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 Oct. 16, the prompt word is “sunset.”
Here is my entry:
Marvin tried to explain to her that his depression is a lot like drowning amid a #sunset. External beauty is no match for the dark cloud set upon his mind. What about me? she said. But she was another pillar upended by the wave — a buoy headed to a place with no horizon. #vss365
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“Sunset”
Joe looked at his first sober sunset in days…he had told his lover, the bottle, that they would part as friends but that they would never touch again. And as sunset faded, he resolved himself to denying her sweet touch….forever. “Goodbye, my sweet” he said.
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Well-done!
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