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#Author with an ever-growing writing & reading list. @brookepercy1 where *a certain letter* doesn’t mark the spot. #WritingCommunity #vss365 #vssdaily #BlueSkyRelay 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇦

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Mar 22

Their fires, meant to
scare, instead inspired: showed
flames so hot water

turned to steam. We joined,
via #trial_and_error
together as one

voice, one #howl. Our
#Indivisibility
made Them harmless steam.

#vss365 #vsspic #BlueSkyRelay #inkMine

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · 1d

#Ineffable #clash
between resolve & things that,
#beaming, #tease & #tempt

#vss365 #blueskyrelay #emoetry #inkmine

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the prompts Kunal, they’re great! Unfortunately the next week is slammed for me so cannot host, but I hope those finds someone who can 🤞!

Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · 2d

“ #Nightshade,” the app’s #advert said, “is a #cipher to decode the mysteries of this #realm.”
#Bitten by intrigue, I bought it.
Wailed like a #banshee as it consumed me; turned the #base of my reality, of Me #elastic until at its #zenith, it remade both.

#vssmystery #vss365 #blueskyrelay #vssmagic

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I did not #know the
#spiral path led to what would
be our #catacombs.

#inkmine #haikuhorrorprompt #vssmystery

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you 🕵️‍♀️; so many good prompts!

a man drinking water from a glass with dr. squatch written in the corner

ALT: a man drinking water from a glass with dr. squatch written in the corner

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · 5d

I entered the antique shop to an awful smell. “Find the source!” My boss said; ran to her car like the #oasis it was.
I’d expected a rat crushed to a #pulp or a #putrescent fruit, but my search led to…an #amulet?
I poked it. Darkness oozed out.
Ah, a 𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 amulet.
#vss365 #vssmystery #blueskyrelay

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Music drew me inexorably to a cafe.
The pianist, fingers a #blur played as if in a trance—an #oracle relaying the answer to a #mystery.
The song filled the #hollow #ruin of my heart; erased each cold, #lurid #fable there with a #blush of warmth.

#vss365 #blueskyrelay #vssmystery #inkmine #vssmagic

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 19

I felt my #breath slow as I sank deeper into the meditation.
In my minds eye a familiar door appeared; I turned the handle to open it, & stepped through into the #astral #realm.
I turned to look back through the door at my resting body. Smiled.
That never got old.
#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 18

A lost #troubadour
found our little #lighthouse. He
had songs, & a board;

to talk to spirits,
he said. When the ocean turned from #susurrus to

#procellus we knew:
the board was infected with
Evil. It claimed us.

#vss365 #blueskyrelay #inkMine #horrorprompt #haikuhorrorprompt

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thank you very much, I loved the pic!! Hope you have an awesome week too 🥳

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 16

I loved camping for the return it offered to an almost #primordial state: just nature & me.
When society collapsed, others sought my help.
Lasted a week before I ensured I was the last one #awake; fled.
Left a #letter & some fruit, though.
Hope they made it.
#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay #vsspic

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 16

Dean’s #dad saw him #slash
His first #graffiti on the
wall: a #seagull. Young

Dean froze like a #deer
in headlights, but his dad winked. Kept it a secret.

Dean would #treasure that
moment, & his dad. Both let
him find his true #self.

#vss365 #vssdaily #inkMine #blueskyrelay

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thank you ☺️, I’m glad it resonated 🌊 💙

Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 13

Kaia grew up by the ocean, & missed it when she moved away.
She found comfort, though, in the old #oak near her garden #shed;
heard the ocean’s #waves in the rustling of its leaves.
On windy days, Kaia would close her eyes & swear she could smell salt in the air.
#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 12

#Cork popped on evil
(was it ever contained?) it
roils, #amorphous

‘til it finds #shape in
ideas; in action &
inaction; in blood

it lets #air_dry on
a poor #daffodil, on a
#skyscraper, on souls.

#vss365 #vssdaily #inkMine #blueskyrelay #horrorprompt #haikuhorrorprompt

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 11

🗡️ 💀 😜

Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank you 😆! Loved the prompt, and the gif 🎊

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 11

Mel was enjoying the beach when she saw a glint in the #sand.
She used her hand to #scrape some of it free; kept digging.
#Wow, Mel thought, admiring the #sword she’d unearthed.
Then she noticed the skeletal fingers grasping it.

One of them twitched.

#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay #inkMine

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 11

I used to bottle up my feelings, & was great at keeping them deep inside…until the day they began to fight back.
They bubbled up, started to split my #skin in an effort to #transcend captivity—I let them out in a long, agonizing #shout instead. Now they fly free.
#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 9

On a hike, Ron found a #bloodstone under a tree; pocketed it.
#Small lights began to dance around him—he gasped when they coalesced into a #luminous Being.
“You stole my offering,” it said, “I demand payment in blood.”
With a #twist of its hand, Ron exploded.
#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay #inkmine

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 9

Mina was tired, but also #single & ready to mingle. She went out, came back with a guy.
Kissed him; felt her energy #rejuvenate as her lips absorbed his life force.
“So kind of you to #share,” Mina told his husk as she let it go.
It slid to the floor; disintegrated.
#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 7

Ann’s car was old; it’s
#speaker crackled, the exhaust
#pipe rattled, & the

Windows squeaked. She loved
each #flaw however—they gave
her vehicular

#sanctuary a
more vintage, #authentic feel:
her favourite vibe.

#vss365 #vssdaily #vsspic #blueskyrelay #inkMine

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 6

The statue stood like
a #sentinel, guarding the
graveyard. #Someone broke

in, damaged a grave.
An unseen force tossed the guy
In the air like he

was a #feather— the
landing broke his #flimsy neck.
#Caution signs went up.

#vss365 #vssdaily #inkMine #horrorprompt #haikuhorrorprompt

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 5

After a bad day, I sought #solace in nature. On the trail a #wolf appeared before me, hunched low.
She lunged at -no, past!- me; bit into a guy I hadn’t seen.
He fled, dropping zip ties.
I’d begun to panic, but her gaze made me #stop.
“Thank you,” I said.
She winked.

#vss365 #vssdaily #blueskyrelay

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Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social · Jun 4

Hope you also had a great Tuesday, and that Wednesday finds you well too 😄🫶!

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