If you’re not familiar, there’s a writing prompt on Twitter for the writing community with the hashtag vss365. The “vss” stands for “very short story,” and the number is self-explanatory. Each month, a new Twitter user is tasked with posting a new word each day to prompt people. With the 280 characters available in a Tweet, a user has to come up with a story of some sort incorporating the posted word-of-the-day, although because you need to include the hashtag, the story itself is typically 273 characters (if you try to be exact, at least).
It also doesn’t necessarily have to be a story. Some play around with the form and structure by doing poetry or a haiku or whatever else.
For Aug. 23, the prompt word is “quantity.”
Here is my entry:
Forrest didn’t know how many he would need. In the darker parts of the web, he was sure to find a precise #quantity, where to do it, what to prepare for, like a through-the-veil how-to. But he didn’t want to overthink; he wasn’t planning on writing an after action report. #vss365
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