Chris Vandyke

🌈he/his🦄President & founder of @skullgatemedia #amwriting #sff for #mg #ya & beyond. Too many #wips to count & thinking of more #BLM #HS

[Chris Vandyke @aboutrunning]

If it hasn't been obvious, I've essentially divested myself from Twitter entirely. I log in about once a week to check messages (and promote books) but use email to be in touch. I miss the many friends I have here, but life has been much nicer with little to no Twitter in it...

[Skullgate Media 🐜🐙🚀🦄⚔️ @SkullgateMedia]

The 4th & final installment in the Chronicles of New Albion comes out Dec. 1st! This has it all: cyberpunk elves! Neuro-enhanced ferrets! Magic & technology! As with the other volumes, the stories can stand on their own, but you'll want to order them all!
https://t.co/gOMLUwWWBT

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

"This isn't real?"
"No. The vmiret is doing it to keep u preoccupied 'til it can throw u off the promontory as a sacrifice to greemne. The giants r sending us to save u, I think we're finally enough to scream through ur hypnosis. Wake up!"

#AchtenWrite #vssdaily #FlexVSS

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

"Fine, give me the spell."
Nana turns to me in anger. "U'd cast a spell to kill me?"
"I have no choice."
"Can u hear me?"
"What?"
"Ur on a vmiret's promontory. It carried u off & imprisoned ur mind. The witches r imaginary. All of this is. Snap out of it."

#AchtenWrite #vss365

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

"We'll stop her if u join us," a witch says, holding her cane up.
"& I'll join u if u help free my army in exchange for a frimp."
"& we offered u a nigwund spell for that. Take it or leave it."
Nana ignores them, but she smirks. She thinks I won't accept.

#AchtenWrite #FlexVSS

[🔁🕊️ENGR|®NEVILLE™_COKER©|2_#VOXPOPULI,VOX DEI!💦 @CokerNeville]

Ms #Nogwund
A #warm,exotic,whimsical damsel
A preternatural psyche
Invincible & an enchanting enigma
A pulchritudinous lady
An assiduous personality
Loved& adored by many
Visited+consulted by a lot more
Regarded as an ugsome shaman
Avoided by neighbours

#Achtenwrite
#vsscollab

[Sarah Baethge (米机生苛) @22niel]

You better keep your eye on that little gnome; he seems to be cooking up some nogwund, and you don't want to know what he plans to do with it! #AchtenWrite

[AchtenWrite @AchtenWrite]

#AchtenWrite #prompts this week

Sun Nov 6th- Vmiret
Mon Nov 7th- Greemne
Tues Nov 8th- Pleyu
Weds Nov 9th- Necathert
Thurs Nov 10th- Tivong
Fri Nov 11th- Teffemren
Sat Nov 12th- Zotlag

#vss #amwriting #WritingCommunity

In the US- don't forget to vote on Tuesday!

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

"So these witches rn't real?"
"No."
"&the guards?"
"Acting. Come. Ur unlawfulness must be punished."
"U plan to take me w/out the guards, &these witches won't stop u?"
"Yes."
The witches' voices trilliset & they reveal inscribed arms.
#AchtenWrite #2WordPrompt #vssdaily #FlexVSS

[Sarah Baethge (米机生苛) @22niel]

Is a trilliset what you call a group of tribbles? #AchtenWrite

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

I dig Nana out of the festering leaf pile. "Now make me a deal."
"U'll be sent to an asylum for conspiring w/imaginary witches!"
"Imaginary?"
"U've been a rider of my bandeter's spell to see if I can trust u."
The witches seem amused.

#AchtenWrite #2WordPrompt #vssdaily #FlexVSS

[Sarah Baethge (米机生苛) @22niel]

Where did all the flute players go?
Don't tell me we had another bandeter incident! #AchtenWrite

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

A series of expletives from under the leaves. Nana. No action taken to save her yet.
"If u don't help me, I'll oeruf u to death!"
"That won't drive us to help," a witch says.
"Free my army & I'll help," I say.
"Help me & we'll talk," Nana says.

#AchtenWrite #2WordPrompt #FlexVSS

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

"Give me another spell or I'll go."
"How about 1 that fuses enemies?"
"Be serious," I say, weary.
"We r serious. We want a small frimp. U want to save ur frimp, cat, shark, etc."
"I don't have a shark, & I don't want to peutiing fuse anyone!"

#AchtenWrite #2WordPrompt #FlexVSS

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

"What does the spell do?"
"It strips enemies hollow. U then scatter the remains across a nydre to pay tribute to our gjert."
"I don't want to kill! I just want to save my army!"
"It's bizarre u don't see how they almost killed you."

#AchtenWrite #2WordPrompt #vssdaily #FlexVSS

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

"I'll give u a frimp. It's the size of a squirrel but can grow to moose size."
The replacement of disinterest w/intrigue on the witches' faces is promising.
One steps forward. "OK, but we'll teach u our most ulunden spell, not join u. Deal?"
#AchtenWrite #2WordPrompt #vssdaily

[Sarah Baethge (米机生苛) @22niel]

We're in an ulunden?
Let's get out! I don't know what an ulun is, but most creatures who live in dens seem a bit threatening. #AchtenWrite

[Nicklaus Kruger @ThatLousyNick]

She had an infectious smile. #Contagious, even.

She spread the Word of #Ulunden the Undying and his eldritch horrors.

As the #porch_lights flickered on, the soulless smiles grew.

Join us.

Wonders await.

#366FF #AchtenWrite #OctoberFalls22 #vsshumour #vssdark #temptingourfate

[L. M. Shayle @SkittishR]

W/the witches, maybe I can get my body back w/out Nana. But I still need to save the frimp, its clone, my cat, the beast, the spider, the creature, the giant & the rest.
"I'll join u if u help me save my army."
"Ur not built to drive hard bargains, r u?"
#AchtenWrite #2WordPrompt

[AchtenWrite @AchtenWrite]

#AchtenWrite #prompts this week

Sun Oct 30th- Ulunden
Mon Oct 31st- Nydre
Tues Nov 1st- Peutii
Weds Nov 2nd- Oeruf
Thurs Nov 3rd- Bandeter
Fri Nov 4th- Trilliset
Sat Nov 5th- Nogwund

#vss #amwriting #WritingCommunity

There's a chill in the words