Post ATDtyZHJrnFswdvCQS by gnarlygeek@hachyderm.io
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(DIR) Post #ATBV5Tt0uYoXywm9Ka by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-01T21:43:51Z
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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 #ATBY2rQREjoNysqsLI by lastinnett@mstdn.party
2023-03-01T22:16:57Z
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@cattailnu Five thousand five hundred miles long, the great wall cut through the land. Lost in time, was the knowledge that it rested atop the spine of an ancient and fierce creature. Parts of the millenniums old structure were crumbling and soon the sleeping dragon would awake, finally freed of its prison. #microfiction #prompt #flashfiction #shortfiction #fantasy #sff #sffwriter #indiewriter #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon
(DIR) Post #ATBa043E2RWcB6mx0K by stylus@octodon.social
2023-03-01T22:38:45Z
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@cattailnu 215 humans in suspended animation, emigrating from earth.Me, the pilot, awake. Wormholes aren't physical space, they're metaphor. Different every time.This foggy day seems so real, the ship imaginary.Faintly, the ship's AI: "Tell me what you're seeing". I answer, I think."It's the Great Wall of China", Ship concludes. "You simply need to walk to the far structure, which symbolizes the wormhole exit.""That's great, Ship, but the path ends just past this building."
(DIR) Post #ATBbSxliZiKj2twYBk by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-03-01T22:55:18Z
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@cattailnu The Great Wall was abandoned. Enemy upon enemy tried to cross it. Every single one died trying. Their spirits live now inside the wall, cursed to defend it no matter what. They want to break free. And they won't. They're trapped forever. Why? Because of this wall' successor. The Greater Wall, kilometers away, draws its strength from this old wall. The day this one falls, the empire will fall. This wall just need to continue to exist, just like this. Hidden by nature…#WritingPrompt
(DIR) Post #ATBp6LMq4HuivxPmIS by sj_ashcroft2@libranet.de
2023-03-01T22:06:33Z
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I awoke, screaming. The hordes were coming, and our defences were not ready.Or so my dream had told me.I had been dozing, on the tourist bus. It was too long a journey. Sleep had been inevitable, and had taken me to a station on a wall, viewing a vast plain swarming with death. I had felt real fear, grasping my sword, praying that the bowmen might thin the oncoming tide of ferocity, knowing that there were not enough of them.Now, as my fellow travellers looked at me with half-humorous concern, and we clambered off the bus, I looked up at the ancient stones. My fear returned, for I knew that is where I had stood, moments and centuries before - and I had a strange foreboding that what has been will so be again
(DIR) Post #ATBp6Lt68LiaY0VXZw by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-02T01:28:05Z
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@sj_ashcroft2 Sometimes better to be ignorant of things...?
(DIR) Post #ATBpK6USB5qIqaXP5k by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-02T01:30:35Z
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@lastinnett Yeah... sleeping. That picture on my profile has a purple dragon sleeping so long that a tree grew over it. I painted that traditionally (watercolor).
(DIR) Post #ATBpSkSBTkVd6lb9yC by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-02T01:32:09Z
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@stylus Yeah, the ground will be a bit bumpy from there to the far structure...
(DIR) Post #ATBpYnNXW4c1uxJFIG by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-02T01:33:14Z
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@ixtlidekami Cursed to defend it... Hmmm. No sitting back and just gesturing the invader through, eh?
(DIR) Post #ATBtDn0o5Gx8W2uooy by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-03-02T02:14:15Z
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@cattailnu It's worse. The Greatest Wall is outside, so those poor spirits are really just sitting there, waiting to defend it. And they are being used as batteries for the Greatest Wall. Spiritual energy is more powerful than electricity and most important, it's cheap. Those guys have no idea of this…>=)
(DIR) Post #ATC0E4ONVL5Hr8FEyO by tudza@mastodon.cloud
2023-03-02T03:32:44Z
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@cattailnu We built the wall to keep out the horse people. Now, we can't get any good horses to fight them with.
(DIR) Post #ATCoIxfOvrcC9ZjW7c by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-02T12:53:53Z
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@tudza Whoops...
(DIR) Post #ATDJOwTuWYQW8JWYLo by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-03-02T13:50:06Z
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@cattailnu The view was gorgeous, really refreshed his spirit, such a change from the castleHe cast his mind back all those years ago to the researcher who'd stayed at the castleNightly he'd whisper in their earThe old wall needed repair & the castle had similar stone, as a PR exercise it was a triumph, donate stone from Scotland to repair the Great Wall of ChinaHe'd tagged along for the ride & here he wasThe ghostly piper tucked his head under his arm & began to walk the battlement
(DIR) Post #ATDJOxCDrns8LkFwQ4 by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-02T18:42:19Z
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@staringatclouds Ohhhh!!! An adventure begins!
(DIR) Post #ATDOENnJ8PwNQaNgYK by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-03-02T19:36:25Z
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@cattailnu Well even with Scottish scenery, which is beautiful btw, 400 years of the same 100 yard walk can get a little sameySo 5,500 miles of brand new scenery ought to keep him going for a millennia or threeAnd there's bound to be a castle somewhere needing repair after thatA change is as good as a rest
(DIR) Post #ATDtyZHJrnFswdvCQS by gnarlygeek@hachyderm.io
2023-03-03T01:32:02Z
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@cattailnu The path ahead was worn. She saw others in the sanctuary. Were they fellow travelers, guards of the provincial lord, or thieves? Aside to her companion, "Caution until we know who awaits us." "Of course, princess. Uh, sorry, Hovtli.", they replied.Their disguises had served amongst the farmers of the west but they never were in close contact. An overnight stay at the waystation couldprove dangerous. The path to the next station was treacherous. It was not to be attempted at dusk.
(DIR) Post #ATEa7nwSufcJ6XFoZc by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-03-03T09:24:25Z
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@gnarlygeek And she'll have to avoid talking. That cultured, trained voice will be a giveaway too!
(DIR) Post #ATFfwggyJzNsJi37ZY by gnarlygeek@hachyderm.io
2023-03-03T22:04:21Z
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@cattailnu Every plan has a unique weakness. 😉