Dan Thompson

I have a #postcard from every place we visited together. Something physical for me to hold on to. More than a memory. Why do we have to stop to buy another stupid #postcard, you would say. I don’t like tacky souvenir shops. The thing is neither did I. I don’t go in them anymore. #vss365 #vss

I’ve just started on a new short story that I may try and turn into a novel. I’ve been agonising about a daily word target and 500 feels about right. It’s manageable even on a bad day and I’m being more consistent with output and quality. #writing www.thecut.com/2018/06/if-y...

Evening in Nara, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1933 #Japanese #Art #Ukiyo-e

The planet held a strange sense about it, as though a #latent evil awaited, just below the surface. Dylan had sensed this sort of thing before. A place too quiet, with little to no life, but the sensor sweep had said nothing about what lay here. He shouldn’t land, but he was going to. #vss365

#Latent was having a hard time. Not only had its opposite and rival, Manifest, been named Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year, it was now being toyed with by a bunch of writers on social media. “It’s like there are these latent forces shaping my life,” Latent mused. #vss365 #vss #writing

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 4/20

“Vestibule.” You watch a man with an ‘Uncommitted’ badge shuffle out the elevator. *Ding* “Limbo.” You step out into a meadow wearing a stolen ‘Unbaptised’ badge. Behind you, your wife, now wearing your ‘Traitor’ badge screams as the elevator continues its #descent through hell. #vss365 #dante

Yes, perhaps it's time to write surreal stories while the world spins out of kilter. #amwriting #writingcommunity lithub.com/the-craft-of...

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 3/20

Cleave me in two … if you think you can hurt me. Break me down and scatter my body to the wind … if you think that will stop me. You think me only a simple #planaria. That you are better than me. But unlike me, please never lose your head. For while I’ll be reborn anew you’ll be dead. #vss365

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 2/20

They call us #creepers. Too fragile to stand tall and face the world alone. We find our own ways of seeking out the light. Sensitive to others, we grow where our support is strongest. Because when we feel secure we’re fast and fun. And flower together facing the sun. #vss365 #vss #writing

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 1/20

I packed up and drove into the wilderness because I needed to discover the world inside me, away from all the noise. If only you’d have come with me we could have discovered ourselves together. Then I would have returned to the world with you, instead of leaving it behind. #vsspic #vss #writing

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 20 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

Humankind is central to existence. Or so some believe. But what are we really? Compared to the largest living organism on Earth. One that seeks to sustain not destroy. What value intelligence if the intention is wrong? What value the word #mycelium without a human left to speak it? #vss365 #writing

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 19 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 18 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

Soaked, Alan waited by the ‘Welcome to Little Piddle’ sign, speed camera gun in hand. A loud engine roar woke him from a daydream about the pointlessness of his existence. His own number plate. His wife. Alan raised the gun. He’d always prided himself on being a good #citizen. #vss365 #writing

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 17 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

It was Tony’s big day. He’d been on the space station for weeks but it had seemed like years. Tony was a #tardigrade of action-the toughest of the tough, and today he would prove it. The first of his kind to space walk. Him not Tim! The airlock opened and Tony floated into the void. #vss365

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 16 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

He never went anywhere unless he felt certain he would be safe. They said it stemmed from his childhood and he needed to say #yes to life more. But they didn’t know that others wanted to hurt him. That he saw them at his window late at night. That he could hear them talking to him. #vss365

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 15 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

She clutched the #souvenir to her chest as the plane started its descent into Tokyo. Of all the omomori to let expire, it had to be the one that gave her travel protection. She would go straight to the temple and renew them all. Outside she could see a large flock of gulls. #vss365 #vss #writing

What is #home for you? Is it the physical place you live most of the time, or the haven you run to to escape it? For some, home can be found in far away places. In a reconnection with who we are and a long forgotten vision of the world we once knew as children. #vss365 #vss #writingcommunity

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 14 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 13 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

I feel the ghost #train coming towards me. Sunshine fades to black and I am in hell. Shadows of animated corpses toil by torchlight. Men pule in pain. The stench of death. The #train carries on down the track and the sunshine returns but I will not forget Hellfire Pass. #vss365 #writing #vss

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 12 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

“You can talk to me, I’m a prole just like you.” “I think it’s better if we don’t talk don’t you?” “You can trust me brother. Are you happy since you relocated to Airstrip One?” “I couldn’t be happier.” “And your new job at the Ministry of Truth?” “I CAN’T #complain.” #vss365 #vss #writing

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 11 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 10 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

Hands usher you to sit down in darkness. The muffled sounds of preparation. “Wait!” A reprieve perhaps? “The generator is still warming up, there’ll be a short #delay.” Two minutes pass in silence. Then they tightly strap leather belts around your legs and arms, holding you in place. #vss365

Kerry the #skerry If you did happen to get close to Kerry she wasn’t someone to stay with for too long. Some hardy souls could survive with her but would only stay to rest a while or because there was nowhere else for them to go. But Kerry held firm, alone in the rough sea, waiting. #vss365 #vss

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 9 #booksky #writingcommunity

She gazed at the #horizon. Dreaming of escape from this place. Escape from the dirty dishes and the long hours in the massage parlour. In her dreams she would float out the window. And fly through the Bangkok night. To the glittering palace. And her salvation. #vss365 #writing #photography #vsspic

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 8 #booksky #writingcommunity

You can’t keep going for much longer. Calf burning, heart pounding, the chanting of the audience getting louder-They will soon get what they came for. “DROP DROP DROP” You glance across at your rival. They are tiring too. The #Hop Till You Drop banner above and the dark pit below. #vss365

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 7 #booksky #writingcommunity

I only see you when it rains. You stay away on sunny days. But when there’s #rain, there you are. Reminding me of what should have been. And what will never be again. #vss365 #vss #writing

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 6 #booksky #writingcommunity

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 5: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy #booksky #writingcommunity

I can’t see him but I can feel him. My #troll. He’s down there somewhere, hiding in the dark. Under the bridge I must cross to get to where I want to go. Sometimes I close my eyes and run, hoping I will make it. Today, I’m going to stroll across because I know I can. #vss365

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Craters on fire in the Karakum Desert. I watched the Northern Lights glitter in the dark near Tromsø, Norway. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to go #sightseeing. #vss365 #vss #writing

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 4: Voyager: Constellations of Memory by Nona Fernandez #booksky #writingcommunity

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I wait in the dark, alone and unloved. Are you thinking about me? You never think of me. I know it. I’m too big for you now. I’ve seen that smaller younger model. Hollow. Bereft of all your things that complete me. Use me how you will. I need to feel like a #suitcase again. #vss365 #vss