mumblingstories

'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.' Nick Cave.

@zoeandreas Init tho

@mumblingstories Relatable.

Two-faced prick. Why sell me lies, all smiles on the outside? While inside you fester, plot, grow bitter with rot. Did you just set out to ruin my day? F*ck you, avocado. #vss #shortstory #avocado

@ian__upsidedown Some version of this at least... 😅

@mumblingstories It certainly made a mark if you remember it 39 years later ...really liked this 👍

Xmas, 1985. Head buried so deep in the tree, I can taste kitsch. Blurry fairy lights. Woven bauble magic. Engulfed in tinsel. Their row's over, Mum's swore - She never does. Welcome to the #crescendo Dad's hands up; concession. It's blown. Calm. Xmas dinner is served. #vss365

@shortprose1 thank you 🙏

@JanGoesWriting thank you for the share ☺️

Hey all, I'm very new to (and loving) vss365. Are there other similar hastags for daily writing that I should be checking out. Loving blowing the creative cobwebs away on these daily writing workouts. Thx in advance for any pointers! 😉

@phantomsspleen @ehh_author @Jason_H_Abbott Thanks for the ❤️

Jude placed two sweets on the counter, "Just these, ta" "No need to say; it's all you got" She death-stared the cashier, pointing to a trinket on a high shelf behind, "And one of them" He sighed and fetched a ladder as Jude slid a pile of coppers over. "Keep the #change" #vss365

@LakenBrimicombe @starfish_72 @lizzyjperkins @Fizzytwizler @josemartius1 @PursuedThought @DevillineS @unpoeticallyme Thanks so much 🙏

@zoeandreas Thx Zoe! 🥰

@mumblingstories Poetic ☺️

Intelligence, overrated. Subterranean Mushroom monster, protector of the shaded children of giants, bonded for millennia. Sugar and nutrients reciprocated; a community of roots tangled wide. No words uttered; a woodland #harmony of silent gestures. #vss365 #intelligence

"Hatson, the murderer is..." "Not the butler again Sholmes?" "Precisely. Even murder needs a bit of #harmony" "Harmony? How so?" "The butler hit all the right notes, mate" "Too perfect Sholmes" #vss365

I laid awake as all the various noises in the office conspired to make the perfect #Harmony to keep me from falling asleep, with Riz’s drunk burps acting like a conductor. Oh for a night away from this... #amwriting #vss365 #riztherogue

@AtypicalTiff thank you! ☺️

@DevillineS thank you ☺️

@JanGoesWriting @mk700 @Fizzytwizler @phantomsspleen @ehh_author thanks again for the rp 🤜🤛

@JanGoesWriting @mk700 @Fizzytwizler @phantomsspleen thank you! ☺️