The sun rises reluctantly, for it remembers how we blinded it with our light. #WriteSky #poetry #WritingCommunity

It’s finally happening. medium.com/illumination...

He also let #JDVance borrow his couch for a few hours. #ItsSatireDontSueMe #ImpeachAndRemove

We didn’t see Pizza Rat in NYC this weekend, but we did see Bread Crust Squirrel

In the beginning, their love seemed mechanical and routine, infused with #intent instead of desire, appointments instead of dates, choreography instead of dancing. They were two machines. Then, one day, the gears cracked. #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

The year is 1845. A group of children play games built around Irish legends. They don’t know the hunger that is coming. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

We last had Tucker Carlson and Trump. Now, for this week’s deplorable fantasy league we present: Elon Musk vs Sam Altman Which two deplorables will face off next week as the house of cards collapses? Place your bets now.

The word #feral came back to me a second, when I wrote a villanelle based on a freewriting exercise earlier today. Here’s my article about the #poem and the process of writing it. #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #MediumWriters #poetry medium.com/illumination...

Our catalog of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes has been updated through April 2026. Trump and his cronies are nearing 1000 atrocities since retaking office. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors buff.ly/sd9maRj

OMG absolute banger from @mcsweeneys.net Check it out @laughtears.bsky.social @wakepod.bsky.social @wake-in-progress.bsky.social and any other stealth Joyceans lurking out here

How can we use focused #freewriting to help with #writing challenges? In this article on #Medium, I build a #poem using some freewriting strategies and experiments, and invite you to do the same. #poetry #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #MediumWriters medium.com/illumination...

A wonderful new submission to #Descriptables by John Henry Arthur. Give him some claps and submit your own. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt medium.com/descriptable...

It is fifth century Ireland. The new Christian religion is now encroaching on the faith that Meadhbh’s parents still hold dear, and she has grown up with them in the seclusion of the #forest. In this scene, she discusses her future with her mother. #WIPSnaps #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

One’s love was tame and rational; the other’s love was #feral and wild. In other words, they had each built a gilded prison for the other. #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

"The only way in which a society can live for any length of time without violent strife is by establishing social justice, and social justice appears to each man to be injustice if he is persuaded that he is superior to his neighbors." - Bertrand Russell

The character Sylvia thinks back to the time in high school, when her father found out she was gay. #WIPSnaps #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmQuerying

He couldn’t be with her, for her eyes, #luminous wells of joy and love, shone such light into those darkest corners of his soul where he couldn’t bear to look. #vss365 #writing

Julie got an email from a Nigerian prince promising wealth and connection. Will her life change forever? New #ShortStory at #Medium #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #MediumWriters #Relationships medium.com/first-line-f...

Farts …IN SPACE! Not my usual writing, but good for a laugh. I answered a few #wouldyourather style questions in “Another Fucking Publication.” #Humor #Writing #MediumWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #jokes medium.com/@edwardrstap...

His soul, like a desert, #barren and hot, was laid out before her. She set out, with little preparation or supplies, to explore its vastness, in search of the mythical oasis where love might grow. #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

So…this whole time we’ve been hearing the #Kars4Kids song, and didn’t know the charity was raising money to send 18-year-olds on birthright trips to Israel? Their website is quite vague about what their charity is. Summer camps and patriotism and religion. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

He thought #forgiveness was made of words and trust was made of promises and love was made of wishes and couldn’t understand the weight in his chest when all the words and promises and wishes had been spoken. #vss365 #WritingCommunity Thank you for your hosting! @bithipaulauthor.bsky.social

A beast guards treasures In the well of the soul. In the grip of a passion More than we can control, When we can’t find the words When the joy is too bright We don’t know what we feel Because the beast’s holding tight. #poetry #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

During the Irish Hunger, family members often emigrated to the US one at a time. In this scene, a young man is learning what happened to the sisters he left back home. #WIPSnaps #WritingCommunity

Repeatedly I suffer the indignity of time's greedy hands upon me— it takes before it flies away I prefer to be left unalloyed In future I shall secret away little parts of me in a hidden pouch even time can't reach so my eyes might gleam, even as my seams unravel. #vss365 #unalloyed

Has a Nigerian prince ever offered you an opportunity? Here’s my story about it. #MediumWriters #ShortStory #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Fiction medium.com/first-line-f...

Recently finished Ishiguro’s eerie and tragic Klara and the Sun, after hearing that Taika Waititi was planning a movie version. It’s my third Ishiguro novel, and I’m impressed with how effortlessly he builds intricate, deeply human characters. Taika will do wonders with this. #BookSky

In his arms, she felt joy #unalloyed with regret, comfort unalloyed with resentment, hope unalloyed with doubt. These feelings were so pure, so unadulterated, and so innocent, that more and more the thought grew that something was missing from them. #vss365 #writingcommunity #WriteSky

“Good souls do not know how to love halfway” #poetry

Today marks one month since I started my #Medium account. Slowly building followers (at 131). Here is my recap (more in replies). #WritingCommunity #Writing #WriteSky #MediumWriters #Fiction #ShortStory Most clapped for short story, about #relationships : medium.com/first-line-f...

My zany noir parody, Johnny Fucks, PI: Part Two, is published! For fans of the first story, let’s fucking go! (you should read the first one, too, and bless me with follow and your claps) #humor #crime #noir #mediumwriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #shortstory #fiction medium.com/another-fuck...

#roots #diligently thread through cracked stones where moss #ruminates #DailyHaikuPrompt #inkMine #vss365

He loved with practiced #diligence, each kiss assiduously catalogued and carefully place, each flower color coordinated, each love note rewritten with elegant serifs. He never learned that when falling in love, the fall begins with a stumble. #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Another essay chapter from my #memoir with thoughts on the political division in the #USA. When politicians, especially republicans, talk about American values, which ones are they talking about? There are many Americas out there. #politics #Trump #WritingCommunity medium.com/@edwardrstap...

Bluesky is a minefield of Good Omens spoilers. Must tread cautiously.

If you’re on Medium, I’m hoping to turn Descriptables, my cute little 11 follower publication into a special place to practice descriptive writing. I might even have 12 followers one day. New #writingprompt every Friday morning. #WriteSky #writingcommunity #Descriptables medium.com/descriptables

I just published a poem - Spring medium.com/p/spring-db9...

Proud of my city and glad it finally got the leadership it deserves #NYC #Mamdani

At evenfall she summons me to a bench in the park for a “serious talk.” In the years to come, I will remember the glow of the fading sun, the warm breeze, the calls of birds in springtime, and the last touch of her hand on my cheek. #vss365 #writing #WritingCommunity

The remake is not as exciting as the original

A melody breaks curses and chains. So many mistakes we carry in vain till something awakes— a song in the rain— that cleanses the aches and gashes and stains. Music can make troubles and pain crumble and quake and drift from the brain #poetry #writingprompts #writesky

Two Civil War soldiers—one an immigrant from Ireland and the other from Germany—debate the absurdity of war. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Writing #Querying

For my #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt of the day, a depiction of the Irish Hunger. It was much worse than your history teacher made it seem. #writing #Ireland #WriteSky

I present my meta story! A story about the writing of itself. #Writing #WriteSky #MediumWriters #ShortStory #FlashFiction #FictionShorts medium.com/fiction-shor...

One of the great #MothersDay #poems comes from Langston Hughes, star of the Harlem Renaissance. The things mothers do to give their children a step up. #literature #poetry #writing

Thank you to Shrirangdangre for their contribution to #Descriptables! They have captured the magic of coffee. #writingprompts #writesky #writing #writingcommunity @medium.com medium.com/descriptable...

Today is the first Mother’s Day that this sweet boy and his siblings are without their mom. Never forget the cruelty of ICE. 🦋🌺

Thank you author John Henry Arthur for his contribution to #descriptables medium.com/descriptable...

In this scene, not long after the death of St. Patrick, a once renowned druid and his family living in self-imposed exile mourn the dying world they knew. #WIPSnips #Ireland #writing #WritingCommunity #writesky #fiction #querying