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I'm Baaaaaaaaack!!! Whimsical writes itself 🖋: Good afternoon #WritersOfMastodon! Your #MicroPrompt for today is: treats. Reply with: a #story, a #shortstory, or just something #creative.
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Trial
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She stared at the cinnamon rolls longingly. Three more hours of work. She just had to get through this egregious day, and then she could settle down with a cup of cocoa and a pastry and her tarot cards to finish the next part of the journeying game her friend had sent. Or maybe she'd do some exploring of her inner soul instead. Whichever she chose, the quiet would be a balm after this. Just 3. More. Hours. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #LesFicFri #VSSPoem
Today's #MicroPrompt: Guide
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darkness before dawn
the bakery window's
thickening mist
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Bakery
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What on earth is that?
Hey, that car has no driver!
I laid on the horn!
Today's #MicroPrompt: horn
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The glass horn twinkled in the warm candlelight, hanging happily from the evergreen bough right next to a snowman friend. The best ornaments--the coziest home.
It hit them then. Finally, they were really, really home. A tear ran down their cheek. It had taken them so long to accept that truth, to be safe enough to feel it...but they would have to think about that later. Visitors and family alike were singing carols, and they wouldn't miss that for the world. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #VSSPoem
Today's #MicroPrompt: Horn
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The room is small, but the strings ricochet when plucked, clear sound pirouetting about the space and weaving shimmering webs of sound thick (and thin,) enough to step through or wind about her as she chooses. Letting her fingertips rest a moment, she smiles and draws in a breath. Where will she go today? Where will the straight roads take her as they begin to curve and braid into something greater than the sum of their parts, into a melody she forgot to remember? #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
Today's #MicroPrompt: Strings
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Invisible
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Sometimes, friendship's throughline is
tracing someone's ragged breaths and helping them
find all the escaped bits of air, the
cracks and instabilities, and then
knitting it all back together or
letting it completely
fall apart. And then they turn around and
do the same to you when your
insides are fraying. And the fact that I know this means
I have very. Good. Friends. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
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#MicroPrompt - friend
Trees growing outside upscale apartments are usually serene. Populations are stable. They get to make friends. The residents wouldn’t understand it that way, but they love their tree, a bit of nature all their own, as long as they pay rent. Day by day, they stand in its shade. It hears their jokes and arguments. Watches flirtations and breakups. Some nights they gaze at the stars, human and tree, wondering what’s out there.
Today's #MicroPrompt: Friend
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#MicroPrompt Click
It was an interesting thing. As she clicked through pages of furniture, bedding and accessories it struck her that she didn’t know what she wanted. She had the opportunity to decorate a room from scratch, make it anything she wanted. Which at first blush seemed easy enough. But to express herself by decorating a room the way she wanted meant first confronting the questions of who she was and what did she want? #WIP #WritingCommunity
Thank you @FrostPoem
I don't have to defend my
cocoa and quiet music and
favorite soft, wooly socks to you. It's a celebration, and
yeah, I know you're celebrating too, that your party will be
glowing gold and full of gab and
loud laughter that would surely hamstring my vocal chords and
noise that would numb my nerves and shrink me to a grain of
dust beneath the table--Don't you get it? I never clicked with your parties, never
found safety or joy or anything worth while.
I'll see you later #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
Today's #MicroPrompt: Click
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Left out's my middle name
My whole family's the same
Father's out of the picture -
just sleazy
Poor livin' in the country's not
easy
Change was a comin' though
cause that letter we got
Seems ole dad hit the jackpot
Guess he had the standard
will
We end up gettin' everthing in
the till
Lawyer said to call
Says it's a real windfall
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I am
windfall and woe
stitched into human skin;
woven through a history of
beauty and broken, a soul searching
for truer warp threads.
I am clawing cozy from the earth, but not
contented with its fractions--no, I need deep pools to
baptize me whole and entire, to
drown--cradle--the dark long enough for me to
feel it home.
I choose contradiction, not 'or' but 'and' as I touch light and
plum shadows, walking where peril has
punctured and enclosed me in entropy.
I. Am. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
Today's #MicroPrompt: Windfall
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She twisted the cork in the vial, wiggled it until it tilted and loosened. Almost immediately, a whimper rose from inside the glass, growing into a wail with every scoot of the cork. In moments, it was earsplitting.
She took a deep breath in, opened her mouth wide. In flew the sound, catching in her throat, rocking her frame with its force. Even as the fear and sorrow began to rise, she smiled. Her grandmother had had no right to take her screams. Now they were back. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
Today's #MicroPrompt: Vial
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#MicroPrompt -- stray
The streets were full of strays—cats and dogs padded by or watched from odd places—the Sharren City mage force had been put on alert. Torkin’s allies scouted around the inn, where troublemakers gathered. Crows filled the power lines, agents of another authority. I ducked inside an alley off Carlin Street, patted a lurking spaniel, then flew off in the direction of the capital district. Below, lines of mages and mobiles converged on Sharren Drive, carrying signs
Today's #MicroPrompt: Stray
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Sausage
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A cookie jar is just a hollow cylinder, until someone fills it. Then, it becomes something more, a space held sacred for warmth and coziness, designated by someone who cared enough to place a little sweetness in reserve. I think the world needs more cookie jars. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
Today's #MicroPrompt: Hollow
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Coffee
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Shhhh
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Water
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Tact
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Milk
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Toast
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Ring
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Early
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Gravestone
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Knocking
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Squishy
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He studied the recipe card, edges stained and faded and watermarked, and smiled. He had been waiting for his grandmother's collection for a long time, and now, at last, he could make the cookies he remembered so fondly. Then a set of instructions caught his eye.
Combine butter, sugar and powdered teeth until mixture is smooth, stirring counterclockwise.
Today's #MicroPrompt: Teeth
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Delivery
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It's back!!!
Today's #MicroPrompt: Believe
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Soup.
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Relief
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crunch!
finding my glasses
in the dark
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Crunch.
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Delight.
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Time to update my #WritingPrompt & #Writer Hashtag list (and remind myself -again- to use hashtags 😉 ).
Prompts About Wips
#WordWeavers
#PennedPossibilities
#WritersCoffeeClub
Short Fiction Prompts
#Vss365
#MastoPrompt
#MicroPrompt
Poetry Tags
#Poetry
#Micropoetry
#Hailku
#PoetryCommunity
#VssPoem
#575prompt
Writer Tags
#WordWeavers
#Writer
#WritersLife
#WritersofMastodon
#Fantasy
Author Tags
#Bookstodon
#LGBTQBooks
#AuthorsOfMastodon
#IndieAuthor
Today's #MicroPrompt: Chorus
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Penny (inspired juuuuust a bit by the anticapitalist fun @FictionFactoryGames dropped yesterday.
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Clockwork
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Rogue
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Shorts, Poetry & #WritingPrompt Hashtag List
This is for my own and others reference. Thanks again to everyone who told me about these!
Poetry Tags
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Micropoetry #Hailku #PoetryCommunity #VssPoem #575prompt
Prompts About Wips
#WritingWonders #PennedPossibilities
Fiction Prompts
#WriteEver (SFF), #MastoPrompt #Vss365 #50WordFiction #VisualWritingPrompt (reply to prompt toot) #MicroPrompt #130WordStory [& tag #MicroFiction]
More from @Codgertator: https://paper.wf/codgertator/prompt-info#poetry
Today's #MicroPrompt: Shoulder
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Familiar
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Squishy
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Snuggle
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Today's #MicroPrompt: Key
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Brand-New Avatar, Same Friendly Neighborhood Karin
It's past time for a new avatar- I made the old one as part of last year's #FolktaleWeek! If you're as bad at reading user names as I am, posting a new avatar means that I might as well be a total stranger.
Both avatars are posted here in an attempt to avoid this confusion!
My new avatar is Spitfire, I made her as part of a #MicroPrompt #ArtChallenge here on #MastoArt
Today's #MicroPrompt: Ennui
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Oh. I also run #MicroPrompt, a daily prompt for poetry/short stories/pieces of writing. Now that I'm here, I'll open that to drawings/images as long as you include #AltText. 💙
There is #microprompt that was set up by @crtaxon but being managed (I think) by @FrostPoem. That might be worth a go.
As he stepped into the splash and sparkle of waves, his toes began to tingle and his breath caught in delight. It was really happening. After a thousand hours of studying, searching, bargaining, desperately wishing, it was really, really happening. Quickly, he waded out, splashing in his eagerness, and flopped onto his stomach just in time for the ripple of scales to overtake his legs in one prickling, twisting rush. When it eased and he could look back, he was trailing a lithe rainbow tail through the water, the array of fins already flexing like they had been at this for years. It was real. He could swim away, find a new world waiting for him. A world where no one would mock him when he sang. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
Today's #MicroPrompt: Velvet
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Today's #microPrompt: Edit
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Giving you two #MicroPrompt words today because I don't know how much I'll be about tomorrow morning. Feel free to use them either together or separately:
Chant and Silhouette
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Today's #microPrompt: ZIP
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Numb fingertips
stretching for stolen skies
breath held until billowing
until breaking but
balanced for now on the tug of the
knife's edge--
inhale and exhale crowded out by slivers
of longing and lost.
Thoughts shift, collecting in the ache of extra-expanded ribs, the wild
beating at heart and fingertips, the clamp of
lips around air that cannot spill and then
among the tangents of a spinning soul comes the question that
always
comes in such moments:
Why has the hourglass
gone still?"
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Unwavering
the devotion that
ice cream has to me and
I to it.
We never quarrel, only
love, and live, and sometimes
of a hot morning, it
talks me into rising and
getting something done.
In return
I sing its praises in an ode. It's
the least I can do for something
that keeps me from
m
e
l
t
i
n
g
...
...
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Today's #microPrompt: KINDLE
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Today's #microPrompt: JADE
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