Gabrielle Steele

A #conversation could have saved us a world of pain. No, I mean it literally. The entire world knew agony that day, all because she didn’t warn me not to read the book aloud. Every word I spoke came true, and unfortunately it opened with swarms of bees.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) May 17, 2021

The poleaxe scraped along the arid ground as she spun, a cloud of dirt masking the rune she traced in the air. The dried blood crumbled from her arm, drawn by magic to the black edge of her axe, where it burst into flame. The dust fell, and she charged.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) May 15, 2021

#Everlasting is the pain,
Of those three words said in the rain.
“I love you” was not enough,
To save you from fate’s harsh rebuff.
We will never,
Be together,
Now you lie,
Beneath the sky,
Blood pours,
As beasts’ jaws,
About you close,
In final blows.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) May 7, 2021

A guttural #warcry escaped her as she sprinted down the slope, sword raised. There was no cover for a stealthy approach, but perhaps her mad run would give the slavers pause. But her brother called from the cage; a warning of the archers she’d missed.#vss365 #writingcommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) May 2, 2021

#vss365

He was #drawn in by the smell of cloudberry tart. Part of him screamed at how strange it was to smell such in a moon-silvered forest. But the nostalgia overwhelmed him; he even heard his mother’s call. Unnoticed went his body, staining the ground red.#WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) April 25, 2021

The #thunder reverberated through me as if I stood next to a blacksmith pounding hammer against anvil. Lightning lit up my prey mere feet away. Back turned, he seemed oblivious, but his mighty antlers swung before my sword. That was how I lost my eye.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) April 23, 2021

#vss365 #WritingCommunity
CW #depression

No matter how closely you keep #watch, it sneaks up on you. Asking your husband to cook a meal here, skipping a shower there. Before you know it, every little thing exhausts you, irritates you, every mistake feels like the… 1/2

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) April 19, 2021

2/2 end of the world. Everything you once found fun bores you, if you can even decide what you want to do. Half of the time you stare at the far wall.

You reach out for help, but every touch sears you to your core. It is an invisible, lonely battle, like so many in this world.

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) April 19, 2021

#vss365
I found a way to turn #invisible today. Run around the apple tree and spin three times. An easy combination, though I probably wouldn’t have discovered it without Lucy. She’s the sprite who lives in our garden. Or did. She disappeared before I could ask how to undo it.

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) April 16, 2021

She was the #picture of perfection. Hair pinned with precision, corset strings pulled an inch too tight—a torture worth enduring to distract the duke. His eyes caressed her cleavage long enough to slip the poison into his cup as she passed. Perfection.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) April 9, 2021

The #birds where the only sign we had. Not a single one took to the air, even when it would have saved them from the jaws of death. Then the sky caught fire. It was molten scraps of metal birds that fell, the heralds of an Armageddon that never was.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) April 8, 2021