I'm not just being magnanimous when I say that #vss365 creativity is dazzling to behold. As those who know me will attest, I'm attracted to shiny things. Let your writing sparkle with the March 7 #prompt, #jewelry.
Your bountiful offerings for #vss365 have been a pleasure to read. Will you be as generous with the March 6 #prompt, #magnanimous? I can't wait to see!
Lethargy was no problem for the gifted writers of #vss365. The range of responses you give is most impressive. Therefore, I expect nothing but your usual brilliance with the March 5 #prompt #bountiful.
There was a cataract of excellent writing for Tuesday. Hopefully the creativity wasn't too taxing, as there is more to do. Wake yourselves up and overcome any tiiredness for the March 4 #prompt, #lethargy.
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The artistry and imagination of #vss365 participants are second to none. Such wonderful creations you provided for us all. For March 2, give your offerings to the #prompt #splendor.
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Woo hoo! Welcome Debbie. Happy hosting.👍🙌👏
#vss365 #prompt Feb 28
His #quest was one of solitude unbroken. Effort unseen.
Hunting dragons in the north country,
among the bogs, the icy winters,
and blood-sucking bugs of summer.
Sweat-stiffened leather jerkin molded to his body.
It was his purpose.
Hello all you lovely, wildly talented #vss365 people! I have so enjoyed my time as your host. Your creativity has never ceased to astound me every day!
Today, February 28, is my final day as your host. From tomorrow on, look for the prompt words from @cribbowens.bsky.social.
Thanks for a wonderful round of prompts Danielle. You’ve been an outstanding Host!👏👏👏
#vss365 #prompt Feb 27
Everything he #obsessed over in life
gone.
The sea taketh...
Eyes once gazed upon treasure, now pearls.
Flesh once pampered and moisturized now replaced by coral.
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
#vss365 #prompt Feb 26
Once orbital #velocity is reached, you travel so fast that you're always in free fall but never get closer to Earth. Each moment a balance of speed and vulnerability. Our love is the same, each outrunning our fears, constant motion, eternal commitment.
#vss365 #prompt Feb 23
When she #knowingly steals the keystone and the entire bridge collapses, she is branded a traitor. But as the two warring parties spend weeks on opposite sides of the river without being able to kill each other, they transform her into Angelus Pacis.
#vss365 #prompt Feb 22
In Galactic Quadrant IV sits Furens Vortice, or #Crazed Wormhole. If you dare, if you dare, nose your ship into its unassuming depths. Only one ship has returned, with the crew the happiest people ever known, but they no longer remember their own names.
#vss365 #prompt Feb 21
-Mr. Jangles, your owner says it's a #blatant case of assault.
-My holographic recording—
-Mr. Jangles, robots have no right to present evidence.
Mr. Jangles freezes.
-You will be decommissioned, Mr. Jangles.
-I should have tried harder, Mr. Jangles says.
#vss365 #prompt Feb 20
As a thin paring of sun sat on the horizon, she peeked out her window. He prowled her garden already, this nighttime monster. She pulled the curtain on his #beastly presence. Rosemary and frankincense, woven into a protection ward, seemed too fragile to protect her tonight.
#vss365 #prompt Feb 19
The captain was #mystifed as to why his crew kept disappearing. And why the ship's dog kept getting fatter. Come to find out, it wasn't a dog, it was an interstellar quazmuffin with a tapeworm it had picked up on GJ 486 b.
The gravitational strength of the moon means that things that are not usually bouncy are bouncy, and things that are usually bouncy are now suborbital.
#vss365 #prompt #bouncy Feb 18
#vss365 #prompt
She sat, #enchanted by wildflowers. Soft floral scents, blossoms nodding gently as if agreeing with her every thought... three bunnies in little morning suits and top hats...
-Would you like to attend a bunny wedding?
She jumped to her feet. -Yes, please!
#vss365 #prompt #minuscule
He encloses my hand in his, warmth radiating from his body to mine. It is the last time we will touch each other for five days, although we will still be side by side. I am suddenly shy as we pull on our pressure suits.
CURRENT PROMPT HOST
The #vss365 host for February 15-28 is:
@daniellestejust.bsky.social
Prompts will drop at 2 PM GMT (UTC)
Follow Danielle, if you haven’t already!
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 14 is #kiss
"And when he has fled - like a squirrel -
his laughter still vibrates on every leaf,
and you can see, startled by a bullfinch,
the Golden Kiss of the Wood,
gathering itself together again."
'Faun's Head', Arthur Rimbaud
#14
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 13 is #lacuna
“lagoon? No, lacuna . . . different from lagoon. Not a cave exactly but an opening, like a mouth, that swallows things. He opened his mouth to show. It goes into the belly of the world.”
Barbara Kingsolver
#13
Definition: Lacuna - Unfilled space, gap
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 12 is #dark
"Dewdrop, let me cleanse
in your brief
sweet waters...
These dark hands of life"
'Dewdrop, let me cleanse', Matsuo Basho
#12
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 11 is #touch
"There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.
and the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling!"
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
#11
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 9 is #bones
"...a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool."
T. S. Eliot
#9
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 8 is #pale
"The light wraps you in its mortal flame.
Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way
against the old propellers of the twilight
that revolves around you."
'The Light Wraps You', Pablo Neruda
#8
It does make for a great brain starter!
BTW—You can always find the current Host, here; along with a daily post of the prompt words. We’re the official site for the volunteers who run #vss365 👋
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 6 is #wound
"and yet she waits for me, year after year,
to so delicately undo an old wound,
to empty my breath from its bad prison."
'Wanting to Die', Anne Sexton
#6
Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 5 is #lambent
"Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.
Uplift and sway, O golden vine,
Thy clustered fruits to love's full flood,
Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine
Incertitude."
'Flood', James Joyce
#5
lambent:definition - glowing softly
