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  1. Follow it backward past the scrubs, past the ward, past mercy:
    it was warmth beading from skin hidden deep in the burrow.
    It meant only this: keep the small mouth fastened to the world.
    Much later, we gave the word a uniform.
    And somewhere behind a utility door,
    nurture learned its own hunger.

    #MastoPrompt
    #nurse
    #writing
    #creativewriting
    #smallstories
    #paleopoetics
    #betrayal
    @stevencudahy

  2. ••⋅☾ #俳句 ☽⋅••

    A plaid jacket
    Red Carnation boutonniere
    So long ago

    ••⋅☾ #Haiku ☽⋅••

    ••⋅☾#片歌 ☽⋅••

    A plaid jacket
    Dyed carnation boutonniere
    So many years ago

    ••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

    #Poetry # #NMPoetry #MastoPrompt #Carnation #Youth #Aging

  3. ••⋅☾ #俳句 ☽⋅••

    Crosswalk watch
    The cars burr by
    killers on wheels

    ••⋅☾ #Haiku ☽⋅••

    ••⋅☾ #俳文 ☽⋅••
    An observation, as a line of #cars whizzes by a major crosswalk.
    ••⋅☾ #Haibun ☽⋅••

    ••⋅☾ #ものく ☽⋅••

    Arrogant youth steps into the street

    ••⋅☾ #Monoku / #Monostich ☽⋅••

    #Poetry # #NMPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #MastoPrompt #burr #Safty

  4. ••⋅☾ #俳句 ☽⋅••

    persistent burr
    Independant media
    Revealing lies

    Alt

    persistent burr
    David Pakman Show
    Checking "facts"

    ••⋅☾ #Haiku ☽⋅••

    #Poetry # #NMPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly #HaikuFeels #check #MastoPrompt #burr #PoliticalPoety

  5. She approached me behind the store after work, the lamplight falling on her loose, dark hair. She usually wore tight braids when she stopped by with her husband for coffee and palmeras de hojaldre. I didn't speak much Spanish, but vaguely understood her words: They were leaving. She pressed into my hands a small container of #quince cheese she had made. "Autodepartarse" she said, and I heard her voice waver. I had only ever heard a soft steeliness there. "Self-deport." #Mastoprompt @stevencudahy

  6. As the barbarian ambled off with his new companion, the rogue shook his head in disgust. "He can't resist a #winsome smile, can he?"

    The mage chuckled. "Let's face it, you wanted an excuse to lift his money pouch."

    "Just... keeping it safe."

    #MastoPrompt #MicroFiction

  7. #TimeTravelingGhost EP 7 Post 78: 12 May 1999: London

    #Wss366 Bowels #MastoPrompt Winsome #TimeTravelAuthors 03/07. Quiet/loud

    Now that we had seen the sights, I caught a cab to the British Museum, while Emily flew overhead. An insipid ballad, “Swear It Again,” played #loudly on the radio. So I tuned it out along with the heavily accented East-Indian voice of the driver offering me additional ride services. Instead, I manifested a cell phone and played with the browser. I had forgotten how janky that experience was in the late 90s.

    When we arrived at the museum, I showed Emily the phone and the internet. She was suitably impressed and offered me a #winsome smile. It wasn’t flying cars, but she was thrilled.

    Since it was a Thursday morning, the museum was #quiet when we arrived. We hurried through the lightly populated rooms to the archaeological section, where I spent most of my time. Some items, such as German World War II artifacts and Crusader swords, made me uneasy. I couldn’t tell whether that was due to their supernatural aura or my own biases.

    The Sutton Hoo exhibition, however, was wonderful. As I gazed at the treasures, fragmented memories surfaced of seeing them as a young girl.

    At some point, Emily and I separated, with me exploring the public exhibitions and her roaming areas unavailable to visitors. I had just begun examining some Chinese jade artifacts when she appeared.

    “Follow me,” she said.

    “What did you find?”

    “You were right. There's more here than meets the eye. Come on, you'll understand when you see it.”

    We hurried through a door marked "Private," down a set of stairs, and through a maze of corridors. I wasn’t sure how Emily had found anything here. Finally, in the #bowels of the museum, we arrived at a heavy metal door.

    The Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo:

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy

  8. It’s Pelican, Captain

    #Fanfiction #KaigaiIdol #PonRanger
    #MastoPrompt #Pelican

    “Reporting for duty, Captain.” The creature snapped a salute as crisp as its white, green, and orange uniform.

    “Very good, Lieutenant Yeast,” Captain Pon said. Their eyes stayed glued to the console displaying a terrible, multi-segmented thing crawling in the starless black sky. Its tentacles sprawled, blocky abominations.

    “Is that a life form that defies the laws of physics?” Yeast asked.

    “No, it's today’s New Pork’s Slimes crossworld puzzle. What seven-letter word means ‘soup bowl face?’”

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #PlayOnWords #Puns

  9. His fat mitt, a hot potato, gripped my hand.

    The smell of bloody chop steak declassed the place There was no pleasant aroma of char.

    His eyes had an odd intensity.

    If I stood to leave, his hand would tighten like Chinese handcuffs.

    #mastoprompt #aroma #50WordFiction

  10. CW: Wss366 Microfic Possibly sacrilegious

    EMERGENCY The Rapture

    #Wss366 #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
    #WritersCoffeeClub 18 Sept: Have you written something blasphemous?

    #Bang! Suddenly, the sky lit up, and people on the park swings began floating up in the air. At least some of them. Arms of the monkey bars reached out to capture others.

    I lowered the sun visor in the car and checked my emergency list of actions to take during the Rapture.

    1. Put on sun-#screen. (Cancer risk: Health risk of divine rays unknown.)
    2. #Comb your #bangs. (First impressions are important.)
    3. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
    4. Step out of the car slowly, and keep your hands in plain view. (Lightning Risk)

    #NMV366 #NMPrompts #NMMP #MicroFiction #TootFiction #Drabble #NMWCC @extraspecialbitter

  11. The Spatulater

    #wss366 #mastoprompt #microPrompt 08/14

    Carrie received a #Jolt (TM) visiting her new girlfriend friends house carring several tubs of CoalWhip (TM). She was late as usual, any #later she would have missed seeing the hunky Amazonian (TM) driver deliver a case of Peckerish Farm (TM) fudge sauce.

    She found Kim in the kitchen wearing nothing but an apron and a #spatula. Turns out Kim was a #spatulater.

    Note: "later" is a suffice indicating a worshipper.

    #ecchi #Nonsene #BooHiss

    #NMPrompts #NMMP #NMv366 #MicroFiction #TootFic

  12. "Do your worst." The defendant glared. "I have the moral advantage. That means no cell can #confine me, no shackles break my spirit."

    The magistrate chuckled. "Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm imposing a fine. Take more care where you park next time."

    #MastoPrompt #MicroFiction @tanweerdar

  13. Don't let life confine
    Free your mind from its shackles
    Strive for the highest

    #MastoPrompt #confine

  14. #Haunting memories tuck like #chains.
    A #cliff. I'm ready to take the leap of faith. But then again, I choke.

    The #earth spins.
    I need to #confine myself to the present.
    A deep breath, then I jump.

    See how my wings spread.

    ---
    @tanweerdar
    @StuartBrknJohns

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    #vss365 #rise365 #vssnature #brknshards #MastoPrompt
    #WritingCommunity

  15. @tanweerdar

    The smallness of death,
    The insignificance of turning
    The corner one day, full of life,
    And then, nothing, just an ending.

    The unexpected resonates
    In our chest cavity to create
    The fear,
    The fears, for we have many;
    Of age, of hurt, of a different pain,
    Of death, and, worst,
    Of meaning nothing.

    #MastoPrompt #Resonate #Poetry #SmallStories #Death