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Jessica May Be Writing
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Horror and poetry writer. She/her I focus mainly on #supernatural #horror and some slightly scary material. #writer #amwriting #fastprompt host. Maybe I’ll pick #vssparanormal again, soon
Pinned
are we wandering
fantasy?
purple plastered peeps
and can't breathe?
or are we wandering
penury,
dead stop peasant
inquiry?
insurance-nulled scant
luxury?

#fastprompt 194:5
You imagine the eye
In some shaded fantasy
Blinking and roving
Inspiring your timidity.
But fear not its glare
Fear not its gleam
For Sting is brought here
To take on this thing!

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📸by gregornot via reddit
Do you write what makes you cringe? Do you avoid what would make your relatives cringe? I've purposefully left off writing a memoir because of this reason, sort of. No one in my family wants to know what I think about them, I'm sure. There's simply too many of them alive to be truthful yet. LOL
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Reposted by Jessica May Be Writing
Memento mori. What else was I supposed to do when it surrounded my every moment? When Death laughed in my face and took my life away? Memento Mori. For what purpose? To remember the pain? Or to try and keep living?
#FastPrompt
Memento mori.
Life is but a fleeting thing
& we do not have long
Upon our floating blue rock.
Remember to live
For all those who went before
For all those who come after.
We live.
We remember who came before.

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November 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
memento mori.
too many leave us
without graves to mark their passing.
they are dust, a footnote in a newspaper,
and sometimes John Doe. Jane Doe.
but to be marked
to be planted in a field
with other effigies,
a crop of morbidity.
says remember me still
to help me live on.

#fastprompt 212:5
Memento mori.
Life is but a fleeting thing
& we do not have long
Upon our floating blue rock.
Remember to live
For all those who went before
For all those who come after.
We live.
We remember who came before.

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📸by Tobe Roberts via Pexels
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
you seek to capture heaven's wings,
turn them into your chariot,
your personal train.
leave the rest!
but the others are just pieces of you,
and you chop them up to feed
the pigeons
as carrion birds in your wake.

#fastprompt 212:4
She caught the tears and carried them
On her pale wings
Straight to the heavens.
It was not sorrow she took
But love. Always love.

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📸by Nataliya Vaitkevich via Pexels
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I see the gruesome visage of Death
looming upon the horizon.
I do not know if I should be afraid
or welcome the bliss of an eternal sleep.
what waits
in the darkness after?
is there such
or has our desire to keep living
blinded us to the truth?
that what lingers
isn't alive.

#fastprompt 212:3
The flame was lit eternal
So that hope would not perish,
So that we would always remember
Those who came before
Lost to the ravages of war.
We keep their memories
Burning in our hearts.

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📸by Admir Nakic via Pexels
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
the year the longing began
I was still fresh-faced youth
unable to contemplate the chasm
yawning beneath my feet,
of eternity without you.

#fastprompt 212:2
By the by, she mourned him,
Her soul longing to feel his hand in hers.
She laid a single flower upon his grave,
Said a prayer she hoped he heard,
And was gone.

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November 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The photos of loved ones lost
Surround me,
A remembrance
Of abundance in my life
Before all became darkness.
In memoriam, my past dead
And I trudge past the living,
A shackle on swollen feet.

#fastprompt 212:1
When half the candles are lit,
Guttering flames somehow reaching,
All for those we lost,
On this day of remembrance,
We pray for thee.

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📸by Dominik Gryzbon via Pexels
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
oh yeah, carefree.
that's what they all want,
until they pick up ol' Jack
and carve a face into him.
no matter...
once a year is time for revenge
for all those awful pumpkin carvers.
do you like the face I gave you?

#fastprompt 211:5
Never have I ever been
So carefree
As I have when, in fall,
They rake up the leaves.
For one moment
We cease to be,
That smell, that sound
Alive inside of me.

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📸by Scott Webb via Pexels
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
peace was in the ground,
feeling the tiny things crawl across me,
but that damned necromancer
stole it from me,
as they do.
so it's brains this and brains that,
but no one asks me
if I wouldn't rather go back.
no...just shoot me in the head
ffs.

#fastprompt 211:4
Their faces follow
The roaming sun,
At peace in its radiant glow.
Something inside
That's doomed to die
That lurks in the depths below.

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November 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
they said the lights around me danced,
enchanted them.
mesmerized them.
it was all to the good,
since their screams brought my pet
before I'd made my exit.
how else should I feed him
I'd think,
as I watched his mighty teeth
rip their flesh.

#fastprompt 211:3
Enchanted view below
A spanned expanse
All the highlights
Of light that dance
Across its giggling flows.

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November 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
there was no joy in the curse,
but there was a kind of satisfaction.
my speed was swift, without warning.
there was no answering shout,
my sweet caress, my kiss.
I left them bloodless in my wake,
and satiated, I sauntered away.
not a one believed.

#fastprompt 211:2
The joy of a brisk breeze
Lightning quick snatch a leaf
Floating hay that cause a sneeze
Fields aglow with yellow sheaf.

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📸by Maksim Goncharenok via Pexels
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I was never into frolicking.
I tried not to snap twigs
And crunch leaves
When I walked on autumnal paths.
I had to be sneaky, you see.
Stealthy.
If they saw me coming,
They'd run.
And I was getting hungrier
These days...

#fastprompt 211:1
Harvest time
A time to frolic
And enjoy the cool air.
We've peeled off the skin
Of summer sweat
And glisten
With bales
Of Hay.

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📸by Alina Levkovich via Pexels
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Unlike when others used the board, the man in gray appeared before me, his hands covering mine on the planchet. I could not move for fear, petrified as he spoke. He somehow pulled me through the table, and dragged me away. I could ne'er tell you where I am, now. Time is immaterial here.
#fastprompt
I was standing on the corner of 12th and 13th,
Watched the woman being dragged away.
Nothing was there, but I got the proof.
This video here, her last dying scream.

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October 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The next day I resolved that I would attempt to contact the dead, if dead he was. Gran seemed to think so, but she would not have approved of my use of her old Ouija board for the task. But since she was dead and gone now, I felt perfectly justified in its use.

#fastprompt 4
Let some other poor soul attain
The means to contact the dead.
But their offer, oh do refrain,
Or just do nothing that I've said.

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October 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
It was not until I spotted him at night, levitating over me, that I began to fear him. At first, I was intrigued. Until I awoke with that sense of dread that only comes from knowing someone is watching you. Would that I could get his eyes out of my dreams; they follow even now.

#fastprompt 210:3
Levitating beds and dinner plates
Get out of there before it's too late!
Don't pack, don't fret, just leave, leave, leave!
Another minute and you'll be aggrieved!

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October 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
It was not long before I saw him again, walking through a wall not far ahead of me. That same gleam in his eyes, which were a vibrant blue. The man in gray seemed to smirk before he walked away, through another wall across the street.
#fastprompt 210:2
Then suddenly they're there
Walking through the walls,
Asking for a cup of tea.
Vanish before you're much appalled
Before you question your sanity.

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October 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I noted the sudden appearance of the man in gray. He glared at me and I at him. When he suddenly vanished, just as quickly, I was suddenly afraid. This was the same one. The exact same man my gran always spoke about, spoke about in fearful whispers.
#fastprompt 210:1
You don't see ghosts when they're there,
But their sudden appearance on videos queued.
Enough for your reality to be skewed,
Often more than you can bear.

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October 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
we'd make-believe we were witches
cackling and mixing mud concoctions
until the lights came on and we were called home.
at night my parents did their seances,
and we'd try to sleep
with the monsters tickling our feet.

#fastprompt 209:5
Anytime you run into witches, though,
You better watch out.
They'll either try to use your parts
In their brews,
Or make you their slaves.
It's not right, is it?

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October 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
from the corner of my eye,
I see it peeking around the corner,
zombified face leering,
grotesque and fetid.
I can't smell it,
so that probably means
it's just the local ghost
trying to scare the lights out of me.
he forgets
I wrote the book.

#fastprompt 209:4
Can get really dull.
So when you're tired of blood,
Just switch to brains.
Sure, you might rot a bit,
But who's alive to know?
Being a zombie is more fun,
In any case.

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October 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
being undead has its drawbacks,
of course.
for one thing, you can't get a suntan.
so you're always this pale shade of white
and slightly bloody eyes.
you have a hard time keeping friends,
since they're food,
and the cravings really suck.

#fastprompt 209:3
Say you hate being incorporeal.
I'm thinking that after a while,
Not having a body would suck.
So just inhabit someone else's
And become undead.
It worked for Dracula.

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October 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I'd make a terrible ghost,
But I think I'd make the perfect
Poltergeist.
I think my afterlife
Should come with a warning label,
DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS.

#fastprompt 209:2
The first thing I'd do
If I was dead,
Would be to be a ghost.
Who doesn't want to walk
Through walls and scare
Their friends?
It's a win, win.

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October 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
we played ghosts in the graveyard
hiding in dark places, hidden deep.
but somehow they always found us,
and somehow they knew our dreams.
we could not run from their screams.

#fastprompt 209:1
It all starts with a graveyard.
Cemetery or whatever have you.
First your dead and buried,
Six feet down to keep you there.
But maybe you hate coffins?
I know I would.

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October 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
they called me monster,
but I was so misunderstood.
sure, I dragged people off
into dark alleyways
and sucked out their souls.
but they didn't DIE.
I let them go back to their homes.
It wasn't my fault they killed
their entire families,
those psychos.

#fastprompt 208:5
He was so misunderstood,
Not a monster at all.
But they treated him like one,
Waved their torches at him,
Chased him away.
Who was the real monster?
Certainly not that gentle giant.
Certainly not.

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October 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
as a punishment,
they wrapped us together,
body to body,
before burying the two of us
just under the dirt.
and when he died,
I felt his body begin to rot
before I finally succumbed.
it was his gas in the end,
since he was always so full
of hot air.

#fastprompt 208:4
You know they tried to bury him alive,
But they wrapped him up all wrong.
His bandages dangled and tangled,
Tripped him up to the point
That he caught fire before
He could get up to too much trouble.

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October 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I've lived with this craving
All of my life,
My life in undeath, I suppose.
But whoever made me
Got their wires crossed,
Gave me fangs
While I only craved brains,
And I don't have the strength
To open their skulls.
A real pity...

#fastprompt 208:3
"I have a special craving for you, my dear,
Says every man ever.
Be more original," she tried to say,
Except his fangs did the talking
For him, as he leapt upon her throat.

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October 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM