old soulless dreamers
take one last leap of freedom
like leaves drained of life
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*Inspired by the prompt Sated from The Daily Post.
Haiku #637
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072 – Homecoming (Knightraven, #1)
First Part
If he could exist in a different world, Gil knows he would always choose to be at Ethan’s side.
Even if that Ethan turns out to be as much of an asshole as this one apparently still is—
“You’re back,” his once-housemate says, shocked out of a drunken slur.
Gil inwardly gloats as the Prince of Dickheads hurriedly ushers out his guests: a woman in each arm, both looking more confused than upset at being tossed back out too soon.
Ethan closes the door with a huff. “There goes my perfect evening.”
“You’re welcome,” Gil scoffs, finally settling back in.
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*Inspired by the prompt if i ruled the world from The Daily Post.
Haiku #636
ev’ry good deed reeks
of an unspoken desire
for personal gain
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*Inspired by the prompt Pungent from The Daily Post.
Haiku #635
a mind not in sync
are like two gods in conflict—
lost sighs from a third
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*Inspired by the prompt Chaotic from The Daily Post.
Haiku #634
unwanted house guests
siege of the wily demons
one late night roach fest
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*Inspired by the prompt Pillage from The Daily Post.
071 – Adaptation (Pants on Fire, #7)
First Part | Second Part | Third Part
Fourth Part | Fifth Part | Sixth Part | Seventh Part
“A movie about me?” Jesus muses. “That’ll be the bomb!”
“Dreaming awake again, huh?” Lucifer sneers, tossing a sliced onion at his brother.
Jesus catches the vegetable and chucks it back into the bowl. “Volunteering to be my villain, I see,” he teases.
“Villains are way cooler than heroes, of course.” Judas adjusts his ten-inch thick glasses importantly, before cracking an unpeeled egg on the table. “I’d play Luci’s sidekick any day.”
“A villain and his protégé, I see,” Peter quips, squirting mayo in the new kid’s direction.
Lucifer counters with cider vinegar.
Peter screams like a rooster thrice scorned.
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*Inspired by the prompt ready for your close-up from The Daily Post.
Haiku #633
as vesuvius
wails in destructive rhythms
earth sighs and shatters
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*Inspired by the prompt Exhale from The Daily Post.
Haiku #632
all fresh wounds bleed red
but silent cuts unmended
weep in blackest dread
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*Inspired by the prompt Vigor from The Daily Post.
070 – Spare
He sees the world through bubbles and glass. Breathes air rationed through a mask cupped to his face. His limbs, when he did have them, have always been bound by wires from sources he couldn’t see.
“He’s just fully grown his right leg, Mrs. West,” the familiar garbled voice of a man says. “But his right eye is ready for harvesting.”
A woman’s exclamations of joy fill the room.
But nobody ever tosses a word of gratitude to him—
The human freakshow stuck in a vat of fluid, regrowing and losing body parts to fill up the incompleteness of strangers.
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*Inspired by the prompt flawed from The Daily Post.
Haiku #631
we are of one race
forced into differences
by mad ignorance
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*Inspired by the prompt Culture from The Daily Post.
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