With #lining worn and torn, its jacket barely covers long forgotten pages. It patiently waits. Perched on a shelf, it dreams,hopes,dares to ask for one more adventure. "Open me." the book tries to whisper,"Follow me to the land of imagination." Silently it waits. #vsspoem

"Uh, Sweetheart?" "Hmm?" "Hey, Honey?" "What?" "Have you seen our car?" "Isn't it in the garage?" "Um, well part of it is." "Hmm?" "Never mind dear, just keep writing your book." #vsspoem #sweetheart #writingcommunity

He sighed. "There's nothing to #discuss." "Really? Sue tossed a spoon into the sink. "Aw, honey, it'll be worth it. We'll save so much money not getting a dishwasher." She threw the first dish. He ducked. "Like I was saying, you'll have a dishwasher in the morning!" #vss365

Gossamer butterfly wings transport wishes to heaven. #7wordspoet #writingcommunity #vsspoem

Locked inside a bookstore, would seem a writer's dream. Yet while we read tales galore, our own characters start to scream. "Let us out they plead. #Write once more of twists and plots and schemes." So it's back to the work we adore where nothing is as it may seem. #vss365

Together, tiny raindrops build oceans of hope. #7wordspoet

"#Taste it?" Staring at the #giant tower of icing shaped into a #model airplane,she gulped."Nope!." "Try it!" The look on her face was priceless.But she had to take the bite. "Please?" One bite and their future would take flight.The ring was in the propeller.#vss365 #2WordPrompt

Vanilla. Its sweet cloying #smell wafted memories of children's laughter, birthday parties and homemade ice cream. But not tonight. She carefully added it to his drink, covering the taste of poison. He wouldn't live to cash that lottery ticket he'd hidden. #vss365 #blackwidowAva

If only he could take the words back.He'd tried everything,but she wouldn't forgive him.Desperate,he picked a rose and lightly tapped her window, thorns scraping the glass. She saw him standing in the rain and felt her heart melt.Opening the door,she reached for his hand. #vsspic

Reach into time's eternal flame feel the heat of passion, and the warmth of love. Burning embers of desire never caress the hands of time. Feel that love. Take that chance. Reach into time's eternal flame, with me. #vsspoem #writingcommunity #amwriting #romancewriters

It waited for her.Standing resolute in the moonlight,it had stood for a hundred years.Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight,row upon row of cold silent #sentinels.Shadows passed across the moon,cool breezes ruffled leaves around it,yet it waited. #vssdaily #vsshorror #vss365

Silence. The sound of rejection echoes through the dark of night, haunted forever by the insistent whisper of hope. #vss365 #vsspoem #rejection

He tossed records in the air one by one,watching them break on the floor until only one remained. Its title "I Want to Know what Love is" made him shudder. "Make it stop!"He pleaded. She pointed at him,"Dance!" Forever caught in the 80's,he began to dance again. #satsplat #vss365

Cry? Never. One salty tear ran down her cheek, only to be brushed away. Ava straightened her shoulders. She wouldn't cry. The sweet taste of vengeance was within her grasp. He would die for his sin. Slowly. So many choices... gun...knife.. poison? #BlackwidowAva #vss365 #cry

She screamed when she saw his gravestone. This wasn't where she had buried him. "Life." she muttered as she read his epitaph once more before slowly fading away into the darkness on a sigh. His tombstone was the ultimate reminder that he had never let her live. #vsspic #vss365

Silence stalks like a deadly midnight predator. #Silence #7wordpoet #vss365 #vsshorror

Wind whistled through the old abandoned church, tossing its doors open. The storm entered with the force of conviction. Swirling around the pews,it softly left with a whisper of hope. The old bell swung in the breeze,offering a message of peace to all who'd listen.#vsspic #vss365

Love dances hand in hand across rain filled streets. Desire traces names on frosted window panes. Romance sees raindrops chasing dreams in the night. But passion? Ah,passion is two firey hearts in a sultry world of their own. Come with me,be my love. My #priority is you. #vss365

One sip. One triumphant taste and he'd know immortality. His hand shaking, he lifted the only existing glass of elixir to his lips. His wife lay beside him, eyes closed in peaceful sleep. One life with her, or eternity without her? He poured the liquid out. #vsspic #vss365

Silver glimmers across its surface a shimmery reflection dancing off the waves. Fleeting opportunity daring us to grasp hope in the darkness before silently #turning and sinking into the depths. Only to rise once more with the next moon's awakening. #vss365