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Kris Charles is a pen name. She lives in Iowa. She enjoys music, baking, and playing with a Pup named Milo Roy. Katy Lily was her first major story, starting in 1992, it was told as a verbal story to her youngest brother. Parts were used as short stories for classes from grade school to College. And now, all ten year of Katherine Lillian’s Life will be published for the world to read. Kris is also the author of A Guardian’s Life Saga; first novel is The Seven Deadlies. The author of The Keepers Trilogy; first novel is The Keepers and the Sisters of Lilith. Others coming soon include Darkened Grace and Praying.

Marine

VSS365 Twitter Prompt

He was stationed in Norway.
Never had he heard Joik.
This authentic music pulsed through his soul.
This improvised concert was deeply spiritual.
Dedicated to the loss of brothers in arms.
A song that resonated with those who had lost.
He stood listening to the joiker.

Evil

VSSMurder Twitter Prompt

My victim wanted to scream.
The fear coming of them filled the room.
Their pain from glorious torture.
The pleasure for me intense, as their blood dripped to the floor & filled the room w/ the sweet scent of death.
They had been at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

The Voices

VSS365 Twitter Prompt

My thoughts go round & round.
You’re not good enough.
You’re not enough.
You’re no good.
You’re not loved.
My thoughts go round & round.
Friends say I’m enough.
Say I’m brilliant.
Say I’m loved.
So hard to believe.
I try to believe.
But my thoughts go round & round.

The Rot Within

GrimList2020 Twitter Prompt

I hired a Resurrectionist.
Forbidden Research.
A hunt for immortality.
I could taste success.
This rot within me would not win.
The bodies held the key.
I bathed in the blood.
The search for the soul.
I didn’t have one.
I could not die.
This rot could not damn me.

I Am Simply Me

VSS365 Twitter Prompt

Why am the way I am?
Because, because, because!
Why am I weird?
It’s just the way I am.
Why am I so nerdy?
It’s just the way I am.
Why am I a geek?
It’s just the way I am.
Why am I the way I am?
Because I AM ME!
I love what I love.
I am who I am.
And I am never changing!

Consequences

GrimList2020 Twitter Prompt

Dear Journal,
My life ended today.
My death began.
I shouldn’t have been out.
Not at the Devil’s hour.
I wanted fun.
Recklessness took my mortal life.
I wrote to you as a mortal.
I shall continue in death.
I will embrace this curse.
I will revel in my undead life.

Spirit Animal

2WordPrompt Twitter Prompt

We all have a Soul of an animal.
People posses the qualities of their spirit animal.
I’m no exception.
Just, I also turn into my mine.
A curse from an alchemist I denied.
I love the freedom my wolf gives me.
The instincts.
I embrace it.
As it is MY curse to own.

Breaking the Mold

BraveWrite Twitter Prompt

You will comport yourselves accordingly.
You will always be prim & proper.
You will obey.
You will be thin.
You will be perfect.
Rules told to all little girls once upon a time.
But we are breaking the rules!
We are making the rules!
For we are Woman & hear us Roar!

Finale

VSSMURDER Twitter Prompt

I watched him.
He was always there.
The same routine.
I thought of many ways.
Settled on Garrote.
It was personal.
I moved behind him.
He never knew I was there.
Until it was too late.
Now the last thing he will feel is my lips whispering in his ear:
I loved you…

Final Dance

GrimList2020 Twitter Prompt

Have you danced w/ the devil under the pale moonlight?
Have done the Waltz w/ the Light-Bringer himself?
I sold my soul.
I sold my freedom.
Greed, Lust, & Envy my life.
I wanted more.
Needed more.
Didn’t care how.
And now I dance w/ Satan under eternal moonlight.