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Writing #vss here.
I live in haunted woods and cursed caves.
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Pinned
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
What now? > _
'What do you want?' cowered Arthur.
'I have never...' the alien queen laughed, 'had a human lover!'
'Monster!' he cried, and screamed as the queen wrapped a tentacle around him...
Arthur woke from the #dream rather confused, in a cupboard, embracing the vacuum cleaner.
#vss365
April 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
'Daddy! I think there's a monster in the attic.'
'There is darling.'
'There is?!'
'Yes, loud thing isn't it?'
'I'll say! #Noise all day! What IS it doing?'
'Learning the saxophone.'
'Well I hate it.'
'Everyone does darling, but don't tell it, or it'll eat your face off.'
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April 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A new form of #life evolved in Roy's fridge from an artisanal cheese he bought in '96. The cheeseling incorporated bacon, butter and broccoli into its body and leapt out one day. 'You look delicious!' said Roy. 'So do you!' said the cheeseling, showing its eggshell teeth.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Some days after his #death, Steve returned from the grave, muddy and bedraggled, fingernails broken, 'Susan, darling, I'm not dead!' he sobbed and fell to the floor. 'That's what you said last time!' she yelled, and knocked him out with a spade.
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April 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Full of grief, Simon found himself visiting Gillian's grave again—he threw himself to the ground and wailed, 'I'm so sorry darling!', and beat the earth with his fists.
On his way home, just before taking the second exit, Arthur briefly stared at the man on roundabout.
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April 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Roger demonstrated the magic #time traveling Tibetan singing bowl: 'So, slowly anticlockwise took us back 5 minutes—'
Lucy grabbed the bowl and span it rapidly; a dinosaur looked up at them.
'Where's the bowl gone?' she said.
'It hasn't been made yet.' said Roger.
'Ah.'
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April 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Thud, thud, thud. Crying.
'Sweetheart, what's wrong?' said Daniel.
'Daddy, this ball won't #bounce!' sobbed the girl.
'Which ball is that—' he said, but it wasn't a ball, it was his wife's head.
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April 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
'This magic #luggage WILL resurrect your boy,' said the old man, 'but beware! What comes back is not... the same.'

Peter held his breath as he opened the suitcase *gasp* his beloved Toby! Alive again! True, the parrot now swore in ancient Sumerian, but Peter didn't care.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Sally scratched her ear and found sticky #gossamer threads, oh god no, she had a spider in her ear! She rummaged in her bag—she could tempt it out with a piece of cheese—
'Ms Jenkins! Would you care to share what you're doing with the rest of the class?' said the teacher.
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March 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Kevin banged his head and woke up with an #insatiable appetite. He ate cheese and chips, biscuits and bread, a frozen ham and six jars of pickles. Desperate, he ate soap until he remembered the lodger! That done he sat sadly and stared at his own, delicious-looking feet.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Arthur read the Scroll of Demonic #Desire three times as Susan giggled and turned out the bedside lamp.
💥POOF!💥 a horny demon appeared between them.
'What?! No! This isn't what we wanted!' said Arthur, 'Begone—'
'Wait, Arthur,' said Susan, 'let's not be too hasty...'
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March 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Bitten by a #radioactive spider, Toby told no one, and then feeling a great change coming over him, he took to his bed.
Two days later:
'Toby?' it was Aunt June.
'Aunt June, I feel...' he said, and then died, from the radiation poisoning.
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March 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The over-jolly tea robot irritated Robert.
'Another cup of tea, Mr Robert?' it said brightly.
'Yeah, a zillion cups.'
'Not a real number!' laughed the Robot.
'#Infinity cups.'
'Only integers!'
'-1!'
The tea robot produced its cutting blade, to take back Mr Robert's last cup.
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March 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Marie's changeling baby had been crying non-stop for a week so she reluctantly sang the Devil's #Lullaby three times to summon Satan himself, to snatch the child away...
When the devil stopped laughing he said, 'No chance, lady! Look at that little monster!' and vanished.
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March 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
After an opulent and lengthy coronation of ten whole minutes, the mosquito Queen began her magnificent reign of terror! Blood flowed and her vast army terrorised the camping grounds, until Sally, with a shoe and a scream, caused a brief #interregnum.
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March 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The #myopic dragon squinted, 'Come closer,' it said, 'so I can see you.'
'I've brought your glasses!' said the optician, and slid the box across the cave floor, 'I'm no fool!' he muttered.
'I can see you!' said the bespectacled dragon delightedly, and burned him alive.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
'The new checkout clerk is... a little #obstreperous?'
'Sally? Ah yes, she's possessed. She was on disability but with government cutbacks... she needs work.'
'Ah.'
'Your mother milks goats in hell, Karen, you faithless slime!' yelled Sally at an elderly lady buying milk.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Wanted: Werewolves and victims"
A #chime sounded: time for the werewolves to get ready. Arthur rummaged in his bag to get his sneakers out; when he looked up he was surrounded by fur. 'Boy I love cosplay!' he said, 'You guys change fast! Where's my outfit anyway? ... Oh.'
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March 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
'Warrior! Did you bring us the scales of the mighty slain dragon?'
'No, your Majesty, it was a rare #flocculent dragon! Behold its wool!'
'Wool?'
'Yes, Sire. I also took the liberty of knitting you a regal dragon crown!'
'Guards!' shouted the King.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
'When we were kids my dad told us a goblin lived under this #weir! That it would catch and eat children that tried to jump it.' Derek told Susan.
'Do it now! Jump it!' she laughed and under the weir a pair of ears pricked up, for the goblin wasn't fussy about age at all.
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March 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In the #copse was a hopscotch track made of stone which Arthur hopped clumsily through, and then paused as a door in the stone swung open. Curious, he squeezed in and by the faint light saw a row of corpses, which was the last thing he saw, as the door closed behind him.
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March 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
'Take the King's Shilling?' asked the rough-looking gentleman.
The King himself, who was #incognito, sipping ale in a rough docks pub so as to better understand his subjects, said, 'Delighted to!'
'And that,' said the King to his neighbour, pulling on his oar, 'was that.'
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March 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Nigel fell asleep in the #penumbra of an oak tree and woke up at the feet of the Fairy Queen, 'Tremble, mortal!' she cried, and he trembled. Then she laughed, 'Only joking, I'm the park keeper!'
'Thank god!' said Nigel.
'Only joking!' she said, and turned him into a tree.
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March 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Roger fell from the #balustrade through a dimensional rift into a world where he became a mighty magical king, only returning when he fell from his horse years later...

Later:
'Here?' said his brother, and, 'Farewell!' as he leapt to his death.
'Maybe a bit to the left?'
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March 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
'Where did you get these bowls?'
'The new goblin #emporium! They're ancient cursed Aztec sacrificial bloodletting bowls!'
'Xinechtlamaka ika estli...' whispered the bowl, and Peter's forkful of food hovered just shy of his open mouth.
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March 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM