@ocdalvey.bsky.social
I write simple sentences. And sometimes fragments. I confuse literary devices.
#spotifywrapped
03.12.2025 15:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Completely fell off my radar this year. #spotifywrapped #spotifywrapped2025
03.12.2025 15:25 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0#GrimScribe
12.1βMarionette procession
12.2βMetaphysical mourn
12.3βNightmare of being
12.4βOffstage applause
12.5βSmiling effigies
#WinterWhimsy
12.1βSnowglobe factory
12.2βLuminous baubles
12.3βCandlelight ritual
12.4βSugarplum tartlet
12.5βMistletoe mischief
As promised, two new prompt lists drop this evening:
#GrimScribe β inspired by Thomas Ligotti.
#WinterWhimsy β a seasonal detour, if not complete, from our usual gloom.
These prompts will run through the end of December.Β
As always, your feedback is appreciated.
Now that #NaNoWriMo is over, give Micro Writing Month a shot with @WeirdMicro.bsky.social
Challenge: Write a piece of #Microfiction or #Micropoetry each day of December.
Use our #WeirdMicro prompts or any of the other #writingprompts available here on BlueSky.
Tag with #MicroWriMo
Good morning, writers of weird whimsy. Happy Monday!
For your December writing pleasure, I'll be introducing two new lists this afternoon. But for now, here is todayβs #WeirdMicro prompt.
Cadaverous vapors
@danigracewrites.bsky.social
"There will not be a single tipping point. It is just going to get worse and worse."
β Bill Nye
Pumpkin spice latomancy
#3WordsPoet
Daily Writer Affirmation: Today, I will not fear the grotesque; I will polish it until it gleams.
#DailyWriterAffirmation
Daily Writer Affirmation: Today, I will embrace the uncanny, for the unnatural is the marrow of my stories.
#DailyWriterAffirmation
Daily Writer Affirmation: Today, I will torture my characters, because only in their breaking does their truth emerge.
#DailyWriterAffirmation
Good morning, good people.
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counsel of shadows
melancholy addict
toxic fog machine
spurious stimulus
chemical reaction
infinite darkness
desperate plea
final release
lost soul
#bravewrite #weirdmicro
#turnupthedark
"The government's scapegoating and persecution of the most vulnerable people in our country immoral, disgraceful, and unquestionably anti-Christian."
Uncle picked his teeth.
"What do you care. You're not Christian."
Ick! Perhaps this...
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βI may not believe in your god, but I believe in divine judgement,β mother pointed her nicotine-stained finger at me. βDeath is coming.β
"I may not believe in your God, but I believe in divine judgement," Mother said. She slurped her gin and smacked her lips. Then she lit a cigarette. "You should get your house in order," she said, pointing a crooked, nicotine-stained finger at me.
#366FF
"I may not believe in your God, but I believe in divine judgement," Mother said. She slurped her gin and smacked her lips. Then she lit a cigarette. "You should get your house in order," she said, pointing a crooked, nicotine-stained finger at me.
#366FF
Abstinence makes the heart grow founder.
20.09.2025 21:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sometimes narrative slips through the cracks. Got scraps, fragments, half-dead, half-eaten #WIP?
Cut it up.
Shuffle it.
Deconstruct it.
Rearrange it.
Post it!
Tag your work with #MicroCutup
Shifting gears.
14.09.2025 03:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a mixed media collage i made featuring a smiling young man in a hat and cardigan standing in front of weathered posters and hanging leaves. nina theda black.
12x12 on wood
08.09.2025 13:51 β π 25 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
a mixed media collage i made featuring lee miller in oversized sunglasses and a head scarf, with a hand up to her mouth, set against an archway, a dilapidated fence and landscape with bare trees. nina theda black.
12x12 on wood
09.09.2025 15:27 β π 30 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
a mixed media collage i made of a black boy in a hat and collared shirt on a layered background of torn paper and thin white circles. nina theda black.
10.09.2025 13:32 β π 35 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
11.09.2025 15:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Introducing a new #writingprompt:
Sometimes narrative slips through the cracks. Got scraps, fragments, half-dead, half-eaten #WIP?
Cut it up
Deconstruct it
Shuffle it
Rearrange it
Post it
Tag your work with #MicroCutup
