I am so angry. My rage is overflowing with no bottom.

Where is Kaali when you need her?

#vss365 #rerun
She was not an infatuation, a well kept menagerie, as she feared. She had no idea how easily her warm spirit turned him into a soft ruin. The fireworks in her mind blinded her to the love he felt. He would enchant her with words, and for a moment her body would #sing with color.

He lay prone on the river bank among the roots of the elder willow. Its sallies brushed over his forehead like our mother had, checking for fever. I didn’t want to see him. He was dead. But when I approached, his chest moved. Head in my hands, I sat and wondered when it would be over.
#vss365

Anxiety: you will plant many crops in your garden in case of economic collapse

ADHD: some of them might live. no promises.

Thanks

TIDAL MEMORY
— what the water keeps when the light forgets

When the moon is silent,
the ocean does not ask why.
It only remembers the pull—
not the light,
but the shape
absence leaves
in water.
I have learned this too:
to move without being called.
To arrive
without knowing the shore.

bleach the heavy page
wash away the ink of ghosts
paper still remembers

#haikufeels #Prompt #Bleach #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Perseverance

A pedophile is president
And I still have to work
Secret police abduct legal residents
And I still have to work
War with Iran is in view
And I still have to work
They say I best not watch the news
And I’m about to go berserk.

I say let’s take to the streets
And really get to work.
#poem #protest

#Bones

winter peels back
the skin of things

branches once heavy
with verdant life
now stripped

not even blood or sinew
just soft greys and white

and I stare at them
and see

fate

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Fair warning on this one. There is a LOT of torture. This is for people who like their romantasy very dark, like charred beyond recognition dark. The characters are not likable but they are strangely lovable. I’d like to read more from this author with a better editor. #bookreview

I finished a book both loved and loathed by readers, it’s made to last at a whopping 1,024 pages. Is the world building original? Yes. Is the enemies to lovers arc kind of unbearable? Also yes. Could it have been edited more? Yes. But I like big books and I cannot lie. 1/2

I met a woman who called herself the devil. Said she gave guitar players enough talent to make the whole world fall to its knees.

I asked her how come they could play so good if they ain’t got no soul. She laughed and said she don’t take it until after they can’t play no more.

#vss365

This winter of discontent feels like it may never end.

It took me a long time to write this review because the ending of this book made me so angry 😭 The writing was as powerful as Parable of the Sower if not more so but my god her daughter pissed me off SO BAD. I urge you to read it but prepare to be mad. That is all. 😆

Beyond excited to share that my #scifi short 'Mother to the Bomb' has been included in this month's brilliant issue of #SciFanSat This issue is all about 🔥, so if you like your sci-fi and #fantasy hot, make sure you check it out #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #Writing

Where pale pink trees
cast their charms
on the snow beneath them,

the sun catcher
chases a mist
along the curve
of a ruby landscape,

the light mandolin
notes float up to me
on the moonlit terrace,

I have held you,
even if only for a moment,
and did not know.

#WhistPr

“Choices? What choices? I’m in a burning building here. It’s burn or jump.”
“Bitter words for the guy who started the fire.” He said this and took a drag of his cigarette. Put it out on the table. The irony was not lost on me as he cocked the hammer back on the 45. “So what’s it gonna be?”
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Almost forgot to review this gem I finished in October. A vampire novel cleverly concealed as historical western horror. This was by far his wildest and most ambitious work yet. I enjoyed it a lot but the ending was nuts. #thebuffalohunterhunter #bookreview

A knight so chivalric
So pure of heart
For any fair maiden
He’d answer the call.
But alas to his ruin
And to her displeasure
Both his brain and his sword
Were fashioned too small

#vss365

Important cultural artifact

A perfectly #timed jab to a dying animal can take it down. Though many have previously punctured the mammoth creature struggling under its own weight. Empires die first from within. Only the final blow comes from without. Tick tock.

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To remain #relevant and stay on social media media or to remain sane living as a hermit in the woods, that is the question.

#vss365

😭🤣

Inside the Fortune Tent, there is a boy with slick blonde hair and a pure white suit. We drink tea in silence, then he takes my cup and tips the leaves onto a #saucer. He twists them with a finger, smiles and rolls them with tobacco. As we smoke my future, he begins to cry. I don't ask why.
#vss365

❤️❤️❤️

😁😁😁

I’m shooting through the sky,
caught in a wind current.
I couldn’t hear them—
I wouldn’t want to.

Still, I sing out—
my swan song:

That God is
a soulful egomaniac.
And we are the reflection—
forever witnessing,
forever interpreting,
through a mirror.

#BlueskyRelay #Poetry #Poem
#ThrowbackPoem

“How is the patient?”

“Agitated. He keeps talking about how his robot wife he purchased won’t follow programming. But I’m confused, wasn’t he the android?”

The doctor chuckled. “Yeah they tell them all they’re human. Less malfunctions that way. Call the wife and tell her to reboot.”

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We’re all innocent when we’re asleep. It’s the waking up part that’s the problem.

It was a good thing that the game made players’ characters insubstantial to each other or, in the tumult of the mêlée, things could #clash & get a little complicated.

As it was, Rory found it difficult to see what each player did and he would often find himself attacking the same monsters.

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