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Author A. M. Leishman
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Author of Science Fiction with touches of Norse Mythology —
Ascension, The Ymir Trinity
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They were hot to touch, which wasn't obvious by their dull gray appearance. Each ladle of water drizzled over their smooth faces filled the tiny cedar cabin with billowing clouds of steam. There's nothing like a hot sauna to #reinvigorate a weary body.

#vss365 #FromOneLine 391
Sauna rocks
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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They're always women. A curious, but unimportant detail. Tap, tap, tap, then a slight stab. I smirked without flinching as she drove the needle into my bulging vein. This one seemed uncomfortable with me watching my blood fill those little glass tubes.

#vss365 #flinching
Viles of blood
September 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A disheveled old man stood shaking in my doorway, hand outstretched. Was this Odin testing me? What harm could come from taking him in and sharing my good fortune? It came to pass that the elderly man was Loki, and not all compassion brings reward.

#vss365 #doorway
Loki
September 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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This wasn't what she wanted. Her myriad indiscretions were unfolding, one by one, in vivid, well documented detail. She knew who the blackmailer was, and now she has a new sordid past to conceal. Bodies are so difficult to hide.

#FromOneLine 388
#vss365 #past
Wrapped up body
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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They didn't attack with swarms of ships or ground troops, like in the movies. The air thickened, enveloping our world in a #harsh, #pungent odor. Some humans lasted longer than others, but the #impact on Earth's flora and fauna was minimal.

#SciFiFri #vss365 #WriteMap 364
A city enveloped in smog
August 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I watched them flip a switch, turning outrage into justification after discovering the killer was one of their own. They sympathize with violence, even celebrate it, as long as it serves them. It's a malignant disease of the mind, and it's spreading fast.

#vss365 #malignant
A brain dying of rot
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Their warrior hearts grew soft with time and neglect, so he plucked his Valkyries from their skies. The resonant bass of his wisdom drowned in a sea of foolish voices. Some will claim the world turned against them, but they abandoned the gods of their own will.

#vss365 #bass
Odin
August 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Their #malformed loyalty is legendary, even infamous. She greets strangers at our door with upturned jowls displaying sharp white fangs behind a spittle accented barking tirade. I have no doubt she would kill or die for me, and be assured, I would do the same for her.

#vss365
Morticia, annoyed by my phone.
August 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Morticia and I are going to install a new dishwasher. Form-a-gasket was no longer able to keep old leaky from flooding the kitchen.

She'll be more of a supervisor on this project.
Morticia is checking out the new dishwasher.
August 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Morticia tired herself out with post-bath zoomies. 🐕🫧
Morticia is clean 🫧
August 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Their meds weighed me down, shackling my feet to the floor.

I discarded them, sprouting wings to the sky I soar.

One track works for most, but my wild mind craved much more.

#vss365 #wings
Wings on fire
August 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I watched a TikTok from author Anny Wilkes. She rants and whines about straight white males, while claiming not to trash those she labeles, "Book Bros". Call me a #grumpy old man, but she put me in a mood, and judging by the stitched videos, she accomplished the opposite of her intent.

#vss365
Anny Wilkes, making a racist rant against straight white males.
August 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Sleep wouldn't come again, at least not until the fall of gods. I placed one foot on Bifröst, the rainbow bridge, and heard, no...felt the Einherjar's boisterous calls to join them at Odin's table.

#FromOneLine 385 #vss365 #rainbow
Bifröst, the rainbow bridge joining Midgard and Asgard.
August 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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It startled me from my boredom induced zombie state. The loud crack left a noticable chip in my car's windshield and spread out in a radiating spider web pattern. That's when I noticed the sign, "Stay back one hundred feet."

#vss365 #spider
Cracked windshield
August 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Morticia's monitoring the Roomba from behind her makeshift fort wall.
Morticia is afraid of the Roomba
August 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Many assumed it was a prank, or a false flag operation crafted to distract us from embarrassing political scandals. It was real, and the cowards we elected to protect us were already hiding in their bunkers.

#SCIFIFRI #coward #vss365 #prank
Extrasolar object
August 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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They call out to me, itching deep within my brain until I'm forced to give in. A thin surgical cut around the edges is all I need to satiate these cravings, and no one should notice if every brownie shrinks just a tiny bit.

#vss365 #brownie
Shrinking brownies
August 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I lay impaled among the bodies of fallen friends, and foes. The smell of battle spilled blood brought them to the skies, circling on wings of light. They came to collect only the fiercest of warriors. These are not angels, they are Valkyries.

#vss365 #angel
Valkyrie
August 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Call it a charm, a pendant, whatever you want. It possesses no mystical power beyond focusing the voices in my head, and holding it somehow softens the discord of our loud, angry world. I don't need it to be a Mjölnir, but I gravitate to them for reasons unknown.

#vss365 #charm
Morticia eyeing my Mjölnir
August 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror.
Toilet paper hanging from the back.
August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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It sounds more like an endless field of crickets muted under a late night blanket of fog, than a relentless hum. Plugging my ears only shuts out other sounds, real sounds, essentially amplifying the noise in my head. Tinnitus is interesting.

#vss365 #hum
Field shrouded in fog.
July 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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#Elm trees are great for hiding bodies. People generally build around them, but you must do it right. Pressure wash near the base until you've exposed four feet deep into the roots. Work the body into the space (dismember if needed) then cover the roots with muddy fill. #vss365
Elm tree
July 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Old rice paper skin
A gently stubbed pinky toe
Loose the crimson streams

#vss365 #crimson #haiku
Stubbed pinky toe
July 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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As they draw near, sparks dance between them. Opposites only in theory, they belong together. When separated, they become useless, but combine them and they can bring light into the darkest recesses.

#vss365 #together
Direct current powering a light bulb.
July 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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She clenched a palm-sized Iolite stone, the violet flame, tight in her trembling fist. "Help me see some light through these clouds," she chanted. It wasn't working. Emma couldn't let go of her festering anger. "Perhaps a knife will work faster."

#vss365 #violet
Iolite stone
July 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM