#stilted — Public Fediverse posts
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#TimeTravelingGhost Part 36: EP 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part V
#Wss366 #MastoPrompt #TimeTravelAuthors 9/3
I woke up to #soft sunlight filtering through the branches of a pine tree. At first, I didn’t know where I was, so I rolled over to sleep off my hangover. It wasn’t the first time I had awoken in an odd spot. At least this was better than a park bench covered with newspapers.
“Thank goodness. I was afraid I’d lost you.”
The voice was familiar.
I sat up, feeling the pine needles #snap under me, and looked into the face of Miss Emily Pang, the ghost.
“How long was I out? Our mission?” my reply #stilted by remnants of sleep.
“An hour, maybe half. We still have time if we hurry. Make yourself look like you barely escaped.”
When we emerged from the trees, we could see the Hindenburg. It lay in a tangled, smoking heap. The ship’s braces were twisted or broken. I gasped. The pictures I had seen didn’t capture the true devastation and tragedy of the accident.
“If only we could have prevented it,” I said, hurrying to catch up with Emily.
#TootFic #MicroFiction #Serial #TimeTravel #NMPrompts #NMTTA #NMV366 #NMMP #Hindenberg
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“Arthwait was in the fetters of his own egoism; while he pronounced himself father and grandfather of all spiritual science, in language that would have seemed stilted and archaic to Henry James, or Osric, and presumptuous in the mouth of an archangel … He wanted to evoke the devil, but was terrified lest he should be successful. However, nobody could be more pedantically pious than he in following out the practical prescriptions of these absurd charm-books.”
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The #problem is when you #write #posts that #looklikethis, the #writing becomes #forced and #stilted. Those #hashtags become #harder to #ignore. It affects how #readable your #post is. #It looks like #you are #CloutChasing and #not #trying to #engage #organically. So just #PutTheTagsAtTheEnd.