writing – sceadugenga

twitter crosspost || 16may22

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Michael Raven

vsshorror/horrorprompt:

i shred these dreams
with my obsidian #knife
crimson ribbons &
bloody red

your kiss
WILL
be
mine

— Graffiti found carved in the stone blocks under a bridge, Eastside#horrorprompt #vsshorror https://t.co/wEcSNyIGkw
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 16, 2022

twitter crosspost || 12may22

Posted on May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 by Michael Raven

vsshorror/horrorprompt:

She scattered scarlet #flowers w/ petals lush as velvet, on crisp white sheets.

Come, she said, patting the bed as she sat down. Lay w/ me. He couldn't resist, even if he wanted to. He didn't.

He felt nothing as her teeth pierced his chest & she moaned.#horrorprompt #vsshorror pic.twitter.com/tLzU1cnMIg
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 12, 2022

vsstbt:

She always smelled either of #jasmine or myrrh: jasmine when she wanted to seem playful & friendly. Myrrh was for when she had other designs on her time and — if you were lucky enough to pick up the scent — your time as well.#vss365tbt
photo: Christopher Campbell via Unsplash pic.twitter.com/FNNVTaZVZS
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 12, 2022

vss365:

His makeup & hair became his #barrier: it kept the bullying at bay when they could not decide if he was alive or undead. They couldn't decide if he would stay dead if he was killed, or if he'd get up & keep coming after them like Jason in those movies. He let them wonder.#vss365 pic.twitter.com/0cTNZEeTX8
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 12, 2022

balderdash

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Michael Raven

Vague notions jotted down…

Movement shaman: not acts, not performance, gathering the spirit — pulling it inside, drawing forth drawing in, filling the empty spaces full till bursting like tasting your tongue on mine as we kiss, tripping the light pale washing across the sky. Dancing the dust, stars that we are, and gut pull frenzy tugging charged with the everything. Hearts on fire, hearts of fire, we burn the night, slipping in the dank canals and writhing snakes. I am the desert, you are the sun setting as I race to catch you shifting through you hair.

I don’t want to know anything anymore.

twitter crosspost || 06may22 (pt II)

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Michael Raven

I’m feeling inspired today by some of the prompts, so I thought I’d share a few more little wordgoblins.

Sorry.

vssHauntedHouse:

I followed the myriad whispers to their source in a corner of the #basement, where a dark stain writhed with each rise, ebb & crescendo in the dank space below.

The whispers repeated without rhythm or constancy over & over: "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"#vssHauntedHouse https://t.co/MZcm3acPnr
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 6, 2022

scififri:

It seemed nothing should be able to survive in the #wreckage that was once a laboratory, the devastation was near absolute. But there it stood amongst the still-smoldering ruins: Arthur Blakes' deceptively simple door & frame that opened to the 'scapes between spaces.#scififri pic.twitter.com/1vyvSnDnO5
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 6, 2022

twitter crosspost || 06may22

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Michael Raven

random micropoem:

little fox w/ rabbit bundle
run home, now
the little ones are
hungry
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 6, 2022

vss365:

"I am no #mage," he told her as he wandered towards the place where forest became shadows or, perhaps, shadows became forest.

Sensing four words would not be enough, he sighed. "I only notice what others overlook. That is not magic."

She remained unconvinced.#vss365 pic.twitter.com/Uu7THGKT0C
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 6, 2022

vsshorror/horrorprompt:

I fell to my knees, exhausted and #chill-ed to the bone. Snow painted in the blood of the day's dying sun reminded me of the scene back at the cabin.

Had that not given me strength, the rasping breathing of the wendigo on my trail was incentive enough.#horrorprompt #vsshorror https://t.co/f5FbBjmVrX
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 6, 2022

twitter crosspost || 05may22

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Michael Raven

vss365:

Pain is my #prison. Ice metal finger clutch my chest, my head explodes in color cascades, & bowels knot twist when I try to leave my invisible cage.

She laughs with every wince or whimper, then assures me she loves me best.

And I believe her.#vss365
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 5, 2022

vsshorror/horrorprompt:

Though my muscles were stretched beyond all limits, every fibre tensed at the slow footsteps behind me. A crack of a cat-o-nine.

"I will #savor each strip of your raw flesh consumed, you know," he said. "I will know you more intimately than any lover."#vsshorror #horrorprompt https://t.co/uqzWjapNT7
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) May 5, 2022

galdr discount code

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Michael Raven

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The discount code is REACHOUT15. Let me know if you purchase any of the books on offer (especially if it is mine, wink wink).

twitter crosspost || 30apr22

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Michael Raven

Eschewing a potential #climax, the author had the gunslingers both holster their guns, shooting only hard stares before each turned on their heels to fade like so much dust into twilight desert. No shots fired, no pools of blood, just ambiguity left hanging in the air.#vss365 pic.twitter.com/kYdDUu1ARo
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) April 30, 2022

They say she still haunts those #crepuscular hours on the Path of the Sun, tempting unwary travelers to the ramshackle remains of her once-opulent home. There, she drains them until they are dry husks to be carried away by a bitter, laughing wind.#horrorprompt #vsshorror https://t.co/nX6Bmlq5lQ
— michael raven (@MichaelRaven_99) April 30, 2022