Two of our Feline friends Have been turned Into #ash. I have yet To decide On a final Resting place. Until then They're still here, Even if only in My heart. #vss365

"Yeah, man, dance!" yelled the hobo from up the alley, tapping the #ash off a cigarette. Jeff couldn't help but crack a grin. The bouncer's face went beet red as he stormed towards Jeff. Before he got more than halfway, Jeff had his laser pistol trained between his eyes. #vss365

#WIPSnips for 10/8: no dungeon, prison, or jail in the manuscript, so you get asylum instead. Tim’s father is an institutionalized paranoid schizophrenic, here you get his description of the hospital. #WriteSky #YAFantasy #QueerWriters

#WIPSnips 9/10: Battery 'Nodding slightly out of habit rather than having any effect on the conversation, Ryder hung up to try preserve some of his phone battery, jacket still drawn so tightly it impinged his movement.' - #WitchChild

#vss365 It took 15 years before Misty pulled me off the #ash heap of despair after the passing of my late wife. I am a thin-skinned, moody mathematician, but the core of my soul is dedication and loyalty. I'm also really good at worrying.

Welcome back to the Annual Pan-galatic Punk Picnic everyone! Today, we have... what's wrong, Bob? Bob! Ko'l, I can't... Ko'l chokes, gasps. ...breathe! This potato salad tastes like dust! Like, like... Ah, yes. That's from Vesuvius LXXIX. Unfortunately, all their food tastes like ash. #vss365

The air tastes like memory; thin, bitter, and full of you. Every heartbeat drags through smoke, and the silence settles like dust on what we once were... ashes I still try to breathe. #vss365 #poetry #ashes

She has moved through fires, Scorching layers. Letting go of the #ash So the glow beneath Can light the way for others. #ash #vss365 #poem #poetry

I'm back with a #WIPSnips

Today’s #WIPsnips word is #dungeon. I went with #prison. The resident school mean girl (who is also transphobic) accuses Cainen of a crime he may or may not have committed. Weird unexplainable things are happening. #wip #writing #queer #trans #transmasc #ya #horror #fiction #writesky #deadname

I'm claiming 'Cell' in place of 'Dungeon'. From my WIP 'The Shallow Grave', Chapt 3 'Prisoner'. #WIPSnips

“Picture someplace pleasant, like a really cold, barren spot on Pluto, with nothing growing but mold… Breathe out the stress, breathe in peace…” “How about we picture a dark nasty dungeon, filled with Cygnoids that we can smack until their feathers fall off?” -The Star-Crossed Pelican #WIPSnips

We walked through #ash up to our knees, the smoky, brimstone reek of it in our nostrils Epenus was somewhere under us, it's glory lost to the mountain, the peak altered by its vicious tumult, and still it shouldered, the ground shaking here and there #vss365 #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky

The fog, this grey philosopher, arrives and steals the world I thought I knew by name. Each tree, each stone, all certainties, it deprives, dissolving solid things to ash and claim. Epistemology so cruel is this, where light itself becomes the soul’s abyss? #poetry #vss365

Stirred to life From ashes Of a former self Conflageration Giving rise To rebirth Walking in The ruins Of a stranger Called by a name As of yet Unrecognizable Admiring the totality of The wreckage... #poetry #vss365 #ash #vss

"Riz, where's my phone?" I asked. "It's dat pile of #ash ova dere," Riz stated. "What." "I 'ad ta purify it, dere wasn't ne ova choice." "What do you mean? What happened!" "I accidentally downloaded Crazy Frog onto it..." "Ohh..." "Really was da only option." #vss365 #riztherogue

He was sequestered amongst a copse of ash trees. The new moon provided no light. He rubbed the feathered end of the poisoned blow dart across his cheek. A man walking his tiny dog sauntered casually by his hiding place. He loaded the blow gun & blew with force. #vsshorror #vss365

The energy cascaded off them: it lit up the unnatural twilight of Koan’s eclipse. The plants around them reduced to #ash. Still the mortal stood against her. All was kaleidoscopic light and sound; it wasn’t until her own breath gave out that Amer realized she had been screaming in her rage. #vss365

From the #ash of pain Rises a phoenix made up Of resilience #vss365 #haiku

#vss365 #poem Woe, grey-eyed viper, Hypocrite in sackcloth, Veiled in piety, Laden with deceit- You smile with joy, #Ash on brow, Cup of life to lip, Pure song of sobriety- Yet the roaring lion prowls, Devouring you in lust. And godly men, Duped by your duplicity, Find peril, danger, In the night

I stand as #ash falls A darkened sun crying out Our deeds bury us #haiku #vss365

The dawn adorns herself in ashen light, a halo spun from ice and tender fire. What sacred geometry makes morning bright? #poetry #vss365

#wipsnips “Mom, Mr. Velossy is terrifying! They call him The Velociraptor for a reason!” Mom laughed. “He’s a very nice man, Pep.” “I doubt it,” I muttered. “Did you know there’s a sign on his classroom door that says ‘Welcome to the Dungeon’?”

Dungeon, tomb, same difference, right? #wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

At the women's club meeting I ask the other Barb who Paul fought at the bar. "That would be Ed Hanson he and Janet, Paul's wife were having an affair Paul found him and they fought,Paul did a week in jail and community service,it's not his favorite subject." #WIPSnips charming chocolates

"This is where Gibson is?" On the warehouse, the neon sign said Fetish Fortress. Jin knew it was an excuse for Cosmo to go to a sex #dungeon. "Yeah, that's where Gibson and the Androids are at," Cosmo said. "And where they film their so called artsy movies. Though it's straight up porn." #WIPSnips

#WIPSnips Dungeon. I was in a mental dungeon for 17 hours yesterday working through a work issue. Anyway. Ethgar the Paladin recounts some of his experiences in the enemy stronghold. Text in the alt. #WritingCommunity #Writesky

I find a childhood relic: a pack of cigarette sweets. We’d inhale sugary air & tap imaginary #ash away, playing at being grown up. I sigh into the dust. “It’s not that glamorous.” I take a fake drag & reminisce about youth. “It was never that sweet,” the dust replies. #vss365

Burned landscape As far as the eye can see The wind blows Cold and unfriendly Ash is everywhere Covering the ground Where majestic trees Used to live But there in the corner A tiny stalk has grown With just a couple Of small green leaves Life always creeps back Life always wins #vss365 #poetry

I've never seen the moon this shade of jasmine hue as it's once soothing light struggles to penetrate the radioactive #ash cloud suffocating life on Earth Soon darkness of the night will totally obliterate all sight but we'll be too extinct to notice anymore #vss365 #inkmine #FromOneLine #poetry

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is a cover of David Bowie’s #Ashes to Ashes by Magdalena Bay from like a version. youtu.be/mTN_Hxgaofo?... #MusicSky

#vss365 #writingprompt #ash #writesky #writingcommunity I tried to hold back a smile as Detective Baroth walked us through her presentation. She wouldn't find the killer tonight. Or tomorrow. Not because he was good at hiding, but because by now he was nothing but a pile of #ash in my furnace.

#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #writinprompt The darkness is like a cloth over her eyes. She lays there for an eternity, waiting to see if they will adjust. They don't. She extends her hands on either side; they hit cement. This isn't the warden's #dungeon, she realizes. It's a coffin.

For a lady who does a lot of kink, Penny visits very few dungeons in this book. The Pit will have to suffice. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #urbanfantasy #amwriting

You, divine spark, became fire, became ash, roared again, ablaze, made kindling of darknesses that tried to steal your light - but never could. #vss365 #poetryprompt #ash #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem (image from StockCake)

I heard the Raven At my door Knocking, knocking Evermore Ebon eyes A sight for sore (His secrets mine I knew the sign) & drew the line In #ash & blood Memories Became a flood With boneless thud Fell to the floor With final gasp Breathed nevermore... #vss365

white #ash staining the land the locals call it snow they take their washing and their children in #vss365

“What’s going on?” he asked from the door. She tapped #ash from a cigarette into a dish from the wedding china. They didn’t own any ashtrays. “I’m smoking,” she said. “Why?” he asked. “It’s been years.” “I said I might start again, if I had a reason,” she said. “Did you see your email?” #vss365

ash returns to #ash stardust to stardust as well love fiercely each day #vss365 #prompt for 08/10/25 is #ash

"Maybe some tea will put you right?" The tall woman invited him in. "My goodness!" Ladislaw almost jumped out of his shoes. His face #ash white. "Dorothea, have you grown a tail?!" "What, oh that! We all have a tale inside us, just waiting to be written." She led him through the hall. #vss365

Ashes decorate Drifting in grey apparel Covering landscape #vss365 (ash) #haiku #blacksky #art #3lines #blackpoetry #poetsofbluesky #makesomenoise

I've never seen the moon been 2 yrs, maybe 3 he locked me in a dungeon no satellite TV tempted me with charm flicked his ash & grabbed my arm he said, you're my Sweet Pea & I'm your lovin' hunk 2nd date he roofied me & shoved me in a trunk #Fromoneline #WIPSnips #vssmagic #vss365 #inkmine #vssdaily

Nice to meet you #ash Just another wednesday Daily nightmares Haunting clouds of worry No sun ever sets Only burns the leftovers of nothing left Microplastics might do what dying in wars fails to Make us aware Why fear self aware robots When we should abuse empathy #vss365

#vss365 Leaf and #ash To rake away Compost For A Tattered heart Fingers sift Detritus Hoping For fragments To catch By the thread Thoughts Unraveling Life in free fall A black smear Of fingerprints Wrapped Around my throat Words reduced To syllables Rudiments Of meaning Billow away

Beth tried to tell the villagers the creature was no monster. But townsfolk gave chase with torches and pitchforks until they cornered it. Now she kept her eyes closed as she could hear their screams over the crackling of the fires, the #ash falling from the sky like snow. #vss365 #flashfiction

I rub my eyes to make sure I see clearly. Trees and bushes have been converted to #ash-es, leaving a flattened area of ground. A shiny structure the size of our town’s sports stadium descends in slow motion. Fascinated, I lay eyes on a real spaceship for the first time. #vss365

Watching children turn 2 #ash Fast food feasting Scrolling through prays While another tomorrow awaits With brand new preys In cross hairs Wetting gluttonous appetites Reacting Not acting Worry helps zero Fear wins Only after can a new begin But not before it’s too late #vss365

He was called the #Crimson Pirate because he made #global #technology’s systems bleed red & turn into #ash if he wasn’t paid in crypto. Then he stopped. No one knew why or what happened to him. Graffiti saying “Crimson will rise again” appeared, but he never did. #vss365 #whistpr #2wordprompt

Regret. Tastes like #ash. #VSS365

#31DaysofHalloween #Shadows Through the cross of stone, a castle, now #ash in the mouth of time. Its walls, once bright, now cast in shadow, still hold the shape of memory. #Spooktober #ClassicMono #SensoryArt #photography #gothic #WindowsOnWednesday #EastCoastKin #Poetry #Vss365 #Dark #Light