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Carter Paynedemonium

@carterpaynewrites.com
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Gamer, Coffee lover, Musician He/Him 🚫 GenAI By day I work for a software company to fund my existence in this capitalist nightmare. By night I write, mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and science fantasy all with an Appalachian twist. www.carterpaynewrites.com

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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 11/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.
Man in a plaid shirt with a camera around his neck. It's Ben Sullivan (played by Bremdan Fraser) from the TV show Scrubs. If you want to destroy yourself emotionally watch the three episodes he is in.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 09/09/2026
Don't eat the delicious looking dice. Maybe just one... No! They're MATH rocks, not MOUTH rocks. @diceenvy.bsky.social
A set of pink and teal dice that look like they would be delicious candy. Seriously, I just want to pop one in my mouth and eat it.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 04/09/2026
Publishers to Anthropic about the authors
Police officers looking at a silhouette target.
Text: That little guy? I wouldn't worry about tjat little guy.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 19/08/2026
give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack in your head
Ethan Embry (left) and James Wills as Marc and Eddie (respectively) from Empire Records. They're both high as balls and dancing.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 12/08/2026
In fact...(oh gods I just noticed the typo because fuck me I guess)
Screenshot of a comment on the original post. User CarterPayneWrites
Text: Your delivery will arrive on (sic) seven to ten business weeks.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 01/08/2026
Meme format of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weather's brotastic, veiny  bicep handshake from Predator.

Text: Trans Women, Cis men, terrible dating app pics
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 03/07/2026
Also good to remember to remove your own AI-prompts from your shitty, slop-ridden web site. I was just looking for a description of how to use a scythe for a scene I'm writing. FFS the internet is an absolute garbage fire now. #writing #WIP #Research #FUCKGenAI
Body Positioning And Stance

When using a scythe, proper body positioning and stance are crucial. With regards to feet placement, positioning them shoulder-width apart provides stability. Maintain body alignment, keeping your back straight and knees slightly bent. This ensures balance and prevents strain on your muscles.

To effectively use a scythe, maintain a steady rhythm while swinging the blade. This allows for smooth and efficient cutting. Remember, avoid overusing common phrases and showcase your unique writing style. Additionally, use different expressions at the beginning of paragraphs to engage the reader.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 01/07/2026
Every spring and summer we have a hawk that moves into the neighborhood. This mockingbird was having none of it this morning. The hawk was unbothered. I wish I'd had my phone out to get the several times previously the mockingbird tried.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 18/06/2026
I don't read many comic books, but these covers are awesome. Especially that Power Rangers one. With alt-text.
Comic image for the Turtles of Grayskull No. 1.

Features He-Man in the center. He's holding a sword threateningly and his muscles are so large I'm genuinely concerned his skin won't be able to contain them.

He is surroumded by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Michaelangelo is in the front and he has hair. Glorious, flowing blonde hair. Like he's sprent hours working on it so it looks like he's just spent hours surfing. Covert art for Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Features Gotham City underneath a giant, glowing moon in the background.

Batman is in the center looking quite angry. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles surround him, each looking equally angry. Comic book cover for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

There's a giant mecha turtle looming in the background. In the foreground are six figures, each one a different animal and color.

There's a red and white ninja turtle, a blue a s white ninja turtle, a black wooly mammoth, a pink pterodactyl, a red dinosaur maybe a t-rex, and what appearsnto be a leg and arm of a black ninja turtle. The image is cut off, I mean. Not that the arm and leg are cut off the turtle. I'm sure that ninja turtle is fine.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 27/05/2026
I remember as a kid thinking all those maps were meticulously drawn by the authors themselves. Now I know if there is a map drawn by the author it probably looks more like this. I'm sure there are many, many exceptions and I'm definitely not talking about myself here. 👀😬
Very bad drawing showing a road and river and two squares labeled city and town in handwriting nearly incomprehensible. Seriously, however bad you think it is it is much worse, I assure you.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 22/05/2026
Waffle House style sign. Yellow blocks with black letters

Text: The indescribable feeling you get when you look into the eyes of the unknowable"
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 11/05/2026
Fuck, y'all, go read @annaleen.bsky.social's Automatic Noodle. Charming, cozy, funny, and brimming with the best (and a dash of not the best) of humanity. A bunch of robots take over their restaurant and turn it into something special for the community.
Cover of Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. A robot hand holding chopsticks gripping a mass of large, flat noodles. Seated around the bottom are various robots.

Text: "A story I didn't know I needed right now. So much fun!" - Martha Wells, bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 06/05/2026
QTP with a game that made you a gamer in your childhood.
A screenshot from the video game Pool of Radiance. There's a red border. On the left is a skeleton wearing a horned helmet and holding a swoard in one hand and wearing a shield on the other. On the right is a list of names and stats. At the bottom of the image is the text: "what do you say? (type a single word).

I spent I don't know how many hours playing this as a kid. On computer with 5 1/4 in floppy disks. It took me ages to beat the final emcounter against Tyranthraxus, and I still remember how I beat him.

Chain lightning for the minions, and magic missile against the BBEG.

My favorite part of the game, though, was a cave that was absolutely chock full o' kobolds.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 28/04/2026
Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
An image of the Grinch in a Santa suit having fallen backwards against a broken fence as though all hope has left him and all he has to look forward to is the slow death of everything he knows and loves.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 17/04/2026
This is why it is so important to give your Grinch plenty of water and shade. Their Santa costumes, though festive, do not breathe well.
The Grinch in full Santa gear laying against a wooden fence as though he has passed out.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 15/04/2026
Coffee vibes incoming!
White Coffee mug with a cartoon image of a green bird. Chicken (Rosharan) beneath
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 11/04/2026
As the days get hotter please remember to let your Grinches inside or have a shady spot for them to rest and cool off. They're evolved for cold, mountainous regions, not the heat of the south eastern United States. Plenty of fresh water is also important to keep them hydrated and healthy.
A seven foot tall Grinch Christmas decoration enjoying the sun.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 06/03/2026
Nine games that are important to me for a variety of reasons. Some incredible story telling, some absolutely banger gameplay. Created via my9games.com
Half-Life 2, Destiny 2, Mass Effect 2, Fallout, Control, Elden Eing, Baldur's Gate 3, The Wolf Among Us, Metro 2033
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 03/03/2026
It's women, no it's trans people, actually it's Somalis, actually actually it's Iranian sleeper cells, but it's really Muslims, but really really it's Blacks. Look at who they're NOT saying it is.
Image of an airplane. The red dots show where bullet holes were on planes that returned to base. As the story goes, they wanted to reinforce those places with armor, but someone realized these were the planes that came back, that the other places without bullet holes were where additional armor was needed.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 13/02/2026
Food Lion is playing fast and loose with the term "baby carrot"
The largest of baby carrotsA small bowl containing several baby carrots, one of which is absolutely massive by comparison.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 06/02/2026
Choosing to read Go live as meaning, "put down your phone and go touch grass" and not, "live stream whatever it is you are doing"
Picture of account options from Bluesky. Options are share via, search posts, att to starter packs, add to lists, and Go live
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 02/02/2026
THIS IS WHY!
Black and white cat sitting in a lap
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 02/02/2026
I highly recommend a desk-side cat bed
Black and white cat sitting in front of a window
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 31/01/2026
Describe your Bluesky account in a single image
Man talking to himself in a mirror
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 12/01/2026
Boy, 2025 was a year wasn't it? I wrote the first drafts for two novels, the first draft of a novella, and worked on drafts on a couple of existing works. Lots of words written. Some of them were OK. Goal for 2026 is to fix a lot of those words, write some short stories, and query, query, query.
Black and white cat sitting at a desk. One paw reaching toward the keyboard as if to say, "I just need to write one more word."
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 01/01/2026
John Scalzi's Starter Villain
A cat wearing a suit jacket, shit, and blue tie. Text at the top: meet the new boss

Text at the bottom: Starter Villain New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 31/12/2025
Ringing in the New Year the best way possible
Television displaying the text The Lord of the Rings
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 28/12/2025
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
Red background with a black vase in the foreground. Two flowers are coming out of the vase, one flower is green, white, and orange the other flower is an unlabeled diagram of the flower.

Text in yellow is: Toad the Wet Sprocket
dulcinea
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 23/12/2025
Me, just now, to the uncooperative pickled ginger: Palate cleanser! Palate clenser! Not an appetizer!
Photo of uncooperative pickled ginger and wasabi, next to a bowl of red bean ice cream. Cup of sweet chili sauce in the background.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 20/12/2025
I just learned how big wombats are and I am not okay. I always assumed the were like the size of a groundhog. I can't credit the photo, it was from a reddit post from four years ago, but apparently they're about a meter (3.3 feet) long and between 25 and 40 kg (55 to 88 lbs).
A photo of a person holding a wombat.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 17/12/2025
AI powered consulting firm with no actual clients listed and their "testimonials" from "clients" include names and titles but also no compamy names or actual pictures. You cannot convince me their entire website wasn't built with AI and that all of this is fake. Anyway, here's Kaylee
Picture of a yellow dog with a purple collar. Her name is Kaylee and she's the sweetest, craziest pupper.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 12/12/2025
#wipsnips #writing #writingsky Smashing!
But then he’d entered the reaper and it felt…like home. But a home that had been abandoned for years and had been taken over by the wilderness. Kudzu climbing over the walls, the windows smashed, a family of raccoons living in the bedroom under a bed with a moldering mattress.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 11/12/2025
About 90% of the time spent clipping my toe nails is spent finding where the damn toe nail went as it rocketed off my foot like a woman that found herself sitting between Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller. Cat pic for tax because I made you think about those two luke-warm microwaved fuck-nuggets.
Picture of black and white medium haired cat named Surely getting scritches because I'm not sharing feet pics for free.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 09/12/2025
I remember a time when Google didn't have ads and was actually useful. Now it's all shitty AI summaries full of useless or incorrect information and paid-for ads and good luck actually getting useful results. I know what this makes me sound like. No I don't care. Make search engines useful again.
Cartoon hand holding a newspaper clipping of Grandpa Simpson with the text "OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD"
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 25/11/2025
What it's been like here in the Payne house the past few days. Not a lot of writing, or anything productive, goijg on. Comic is a classic from. @theawkwardyeti.bsky.social
A four panel comic that contains the following conversation between a cartoon liver and gallbladder.

Liver: what do you want gall bladder? Can't you see I have a lot to do?

Gall Bladder (holding stones): I maked these

L: you made STONES? YOU'RE JUST SUPPOSED TO HOLD WHAT I GIVE YOU! GET OUT! GO ON!

GB (looking sad): I maked these
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 04/11/2025
Bad day? Might I suggest a desk-side cat tower and a fluffy chonk? It won't make the horrors go away, but it might make them a little more manageable for the time it takes to scritch.
A black and white cat laying by a window. She is unbothered by the horrors of the world we live in.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 03/11/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity Sometimes it's the littlest things that stick with us.
“I miss those days.”
“Really?”
Ty sat up. “They were simpler. It was just us.”
“We were living off of canned foods and scraps.” Those first several months had been hell. 
“I just remember us being together.” Ty shrugged. 
Walt remembered those days too well. Scared, worried that they would run out of food. That his meager garden wouldn’t provide anything for them, which it didn’t. That bandits, raiders, whatever would come. Didn’t the apocalypse always include these? Now they not only had an abundance of food, so much so that they even had a small group dedicated to food preservation, but electricity and a steady supply of clean water. 
“We’re together now,” Walt started to say but stopped himself. That would have been a lie. Ty was in here. Brian was…somewhere, Walt hoped. They were farther apart than they’d ever been.
“We sat around that fire in the front yard roasting marshmallows. You showed Brian and me how to put them together. Chocolate on one cracker, then squeeze the marshmallow between the two crackers. That was nice.” Ty said.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 26/10/2025
Time for our annual watch. That's a rock fact! #overthegardenwall
A rock with a face on it from Over the Garden Wall
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 26/10/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
He glanced at himself in the mirror beside the door. His silver hair stood on end. He ran his hand through his hair but it popped right back up. He plucked his hat from the hook and slid it onto his head. 
Frank Dreisen, drunk, was gone. 
Frank Dreisen, detective, opened the door. A haggard looking woman and a pissed-off bulldog of a man were standing on his threshold.
“Good, uh, afternoon? How can I help?” Frank hiccupped. 
Okay, Frank Dreisen, drunk detective, had opened the door.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 24/10/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
Beside the garden were a few headstones. There was a path to them, but it wasn’t as worn down. He walked over to them and knelt down.  There were six in total. They looked well-preserved, though they were covered in a thin layer of grime. The memorial back home had to be cleaned occasionally. Is this what it would look like if there was no one around to keep it?
There was certainly not six or seven years-worth of crud on them. Maybe a few months. There were names and dates chiseled professionally into the four oldest stones. The newer two, that simply had Mama and Papa on them, were sloppily carved, and both were marked with April six years ago. E-Day.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 23/10/2025
No gradient, but there is a swirl of colors. #WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
Silently, a bulbous form rose from the dirt on four spindly legs. It had an iridescent mother-of-pearl sheen; rainbows of color swirled over the metallic body and legs.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 11/10/2025
The news last night and today is just... a lot. #WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
“Welcome everyone. For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Sal Anthony. I am…was…minister of First Methodist church over in St. Charles. I'm not here to console you. Any comfort I could offer pales in comparison to the tragedy we have all faced.  
“A year ago our world was thrust into a challenge no one was prepared for. My hope, such as it is, is that this will bring us closer together some day. Today, however, is for remembering, as a community, everyone that we lost.”
Reverend Anthony continued, but Walt’s mind was elsewhere. The weight of Sarah in his arms, Brian and Tyli next to him holding hands, their neighbor, Sam, and her partner. She’d found Janie just a week ago. They buried her with the others. Walt shot down the objections before anyone had a chance to make one. The graveyard was for the victims of E-Day, and Janie may not have died on E-Day, but she was absolutely its victim.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 09/10/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
When Vance Newcombe was sixteen he’d discovered a way to convert far more solar energy into electricity while working in his parents’ yard. He’d connected one of his new panels up to a battery and the surge of energy from the panel caused the battery to explode, taking out his parent’s garage, guest bedroom, half a bathroom, and started a fire that took days to quell, only being able to be stopped when he heroically fought through the blazing inferno to disconnect the solar panel. 
That last part was probably apocryphal but it made for an engrossing story for a bunch of middle schoolers. The fire was real, though.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 08/10/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
They were led through the police station to a room in the basement that was lined with a series of cells along opposite walls. If this was home now Brian would have much rather been back on the farm under the blazing mid-July sun. 
The room made Brian think of old episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. He wouldn’t have been surprised to find Otis sleeping off last night’s bender in one of the cells. Why the hell did he remember the name of the town drunk in some old TV show, but couldn’t remember the names of some of his own squad?
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 07/10/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity A dash of magical realism in amongst the apocalypse
Brian stayed behind a moment, overwhelmed by a sudden feeling of peace. Of safety. The sky above Birdie’s yard seemed brighter. Warmer and bluer. Like she’d released some kind of power into the earth here at the threshold to her land and it pulsed with life.  
Brian meant to ask her if there was some significance to what she’d done, but something in that moment told him to remain quiet. He closed his eyes and breathed deep, basking in the feeling of life, and then turned and followed the others. By the time he remembered it was too late to ask.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 06/10/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
These days the mug only ever contained water, but in his heart Walt was a coffee man. He missed the flavor and jolt of energy from the caffeine, of course, but what he really missed was the ritual. Grinding the beans while the kettle gurgled away as the water heated to the perfect temperature. Measuring the grounds. Getting the perfect pour. The smell rising from the carafe as the water passed through the ground beans. The mug of tea he would make for Greta while he prepared his morning coffee.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 03/10/2025
No hibernate. Best I can do is some sleeping kids. #WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
All three kids were sound asleep in their rooms and the world around him was silent. A couple of lightning bugs drifted their way over the weedy lawn. The first ones he’d seen since E-Day. 
Looking east the faint glow from the St. Louis Thunderhead was barely visible. He watched the pulses of light from the storm in silence for several minutes as he took periodic swigs from the bottle.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 02/10/2025
Had to go with a synonym. Sarah is a bit of brightness in what can be a fairly bleak world. #WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
Sarah hopped up to the table, setting Philomena in the seat next to her, and looked up at Walt, eyes wide. “Morning, daddy,” she said, a wide grin across her face. She was wearing pink rubber boots, bright pink leggings that had been patched too many times to count, and a neon green t-shirt with the words “Tou-can do it!” under a brightly colored bird with a large beak. The finishing touch was a purple tutu.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 01/10/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
As they ate, Birdie talked about her daily life. It had probably been a long time since she’d had any contact with another person, and she was letting it all out at once in a steady stream of details. Everyone listened patiently as she talked about the minutia of her days.
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Carter Paynedemonium @carterpaynewrites.com · 30/09/2025
#WIPSnips #writing #Writingsky #WritingCommunity
Brian slid out the back door of the transport and squinted down the highway into the early afternoon sun wondering when—if—he would ever go back. What was he thinking? Of course he would go back. Ty was there. He’d have to go back for xer.
“Yo, Morrow, you’ve got to move.” Rachel nudged him with her foot.
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