup let it slake this endless thirst Just slice a little vein. 12-23-2023

#horrorprompt #2184: #cruciform #titled in the fallow field I see you standing in the tall grass your arms reach out, wide open you lift your face to God, cruciform perfection. I watch you elbows form angles the strawman dances you fall to the ground as the crow circles. 05-11-2026

Horror Writing Prompt #2184: #cruciform #horrorprompt I saw you standing in the meadow arms stretched out to your sides face lifted to the clouds cruciform perfection. I watched you as you bent your arms elbows form angles a strawman dances you fall to the ground as the crow circles. 05-11-2026

I came across this while populating my poetry journal and considered tossing it. Then I reconsidered and decided that it was just a bit overwritten. So, I cut it in half, and changed the title: beneath the eiderdown I am weary afraid of unearthed grief that waits for its release. 2025.08.01

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words, which feels a bit passive-aggressive.

I love these guys. Definitely nice, even kind. But they are still wild fae, so one should always be cautious.

Correction: Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1749: #genesis #haikuhorrorprompt genepocalypsis once it has begun it will grow a stalk of beans as the giant falls 05-08-2026

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1749: #genesis #haikuhorrorprompt genepocalypsis once it has begun it will grow a stalk of beans and the giant falls 05-08-2026

owl call the night opens one eye #haiku

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1747: #decoct #haikuhorrorprompt. extract of you you simmer and stew, distilled, refined, and reduced -- you will be delicious 05-07-2025

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18:

Loving those laser-eyed voles…

Ha! I haven’t been employed since July 2020, my work history is weird and I don’t discuss it online very much, and I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago. I wonder what they found that was so impressive. Spam can be so entertaining.

Horror Writing Prompt #2179: #transpontine #horrorprompt distal vision something is waiting on the other side cross, and you shall see 05-06-2026

I've been reviewing, and in some cases revising, poems for my Dreamwidth poetry journal. Today was hard. I've written three poems for my sister Kris, and two of them came up today. This is one of them:

Horror Writing Prompt #2176: #just_be_quiet #horrorprompt. vampyr hush, hush, my sweet poppet your cries will not stop it be quiet, relinquish your flames, soon extinguished you thirst for connection I drink your perfection. 05-05-2026

Another reminder of how vast and wondrous the Universe is... ...and this image makes me wonder if those who first told our mythologies had the sight of visual technologies that are beyond my comprehension.

Horror Writing Prompt #2177: #merciless #horrorprompt siren without mercy she calls your name a soft whisper you won't resist. the water pulls you to the edge beckoning you to leave your self where the waves break. 05-04-2026

Your reminder that the Universe is a vast and wondrous place:

Morels really freak me out. I'm trying to not be prejudiced based on their looks, but the reaction I have is physical. I won't go into any detail on that, though, just in case they are listening.

#APoemADay There's no prompt paired with this one...the last two lines were just rolling around in my head, so I folded them into a quatrain: #APoemADay trove once wrapped in soft cotton held safe underground -- these things i've forgotten waiting to be found 05-02-2026

Horror Writing Prompt #2170: #unmoored #horrorprompt speck here, beneath the sky unmoored, undone, unanchored i may float away 05-01-2026

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1644: gravewarm #haikuhorrorprompt sheltered protected by stone, in the earth we lie as one -- our grave warm and safe 04-30-2026

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1737: #poison #haikuhorrorprompt a bitter draught you told me your lies and filled my cup with poison but I chose to drink 04-29-2026

I had jotted this note down in my phone, two or three cell phones past. I have no clue what it references, but it amuses me each time it pops up in OneNote or Notepad: cake, 2 hail Marys, and call the pope in the morning

kindness has a shape it looks just like someone’s hand left open for yours #haikufeels #Shape #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

Dang. Just wow.

Your regular reminder that the Universe is a vast and wondrous place:

Things I'm sure I couldn't afford, but oh damn, wouldn't that be nice?

Absolutely adore this part: for darkness is not the opposite of light but its archive

Aren't we lucky? The Universe gave us this amazingly beautiful satellite and some of us humans were smart enough to develop the technology to take pictures of it, and others are talented enough to stunning photos. What a flipping amazing Universe this is, right?

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1736: #eye_lid #haikuhorrorprompt fault line i see the cleft in our delicate connection through lidded eyes 04-28-2026

I'm going to have to come back to this one later, because it gave me an earworm of "Killer Queen," and I can't seem to move past that.