#WeirdVSS – best of 11.11.2020

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Of the very short stories written on Wednesday the 11th of November 2020, here are five of my favourites. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and please don’t forget to make your blood offerings before the next #WeirdVSS prompt. This is the price we all must pay, and we pay it willingly.

Curious, he fed organic material into the 3D printer. The fabricated wife died instantly from a non-functional brain. Life could not be #printed. He sat for days sulking in his room as the failure decomposed. The house would #reek of rotted flesh until trash day.#vss365 #WeirdVSS
— Bryant Wiley (@Wiley_Writes) November 11, 2020

Has we not been so self-absorbed we might have noticed sooner. It started with a smell, a #reeking putryfying, fetid stench that permeated everything. It was only from space that we understood. The Earth was dead, and we were trapped on its rotting carcass.#amwriting #WeirdVSS
— Peter James Martin (@Brennan_and_Riz) November 11, 2020

She #reeks of that other world—magnolia and mandragora—when she slips through the door past midnight, and I feign sleep as she slides under the covers. In the morning, nothing will betray her exploits but the hoofed #prints on the tiles of the bathroom floor. #vss365 #WeirdVSS
— Laila Amado (@onbonbon7) November 11, 2020

It was inescapable. There really was a crocodile under my bed. The foul, reptilian #reek had permeated the fabrics. There were weird stains on the carpet. He would have to go.
So we pleaded,cajoled. In the end, he only agreed to go if he could take the elephant plush. #WeirdVSS
— Susan McDonnell (@1Baroque) November 11, 2020

The creatures #reek so sourly I gag just to think on it. Their fleshy mouths and ill-shaped limbs make my balls crawl up into my gut. The feral glaze to those dead eyes. How glad I am that they're up there and I am here among the rats and garbage. #weirdVSS
— Paul Grealish (@paul_grealish) November 12, 2020

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