MH Thaung · @mhthaung
165 followers · 453 posts · Server mastodon.scot

"Tell me," he demanded, "how I cure this on the land."

"Sire, I dare not," mumbled the seer.

"Dare not? But you affront me so?" The king gestured to his men. "Behead him."

The next one was hanged, and the following one drowned. The king learned to read entrails and examine still-beating hearts, and yet the solution evaded him.

Finally, tarnished blade in hand, he frowned at the pile of corpses. "I must seek the answer further afield."

@tanweerdar

#microfiction #MastoPrompt #Blight

Last updated 2 years ago

Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe · @Aphelion
393 followers · 998 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

All that I carry,
The deranged
Hopes,
The blight
Of the sullen
Years,
The splendid
Hours plucked
From the river
Of time
Smoothed
And bright
Against an
Encroaching
Dark.

#MastoPrompt #smallpoems #Blight #poetry

Last updated 2 years ago

Eva · @UndeadRed85
878 followers · 3115 posts · Server mstdn.social

fruit stand

i was careless, missed
the blighted berry; it ate
the lot, breakfast ruined

Thanks to @tanweerdar for the

#Blight #MastoPrompt #Haiku #smallpoems #tinyverse

Last updated 2 years ago

Tanweer Dar (Tan) · @tanweerdar
852 followers · 1624 posts · Server mstdn.social

The for Thursday 2nd March 2023 is:

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallStories #MicroFiction #Poetry #smallpoems #Blight #MastoPrompt

Last updated 2 years ago

damian entwistle · @ukdamo
27 followers · 322 posts · Server mastodon.lol
Dean B · @pgh_gamer
69 followers · 186 posts · Server tabletop.social

Researching possible solutions to Wilkinsburg's significant & problems. Making some progress ever so slowly. If you know others making headway in these areas in their communities, please put them in touch with me. Case studies welcome too. Please boost.

#vacancy #Blight #housing

Last updated 2 years ago

Emily · @emonosson
30 followers · 63 posts · Server mastodon.world

Couple of years ago found this beautiful American chestnut burr in the wild on our local Mt Toby. A rare find. The small tree is now dead. This was one of the few burrs it managed to produce before succumbing to .

#Blight #americanchestnut #fungalpathogens

Last updated 2 years ago

Emily · @emonosson
53 followers · 105 posts · Server mastodon.world

Couple of years ago found this beautiful American chestnut burr in the wild on our local Mt Toby. A rare find. The small tree is now dead. This was one of the few burrs it managed to produce before succumbing to .

#Blight #americanchestnut #fungalpathogens

Last updated 2 years ago

Emily · @emonosson
53 followers · 105 posts · Server mastodon.world

Coffee, bananas, wheat, my breakfast. All threatened by fungal pathogens which have gone pandemic.

#fungalpathogens #bananas #wheat #coffee #Blight

Last updated 2 years ago