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(DIR) Post #ASxKzh7d4LEvXWm6sq by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-23T01:44:47Z
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Writing prompt picture. Tell a story in one post/reply. Any genre.#author #authors #writing #writingcommunity #writingprompt #DigitalArt #digital #art #Promptodon #FlashFiction #ghoststory #nonfiction #MicroFiction #horrorPrompt #sff #fantasy #SciFi
(DIR) Post #ASxNwUY3f3FbXLIjzc by Tim_Eagon@dice.camp
2023-02-23T02:17:48Z
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@cattailnu "We are the last of our civilization. It lies in ruin.""I have but one spell remaining. Let us become like stone before our doom reaches us. Perhaps our descendants can one day awaken us.""If I'm looking at you, I'm not sure I can go through with it.""Then we shall look away. Hopefully, the next time we see each other, it will be under better circumstances.""I love you.""I love you always..."
(DIR) Post #ASyOmV2pFtpjIBS4m0 by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-02-23T14:01:55Z
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@cattailnu Memory !- Ah memorySuch a fleeting thing- EphemeralThat's a very good word, Ephemeral, I like that- I am happy that you like itAs am I, I am content to be here with you- Even in this place ?Even in this place- Darkness approachesIndeed it does- It shall soon be nightI know- It will be coldI. Know.- We could use our cloaks*sigh* Yes but they are in the chariot aren't they & I was sure I parked around here somewhere- Ah memoryOh just shut up!
(DIR) Post #ASyhRt6qUCOeyZDWXw by stolteclan@vmst.io
2023-02-23T17:31:05Z
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@cattailnu The red hue bathing the columns reminded me of blood. The war was over, the remnants of the war forever etched into our land - sky, sea & soil. I sat & watched as the elements painted the night canvas, changing it from dusk to dark.Could I ever be the same again? The statues held nothing for me anymore; their wisdom used up. But did the land hold anything for me? What I had seen led me to believe there was nothing for me there either. The end of war does not always equal peace.
(DIR) Post #ASz5PpYx6Dj0ISupvc by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-02-23T21:59:37Z
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@cattailnu This place was the great market. Here, people from all provinces of the empire came to sell and buy all kind of things. See those guys? They were the gods of commerce. Always watching this place. Sellers prayed for clients and buyers prayed for discounts. And their prayers were always answered. Until one day. One sad day when one of them refused to hear prayers. A headache, I've been told. The balance was lost and there were riots. This is all that's left…#WritingPrompt
(DIR) Post #ASz7v8R5BBoTiSI10C by HLGEM@lor.sh
2023-02-23T22:27:42Z
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@cattailnu I didn't write it for the prompt, but it reminded me of a poem I wrote the summer of 2020.The Sorrow of the ValkyriesThe heroes were no longer On the battlefieldBut in Emergency RoomsAnd ambulancesThey fought To save livesNot for land,Politics,Or patriotismThe battlefields haltedAs sickness racked the landsAnd the ValkyriesWe wondered what Our role wasIn this new worldI pondered deepThis new and unfamiliar sceneUnsure what to doThey were heroesAnd then they sickenedWith the diseaseThey fought so heroicallyBut to take them To their rewardWas hardThey were needed stillTo save othersWhen heroes aren't bleeding to deathHow does a Valkyrie decideWho may live and who may notWe watched at firstAs they becameMore exhaustedLosing hopeBut still struggling To see one more patientKeeping them aliveFor one more minuteWe watched the painAs yet another patient diedAs they called the familiesof the dead and the dyingWhen they sickenedWe had to chooseWho would go To the Hall of HeroesFor not all may goChoose the nurseWho kept seeing patients Even when he had been given No protective gear?Or choose the doctorStill practicing at 80Who had every reasonTo let others handle this CandidatesCame from All countriesAll agesYoung nursesIn their first yearMiddle aged doctorsWith teenage childrenPregnant womenRisking more than their own livesElders long past retirement ageWho could not lay down the torchAnd as for the ValkyriesThere was no rest for usNo location that was Free of this diseaseNo place without heroesNo silent nighttimeAs we toiled onFor the first time in CenturiesWe despairedIt is usually a joyCollecting the heroesAnd introducing themTo ValhallaGiving them Their first drink of meadBut these heroesWeren’t happy to go To a well-deserved restThey beggedThey pleadedThey wanted to Return and fightI took to cryingWith every heroI chooseIn the dwindling spacesBetween pickupsI sorrowedDevastated beyond wordsBrynhildr was first to give upShe stayed behind In the Hall of HeroesShe would not be the last Of us to crackFinally, it was down to me,GrimhildrI, too, wantedTo take my restAfter centuries,MillenniaOf serviceBut there were still Heroes to collectAnd honorAnd only me to do it#Covid #CovidPoetry #Valkyries
(DIR) Post #ASzAQIGOtFIv57HJwW by baki@verisimilitudino.us
2023-02-23T22:55:44Z
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@cattailnu Go to Atlantis, they said. You'll have a lovely time, they said. Everyone's been, they said. The water is so beautiful, they said.
(DIR) Post #ASzFZok807q4BxXmb2 by lastinnett@mstdn.party
2023-02-23T23:53:28Z
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@cattailnu At the end of the world, the last remaining gods wept for there was no one left to worsihip them. Being a petty, vengeful god had its price. #microfiction #prompt #flashfiction #shortfiction #sff #SFFWriter #fantasy #writersofmastodon #mastowriters #writingcommunity #indiewriter
(DIR) Post #ASzX1KDInhtWprtNrM by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:08:58Z
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@Tim_Eagon And then Gabrielle and Xena show up and awaken them..
(DIR) Post #ASzX4ogVxxbaD1DlNg by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:09:35Z
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@staringatclouds It's here somewhere!
(DIR) Post #ASzXA3mRGiSATVUaEi by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:10:33Z
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@stolteclan More peaceful than war externally, if not internally?
(DIR) Post #ASzXE51GbTGXTbLRQ0 by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:11:16Z
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@ixtlidekami Riots when prayers are unbalanced!
(DIR) Post #ASzXJje0zKDyv8AKPI by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:12:18Z
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@HLGEM Lovely! Heroes to collect!
(DIR) Post #ASzXMFkSb64Z4INg6y by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:12:44Z
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@baki Yeah, got to watch out for advice... :)
(DIR) Post #ASzXVLBBm2ygWEDTRA by sj_ashcroft2@libranet.de
2023-02-23T23:21:02Z
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They weep today. Even the gods weep. Their sorrow is bounded only by eternity itself, as they wait.It is not for faith that they pine, nor for the honours of the ancient altars. Faith was the currency of a religion they never created, and even the old sacrifices were the inventions of men. No - they weep not for their loss of followers, for they never sought such. Olympus stands tall without mens' vainglorying. Rather, it is for mens' loss of the gods that their sorrow, their agony, is so unfathomable.As the new religion tightened its deathly grip on humankind, the palaces of the old gods were sullied in the imaginations of men. Freedom and honour were destroyed in the very name of honour and freedom.The gods know the ruin of their younger brethren, their brethren men. And Poseidon, himself, sits, disconsolate, beside the temple he rent in his fury and despair at the folly of these, who should have become more than mortals.They weep, today, and wait. Not for men to honour the gods again, but to honour themselves, and to remember the divine that is the soul of all.
(DIR) Post #ASzXVLsRBFZYgMS0qe by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:14:23Z
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@sj_ashcroft2 While somewhere, some snarky soul snickered, "Freedom and Honour are overrated anyway..." and that soul was wrong.
(DIR) Post #ASzXYCcG4KnipRF5hg by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-24T03:14:54Z
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@lastinnett Are they still gods if no one worships them?
(DIR) Post #ASzaUpRo3JMvxyR7wG by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-02-24T03:47:54Z
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@cattailnu Also prices were too high and people didn't like that…=)
(DIR) Post #AT0OislzTpvM2hlwsC by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-02-24T13:10:42Z
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@cattailnu Probably under the waterOr at a totally different set of pillars, they do tend to look alike