“Your education didn’t literally cost you an arm and a leg,” laughed Jane. “There’s barely a scratch on your body.”
“I didn’t say it was my arm or leg,” sighed Becky.
VSS365 prompt: scratch
Category: VSS365
Scramble
Perseverance’s audio transmission.
A scramble to decode.
Blinding night lights.
VSS365 prompt: scramble
Mean
All he’d wanted was for her to curtail her whining about his shoddy work-ethic. She stood before him, shaking off the soil, and he knew burying her alive was a bit too mean of a reaction.
VSS365 prompts: curtail, shoddy, mean
River
Sat at the corner of the river, watching a random assortment of whales, dolphins, and squid heading upstream. They pondered if this had something to do with the residents of Innsmouth vanishing last week.
VSS365 prompts: corner, river, random
Carrel
Crow, hunkered down into her carrel. Pecking at a piece of paper she wrote her apology letter in a series of dots and dashes.
It was her re-morse code.
(#VSS365, Prompt: Carrel, 151 characters)
Clowns Languor
Already filled with seafood, Puffin sat atop the rock.
A party of tuxedo-wearing birds, with clowns noses, polished off the silver-fish below.
A moment of languor, broken by a distant cry of “seal!”
(#VSS365 & #MicroPrompt, Prompts: Languor & Clown, 198 characters)
Pot-Mount
“A few drinks to muster the pot-valor,” said Crow, “and Celcius quit her job, mounted the camel, and rode into the sunset.”
“I hear Kelvin’s replaced her,” sighed Sparra. “He’s the new temp.”
(#VSS365 & #MicroPrompt, Prompts: Potvalor & Mount, 191 characters)
Silver
“Just then, six dwarves barged in,” grumbled Magpie. “They stole all my silver!”
“Oh, dear,” said Crow.
“Not happy,” murmured Magpie.
(#VSS365, Prompt: Silver, 131 characters)
Skint
“I’ve taken a job re-attaching lizards tails,” sighed Sparra.
“you must be pretty skint,” replied Crow, “to take a job in retail.”
(#VSS365, Prompt: Skint, 128 characters)
Drowning Ubuntu
“You could have shown a little ubuntu towards him,” remarked Crow.
“Nah, he’s a flat-earther,” sighed Sparra. “He’d walk to the edge of the earth to prove me wrong.”
“Well, if he doesn’t drown,” remarked Crow, “he’ll come around.”
(#VSS365 & #MicroPrompt, Prompts: Ubuntu & Drown, 228 characters)
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