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 Sept. 30, the prompt word is “octothorpe.”
Here is my entry:
Kip awoke in the trenches soaked in his own insecurity, taking friendly fire before the fog of sleep faded. The dark cloud came shaped like an #octothorpe, imprisoning him, and pounding him into submission, all before the sun perched on the horizon. He went back to sleep. #vss365
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