Ross McDermott

#2wordprompt #writing #horror

Danger rides a bus #seated at the back
where fluorescents flicker:
A ghostly face
not #obvious
a glimpse
a smile too wide
no eyes above-a void
a blank and empty space
But Danger is restrained
in time he has invested
waiting at the back
for a stop to be requested

She could have been the fire the passionate blaze the licking flames the smoke-the haze of my desire She could have been my yellow the calming one; a gentle touch the #warmth, my sun my mellow She could have been the summit the apex of my love; the rising spire, to inspire the soft flight of the dove She could have been... ~Beyond the Onions~ Ross McDermott ~

#vss365 #warmth #poetry #poem #writing #amwriting #L'amour 💔 #unrequited #love
~The Tilt & The Taint~

SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More! March’s theme for issue 32 is SPIRAL. The deadline for submissions to issue 32 is March 19th, and it will be published on Saturday, March 28th, 2026.

Authors, are you feeling flushed? Don’t let opportunity go down the drain: Five days remain to get your pieces of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More into #SciFanSat before submissions close on March 19th at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips- excerpt from #wip Spiral Eyes
A blossoming #scifi #dystopian #adventure I've just began to #write
Not sure where it's going, but I'm enjoying the #craft so far
#writing #amwriting #booklovers
P.S. got a lot of balls in the air-will like and post as much as I can, but it may be sporadic. 🙏

donald trump speaking into a microphone and saying " i don t take any responsibility at all " ALT: donald trump speaking into a microphone and saying " i don t take any responsibility at all "

BREAKING NEWS: Trumps denies any involvement or knowledge of the "strong odor."

'Hope.’
"For me, it had been a lonely vine too brittle to hold my weight, snapping every time, when it came to matters of the heart."
~Francis Morgan Slayter, Sunsetter

#wip - #quote from the #manuscript Sunsetter - continuing the tale of an ancient evil in the wilds of the west. #editing #horror

😊 thanks Mr. Doula -- not sure at this point...just finished the 1st draft yesterday... I may query a bit... I'll keep you in mind...if you want, send me your rates via DM.
Cheers!

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I think the answer is quite obvious... yes...yes they are!
#TheHorror... #TheHorror

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Video) [4K] YouTube video by David Bowie

Oh, what would David think?
youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?...

@acturek.bsky.social 👍thanks for the fb!

There it is again
in the #corner of my eye 👀
just a fleeting movement
each night it comes to spy
beneath my puffy pillow
I muffle fearful cries
"Get behind me phantom" 👻
but rarely does the ghost comply.

#vss365 #poem #rhymetime #horror #haunt #amwriting #writing #poetry & #prose

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sentient spirals
expand concentric circles
spinning in their eyes.

~ DiNAs ~
Deoxyribonucleic Acid

#Haiku #poetry #writing #amwriting #scifi #wip #SpiralEyes #dystopian #future #clones #aliens 🌌👽

Promos! Okay... kinda wish I'd seen this sooner but I'll keep my eyes on it now. 👍

Thank you HS... much appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏
It has only just begun - I'm looking forward to see where it goes... I'm a bit of a pantser when it comes to #writing... I only plot if I get stuck. 👍😀

#2wordprompt #specific #effort #writing #wip #sciffi #dystopian #amwriting
#SpiralEyes (working title)
special thanks @scifansat.bsky.social for the initial inspiration... 🌌👽⏬

Morning #WIPSnips & all #skywiters
#Wip Sunsetter is a finished 1stDraft- time to edit
New #wip -a #Novella or #ShortStory or a #Novel in the making perhaps
⏬An excerpt from the #scifi #dystopian adventure, #SpiralEyes🌌👽
👍@scifansat.bsky.social for the inspiration. #HappyFriday!
#writing #amwriting

Why must the #community #suffer the fools
who seek to feed in greed
on the heart of this,
our #precious world?

#2wordprompt #vss365 #poem #vss

Cling to that precious thread
thin & frayed over precious time
Grip the strand
a tensile to cherish
as all we precious angels must
resist the fall from light
Grasping tight
to the line
that dangles inside
our precious hearts;
that throb with #precious life

#vss365 #poem #writing #writingcommunity

An illustration of a sailing ship at night upon the open ocean. Above the vessel is a spiral galaxy in the starry sky, unlike anything seen from Earth.

“Straight on 'Til Morning”

Art by me for March’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of SPIRAL! Writers, 7 days remain until submissions are due on March 19th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

today in white socks history I lost one, but found another that looked exactly the same. 😉

... and how many Reps and Dems alike received campaign funds from #AIPAC -- do we really have to wonder why the war rages on?

You wanna know why Lindsey Graham isn't in the #EpsteinFiles, cause a 14-year-old girl (or boy) could beat the shit out of him.

Agreed... and from what I've seen and read, she used to going all in... 🤢

why should one exclude the other, and the other?... are Americans incapable of righting more wrongs than one at a time? I think not... or should I say I hope not. Its called multi-tasking... for the sake of your nation and the world, get busy folks.🍁

I am a free man from the headland, wi a heart so drawn to wander A descendant of an Irish king a bloodline I still ponder In a long-gone year of a long-gone lord awa we wandered quite a lot And landed on that #bonny Isle Sippin' drams among the Scots I feel that "free man" urging me just pack my kit and go To where, ah dinnae ken Translation: I don't know. ~Beyond the Onions~ Ross McDermott

The McDermott crest - my coat of arms.

#vss365 #bonny #scrieve #writing #poetry #origins
#irishKing - Tadhg mac Diarmata 👑

At the tender age of #twenty
I #volunteered to man the phones
Pawning All-Star hockey tickets
With rigid scripts and improved prose
My metrics were amazing
I was gifted at the sell
but at the age of twenty-three
sales became a living hell.

#2wordprompt #writing #poem #life #GlengarryGlenRoss (vibe)

Thanks DWW! As always, much appreciated. 😁

but...but... isn't that America's game, or maybe it's basketball, nope, invented by a Canadian... hockey, nope, Canada owns that too... so what is America's game... war?

The setting sun slips to the horizon. The sky blazes tangerine as I, like the sky, reflect upon the placid pond and the summer day now done. photo by Ross McDermott

The setting sun slips to the horizon.
The sky blazes tangerine fire
as I,
like the sky,
#reflect upon the placid pond
and the summer day now done.

#poem #reflections #photography 📷 #sunset #nature

~ the closest #star to our #planet.. 🎇~

Wow! 🙂 You just sparked a memory I'd forgotten... my mother used to drink her tea with a spoon.