Category: VSS365

I #clear my mind with a deep breath. Magic swirls about me, and I inhale tendrils of the spell's scent. Thick and cloying like treacle. There's nothing sweet about this spell. Green flames lick the cur at my feet, and his flesh sloughs from his bones.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

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

My dream is a #sparkle of hope, bright against the matte backdrop that is the drudgery of my life. Each charm I make brings me a silver coin closer to that dream. To join the academy and learn true magic, true healing… Just a thousand charms to go. #vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) July 13, 2021

After 3 hours, #freedom was in sight. He lay on the bed, finally asleep. Not his bed, but I didn’t dare move him. I sat in the dark, headphones on, half listening to podcasts as I wondered how he was so sweet asleep, yet such a terror but minutes before. #vss365 #WritingCommunity

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

Her mind #unravelled, a ball of string stained by horrors she'd survived. Pain almost saved her reliving them, but the king's wizard needed her concious, so he plied her with noxious concoctions. Why wouldn't he listen? She didn't have what they wanted.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) July 6, 2021

#Spirited, they called her. An insult hidden behind a pretty word. She had no need of such veils. No, she spoke with none of what they called politeness. She wouldn't nod along and say all was well when it wasn't. Seated, she glowered at the rest of the king's council.#vss365

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) July 3, 2021

Pencil in hand, she travels to document the devastation left by The Betrayers. On a barren plain, she finds an opening leading to rooms not made of wood. Steps go down almost forever, but what she finds at their end breaks her heart. Where she stands was once the surface. #vss365

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) June 27, 2021

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Warmth was all she knew as blood soaked her clothes and the dirt she lay upon. It was a place beyond pain. Did she want to return? If she did, her belly would have a #tattoo of scars instead of ink. The name of the man she once called friend.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

— ✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 (@eldris) June 20, 2021

Everyone thought she was living the #dream, wealthy as she was. If only they knew. Fractions of her soul had fallen away for each bounty claimed. Jolth lost to giant spiders retrieving the precious silk. Manda & Lex eaten by the dragon. A cost too high.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

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

Ride high with wings unfurled,
Wind whistling through ancient scars.
Dragon oh dragon, ride to war,
Lend us your mighty flame.
Ne’er again let us enemies be,
Dragon oh dragon, we pray.
Indebted to you, our children bound,
If peace for us you claim.#ride #vss365 #WritingCommunity

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

The #wrath of a cloud fairy isn't the most fearsome, but it is, by far, the most inconvenient. I recommend you avoid it at all costs or invest in a company that produces rain repelling charms. My little shadow does so love destroying them with lightning.#vss365 #WritingCommunity

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