The stone was cold to touch, your name on it almost illegible after all those years.
Carefully I removed the moss and gently followed the carved lines with my fingertips.
If all went to plan, I would finally be able to touch your face again instead of this lifeless rock.
I took a deep breath.
It was finally time to wake you from your eternal #slumber.

#FromOneLine 12 #vss365 sleep

When the last shadows fell, I could hear them. The #whispers of those, who got lost this forest.
Their echoes danced between the uncaring tree trunks, trying to lure their next victim off the safe path.
There. Suddenly the voices rose to a deafening crescendo, before dying away, leaving only eerie silence behind.
I sighed and got up slowly.
There was #work to do.

#FromOneLine 3 #vss365

I have borrowed words from you,
because my own weren't enough to tell you all you needed to know.
But they got mixed up, a fallen stack of index cards hastily shuffled together again, coming out all in the wrong order and I have no words left to make the hurt go away.

#FromOneLine 1

She is scared of falling asleep.
In her dreams, she has to witness all the terrible things the beast had shown her.
There has to be a way to erase this damned #knowledge, seared deep into her mind.
The pages of the old grimoire rustle softly as she turns them over.

#vss365

She was alone and scared.
They had warned her to go searching for the beast with the face filled with stars.
And of course she didn't listen, because she sought knowledge no matter the cost.
Now she seeks a way to forget.
A white #dove rises to the sky.
A sliver of hope.

#vss365

She has been #lost ever since she stared into the starfilled void that was the creatures face.
In it, she had seen the cruel and #wicked truth about our existence.
Now all she can see is the madness and corruption hidden away behind the fragile veneer of our ignorance.

#vss365

The creature devoured the #stars. It started with the dying ones; plucked them out of the sky like ripe fruits from a tree, shoved them into its gaping maw and crushed them.
The stars slowly vanished from our sky one by one, leaving only velvet darkness behind.

#vss365

As the light of the #day dwindled, the creature started to stir.
The earth started to tremble as it propped itself up on giant paws hewn from black stone, which absorbed all of the surrounding light.
Its face was a tear in space and time, filled with dying stars.

#vss365 #amwriting #cosmichorror

Panicked cries echoed through the night, followed by strange whispers.
Then, the sky split open and madness rained.
Something twitched and writhed in the darkness.

#flavourtext #amwriting #vss

The land has a rich #history of untimely deaths.
A lot of them are blaming the #banshee.
But I know better.
#Whoever is killing the people isn't her.
It's something else. And it knows I am onto it.

#vss365