Lizzy Perkins

a muppet with red hair and sunglasses is playing drums ALT: a muppet with red hair and sunglasses is playing drums

I’d been drooling in the front row all night, & finally the drummer came over.
“The guitarist likes you. Sent me over to call you backstage,” he said.
“Damn,” I said. “I had my eye on the drummer. That’s a #conundrum, isn’t it?”
“No. It’s a bongo.”
I swooned. Funny too. #vss365

After a quick discussion with Valarie, Brennan asks Riz if he would DM their Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Before he's even realised what's happening, Riz is wearing a wizards hat, standing behind a DM screen, eagerly telling the players to roll for initiative...

The Comic Tales of Brennan and Riz

Issue 86
(First published 28th August 2024)

Hope you know what you've let yourself in for Brennan...

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I looked at the golden rat statues dotted around the office, then looked at Riz, who was desperately trying to hide the credit card behind his back.
"Err...It's a #conundrum at where dese statues came from innit?" He squeaked.
I raised my eyebrow further.
#vss365 #riztherogue

'What a #conundrum, Pixie. Maybe this will teach you playing with demon portals is a bad idea. So what will you do? Release the demon portal & hope you can get to the last brownie before it's sucked through. OR close it properly & watch me claim that chocolatey delight?'
#vss365

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‘And if I said #conundrum you’d fall off the chair?’ said Arthur. Olive nodded. ‘If you know what it means.’ ‘A problem!’ Arthur bent double as Olive tickled him. ‘Gawd, your Dad would be so proud of ya, wouldn’t he, Grace?’ Mum shook her head. ‘That’s enough about that.’ #vss365

"What is going on here?" I asked barging into a smoke filled room.
"I'm not doin, or sayin anything," Riz in his little lab coat replied.
"So you weren't trying to #sublimate gold again in order to better steal it with a vacuum cleaner?"
"...Err...No."
#vss365 #riztherogue

#142 Not Rizs Favourite Thing + Short Diversions: Phantom Dawn Chapter 15 Happy Blog Day Everyone Chapter 15 of Phantom Dawn is here, concluding Rose's current fight, but how lomg will she get to rest? Better read ...

New blog post is up!

Chapter 15 of Phantom Dawn is here, and with it, the conclusion of Rose's current fight, but what awaits them next?

There's also a brand new Comic Tales of Brennan and Riz to look at!

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a man in overalls and a hat is watering plants with a watering can in front of a pool . ALT: a man in overalls and a hat is watering plants with a watering can in front of a pool .

Ex-Superintendent Carol’s former colleague had #sublimated his rage into a long police career.

Now that he’s retired, Carol wonders how he spends his nights.

The garden looks freshly dug.

He spots her eyeing it.

“Plenty of room for more to be planted,” he chuckles. #vss365

will you hold my hand tonight
gaze up at every star

will you hear my heart tonight
no matter where you are

will you play my song tonight
#sublimate through every note

will you be the one tonight
where all my love belongs.

#vss365

'We need to #sublimate all this prank energy into something useful, Pixie.'
'Why, Gabe?'
'So you become a valued member of society.'
'Already am, Gabe.'
'No, you're an annoying member.'
'Nuh-uh, Mr Frownie-Face. I make people smile. Methinks you need sublimating.'
#vss365

Inside a dark hall, a constellation of desks shoulder machines. Levers click every two seconds. All these faceless, besuited people #sublimate lives. It isn’t a glamorous job, but someone has to do it.

#vss365

Good morning writers and friends.. We all hide some of what we feel.

Form is changed, maybe, But not essence...

29 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #sublimate

a cartoon of a person holding a slice of cake with the words just another day to enjoy a slice of cake . ALT: a cartoon of a person holding a slice of cake with the words just another day to enjoy a slice of cake .

Olive sat at the table with Arthur munching loudly on cake and slurping tea. ‘Cor blimey this is good, Grace,’ she said. ‘Yeah. Mums great at #sublimating eggs and flour into iced sponge cake,’ said Arthur. Olive giggled. ‘Gawd Arthur! You eaten a dictionary?’ #vss365

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‘Where’s that Arthur?’ He put his eye to the keyhole and felt the coolness of the metal #escutcheon against his cheek. The door flew open. ‘There he is!’ Olive flounced in. His mums friend was big and blousy and his bedroom shrunk as she enveloped him with arm and bosom. #vss365

Hi writer and reader friends. I have a question… where on BlueSky do you look for short stories (writing or reading)? Or what hashtags do you use? #shortstories #WritingCommunity #vss365

Not all that long ago, Dylan only had to care about avoiding Faction patrols, to deliver his cargo on time and intact. That all seemed so long ago now that it could have been in a different lifetime.

He could only #yearn for those days and hope they would come again, but he doubted it.

#vss365

a woman is standing in front of a bunch of money that says 10000 ALT: a woman is standing in front of a bunch of money that says 10000

Arthur dawdled in his bedroom while Mum and Auntie Minnie talked. Money problems. He #yearned to have Dad back.
‘We’ll talk about this later.’
‘I’ve got a shilling in my purse.’
‘You know I won’t take it.’
‘Grace…’
Arthur coughed and dropped one of his books on the floor #vss365

'I #yearn for the crystal spires of Angel City, Pixie, for the silence of falling snow, for the sunrise reflected in a drop of dew...'
'Wow, Gabe... that's... deep. But I only asked if you wanted a brownie.'
#vss365

It is hard
to buckle down & truly reminisce.

My mind, still.
My soul, serene.

Yet something stirs:
Do I aspire for more
within this grace I carry?
What is it that I #yearn for?

Deep inside,
I hear the silence of pain
a quiet ache
to reclaim lost time.

~rev
#vss365

#Yearn is a word that I don’t like
So I’m going to let it burn
With all the other once upon
a yearns

I no longer feel its dire desire
My core now tangos with fire
I walk like a flame
My heart doesn’t break
It bends at my will untamed

#vss365

#VSS365 #prompt #YEARN
The VSS365 word for Aug 31, '25 is YEARN - to deeply, emotionally desire something lost or unattainable. "Hobbits in Mordor yearn for the Shire."

With that, I yield the floor to C. S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) who will post prompts beginning 1 Sept. at 6am GMT

“Just stand here and look through the telescope.”

“Do you think we’ll see love in a #constellation?”

“You don’t have to look for it when it’s standing right next to you.”

“But there’s no one else standing here.”

“Just look at the bloody stars.”

#vss365

Looking out of the porthole on the station, Dylan mused over the situation, staring out into the black, trying to tell which #constellation he could see, but knowing that they were all different, depending in which of the Five Systems he found himself.

He needed a whiskey. A bottle of it.

#vss365

nova stellae
bright new constellation
in our dark skies

we peer at her
talking dust and gases
nebulae

while in our hearts
we give her secret names
wishing our future changed

#ScifaikuSaturday (nova)
#vss365 (constellation)
#whistpr (peer)

#VSS365 #prompt #CONSTELLATION
The VSS365 prompt word for Aug 30, '25 is CONSTELLATION - a group of stars forming pattern in the sky. Metaphorically, "A veritable constellation of celebrities dotted the gala."

Say hello to your next host, C.S. Voll (@stephlepht.bsky.social) starting 9/1

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i loved you in ways
i never spoke out loud.
you left like
you never heard it.

i still taste
your last words to me,
sweet at first
then bitter with afterburn.

now every breath
i take aches
with their pungent savor.
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#vss365 #poetry #read

sporadic raindrops
lingering on
rustic plum blossoms
the gray sky
is pungent pink

#vss365 #pungent #Poetryin13 #rerun

I found my heart
Buried deep inside your wounds

Can’t seem
To slice it out

You like the taste
Of our mixed up bitter blood

Congealed inside your
#Pungent stench
Don’t want it back

Better I roam around
Heartless malignant
Yesterdays ghost

#vss365

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After their dad slammed the window shut, Dick and Eddie turned and ran into the block. As if a #constellation of good fortune had blessed him, Arthur heaved a sigh of relief. ‘What’s your name?’ Neville was still there. He smiled. ‘Arthur.’ ‘Good name,’ said Neville. #vss365

Riz reveals that he'd pulled the pins on several grenades which blows Frosty to smithereens. With the day saved from his mistake, Riz takes a nap...

The Comic Tales of Brennan and Riz

Issue 50
(First published 20th December 2023)

Part 6 of 6

Think he earned that rest.

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