"Oksana," Sophie said, "we would like to ask you some things." Oksana's smile disappeared, #replaced with confusion and something that might've been fear. Or hope. If you're down long enough and hard enough you can fear to hope. With uncertainty she asked, "Are you police?" #WIPSnips #amquerying

Madison meets "Casablanca" as she searches the hot streets of Cairo with Rocky Jordan to find her ex who stole her iPhone!

I tried to dodge, but a loud crack beat me to it.Simon held a skillet that he had just used to brain the young thug, sending him to the floor. I smiled my thanks. Simon panted, fear blooming into an excited grin that made him look like the wolf he might have been decades ago. #WIPSnips #amquerying

@mrssmithsbasement.bsky.social Howdy.

from u/SendMeYourSocks

Her #defiance is what he loved about her, her refusal to bend to men because they were men. So when the priest asked her at the altar, "Do you swear to love, honor, and obey?" he & her exchanged glances and whispers. Done, they answered, "We have agreed she will try her best." #vss365 #skywrite

I think this is also a pun?

I was 7 when I knew the bogeyman was real. He didn’t hide under my bed. He walked in plain sight, had a key to the door. I stand on your grave, #defy your ghost to rise & look me in the eye. Instead you sleep. “Loving Dad” etches your stone. One more secret between us. #vss365 📷 Pixabay

from u/ItalianCatGirl

The lead car's powerful headlights bleached Sartre's skin until his color matched the corpse down in the pipe. "I was rounding up men to tend to the disposal when I happened onto you." His cigarette smoke drifted away on a #humid breeze wafting up from the ocean. "Luck, yes?" #WIPSnips #amquerying

Welcome to a world where you don't own anything, because everything has to be a revenue stream.

The sidhe, the fae, whatever, Aggie knew that them #revealing themselves was bad. So when she heard the giggle from her hearth, she knew it was time to upgrade her wards. She didn't want clean up after another "accident." Try explaining to the cops the "wee ones" killed your guest. #vss365 #writing

I think we can all hope that as executives try to shove #AI down our throats, humans will stampede to human created #content, #art, and #writing. "Mediocrity recognizes nothing but itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Madison disguised as a groom to catch a murderer on the couple's wedding day!

In the immortal words of William Gibson, there comes a point where the razor doesn't get any duller.

None of the trams went directly from the poorer #quarters into the heart of Old Town. A chain of tram stations formed a periphérique between the outer banlieue and the city center. The gendarmerie stood around in body armor and rifles, black as old knights. #WIPSnips #amquerying

He #tenderly ran the fold of the whip along her back, making her skin dimple under its leather braids. She could feel his breath as he asked, "Ready?" She had never been more terrified, a kind of fear that seemed to be having tea with her arousal. So all she could say was, "Yes." #vss365 #amwriting

Brandon Sanderson has become the James Patterson of fantasy. #writing #skywrite #Booksky

Wow, I have to say the @spotify.com web player is trash.

In the center of the tarmac rose the beginnings of a #stadium, men already working on the beginnings of a modern Colosseum. I wondered for a time what it would be like to have a simple job like that. I couldn’t really get my head around it. #WIPSnips #amquerying

@interdiction.bsky.social Howdy.

Happy #AudioDramaSunday! New episode just released featuring some of THE best noir monologues in OTR. But they're not so great when they're a voice in your head... #NowPlaying linktr.ee/madisononthe... #OldTimeRadio #audiofiction #audiotheater #audiodrama #fictionpodcast #madisonontheair

Don't be in rush. It'll be over soon enough.

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For a king with a reputation for madness, he was #supercilious with the dissident diplomats. By the time the emissaries left, they were knew their country would never be free from such a ruthless tyrant without a revolution. They were his property and the price demanded of them was blood. #vss365

Mitnick held up a finger, indicating he'd be with us momentarily. As he spoke he paced around a table with a clipped, decisive energy making me wondered if he had formal training. Not a soldier, but maybe something else. Spotting the pistol, he said, "I will call you back." #WIPSnips #amquerying

She was #stunning, which is why everyone couldn't understand why she had married Miller, such a stereotype of the bespectacled intellectual. Of course, that was the reason. He was the only one that saw that she was as smart as him, the only one who knew when she was joking. #vss365 #flashfiction

For fuck's sakes @spotify.com get your web player to work.

I stood in front of Gaspard with his receding hairline and disapproval. In my American French I knew he hated I asked, "Qu'est-ce qui se passe?" Gaspard grimaced as if he were describing a latrine he needed me to clean #out. "There is an undesirable that is troubling a guest." #WIPSnips #amquerying

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

The #appraisal went well, the house came in at the expected value. The fact that a murder had occurred in it had to be disclosed, of course, but the bidder already knew this. In this market? As the 911 operator she wrote down the address as soon as the caller started screaming. #vss365 #flashfiction

Sophie was waiting for me at our apartment, past the subway tiles and broken elevator, the yellow sandwich board now #knocked over, teetering dangerously on the elevator's precipice. I ignored it and went up the stairs. #WIPSnips #amquerying

Did you know? In the Victorian era, Nellie Bly set out to do something most people considered impossible: travel around the entire world faster than 80 days. She was working for the New York World, when she proposed the extraordinary stunt. #Victorian #women #feminism #history

A fog rolled in off the lake, filling Tom with #apprehension. He had lived on the lake for 15 years and had never seen mist so thick. The only thing visible was the shape of a woman, with tendrils of mist dancing at her feet. This didn't frighten him so much as his desire to swim out to her. #vss365

The eddies of bass from the speakers carried me. The bartender hustled behind it, making drinks at a pace that put her countrymen to shame. Between her frenetic pace and my poor French, I wasn't sure I'd be able to communicate. Then I spotted a familiar striped #scarf float by. #WIPSnips #amquerying

Is it just me, or are even most of the successful #writers unhappy?

Like my father before me and his father before him, I seem to be destined to work in an industry that will move the world towards its destruction.

The painting was of a #florid summer day, bright and pastoral, but it left everyone who viewed it in quiet discomfort. It was few that noticed that shadow beyond the trees that stalked the villagers who all seemed to be checking their watches. #vss365 #flashfiction

Waiting for the World to End by James Hutton

Tournaments speak of chivalry. That's a rare thing in my manuscript. #WIPSnips

The #carrion lay where David left the bodies of his foes, some decapitated, others gutted, but all missing their foreskin. When he tossed these in front King Saul, the monarch gave over his daughter in marriage, but feared what monster he had created in demanding such a bride price. #vss365 #skwrite

"He mentioned something about a girl." This provoked a laugh from the old man, mourning more than mirth, causing him to look up at the #water-spotted ceiling. Eyes raised to whatever powers he believed in Moreau asked, "Lanzo, what have you gotten yourself into?" #WIPSnips #amquerying

I think I'll just go see the movie.

Another vory slid behind the chaise, putting us #foxhole close. His eyes widened in shock as he realized I was on the wrong side and pointing a pistol at him. Sometimes, late at night, I still see him, even though he meant nothing to me. I put a bullet in him, killing one more. #WIPSnips #amquerying

I scattered the torn carpet about the corpses, then for good measure placed a more cans of petrol around the morbid #pyramid I had constructed. I poured a can out, moving quicker as I went along, worried about being interrupted and having to add another corpse to the pile. #WIPSnips #amquerying

“How the hell does he continuously #pull straight hotties?” “He’s not needy, fearful of rejection, dresses nice, smells nice, has a job, takes care of his mother...” “You make him sound like a saint.” “Trust me, saints don’t fuck like he does.” #vss365 #flashfiction

I knew I was in trouble then, the scent of Cheryl coming into my nose. It wasn't the bitter, chemical tang of chemotherapy coming out of her pores, the smell of those last, #final days. It was the simple odor of a woman who had never cared too much about perfumes while she was alive. #WIPSnips

#Lurch walked in on Morticia and Gomez in their usual, passionate embrace. He let out a groan to announce his presence. He had been struck dumb by Morticia’s beauty when he first started, and from there he simply had to pretend he couldn’t speak, lest he reveal his feelings for his mistress. #vss365

An abrupt movement, a jerky stepped forward, a butler. What's your #lurch? #vss365 #promptshare #flashfiction