The grey squirrel scrabbled down the railings to prop up on its haunches, demanding it's daily peanut tithe. Sorry, bud, I'm out!

the squirrel's chitter
translated to plain English
would have scorched my ears

#haibun #haiku (#130Story: translated)

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Changed channels
to watch boats drift
along a peaceful fjord.

#PenYourTen: channel

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the unguarded grape
no formal invitations
in the blue jays' realm

#haiku #575prompt: realm
#micropoetry

#joke

I go to a therapist who sidelines as a bus driver. He's very efficient: not only does he know the best route to take, but he wants exact change only.

#VSSHumour: bus driver; #130Story: route

#130Story

In horror, his gaze swept the five bodies on the meathooks. Five, where there should have been six!

#OGResquire
(Unknown origin, this is just my version - apologies to the original author)

You can find the daily #vss365 writing prompt (as well as past prompts) at this site:
https://vss365today.com/

The #130Story prompt can be found here:
https://www.130story.com/
Stories (or poems) in 130 characters or less.

#WritingPrompt #Prompt #Prompts
#WritingPromptsOnly (Please do NOT use this tag when responding to a prompt with a written piece.)

Today's #projects reminiscence:
The ideas for 130 Story flew together neatly on a train journey in 2013.
Twitter at that time had a 140 character limit, #130Story with a space was 10 characters, and this left 130 to play with.
Every day, at 1:30pm I'd post a prompt word and players would respond with a story.
I ran it manually for a year, before building an automated word picker, and used Twitter API to collect the stories into an archive website: https://www.130story.com/