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"Foolish neophyte! You cannot yet #fathom the #truth! I have studied arcane tomes uncountable, mastered ancient magicks! I can bind demons to my will!" "Yes master. But I find befriending them works better." The master didn't reply, because the ancient demon had snapped his neck #vss365 #vssdaily

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"Have we #solved the issues with our latest bath #bomb?" "No sir. We added more #soap to the napalm, but customer feedback on the fragrance is still negative." "Doesn't it remove dirt and grime?" "Utterly" "So what do customers say after using the product?" "Very little" #vssdaily #2wordprompt

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It wasn't possible. He'd marched in a straight line for days, traipsing through untouched snow, notching every tree he passed - his breadcrumb trail. Now here it was again. The great, groaning #fir, branches like hungry teeth, icicles of drool. And a hundred desperate notches in its trunk. #vssdaily

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Dylan searched the abandoned #complex on the planet to find the research his employers sought. With it, they could possibly find a way to combat the increasing threat of the TechDrones, but retrieving the research was proving far more difficult than Dylan could have possibly expected. #vss365

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The #vssdaily #prompt for February 14, 2025 is #plastic

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Lottie looked in her mirror and cried, seeing the four tentacles that had grown from her back. “I’m a mutant, a freak.” One of the appendages offered a handkerchief plucked from the dresser, and she dried her eyes with it. “Oh,” she sniffed, “thank you, Lovely.” #vss #sff

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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 11-FEB-25 is: Hear & Smile #Prompt

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Shark 1: There’s a hunter looking for fins. I’m scared. Shark 2: It’s okay, I disarmed him. 😉 Shark 1: … Shark 2: Dis-armed. As in— Shark 1: Nods slowly. Shark 2: I bit his arms off. Shark 1: Yeah, I got it. #Vss365

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"The protests are growing. It's time we #disarm these rebels!" The president's advisor chuckled. "No sir. The better path would be to undercut the arms dealers, provide them guns of our own making" The president scoffed. "And when they take to the street? What then?" "Then we detonate them" #vss365

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#vss365 He'd clearly missed an alarm. Figuring he'd #disarmed them all, he'd rifled through the lab. But now that he found himself on his back in the garden, after the explosion, with an escaped and a ravenous lab rat on his chest. Things had gone south. Now if he could just get the rat off him...

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"Guards, disarm them!" "Taking away my blade will not stop me. My magic will force you to beg for mercy." "I forgot to mention that my guards take the word #disarmed literally. Can you cast your spells with no hands?" "In that case, how about an alliance? I never cared for the king anyway." #vss365

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The #vssdaily #prompt for February 8, 2025 is #rabbit

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The Corporate Con. With corporate greed out of control, it's time for Labour to start governing. youtu.be/qj-gAUaUF-4?...

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"Ugh, the fireworks are terrible this year, it's like a #rocket barrage. Is Fluffers okay?" "Yeah, she's fine thanks. Snuggled up here #safe and #sight" "Don't you mean safe and sound?" "No, I'm looking right at her. Besides, how could I hear a rabbit over all this noise?" #vss365 #2wordprompt

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#vss365 host for February 1-15 is: @paulphilips44.bsky.social Prompts will drop daily at 0600 GMT (London) Follow Paul, if you haven’t already!

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"The world of #tomorrow is going to have so many amazing inventions!" "For #example?" "Like... flying cars that run on the ground!" "What?" "We'll save millions on rocket fuel. Drone collisions will be history." "Ground cars? Get your head out of the clouds." "That's the idea." #2wordprompt

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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 30-JAN-25 is: Example & Tomorrow #Prompt

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“The important thing to remember about an umber pudding is—” “It’s a mindless, amorphous slime bigger than a horse that wants to eat you?” “Yes, there’s that,” the halfling nods. “But if reduced over a slow kettle cook fire for a day it’s also a delicacy!” #vss #sff

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The Emperor chose his advisors' uniforms carefully. Bejeweled chests, and #collars #wickedly sharp, inlaid with blades. If an advisor ever disagreed with his command, they need only shake their head. If their minds were closed to his wisdom, at least their throats would be open. #vss365 #vssdaily

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The red smudge on his #collar caught her eye. Had he done it again? She reached out, and touched the drop with her finger «I promise» he said apologetically. «He had it coming» Oh, how she wished it had been lipstick instead #vss365 #WritingCommunity #writing

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On her lonely mountain, she approached the crying baby with her gorgon’s gaze averted. But the abandoned infant rolled, and the woman’s eyes meet hers in terror. A curse made the hermitess a monster. Fate made the baby blind. Medusa’s choice made them a family. #vss #sff

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1965. Buck's #Diner. 'She Loves You' starts on the jukebox. Maryland's best burger sits half-eaten on my plate. Perfection. So why am I scowling? Idly, I scratch at my arm where the #needle went in. Wait. Needle? I frown. ... What year is it? 'She Loves You' starts on the jukebox #vss365 #vssdaily

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"Got a new co-worker today. I like him, he's really #congealed." "Hah. I think you mean he's congenial." "No. I mean he's congealed. He's a sentient blob of viscous goo." "Oh." "Though now that you mention it, he is friendly, yeah." #vss365

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Of the thousand letters he'd sorted today, this one stood out. That handwriting... he knew it. The address too. He tensed. His fist clenched around the #envelope. And then he tossed it in the shredder. A colleague glanced over. He shrugged. " #Wrong #stamp," he muttered. #vssdaily #2wordprompt

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They lay on a grassy hill, gazing at a sea of stars. “They were never this bright in the twenty-first century,” he said. She snuggles closer. “Do you miss that time, sleeper? The abandoned technologies?” “No. The third millennium is far more… human.” #SciFanSat #vss #sff

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She found sticky notes in her daughter’s room. Scrawled fragments of research. Each one incoherent on their own. But when she found the connecting pieces, she realized it was part of something greater. A #rabbit_hole mystery of children who’d gone missing in the neighborhood without a trace. #vss365

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“Do you like movies?”, he asked She suppressed a surge of excitement, trying to seem cool and interested, but not OBSESSED by taking her date down the #rabbit_hole of facts and trivia now rushing through her brain and trying to escape via her mouth. “Yeah,” she replied. Nailed it. #vss365 #writing

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‘Which part of no more dragons did you not understand, Pixie?!’ ‘Ivar’s not a dragon, Gabe, he’s an #ice drake. Completely different.’ ‘Oh, that’s just dandy then, Pixie! And how exactly do we dry the place out when all this ice melts.’ ‘Well… I know a dragon…’ ‘!’ #vss365

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

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The house was so old that a #thin layer of #dust covered everything. It seemed years #ago that it was last lived in. A noise made us jump. It was an old man who smiled & bid us welcome. We tried to leave but a huge web blocked our way & he said not so fast, my little flies. #vss365 #2wordprompt

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20) The Color Purple by Alice Walker #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

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He awoke to the feeling of pressure on his chest. When he tried to sit up, he couldn't because he was tied to his bed with a jump rope and shoelaces. "Remember when your sister said you better #quit teasing her or else?" the doll sitting on his chest asked, "I'm the or else." #vss365

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"You should #quit doing that," the munchkin warned. "Why? It's just a puddle of water," the girl replied as she leapt into another puddle. "Here in Oz, a puddle can be something a lot worse than water," the munchkin explained. "Like what?" she didn't believe him. "Like a melted witch." #vss365

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20) The Road by Cormac McCarthy #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

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Was it her #imagination or was the sun a bit too bright today? Breakfast a tad too #sweet? Neighbours a mite too happy? The radio in her car cycled her favourites, no ads. Homeless folk smiled & waved. And when, distracted, she ran down a child, he giggled as his life bled away. #vsscreative #vss365

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you stand on the shore, a slighted fortress, crumbling and I? the ocean

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