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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 7d

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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...

🪶 😵‍💫

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

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D3F1L3 (he/him) @d3f1l3.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

#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 · 19h

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

#horrorprompt
#Haikuhorrorprompt
#vssmystery
#vsshorror

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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 22h

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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©Gabrielle Verseve @gabriellev.art · 1d

Tuesday, October 7th ~ #VssHorror

Those feather bouquets!
I always liked sered roses,
from quiet gaunt men.

#HaikuHorrorPrompt Sere
#HorrorPrompt Feathers
#VssMystery Gaunt

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

dry stalks rattle—brittle silence

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

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GLHancock, MS Ψ🕊 @glhancock.bsky.social · 1d

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My life rushes past
Until at last I too fall
All withered and sere

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Prompt no. 1536: sere #haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #haikulovers #WritingCommunity #art #watercolor #mixedmediaart

Mixed media art by Georganna L. Hancock © 1983

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Sparrow @grimmindarkness.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt # 1536: sere

Fully equipped,
ready to go,
evade it all,
resist all
temptation
to escape
and return.
#haikuhorrorprompt

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

hand of glory lit—remembers the gallows

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

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🔆Fiery Sun Song🔆 @fluxofmind.ca · 1d

Shock at bloodied room
Overcome by confusion
At all the feathers

#Horror #HaikuHorrorPrompt #Senryu #SpookySeason

Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt no. 1968: feathers

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

Big thanks to Fiery Sun Song @fluxofmind.ca for sparking today's terror!

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt no. 1968: feathers

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

Big thanks to Fiery Sun Song @fluxofmind.ca for sparking today's terror!

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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 1d

“ #Grant them access.”
“You sure? Doesn’t sound right.”
“Nine of us and one bullet. You wanna fight our way through or die here? How many could there be?”
“Looks like hundreds.”
“Go in a straight line.”
The final #clash of man and billions of #weathered zombies began.
#vss365 #vssdaily #HorrorPrompt

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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 2d

The coaches #associate knew if they didn’t win the game, his family would die at the hands of that maniac. He stared in horror as #power in #weathered and weary muscles waned on the offensive line. Thirty seconds and three points until the end of everything he knew.
#vss365 #vssdaily #HorrorPrompt

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Sparrow @grimmindarkness.bsky.social · 2d

Prompt # 1967: weathered

Walking through an abandoned building, they came across some worn-looking leather. Not wanting it to deteriorate, they took it with them. Upon testing it to see what type of animal it came from. It turns out that it isn't an animal at all.
#horrorprompt

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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 3d

#horrorprompt #corrupted #amwriting #vsshorror #horrorsky #poem #poetry
*A poem based on the #novel Weathervane - a tale of ancient evil in the wilds of the west.

Silver in the breech
A short story-poem by Rosco Pitt
based on a segment of the novel Weathervane (coming soon)

Cracked, dark bones of God’s high tower, rises in the dawn before us.
Beneath our horses pounding thunder, for sacred ground we rode.

We live life now by the hour, racing for the bursting dawn,
and the blackened ash of the chapel’s remains – a sanctuous abode.
An island in this valley, a haven from our plight,
pursued by death corrupted, that turns to dust in heaven’s light.

Bold and unassailable, kissed by the rising sun
we set our camp, we mangey five, now the night is done.

We ready then we slumber, prepare a massive pyre
and wait for their return, to meet them in the fire.
We run no more, we mangey five, tis here we make our fight.
If death comes we’ll embrace her in the dark, dead of night.

I feel for fallen angels, too far they often reach,
Tonight, no lead will tickle them, we’ve silver in the breech! ~ RP

(An Ode to the Mangey Five)
~ Beyond the Onions ~ Ross McDermott ~

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