Maryanne D’uberville had a perfect life. Every morning she awoke, ate a breakfast of toast and tea, then trolled the woods for lost strangers and runaways. She #lured them down into her basement waxworks, bound and dipped them, and made living dolls for her collection.

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My last loaf set on the sill to cool. Those poor children, #lured by the warm scent; so hungry they lick the wattle and daub walls. I nurse them, but winter is cruel, the ground too frozen for graves. So I cremate their flesh, grind the bones to flour. I need bread too.
They call me a witch. #vss365

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While sad flurries of sand kept vigil at dusk, the warm vibrato of my bassoon #lured the fennec out of hiding. I tossed it a few morsels. This outpost was virtually an island of stone surrounded by a vast sea of dust, and my lone friend had gobbled up the last of my supplies.

The full moon cast a romantic glow through the trees. She puckered up. “Now you’ve #lured me here, what will you do with me?”
A wolf stepped out of the shadows & stalked towards them, yellow eyes aglow.
She screamed.
He stepped in front of her.
“Hi, darling,” he said.
“Here’s your dinner.” #vss365

The old Prelate looked at his successor, full of youth and vigor. Why had the gods chosen one so young?

"It's time for you to know the truth."

"What truth?"

"Of why humanity was #lured to Celester, what we found in the Mountain Enclave, and the contents of The Gelb Scroll."

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For two days, town was covered in a dust vortex.
Hunters came from places I'd never even heard of, #lured by rumour of the creature, the one that had Slipped Through.
Just a photo could bank a decade's living.
Trouble is, its hunts left no traces.
It even ate the clothes.
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kings once #lured their enemies
with festive platters to delight

today all it takes is an invitation
sent to greedy oligarchs
with voracious appetites

#vss365 #poetry #writing

Bob talks to Nora about one of his past relationships and how she #lured him in. He fell for the chemistry and her flattery, but she turned out to be a total toad. Nora has nothing good to say about this woman and she doesn't know why Bob is even talking about her.

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the bear was #lured
by that #mountain

he just had to see
what he could see

well, he climbed
that mountain

and all he could see

was the other side
of that mountain

stupid bear
damn mountain