#PromontoriumHeraclides AKA #CassinisMoonMaiden 20:58 UT 01/05/23. This #promontory was depicted by #Cassini with a lady's head + hair & it's thought to represent Geneviève de Laistre whom Cassini married in 1673. 70mm refractor, 3x Barlow + ASI120MC #ClairObscurEffect

The #promontory extended into the bay like the spine of some ancient beast. The village had been built in the lee of it, taking shelter from the worst of the winter storms rolling in from the seaward side. It looked very small from up here, and very vulnerable.

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= on a #promontory, by the sea of lies =

delusion now
reduced in price
to eight bucks
and a stroke of white
on blue

a seagull taking aim
at you

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Today's writing prompt was #promontory. I know I'm cheating by posting an old piece, but it is, I hope you agree, apposite.

https://write.as/iv7btbd3hzxrv

Hazel's street corner was a #promontory jutting out into a sea of pedestrians. She played her guitar to the waxing and waning of the human tide, gathering up the flotsam of dollar bills and change they left behind. Weighted down by a silver dollar lay a crumpled note-"You deserve better" written on the outside, on the inside, a song. When she played it, gold coins rained down from the sky. #vss365

The scepter stands at the tip of the #promontory
Unsupported by anything but its own magic
It's been years since anyone raced to try and grab it
The dragons that call the surrounding cliffs home make short work of most who dare the attempt
All this flashes through my mind as I sprint
And I begin hear the beat of heavy wings
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The promontory bit into the sea, a lone tooth with a deep root, unbrushed and coated with life. The sky screamed with gulls, as the wind grabbed and nearly flung them off the stony edge in a catch of breath. Briefly the fear took them, and then a temptation to jump before they tumbled onto the grass giggled with laughter. So close, so close. They fell into eyes bright with sun, and opened like flowers in the grass

Blooming with a begin

#vss365 #promontory

Computer, that male human just groped me. What is the accepted way to react.

Send forward one set of your pedestrian phalanges at 80 miles per hour into the assailant’s sacral #promontory.

Ok Computer.

Holy shit, did y’all see that? A shiny lady just kicked Gary’s ass!

#vss365 (very short story every day. Todays prompt #promontory)

Mia shuddered, jerking to a sitting position, drenched in a cold sweat.
“Hey.” she felt Tom’s hand on her back, gentle, warm.
“Just a nightmare. I was standing on a #promontory and fell.”
“Do you get many nightmares?”
“Every time. Luckily I don’t remember my dreams often.” #vss365

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"wrong end of the 'noculars sweetheart"
it wasn't though. the precipitousness was exaggerated by glassing the view as i did. the vertical vanquished the horizontal in pushing the far, further away.
swaying on the #promontory sensing a steadying hand to follow the 'splaining.
"just try it!"
i watched. he'd explained what it felt like when bollocks retracted. identify with that i figured as i stepped back and he, over swayed, forward
i instinctively grabbed for what wasn't there anymore