Steve | Substack Published Poet / Author of 3 books. The Marginalized Passenger, Ally, and Obsidian Memories. Unpublished: Everloop. INFJ. Click to read Cornerwriter on Substack. Launched 3 months ago.

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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
— The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley

Thoughts?

“124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.”
— Beloved, Toni Morrison

Thoughts? #booksky

It’s one of King’s best writes. IMO.

I’ve read it twice. I love the master.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
— The Gunslinger, Stephen King

Would this hook you enough to keep reading?

@stephenking.bsky.social

#booksky

The letter arrived forty years too late, and somehow it still knew my name.

Let’s build a story together.

I’ll start with the first line.

You reply with the next line.

Let’s see where it goes.

New direction here.

This account is now The First Line. A place for opening lines and new stories.

Writers:
drop the first line of your work below.

Readers welcome.

Frontal lobe absent.
The algorithm speaks.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrydaily #Booksky

History doesn’t whisper.
It stains the ground and waits for us to notice.

Hashtags:
#Booksky #Poetry #Resistance #WritersOfBluesky #AuthorDiscovery #PoetsOfBluesky #Cornerwriter #WriteTruth

"Ceremony of Rot"

A feast in the cesspool.
Nothing sacred. Nothing hidden.
The dance plays on until it doesn't.
Cornerwriter 2026
#PoetryCommunity #Spilledink #InstaPoetry #PoetryLovers #Booksky

I’m going to go quiet for a while.

Giving, promoting, helping, and then being blocked or ignored for it wears you down more than people realize.

Time to step back, protect my energy, and write.

#Booksky

Fuck the ingrates

What are you trying to say?

Actually, fuck this motherfucker. I don’t care I will continue to do what I see fit.

I don’t want anything. I only want to promote .

🤷

I did spend at least two hours going through different accounts until I found this one which really resonated with me. What a shame. His work is fantastic.

This one really hurts.
I featured someone only to support their work, and instead of a message or a conversation, I was simply blocked.
I’m only trying to do good here.
Sometimes that lands harder than the block itself.

#Booksky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indieauthors #AuthorDiscovery

They’re all over on IG save for a few.

They’re all poems

I kind of do the same thing. I dictate them into my Notes app, and then whatever I have, I throw down on paper and scratch around, changing things. You never know when something will pop up and a new muse is born.

FFS I’m still writing 2025 on everything! 😳

Reminder for Featured Author Friday

If you’d like to be considered, please DM your work or recommend an emerging author.
Otherwise, I curate independently

Poetry.
Excerpts.
Short stories.

#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting #Unagented #IndieAuthors #DebutWriters

This is how I write my poetry, scraps, crossings-out, pages that argue with themselves until a line finally stays.
And you? How does your process look?

#poetry #writinglife #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #firstdrafts #Booksky

@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

3/3

If you are drawn to poems that experiment boldly
but still protect a real emotional core,

Spend time with this voice.

Small forms.
Large echoes.

#Booksky #DiscoverPoetry #BlackAuthors #PoetryReaders

2/3

What stands out in his work is the tension between brilliance and vulnerability.

The lines dazzle, yes,
but underneath the invention is a steady question

How much of love, faith, and self can language actually hold

#Booksky #BlackWriters #LiteraryCommunity #IndiePoetry

1/3

Feature Thursday
@upfromsumdirt

A poet whose work moves by sound and association,
where language does not explain itself so much as unfold.

This is poetry that trusts the reader.

#Booksky #Poetry #BlackPoets #PoetryCommunity