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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 8d

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 6h

Prompt no. 1970: miasma

Craft a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and share your work with #horrorprompt.

Big thanks to Drew for sparking today's terror!

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 6h

Prompt no. 1538: bilge

Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.

Big thanks to C. Anthony for sparking today's terror!

Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 6h

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Michael Aaron Harrington @cinnatus.bsky.social · 6h

viscous fog—honeycombed flesh weeps

#OneLineOctober #monoku
#haiku #haikupoem #575poem #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels (haze) #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt #haikuhorrorprompt #vss365 #vssdaily #senryu #haikuwriter #horror

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 11h

Submit prompt words to inspire scary stories for spooky season! wordsfrombehindthemask.com

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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 13h

“Look at all this beautiful stuff!” The #libertine tried on an #earring. “These made of wood?”
“Not quite.” The hoss of a man whittled a white #wind-chime. “Young pretty thing like youself oughta see my shop.” He exposed the knife, a grin, and a pile of human bones.
#vss365 #vssdaily #HorrorPrompt

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Sparrow @grimmindarkness.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt # 1969: wind chime

In distant dreams, you can hear the rhythmic sound of a melody ringing in the air. As morning fog rolls in, they gaze out of the front door. Waiting for them to arrive and come back. Because in this town, the dead always come back.
#horrorprompt

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King's Raconteur @kingsraconteur.bsky.social · 21h

Skull. A perfect home
for scavengers of the dead.
Intelligent worms?

#haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #inworm

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©Gabrielle Verseve @gabriellev.art · 1d

Wednesday, October 8th ~ #VssHorror #WritingPrompts

Wind chimes call for death
Those parasitic inworms,
scratching at my flesh.

#HaikuHorrorPrompt Inworm
#HorrorPrompt Wind Chime
#VssMystery Scratching

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Michael Aaron Harrington @cinnatus.bsky.social · 1d

gray matter—clotted eyes child’s bowl

#OneLineOctober #monoku
#haiku #haikupoem #575poem #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels (curdle) #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt #haikuhorrorprompt #vss365 #vssdaily #senryu #haikuwriter #horror

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Sparrow @grimmindarkness.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt # 1537: inworm

Wriggling, writhing,
twisting, turning,
digging deeper,
into your skin.
#haikuhorrorprompt

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt no. 1969: wind chime

Craft a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and share your work with #horrorprompt.

Big thanks to Tuzuri for sparking today's terror!

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt no. 1537: inworm

Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.

Big thanks to 🎭 m i k e ✨ for sparking today's terror!

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 1d

A mound of ash ... bright feathers ... your friend missing. Some of the ash is scattered on the apartment floor, and in that there's footprints - and more feathers, like something molted. Drawers and cupboards ransacked.
Is this what it means to love a phoenix?
#horrorprompt #vss365 #ash

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

That touch, #feather light,
Tickling, driving them insane,
'Please...' he begs, '...no...? More...

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#HorrorPrompt #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DarkHaiku #SensoryHorror #PsychologicalHorror #PsychologicalTorment #Sensory #PleasurePain #PainParadox #Endurance #Torment

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D3F1L3 (he/him) @d3f1l3.bsky.social · 2d

Kate was the youngest #associate in company history. So close. She had the penthouse flat. A corner office. Jag in a space with her name on it. Only a few more #weathered old men to hex out of her way. She patted the book and it purred hungrily

#horror
#microfiction
#vsshorror
#vss365
#horrorprompt

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D3F1L3 (he/him) @d3f1l3.bsky.social · 2d

We were on watch for violence. A frontal assault, or maybe a covert subversion. But it did not come. There was no #clash. No #feathers flew. It was the greater intelligence we wished for and when it arrived, we bowed to it as an inevitability.

#horror
#microfiction
#vsshorror
#vss365
#horrorprompt

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HWrites @hwrites.bsky.social · 2d

My cat's offerings... At first, it was just mice. Disemboweled. Ok, but what did I expect, really? But then it starting getting weird. A #feather or two, not unexpected, I guess. A shiny bit of tinsel. A coin. But the blood-drenched, child-sized shoe did give me pause.
#horrorprompt

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Sparrow @grimmindarkness.bsky.social · 2d

Prompt # 1968: feathers

Every time she walked outside into her backyard. She would always find a dark stain and a pile of feathers on the grass. Maybe a cat had hunted a bird, then carried it off. Why was it every time she went outside it would be there?
#horrorprompt

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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 2d

"I've cut it good I've cut it wide!
"Out of my way, step aside!
"Pass me now my feathered pen,
Blood is my ink ~ until the end."

#horrorprompt #feather #poem #poetry #writing #amwriting #horror #vsshorror #horrorsky ✍️

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 2d

#horrorprompt 1968 Feathers

The old man, wandering through his memories, said,
"They took every man over the age of 12 out into the streets and tied their hands behind them and put them on their knees and killed them all with machine guns. Then when they were done, they stuffed their mouths with

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 1d

Scratching feathers sere
My face in the mirror scarred
Caged parrot vanished

#horrorprompt
#Haikuhorrorprompt
#vssmystery
#vsshorror

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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 1d

no more blood
in his sere veins...
ashes to ashes

#HaikuHorrorPrompt #sere
#vss365 #ash
#Haiku #micropoetry

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King's Raconteur @kingsraconteur.bsky.social · 1d

Desert heat reveals
Cruel lair of the evil djinn.
Escape while you can.

#haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #sere

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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 1d

A demon laid out
on a large bed of feathers
cursing night and day

#Horror #HaikuHorrorPrompt #SpookySeason

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