Old man Carruthers spent his career at this company.
Never vacationed farther than the break room.
No one knew him to take a sick day.
First in, last out.

Always said "I'll work till I'm #dead."
But we didn't expect him to keep coming after.

We're a little creeped out.

#vss365

When the streetcar reached the museum the man was at its rear door. Any hope she had went #dead on the spot. To go unnoticed she'd have to enter at the front, where he'd be facing.

Before she could worry about how bad that was for her, her phone came alive in her pocket. #vss365 #writing

#vss365 #dead

tonight, they gather
like they have
too many times before
3 babies #dead
3 families
forever changed
will they survive it?
can they?
WHY?
the ever asked question
will there ever be an answer?!
more importantly
will there ever be a solution?!
we pray, and
tonight, they gather
💔

𝔸𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕣𝕟𝕦𝕔𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒 𝕀𝕤 𝔼𝕞𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕕, we assemble to share it out. The harvest was had been good, the #weather had cooperated. there would be enough for all. On the #roof, the ritual decoration waved gently in the breeze. There would be enough to serve the #dead.

#BlueSkyRemnant #2WordPrompt #vss365

#vss365 #dead
#poetry #prompt
#writingcommunity

#vss365
He kicked the tyre in anger. "It's #dead."
"I believe that's my cue." Elle ushered him away.
"You don't have any equipment, this wreck hasn't got any spares. What could you possibly do?"
She hefted open the bonnet, and raised an eyebrow.
"Miracles, now move while I MacGyver this sh*t."

I was born and lived and died and have nothing much to say about anything except the very end. I met the most beautiful woman and she asked me to argue that I was alive. And you can guess I didn't make much of a case.
And now I'm committed to only stone. What's up with that?

#vss365 #dead

They do not care. It only wanted to find a flower. It found my hand instead.

Without mercy, the Mexican Honey Wasp began to stinger f*** my thumb. It #died fast, my thumb healed slowly.

#dead #died
#vss365

I don’t want you #dead
I don’t want you dead
I don’t want you dead
I don’t want you dead

We learn something from dying
But I don’t want you dead

I don’t want you dead
I don’t want you dead

#vss365

Oh? If I'd bothered to notice the #vss365 prompt is #dead could have written a #haiku for my jack-O-lantern.

no guts dead inside
lit candle melted and burnt
grin cut with a knife

Bright of eye
Yet #Dead inside
A puppet with no strings
The only joy
For this lost boy
The heartbreak that he brings
For what's a life
If full of strife
The arrows & the slings
It's grief & pain
That keeps you sane
The silent choir sings
#Vss365

When God finally answered, by incessant text message no less, Felix had to finally ask him to stop. Yeesh! Forty years of prayer, and only now did it occur to him that God had been listening between prayers too. He caught himself wishing God #dead, then felt regret before he could help it.

#vss365

"It just isn't right."
"What do you mean?"
"Smith keeps working every day and we keep paying him!"
"So?"
"HE'S BEEN #DEAD FOR TWO MONTHS!"
"He is one of our best employees. Incredibly reliable."
"WE PAID OUT HIS LIFE INSURANCE!"
"Have you seen the accounts he brought in?"
#vss365#dead

"I'm not dead yet"
isn't always
an acceptable answer
to "how are you?"
oh well

#vss365 #dead #poetry #writing

Being #dead was strange. Sara had expected a change, a dissolution of the ego, an afterlife of joy or suffering. Something. Instead, it was just her wandering around, aimless, being ignored by others. It was too much like life. #vss365 #skywrite #microfiction

"Is he... #dead?"

"As much as a vampire can be, yes."

#VSS365

“Your mother's luminescence still exists in the universe.”

Devout Arandans believe the #dead travel to a spirit realm but visit their family in dreams. At this young age, I doubted every religious dogma I had ever been taught, but envisioning Mother as light comforted me.

#vss365

we're past
the time
of endearment

#dead against
moving forward
with their agreements

in a few days time
the crowds will climb
past a point of no return

#vss365 #poetry #writing

Given in
Sweet lumps,
Taken in
Broken off
Parts

The death
Of a heart,

It's tale
Begins,
Long before
We depart.
#vss365 #dead

"What's your expertise?" the interviewer asks.
"Endings."
"Why do you want to be a telemarketer?"
"I'm stuck in a dead-end job," Death says.

#vss365 #vss #dead