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Call me Ashlurstine Freelance Writer at Vibrant Wave Publishing | Nerd | Worldbuilder

Jamaica
Joined November 2014
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Illustration of waves breached the soft tissue. They shifted back and forth like an #illusion. The mirage of ambition swift as a #wolf's hunger. A show out on a limb, they paraded enthusiasm in the mundane. #vss365
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#vss365 #illusion I hand him a thing on a thong in the shape of a sleeping kitten crafted of iron and illusion. “This glows when it’s time to come back for Tiger. Always wear it.” It was not a complete lie. It would glow then. He puts it on and says thank you. Still so polite.
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#vss365 On full moons I become a #wolf My sister Turns to shrew In fact My entire family Goes full moon Monster zoo Once a month We all suffer Because I Pissed off a witch… When I cut her off In traffic, Ne’er dreamed It’d come to this
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Glass water, no wind,
the illusion of safety
cracks with one gull's cry
#vss365 #illusion
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the moon floats in a puddle i step around it as though anything beautiful could be kept whole by being careful an illusion but my shoes stay dry #vss365
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He was honest. He said it clearly. He was the #illusion and not the truth. But she didn’t care because for a little while she was happy. #vss365
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Love you till the very end. But tribe broke our limits, Our indifferent was know cos our colour weren't same. Laughs to when they taught we won't last, But now we stand together to the very last. Love they said, Meets you in the strangest place. #vss365 Kene Lyon #salute
“If one lifetime weren’t enough, I would ask for another to find you again.”
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the soft fur of complicit hearts how funny inside each one hears and harkens to the echo of a howling wolf #vss365
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#vss365 Time be a #wolf—devouring light Sowing black dahlias in our wake Running shadows through the night Bound to the choices we must make An endless race in deep dark space Fed by the need for a meaningful chase
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#vss365 #Illusion (日本語版は下に) Mid-Journey—— mist lay low over the harbor. Across the dark water, a little town glimmered with windows of amber light. A kettle sang behind one window. Someone called a name. A woman reached into the darkness to pass a loaf of bread to hands waiting next door. I stood upon the quay, imagining a winter evening when I would return and find those windows glowing still. But at dawn, the first house began to move. Then a second, then all the others. As the mist lifted, there were no streets beneath the lights—— only fishing boats moored together for a single night, their ropes trembling in the morning wind. The illusion scattered toward a dozen separate horizons. And where the town had floated, one small ripple crossed the water from where one window had shone to where another had been. 旅の途上の港には、低く霧が垂れ込めていました。暗い水面の向こうでは、小さな町が琥珀色の窓明かりをともして、かすかに輝いていました。 一つの窓の奥では、やかんが歌うように音を立てていました。誰かが誰かの名前を呼んでいました。一人の女性が暗がりに手を伸ばし、隣で待っている誰かの手にパンを渡していました。 旅人は埠頭に立ち、いつか冬の夕暮れにこの町へ帰ってきて、変わらず輝くあの窓明かりを見つける自分の姿を思い描いていました。 ところが夜が明けると、最初の一軒が動き始めました。続いてもう一軒。そして、ほかの家々も次々に動き始めたのです。 霧が晴れていくにつれ、明かりの下には道などなかったことがわかりました。そこにあったのは、一夜だけ寄り添って停泊していた漁船たちでした。その係留索が、朝の風に小さく震えていました。 幻想の町は、いくつもの異なる水平線へと散っていきました。 そして、かつて町が浮かんでいた場所では、小さなさざ波が一つ、かつて一つの窓が輝いていた場所から、もう一つの窓があった場所へと、静かに水面を渡っていきました。
#vss365 #Prompt #Illusion Greetings everyone! What is an Illusion? Is it something we use to deceive others? Or is it something we conjure to protect ourselves? How will you use it? I can't wait to see! The #prompt for November 2nd is #Illusion Have fun writing out there 🙂
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#vss365 #prompt #illusion #haibun #haiku The city at midnight becomes a theater of ghosts. Neon signs bleed into the heavy fog, stretching their neon blues and hot pinks into glowing ribbons that hover over the empty pavement. Footsteps echo, sounding closer than they are, making me turn to catch a glimpse of someone who isn't there. We spend our lives building heavy structures out of brick and bone, yet an #illusion is all it takes to dissolve the world we think we know into thin air. Neon through the fog World of shadows shifts and fades- Truth hides in the gray.
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#foxprose @FoxProse #poetry Faded photos start to wake With the promises we’d make A gentle blush of dusty gold A tender story to be told The morning sun dispels the gloom Your seductive #colour_slowly_blooms Nostalgic light upon the street Makes a faded world look honey sweet
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'So you're telling me, Gabe, a #wolf dressed up as Little Red Riding Hoods grandmother, & she didn't notice?' 'Not at first, Pixie, but-' 'Honestly, Gabe! What sort of idiot gets fooled by a wolf in a nighty. I have to say, your bedtime stories really suck.' Sigh. #vss365
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'Really, Gabe? THAT gives you the same #exhilaration as I get waiting to see if a prank has worked?' 'A perfectly dotted i, a correctly crossed t... pure satisfaction, Pixie. Rules, reports, paperwork... PIXIE! Are you listening?' 'Sorry. I nodded off at "perfectly".' #vss365
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Nests of green nurtured in oppressed minds. Wind sped up with the coming decree. #Exhilaration expected at the royal procession. He called for heads but hot were the thoughts of rebellion. #vss365
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I sat with Peter for what felt like a lifetime. Most people he said find their first day #exhilarating, I’m confused why so hesitant? Always been afraid of heights I whispered. You’ll be fine. That’s what Dave said and look at me now. But my dear, now you’ve got wings #vss365
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at first, #exhilaration, then routine, then both serenely banal and excruciatingly uncomfortable, then, alas - exhaustion, here in the darkness, of this twittering world #vss365 #poetry ts eliot
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'What IS that, Pixie? It smells... unspeakable.' 'Beetle bug stew, Gabe. Mmmf. I was #ravenous. Slurped the lot!' 'But you've already scoffed pickled slugs, honeyed beetles, & ant sherbet.' 'Flying burns calories, Gabe. Now for desert. OOH! Sugar worms! Still wriggling!' #vss365
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#vss365 #poetry-dark My loyal obsidian cauldron bubbles As the midnight wind Catches my tattered velveteen cloak As bitter nightshade stains My fingers pitch black I leap into the howling sky On wood splintered Tasting the dark into my lungs In cackling wild #exhilaration
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"You're buying a lot of cheese there, Bren. Has Riz invited a gang of mice to crash at your place again?" Valarie asked me. "No, he's just got a #ravenous hunger for cheese at the moment." "Maybe he learned he's part mouse." "No, I think he's mostly twat." #vss365 #riztherogue
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