Place: The Clover Court, a hidden casino where wagers alter destiny itself. #vssfantasy #fantasy #vss #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #shortstory #prompts #writingprompt #place

Character: A gambler blessed by a trickster god who begins to suspect the blessing is actually a trap. #vssfantasy #fantasy #vss #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #shortstory #prompts #writingprompt #character

Imagery: A silver coin spinning in midair, suspended by magic, refusing to land. #vssfantasy #fantasy #vss #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #shortstory #prompts #writingprompt #imagery

Concept: Luck is a visible aura that changes color depending on how much a person has left. #vssfantasy #fantasy #vss #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #shortstory #prompts #writingprompt #concept

#WritingCommunity #poetry #vss365 #BSPP51 #firewords280 - So What we had Were duplicit commonalities All along? What is this song - the quest you're on? Never mind I don't need this any more Go ahead Tell your tales of fortune But tell them to somebody else Your... 1/2

2/2 ...shining armour is a lie And you are not a knight You're just lost Always on the verge Of being found Just without The dragon's courage - #vssfantasy #WildWalkPrompt #MadMarch #PennedReveries #fairytalepoets

His parents were perplexed by why good luck always seemed to follow their son. They sought out a seer for answers. The old seer said fortune was a river spirit, fickle as moonlight on water, and that it had taken a liking to the boy for reasons lost to any mortal tongue. #vssfantasy

#vssfantasy #amwriting #writingcommunity I've never felt like this before, never been wanted like this. He makes me feel real, seen, and loved. I crave his presence and the satisfaction of that #intimacy we share. Hearing his voice settles something in my soul, allowing me to be my truest self.

#vssfantasy #amwriting #writingcommunity The creature is just beyond, behind that heavy wooden door. We're supposed to explore, to #embrace and follow what evidence we were given. Unfortunately, the others are late and I find myself alone. Should I go in? Should I rush ahead and split the party?

#vssFantasy #amwriting #writingcommunity That #fortune is all they should be applauded for. For them it is easy to grin and pretend that they have no connection to what their families do. They let fear and hatred rule, throwing away common sense for the mere hint of respect that might hide the lie.

She had inherited a #fortune from her parents. This made her the most desirable woman in town. Most had eyes on just her gold. She made arrangements to safeguard her interests before anything happened. Her loyal retainers helped spirit her away, with her wealth before anyone realized. #vssfantasy

WIP: Bill & Ar’Thyl Part 61 Chapter 9 Dreams can take us to unknown, strange places… #writingcommunity #morningwriters #vss365 #vssfantasy #vssdaily #vssmagic #emoetry #WIPSnips weirdmicro not released Follow along in my blog at chrissolbooks.com weekly – chapter 8 now up! Text in ALT

By serendipity alone she met him on the road to town, her shawl lifting in the wind like a signal from some older, kinder world. Mary Margaret had been looking for answers and here was one right under her nose. #vssfantasy

Gamblers lost their bets and their fortunes. Patients received bad news. Athletes started on a run of bad games. All over the world, things began to go wrong. Lady Luck shrugged and hung up her staff. As the world panicked, she looked forward to retirement. They relied too much on her. #vssfantasy

There was fate, and then there was #serendipity. If fate was an unbreakable law, then it was also predictable. Nature and magic worked hand in hand to make the life of mortals exciting. Some mortals couldn't handle the chaos and submitted their terse, precisely worded complaints. #vssfantasy

#WritingCommunity #vss365 #vssfantasy #vsstimetravel #inkMine - He sat at the station, warming his numb fingers on a hot cup of coffee. The pumpkin spice drew his mind into memories of Autumn's splendour - even on a dreary day like this. The proximity to Samhain brought up memories of... 1/5

#vssfantasy There are no coincidences only seredipity. #WritingPrompts

WIP: Bill & Ar’Thyl Part 62 Chapter 9 The pressures of being too long underground… #writingcommunity #morningwriters #vss365 #vssfantasy #vssdaily #vssmagic #emoetry #WIPSnips #weirdmicro Follow along in my blog at chrissolbooks.com weekly – chapter 8 now up! Text in ALT

#poetry #vss365 #BSPP51 @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social - I'm looking at today’s prompts for the #WritingCommunity, and words linger on the edge, posing riddles. They challenge me to brave the cold night of unknowingness, before they wash over me like a dyslexic cataract. ... /1

/2 ... A picture prompt for ekphrastic poetry evokes oneiric notions. They are quite unsettling for me. As for site fidelity... Today, I'm breaking the rules. 15 Words, 8 Words, #haiku, horror, fantasy ... whatever posed, I'll throw it all together. That's what you get for burying me in...

/3 ...threads of mysterious terms. Perhaps, I should have tried devination as a gambit. But it is too late, now. Drafting demons are hastening -- deprived of men's depravity. Sorry, wrong address. Only fragile flowers, and Spring sprigs, here. Pages don't turn -- I'm in awe. ...

/4 ... Or, if you like it more #acrostic: Holy cow Overwhelmed With what's now Hey, what's that? Misty motions in velvet gloom... something is coming... Oh, hello, Cerberus! - No, you cannot devour me with your right head. We have the same ascendant. Does your left head still have...

/5 ...still have toothaches? Oh, I'm sorry. Well, kind of. My clavicles crush crunchingly, as the giant dog's middle head is snagging me, and chewing me up. Evening falls fast unexpected lasting sleep -- some mornings won't come. By the way: Happy Birthday, Dave! - #firewords280 #BraveWrite ...

Her smile was a gambit, soft and strange, like the shimmer of a spell half-cast, and he felt the ground shift beneath his boots. The earth gave a sigh, and the stones rearranged themselves in patterns he could not read. He should have stepped back. Instead, he asked her name. #vssfantasy

“If you not so #obsessed with the #quest I'd #forgive you!” The pixie fluttered. The elven pilot punched it. " #Cerberus is of Hades #Steel! We #thread that #orbital gap at full #velocity and #splendor awaits!” “If the #gambit fails?” “Death.” #vss365 #2WordPrompt #HorrorPrompt #vssmagic #vssfantasy

“Is that…” #Forgive my ruse. We must kill #Cerberus. It, like you, is old and it has a #cataract on the left side. I’ll #thread my #steel through that side and you drain the right until I can kill it.” “Can I drink that?” “Hence the #gambit.” #vss365 #2WordPrompt #HorrorPrompt #vssmagic #vssfantasy

WIP: Bill & Ar’Thyl Part 63 Chapter 9 Echoes of stories past… #writingcommunity #morningwriters #vss365 #vssfantasy #vssdaily #vssmagic #emoetry #WIPSnips #weirdmicro Follow along in my blog at chrissolbooks.com weekly – chapter 8 now up! Text in ALT

#WritingCommunity #vss365 #BSPP51 @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social - Tied souls, reborn tethered... This sounds romantic, doesn't it? Perhaps a play of lovers being drawn to each other in every lifetime, bodies tethered together with legs winding around legs, and arms wrapping... /1

/2 ...around waists, and shoulders. A spectacle of skin meeting skin, meeting breath under softdrifts that adjust towards desired touch. Tongues dancing, slow, so slow, at first, gentle... then faster, demanding. Magical kisses coating the most delicious hills, and valleys, while hips are...

/3 ...yearning for each other until they rhythmically entwine in lofty rawness. Oh, the sweetest taste of sweetness, little death, after little death, after little death... A fairytale guided by providence. And providence is guiding. But what if those tethered souls are incarnated on distant...

/4 ...shores? What if one is serenely enshrouded in darkness, while the other is sulking in the light? What if you first have to detangle the ties, let go completely, and be entirely you, before you ever can be with each other? Oh, blimey, sweet liberty, you stymie. What if, along the path,...

/5 ...you hurt each other more deeply, than anybody else could ever do, more devastatingly than you'd ever imagine possible? Then, one falls into stonewalling lethargy, yet the other attempts to move mountains, alone, while both are being crushed by their weight. Have you ever felt the weight of...

/6 ...a mountain? Then, providence lets it rain, as a confession that the only one who ever guided anything was you. And for the life of you, you cannot find your umbrella. - #poetry #firewords280 #BraveWrite #vssfantasy #thingstowriteabout #MPPrompt #MadMarch #FoxProse #OurPoetryX ...

It was a daring #gambit... a feint, a false retreat, a lure into a trap for the enemy. The casualties would be high, but it could mean a decisive end to the war. Mages to the back ranks, cavaliers to the front to cover the 'retreat'. They didn't count on meteors from above. #vssfantasy #writing

Divine #providence won their war. A sign from the heavens in the form of fiery punishment. Their oracles breathed a sigh of relief. Their desperate predictions turned out to be true. It meant they could get away with their lives. Never mind that victory had not been assured. #vssfantasy #writing

Providence walked beside him in the forest, a pale‑green shimmer in the ferns, nudging his steps toward a truth he would only understand years later. Only when the world had taken him far from that woodland path, did he realize how gently he had been kept him from losing himself entirely #vssfantasy

WIP: Bill & Ar’Thyl Part 64 Chapter 10 The world keeps moving despite how they have appeared… #writingcommunity #morningwriters #vss365 #vssfantasy #vssdaily #vssmagic #emoetry #WIPSnips #weirdmicro Follow along in my blog at chrissolbooks.com weekly – chapter 8 now up! Text in ALT

#ScifaikuSaturday #RetroArtPrompt #vssfantasy We created while Trying to Escape Our Fate Catalyst for change darksouls1 pixabay.com

#WritingCommunity #vss365 #BSPP51 @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social - The talisman fell to the floor. It shattered like glass across the sky when vibrant shards flew everywhere, before the world got denuded of all its colour. The noise was so curious that dawnsong fell silent,... /1

/2 ...forever. Crestfallen, the sad ones said: "But we are still bountiful, after all." Then a hoarse laugh would escape their throats in lieu of the fact, that said bounty consisted of darkness, hatred, wars, hunger, poverty, and suffering. In wait for a saviour, they comfortably conformed...

/3 ...with the new abundance, adjusted their dreams to this lack in a bad disguise, and shed an occasional tear along the way. They did not understand that the magic of life could not be defined through an embodiment other than their own. Yet, there also were those, who did not betray their...

/4 ...dreams and continued to believe in the promises hidden in the ordinary. It took a long time. But eventually there was enough belief to see the signs of a new Spring budding. When the first marigold blossomed in bold yellow, one single robin started to sing. Many couldn't bear the shame... ..

/5 ... How could they have forgotten this once beloved melody? Still, a few listened with open hearts. Again, it took some time. The fungus connecting the trees of the woods renewed itself, and the gentle refuge of the forests allowed more hearts to open to the robin's song. The more hearts...

Addendum: The noise was supposed to be *furious, not 'curious'. Otto Correct auto-errored, again, and it even slipped the spell check. Also, important info vor #vssmagic, as 'furious' was the prompt word.

/6 ...listened, the more birds joined the choir. The crossing-over happened gradually, giving every soul space to heal in their own time. To this day, it is still underway. - #poetry #firewords280 #BraveWrite #vssfantasy #thingstowriteabout #WildWalkPrompt #MPPrompt #ArcheOfPain #MadMarch ...

She wore the talisman at her throat, and when the wind rose it whispered to her in a language older than the Kerry hills, coaxing her toward a destiny she had tried to refuse. The spirits of the Kingdom were patient. It was not the first time a would be queen had been obstinate. #vssfantasy

Her necklace was a #talisman of sorts. Three concentric circles, the outer gold, the middle silver, the innermost copper. Each one spun freely, like a puzzle piece, and she fidgeted with it all the time. The runes on it were supposed to bring happiness. Her life was anything but. #vssfantasy

"If you turn it clockwise..." The clouds vanished. "Place it in the soil..." A #bountiful harvest appeared. "And if you break it?" the boy laughed, smashing the #talisman. Earthquake. Fire in the skies. #Calamity. The old wizard sighed. "Damn kids." #FromOneLine #vss365 #vssfantasy #InkMine

WIP: Bill & Ar’Thyl Part 65 Chapter 10 A gratified reunion. A woman in awe. A bleak future? #writingcommunity #morningwriters #vss365 #vssfantasy #vssdaily #vssmagic #emoetry #WIPSnips #weirdmicro Follow along in my blog at chrissolbooks.com weekly – chapter 8 now up! Text in ALT

#WritingCommunity #vss365 #BSPP51 @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social - She's never lived inside a box, nor has she ever fit inside any drawer. Yet, the world had got out of kilter, and this went beyond intentionally walking the cutting edge. Up was now down, and down was up,... /1