#vss365 2022-11-29

I increasingly notice how everything happens simultaneously: the past, the present – and probably the future. It is merely a matter of what I focus on. So, I chose carefully. As I open my heart just a little more the #bank of mist lifts and a ray of sun brightens my face.

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vss365" stands for a creative prompt called "very short story 365"
(https://vss365today.com).

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#MastoPrompt & #vss365 2022-11-28

The grip of the #Kraken loosens, and I remember how it is to swim. It gets easier, now, that the #pressure of the ocean does not weigh on my shoulders. Instead, I am carried by the water.

The current creates a new experience.

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vss365" stands for a creative prompt called "very short story 365"
(https://vss365today.com).

#MastoPrompt 2022-11-27

People often say, ‘It is time to get off the hamster wheel’. And I think that bears truth. But we cannot get off of the Wheel of Fortune. When it spins too fast for us and we get dizzy, it is time to move to the #hub, where we can remember that we are the wheel. That is the point where things begin to change.

I am still in the process of getting there. But I know where I am going and I am on my way.

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#vss365 2022-11-27

They say when you encounter a #frog it means that good fortune is hopping into your life, and I wonder if this also counts for the one in my throat while memories of the recent past are washing over me.

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(https://vss365today.com).

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#MastoPrompt 2022-11-26

There is no need to #embellish anything – neither about the bad times nor about the good times.

We did have good times. We were living the dream and we lived it for many years. A fairy tale, only that it was real.

So were the bad times when the intensity that once had brought heaven on earth now brought hell.

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#vss365 2022-11-26

First, there were only fleeting moments of unusual harshness. Then those moments came periodically and more aggressively, aiming at causing pain. Each time it was like the #maw of hell opened.

Until hell was normal and the peaceful moments together were the exception.

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vss365" stands for a creative prompt called "very short story 365"
(https://vss365today.com).

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#MastoPrompt 2022-11-25

I am passing through memories like walking through a picture book.

I remember contentment, light and an inner smile. A sacred space rooted in those #moment-s. I could take it from there, no matter where I went or what was lying ahead.

And I am beginning to wonder where that went and when I lost it.

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#vss365 2022-11-25 -
#MastoPrompt 2022-11-29

I try to remember how life was before. What gave me support & structure, what brought me joy?

Many of those doors are closed now & the spaces behind them lay #barren.

Then, pictures flash up in my mind of a garden, #lupine-s blossoming by a wayside, birds in hedgerows.

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(https://vss365today.com).

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#MastoPrompt 2022-11-24

The journey had started out on a #deluxe yacht. Later we transitioned to a simple barge and it took some work to maintain everything. But we managed and most importantly, we never lost course.

Enjoying what life brings to us, embracing it whole-heartedly and making the best out of everything... this was our motor. And it brought on board all the luxury we needed.

Until the destruction began.

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