Horror movies featuring real monsters. What could go wrong? A private investigator travels to a crime scene in a Californian desert, but this trip unlocks even more questions. Genre: Supernatural mystery. Setting: California in the 1910s. MC: Folly, a popular film vamp. #questpit #Q #PR #MY

You trusted me. The #vss365 prompt for 15 September is: Rein. “You gave too much #rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.” (Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles) #prompt #rein

When fear surprises us. On 14 September, the #vss365 prompt is: Flinching. “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without #flinching—they are your family.” (Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty) Image: Ron Lach (Pexels) #prompt #flinching

Mix and match the patterns. Today, 13 September, the #vss365 prompt is: Style. “As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where it’s going out of #style.” (Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep) Image: Maksim Goncharenok (Pexels) #prompt #style

Our future selves whisper in our ears. The #vss365 prompt for 12 September is: Potential. “For a mind to even approach its full #potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.” (Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects) #prompt #potential

On 11 September, the #vss365 prompt is: Exhausted. “You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly #exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now...” (Taylor Jenkins Reid) #prompt

The #vss365 prompt for 10 September is: Bearable. “Sorrow was like sleeping on stone, he decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them, fit them around until they became #bearable...” (Patricia A. McKillip, Od Magic) #prompt #bearable

A colourful disguise. On 9 September, the #vss365 prompt is: Wrapper. “This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself.” (Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch) #prompt #wrapper

Movers and shakers love it. The #vss365 prompt for 8 September is: Power. “But there is only one thing that has #power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.” (Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country) #prompt #power

A new path appears. The #vss365 prompt for 7 September is: Doorway. “Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your #doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.” (Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine) #prompt #doorway

Flip a coin. On 6 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt is: Chance. “Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by #chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.” (W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge) #prompt #chance

Words that singe our soul. The #vss365 prompt for today, 5 September, is: Article. “The more wasteful the people were, the more #articles they did not want which they could be induced to buy, the better for these sellers.” (Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887) #prompt #article

Your awareness grows. On 4 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt is: Conscious. “I was not wholly #conscious of myself, but was more keenly alive to the fire within.” (Zitkala-Ša, American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends) #prompt #conscious Image: Oscar Steiner (Pexels)

The #vss365 prompt word for 3 September 2025 is: Arbitrary. “In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of #arbitrary signs.” (Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence) #prompt #arbitrary

Sometimes it is always out of reach. On 2 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Elude. “It is those that we live with and love and should know who #elude us.” (Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It) #prompt #elude

Books from my past will provide the prompt words. So it’s fitting that today, 1 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Past. “Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the #past.” (Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister) Image: lux werk (Pexels) #past #prompt