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Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Mar 25

Prose/dialogue: "It was fun while it lasted." #hbp150

Illustration from The Strand Magazine, Volume 4, 1892. A costumed man and woman hold hands amid a sign that reads "The End."

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3line @0ltp.bsky.social · Jun 7

the statue spoke to me
told me all the tales from 1949
since she was born

a hard life being a statue
all the sun snow and rain
at night in all its darkness

no one cared to put a lamp for her
not another statue next to her to talk to

someone who understands what its like

#Vss365

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Marcus Rigsby @marcusisabat.bsky.social · Jun 2

I called it a statue, but it was only a weather-beaten stone, its human features an accident of nature. I still brought it food and treated it like my only friend. One day, it spoke.
"Run home," it said.
That night, they found a dead man. His phone had pictures of me. His blood stained my statue.

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Marcus Rigsby @marcusisabat.bsky.social · Jun 1

At 13, I made countless Beatles mixtapes. Organizing their songs into orderly categories made me feel safe.
One night, as I played my tapes, I heard a voice under the music. I put my ear to the speaker.
“I’m in your closet,” it said. “Open the door.”
Somehow, finding the closet empty scared me more.

Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Mar 21

Imagery: Mixtape memories. #hbp146

Photo: A mixtape labeled "Funky Stuff". (Someone gave me this tape by a DJ called Jerry Thomas. It's upbeat, high tempo stuff, of the type we used to hear a lot at Turnmills.). Source: antony_mayfield, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Leigh HR @leighhr.bsky.social · May 31

My brother was always broke, but he had an enviable music collection. For gifts, he lovingly created mixed tapes — a small cost. When I bought a Eurail pass to explore Europe solo, my favorite travel tape from him included The Pretenders, which I listened to over and over and over and over and …

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Leigh HR @leighhr.bsky.social · May 29

I was mistaken to think that the house next door was abandoned. When raccoons peered through a hole in the roof, I knew I had neighbors. There, they had a Birds Eye view of their world.

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3line @0ltp.bsky.social · May 26

floating down the
toxic river of love
hoping to find someone

#vss365 #haiku

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3line @0ltp.bsky.social · May 14

they need to bring back the cassete tape and player
as vintage play stuff
for the kids
they need to experience what we had
it was fun- we could record stuff
bring it backkkkk

Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Mar 21

Imagery: Mixtape memories. #hbp146

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Dunstan Clarke @drumbelievable.bsky.social · May 13

@halfbakedprompts.bsky.social #hbp150

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MA303 @mountainalchemy303.bsky.social · Apr 29

My ol' mixed memoirs:
Synced layered beats from those times..
Yesterday's fusion
taped over protection tab.
Now replaced with app playlist..

#hbp146 #tanka #music #vss365

Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Mar 21

Imagery: Mixtape memories. #hbp146

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MA303 @mountainalchemy303.bsky.social · Apr 24

Reflections of the abyss..

(Playful journal writing brought back to life from some combo #prompt ideas

@inkmine.bsky.social & @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social
Thx! 💜🙏😊🌻

All #art & #pics ©️ me

#inkMine #hbp134 #vss365

Watercolor/Ink painting turned into a B/W mountain scape with playful words of wondering thru the forest in an altered state of mind (2010 era)

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Jess @jessdean77.bsky.social · Apr 24

(Step by step protocol)

Lift off & exit self.
Switch mode to neural channel
recalibration.
Let hidden scripts begin to
unfold old letters contained...

#hbp134 #tanka #HallucinogenicReprogramming

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Anum @anumbudonuts.bsky.social · Apr 20

my heart, it still wants
me to know that I enjoyed
every minute

#haiku #poem #hbp150

Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Mar 25

Prose/dialogue: "It was fun while it lasted." #hbp150

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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · Apr 19

#UnchainedSymphonies #thepenflows #hbp150
The Beginning Euphoria is now just Embers, but It Was Fun While It Lasted
HansLinde pixabay.com
#writingprompt

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · Apr 16

winter - farmers market
I sell potatoes, turnips &
my health
a frozen memory
of my cool student life

#tankathursday #tankapoem #market
#tanka #poetry #micropoetry
#vssdaily #health #inkmine #life
#2wordprompt #job #depend #snow
#vss365 #ice #vsspoem #winter
#waleshaikujounal
#hbp146 #frozen #memory

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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · Apr 16

#hbp134 #WIPwordsearch #vssfantasy
Hallucinogenic Reprogramming was Pushed by the Robotic Clairvoyance. It was intended to Quell the population's unrest. It caused an Everlasting Stalemate
DeltaWorks pixabay.com
#writingprompt #scifi #microfiction

A person's head, but drawn with circuitry

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Thewebster75 @thewebster75.bsky.social · Apr 17

There.
In the darkness of our
buried dreams
and visions
The black of the
inner conscious
In our bones and
memories:
We find ways to
remember who
we are.
And we etch our names there.

#hbp67 #poetry #skypoets #poetrywriting #poetrycommunity

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · Apr 15

subway morning
suddenly at my shoulder
a sleeping child

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#poetrycommunity #vss365 #dream
#sleep #vsspoem #gently #fantaiku
#writingcommunity #scifaiku #sff
#2wordprompt #rest #shoulder
#hbp142 #small #vssdaily #child
#inkmine morning #shift
#subway #underground #tube

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · Apr 14

spring - screaming
each other in the face
falling
in football love
not war

#blueskyrelay #wrath #poetry
#haikufeels #spring #tanka
#2wordprompt #hot #match #sff
#moonmystic #gamesyouplay
#hbp19 #theyhatedeachotheratfirst
#vsspoem #final -ly falling in #love
#inkmine #flower power
#vssmagic #lover

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Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Apr 14

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · Apr 12

the end
is not your only friend
my friend, the end

#hbp150
#songku #thedoors #theend
#haiku #homage #poetry #sff
#dadaku #fantaiku #friend
#senryu #senryusunday
#2wordprompt #rest #answer
#vssmagic #death #inkmine #life
#dailyhaikuprompt #nirvana
#moonmystic #wanderingintime

Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Mar 25

Prose/dialogue: "It was fun while it lasted." #hbp150

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Thewebster75 @thewebster75.bsky.social · Apr 13

They stood in front of a tall, thin, square-arrow of a Tower: a stalwart 4-year-old girl in cargo shorts and purple & white stripped T, and a 68-year-old woman, a broad purple stripe at the back of her white haired head.🧵

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Thewebster75 @thewebster75.bsky.social · Apr 13

'Tis a mistake to think
one knows where the
road will go.
For there may be
chaos at the crossroads
Engendering an
abrupt turn,
directionless,
to escape.

#hbp112 #2wordprompt
#poetry #poetrywriting #writingcommunity #poetrysky

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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · Apr 12

#hbp137 #366FF #BlueSkyRelay #CrowCalls #DailyPrompt
They ask me, "Y are U on the roof?"
I just stare Enraptured N Reverence @ the Plethora of Stars Drifting above. Y answer when it should B obvious?
EvgeniT pixabay.com
#writingprompt #pixabayimage #microfiction #WritingCommunity #naturelovers

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Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · Apr 10

dandelion
the feline flower shines
bright like cat eyes
by night & day
I sit next to her & purr

#poetry #tanka #tankathursday
#caturday #inkmine #flower
#haikuchallenge #yellow
#dailyhaikuprompt #catkin
#vsspoem #dazzle #gold #fantaiku
#sff #hpb149 #youfoundme
#moonmystic #alongtheedgesofyou

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