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. 27, the prompt word is “machine.”
Here is my entry:
The #machine in Tim’s mind resembled an abandoned skyscraper with looming shadows over a dying city. The gears inside were empty office desks and unopened boxes of memories no worker had seen in years. Only vending machines still operated, spitting vices from their slots. #vss365
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