#vss365 #prompt #Lottery What fun reading so many of your unexpected stories yesterday. Today we are going to see what it feels like winning a #lottery. Whatever that may be for you.

We try to control, maneuver, make sense of The lottery of gods Yet their random bolts continue to knock down our own sorcery So we kneel, throw our arms out in the rain Then get up Learning, with each blow, how to plow onward against the headwinds of uncertainty #vss365

Over the hum of freeway Beyond drone of dishwasher Cool morning sound, alive and expectant Call of crow, chatter of sparrow The day awakens #vss365 #sound

Back to the roaring traffic, Leaning on the bridge wall, A silver strand of spider web, Drifts upward, catching the light, River below, rippled, flowing, Gulls in the air, wheeling, A family of ducks below, Leaves tumble in Autumn mourning, A moment of priceless #calm. What traffic? #vss365

Intrusive thoughts heavy with time But you keep writing Create that spark of calm, that quiet fortitude of connection No matter how seemingly fleeting The light continues #vss365 #calm #OCD #WritingCommunity

#vss365 #vsshorror #poetry -dark I watch them drift beneath a starless sky And catch the scent of copper as they die Through hollow ribs, I blow a lethal note The #siren song tears from my scaled throat I drag their heavy bones beneath the deep Wrapping them all in endless sleep

Under lapping tide Siren's dreams float through her veins Forever longing #vss365 #haiku

i think life will always be a mix of light and shade.. a blend.. and you have to jump into it.. even if whatever appears is unexpected.. pretty.. or not.. and do it however you can.. make sure to stock-up on music.. and laugh at it all a little too.. -dww

Hurricane warning Historic coastline bracing Tomorrow, vanished #vss365 #haiku

The lure of deep blue Runs inside our hearts to sea Ancient mystery #vss365 #haiku

#vss365 #Prompt #Bequest Day 15 - Our Legacy, we #Bequest to the world What remains is the ones who remember: a gesture, a phrase, a kindness, a way of standing in the rain. We leave behind more than we ever knew. The story does not end. It becomes a part of something larger than itself. 💫🖤

A whispered bequest My poems will be yours now Dreams forever hers #vss365 #haiku

..i think once you find you’re trying too hard at anything in life.. you have to stop.. go.. watch birds.. stare at the pastel-triple-shaded-sunset.. read stuff.. and only after you've lost your-’self’ again.. can you really go back to it.. you were getting in your own way.. . -dww

Currently #querying #literaryagents for a character-driven women’s fiction story, which includes themes of mother-daughter conflict, unconditional love, and ultimate self-acceptance. #amquerying

#vss365 #poetry dark #reckon

#vss365 #Prompt #Reckon Day 10 - It time to #Reckon those Midlife questions The mirror starts asking different questions. The past taps its ring against the glass. What did we build? What did we lose? And who is this standing here now? 😎🖤🖤

In the last hour before dawn A dream awakens Half-way between hope and dread Reckoning the truth With a swollen heart #vss365 #reckon

Your beloved home perished alongside so many others This planet Plunging into a pathos That would have torn your heart And still Your daughters remember Your soft blue eyes Sad yet hopeful smile The embrace throughout storms Your love... Most of all, Your Love #vss365

The entire premise of the #conflict with The Enemy was opaque. Dylan had spent many sleepless nights trying to work out what they wanted from The War, but he could see none. Nothing but slaughter for the sake of it. Resources? Were there no uninhabited systems for them to ravage instead? #vss365

With the conflict of time Across my face Let me sip my tea As I close my eyes against the pale morning sun Those anxious furrows and hopeful smile lines Lengthened by the light #vss365

#vss365 #poetry Underneath midnight shadows Of sweet empty wine glasses My wildest fantasies #Commence to manifest Of that old Stuck in love forever memory Making my eyes burst With the heaviest teardrops As my lost love stands in front of me Falling stars fill the sky endlessly

Dreaming Fall into sleep Commence into flight Unbound by reality #vss365

Brewed hope in a cup Awakens eloquent dreams Stirred with morning light #vss365 #haiku

She dreams of strangers Then sees them the next day Without a word she passes them by Her intuition so thick, she cannot speak Their upcoming sorrows and joys seep into her bones Never to cross paths again Their stories still become her own #vss365

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Advice for Authors: Don’t Just Visit Book Clubs—Join One! - Tracy Shawn, Award-Winning Author

by Tracy Shawn     Several years ago, I ran into an old friend who had read my second novel, Floating Underwater. She kindly picked it for her next book club read and asked if I’d like to be a guest a...

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Against the glare of sunset You could be anyone But I know your tilt of head, that lonesome gait, the silhouette of burden And just for a moment, before I reach out, I make wish for you As the wind blows past us both #vss365

moonlight through dark leaves shadows on my lips our luminous loss of senses our soliloquy of surrender your consoling hands hold my spirit in your palm like cupped water learning the creases of your skin do you feel it? our holy, unholy language our liminal menagerie this electric dance #vss365

Under a red, jet-streaked sky The earth trembles Trying to console the life she holds Hoping to soothe herself #vss365

"She grabbed the broom and pretended to fly away." The #vss365 #prompt for August 30, 2026 is #broom Your next host (from Sep. 1 on) will be Robert, @tetrametracall1.bsky.social - a trusted member of our community. Yes! 😊 He will post his prompts at 02.00 pm GMT.

August heat presses into the kitchen floor, dust and debris stuck like so many unrealized dreams Last night's nightmares still rattling her brain She scrapes her #broom across the surface Sweeps and sweeps and sweeps Until her breath is finally still #vss365