#WritingCommunity #vss365 #BSPP51 @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social - She's never lived inside a box, nor has she ever fit inside any drawer. Yet, the world had got out of kilter, and this went beyond intentionally walking the cutting edge. Up was now down, and down was up,... /1

Dylan tried to be #magnanimous about the citation for gallantry in the face of The Enemy, but he wasn’t the only one to have fought in that battle. Most of his crew had suffered, but only a few got the recognition they deserved. He hardly did a thing, barking orders, nothing more. #vss365

I believe it's for this sweatshirt specifically via Bikini Kill's Bandcamp

You are #magnanimous in the face of my fluttering, voice cupping my name like a rare butterfly. I bet many tongues have laced yours with love - or tied it like a cherry stem between wet teeth - yet the way you watch my mouth when I taste it... Later, alone, having flown, I taste it again. #vss365

Hypatia of Alexandria (d. March 415) was a mathematician, astronomer & philosopher. First woman known to lead a major school of thought. She taught advanced math & #science & defied gender/religious barriers. There have been #WomenInSTEM for millennia.🔭📐 #WomensHistoryMonth #astronomy

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Poetry is a bird perched lightly on the back of all that is fickle and dangerous in this world...

Well, now, isn’t this just the perfect opportunity to enter a short story or flash fiction piece from my #WIP that is partly set in OU’s Bizzell Library, AKA 40 years in the future as the Numic Intertribal Temple of Knowledge?

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respectfully, putting stuff like this in my mentions is extremely annoying. i'm a texas journalist. i was born and raised here. get out of my replies with this "i will never visit texas" shit. i don't care!

Fallout continues from one of the most appalling cases of scientific misconduct I've ever come across: journal retracts 138(!) case studies as fictional. (Incredibly, it may have to un-retract one that is not fake.) (New Yorker piecethat set off the current furor: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)

#vss365 #poetry 📸 Phys.org The sun didn’t rise #Lethargy crept filling us up From our toes to our eyes Like a moonflower maiden i stood still When the air had hung silent I should have known it be an omen The dark side of a love spell Sent by the moon Falling commets crashing stars

petals will open but its splendor is timid once bloomed death follows #BraveWrite #vss365 #haiku #poetrycommunity #splendor #timid Still ill; I hope this #lethargy diminishes soon…Wherever you are, be safe, Sweet Souls🫶 Love & miss you all, Aspen🕊️ 👇 youtu.be/IZ3XMOdOdKM?si…

Pt417 Essie decided to check something out. “Excuse me, do we have a copy of the movie Pan’s Labyrinth?” she inquired. He stared at her a minute longer, talking an interference with his habitual #lethargy, “That’f be in Arcane #Media down the hall. Better ask Chris.” #vss365 #WIPSnips

#vss365 #poetry Burdened with #cataract skies Shoulders heavy knees caving Faraway horizons can’t see Can’t dream You the only medicine only cure Making clouds disappear dissipate If you grab my hand I can become a trapeze artist Dancing in the air Calmly through skies cloudless

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Pt416 The old man who worked the front desk had one blue #catarac eye. He gawked at her from behind the #counter with his one, clear hazel eye as Essie breezed in from Neña’s house for work. As a seer, he made an excellent guard for both the building & the books. He saw thru folks. #vss365 #WIPSnips

The true horror lay in the #splendour of her appearance. All around her was rags and bones and filth, but it drew back to avoid touching the hem of her heavily embroidered skirts. The price she must have paid for such pristine luxury was terrifying. #vss365 (splendour)

The kitchen held a small domestic #splendor. Golden eggs rested softly on their plates, crisp bacon curled beside them, and the rich perfume of fresh bread drifted from the oven. It was not a grand meal, nor meant to impress, but there was a kind of comfort in its simple abundance. #vss365

#vss365 #poetry #prose 📸google In March Spring floods ancient forests An occasion for horrific encounters Demons breathe darkness from below Angels tangled wings weep light Earth hums hymns of life Hell & Heaven dance a rhythm Set for the years Who knows what splendour & horrors #splendor

Pt415 Essie had so much to write about—the #splendor of restored buffalo to the Plains, seas of grass with massive brown writhing, pulsating islands of fur, bone, & meat, each weighing more than her old VW Bug. It was the #most breathtaking sight she’d ever seen. #vss365 #WIPSnips

From Star Struck: Introducing the sparkplug who shook up Bob's quiet life before disappearing back into show biz, Bea Miller. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

#vsstimetravel #366ff #satsplat #vss #shortstory #scifi It was the month of March, soft rain drizzled outside the station as I sipped my coffee, wondering if I’d made a mistake. When the train suddenly arrived with a screeching halt! As a sunlight of brilliant sunbeam kisses heated my face. 1/2 👇

The last thing anyone could call Dylan was #timid, and he made certain everyone in Fleet Headquarters knew it. He was justifiably angry, and if they booted him from the fleet, so be it, but they needed to hear how bad their pussyfooting had made things. There would be a reckoning either way. #vss365

In the real world, people thought Rory more than a little bit #timid. Quiet, wildly introverted. But, in the game, Rory was a big damned hero. He was loud, opinionated, a leader that knew exactly how to move his group in action. He was both. He was neither. He was who needed to be in each. #vss365

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Thought y’all like this memory of mine. Check out the alt text for cool details.

"You have no #honor! Your thirst, your #quest for vengeance, has consumed your tattered soul, brother. At this #pace, I'll be forever alone in the tragedy of our fallen family." The vampire watched from the ramparts as his army fell to the monstrous knights of the holy church. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

In his #quest to find answers about the fate of Delphi, Dylan stormed through Fleet Headquarters and didn’t give a damn whether he was supposed to be there or not. Someone had to know how The Enemy got through the lines and, if they didn’t, they’d better damned well find out, and soon. #vss365

Pt413 Essie was sick of hearing about Meona’hane’e, her little sister’s spiritual mentor & her work crush’s wife NDN-way. The woman had gone for a #walk & now according to all augury & Moccasin Telegraph, was on some sort of major #quest. Essie hadn’t had a work crush in 50 years. #vss365 #WIPSnips

When the alien #threat came it wasn't an #artifact, it was broadcast: the work of an extraterrestrial #poet. We were #obsessed with its ideas. It had an unbreakable #hold on us. When the spell broke we had lost our will to create. After that: Everything else #scififri #2wordprompt #vssmagic #vss365

#vss365 Just passed dusk, the #stellar street lamps blinked awake and I tripped over my own shadow. It laughed and asked me to dance. Before long, we had to stop - I kept stepping on its toes. Awkward :-/

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Accidentally deleted my danged post just now! Thank you, everyone, who liked & shared it earlier. I’m dysfunctionally tired & goofy. You all are fabulous, however. #vss365 #WIPSnips

Archeological excavation Redefining my way to #Stellar self-actualization Disrobe my body Country of constellations Unfurl my scroll~spread me #Orbital ravenous manifestations Start with dripping wax here Exploration~The #Velocity of You: My Final Frontier #BraveWrite #vss365 #Poetry #Poem

Inside, The furious velocity Tearing at it's own heart The fragments to its light Shattered apart Outside The violent struggle Tearing our gravity Apart #vss365 #velocity

New book cover for academic book #4, which is in press. #5 we are still drafting. This, however, is cool as heck with art by one of my favorite artists, the incomparable Dana Tiger.

Pt410 The Earth followed its #orbital path around the sun. This world within it was sunlit during today. Meona’hane’e knew that there had to be a way out of the cave. How else was there sunshine in here? There was also the way Oeškeso had come through. She needed to explore a lot more. #vss365

A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them? (Published Dec. 2022)

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A favorite moment for visual zen: looking doen into an inlet within sight of the Atlantic Ocean, this school of fish was simply mesmerizing. I had my home office painted this calming blue soon after. #blueskymonday #fish #aquamarine #blue #nature #calm #video #eastcoastkin

#vss365 #poetry Dreams of you Impair my cognition Imagination takes over And you are pure no flaws Floating in the inbetween Voids and distractions Something lunar Something #stellar I become ghost like And you the reality And there I stay Till the dawn of every day

the cry & the tenderness are no longer at odds they move together through the estuary of words our dreams still cling to old stones life remains fragile as grass our hands no longer know how to hold yet our heart keeps beating #stellar in the marrow of the Mother Sun #vss365 #poetry

My short story, ‘The First War’, has been accepted for publication in ‘The Literary Fantasy Magazine’! 😱 All being well, it’ll be on the website on the 20th March as a spotlight, and printed in the Winter 2026 issue later in the year. I honestly can’t believe it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

She was my favorite person for most of my life. Helen. I miss her. #ArcheOfPain #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social

Pt409 She had always been a #stellar cook, though it had been years since she had done any. The young folks cooked for them at the Temple. Meona’hane’e stopped short. The Temple. Esa. She had thought of #neither love since the turnip incident. How was she going to get home now? #vss365 #WIPSnips

#vss365 Tight-lipped, they watched Wanda’s panic grow. Purse dumped on breakfast table— like a TV show. $200.00 in my wallet, my secret stash. Who took it. Who stole all my cash. “It's your own fault," Mama said, What'd you expect? “You #knowingly left your purse, in a room, with a drug addict."