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Henry Coles @pitest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The incident at my school was a murder. Unlike most incidents it wasn't talked about at all, to the point that it has been largely memory holed. 1/n

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Question raised in this thread...I mean raised by me but thru discussion: Can anyone think of any UK sci fi middle grade dealing in government racism/immigration? #UKKidLit

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Fragment of memory for #VSS365 ‘This is how you #heel in a bare-root plant,’ he told me. ‘You can move it later - in spring or autumn - but for now make sure you get it into soil.’ I still have those raspberries and hear his calm instructions whenever I pick them

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Tanka for #VSS365 prompt #space A firefly starscape fills this #space. Galaxies of light whirl, undulate, grow, poke holes in the night. A firework display for one

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Prose poem from prompt #realm for #VSS365 It is the shame of this #realm that power is its altar and the body and blood of mass are real. Shrouds muffle whispers of love, kindness. Humanity drowns in war

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A Sunday #haiku not written from any prompt other than real life A small white feather curled on train floor. Just one white feather. It’s perfect.

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Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Today is the start of #IndieBookshopWeek, so why not call by your nearest indie bookshop, admire their bunting and help them unburden their bookshelves?

A view down Broadgate in Grasmere. The bookshop on the corner and a misty grey green fell in the distance. Red phone box visible next to the bus stop. Puddles on the road.

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

#haiku written for #VSS365 prompt #shed As shed leaves carpet and badgers slumber deep, tears fall from grey sky

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#senryu for #VSS365 prompt #scrape And while they scour, #scrape, wipe-out … we witness all, remember all #WeWontForget

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This was like no other portal in the game. No magical tunnel crafted between far away places. This looked like a rip. A tear in the #skin of the world. The effect looked fantastic, but Rory knew that, in the game, any great changes to the world held terrible consequences. For everything. #vss365

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#senryu for #VSS365 prompt #skin A #skin memory, wrinkled, scarred, precious, of your baby hand in mine

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Brook ArtHuman (she/her) @brookarthuman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"Happy Monday 😀 Your #vss365 #prompt for June 9 is #small 🐜" These words are small. Only little breaths of vowels And consonantal pauses after all. And yet, These tiny letters piled on top of each other in glorious multitudes Can form ideas so big and far-reaching that they can remake the world

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C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Unsent i’m not looking for signs of love returned—not really. only mourning the #small part of me that once believed. completely. in that type of love. it doesn’t come easily. that’s all. maybe— that’s all. last of the light across the frost fence my breath releases #vss365 #haibun #prosepoem

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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

where the light breaks thin a #small leaf clings to the wind neither near nor far #vss365 #haiku #zen #poetry #blueskypoets 📸 D. Romanesi via Flickr

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

#tanka written for #VSS365 prompt #small A hope-light rises pushes against dark. The tide gulps, swallows its prize. A faint glimmer - #small against might - remains. Push again. Push.

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The machine will feed and continue until none remains not even a #single one. Listen, the weeping dark screams - calls to you #tanka for #VSS365 prompt #single

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

When she laughed, it burst out of her as if kept coiled tight for too long in a dusty box. Its volume swelled like a #spring tide, ebbing in shushing waves, the rest of us left beached and floundering Snippet written for #VSS365 prompt #spring

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

If you haven't read this yet (but you have used AI) then I would strongly recommend you read it. Super creepy.

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What if we’re made-up from shards of the people we meet, a collection of good wishes, a kindness here, a thank you there, a good wish, a scowl? What if we’re all walking bundles of #splinters of one another? Would that knowledge make us kinder? Thoughts for the day from #VSS365 prompt #splinter

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

If we knew where each honeyed #sunbeam would alight, where each soft drop of rain would meet the earth, we could wash in rays, warm in water. #tanka for #VSS365 daily prompt #sunbeam

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Another #vision drenches her mind, pulls her under until she’s drowning in air. Reality bleeds into green skin, clawed fingers, a kiss of spite and anger. #VSS365 #vision

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

#brine in my hair, on the wind and salting my skin. Toes plunged deep in sand #haiku for #VSS365 daily prompt #brine

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Kat Revier (she/her) @katrevier.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

#vss365 #prompt Thursday, May 29th is #brine Go ahead. Get salty today! #Brine – Salty water or the ocean itself. Used for preserving food. We only have a few days left together! I've so enjoyed this! Starting June 1st @SeptimusBrown will be your new host. Beat the summer rush and follow him now!

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The sounds of her feet
Hitting the deck of the ship as she ran
Thud
Thud
Thud
Boots loud on the hard surface
Hot breath of pursuit behind

She hit the rail like a gymnast
Vaulting over in one swift move
Arms out to embrace the ocean
Then together as if in prayer
A grateful blessing as she hit
Hands—head—body

Slipping into the cool briny waters
Pushing downwards
Flicking hard
Strong legs no longer needed
Replaced once again
By her beautiful blue tail

Taking in great gulps of salty sea
Letting the elixir purge her
Lungs of the poison air
They had forced into her
Noxious toxins flushing out
Cleanse her body
Each inhalation taking her
Further away from
Sunlight—surface—Man

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

He’s done it! Charles completed his 400km bike ride London-Paris 🥇 Please take a moment to read his story & donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/charles...

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I'm fundraising to support King's Children's Transplant Team!

Help Charles Lawson raise money to support King's College Hospital Charity

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A honeyed #curse drips from his lips. A poisoned kiss ripened with spite. His gaze pulls her close, hypnotised, pinned. She draws from the deep - flees. #VSS365 #curse #tanka

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

An animal that hunts, rips, maims, kills. A person who follows meaning harm. Hunter. Ripper. Killer. Victim blamer. #predator #VSS365 #predator #tanka

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#toxic words drip from your sandpaper tongue. They burn. I dissolve, erode #VSS365 #toxic #haiku

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Sea unicorn twists tusks a greeting, click, whistle. Silver bubbles rise #VSS365 #narwhal #haiku

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

He had a way of getting right to the heart of things. Not cutting like a laser, but gently, bit-by-bit until there it was. Yes, he lived life the way it should be lived. If you were to cut his bones, the #marrow would read “love, joy, curiosity”. Like a stick of rock #VSS365 #marrow

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Author James Fuller @authorjfuller.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Word of the Day teratoid [ ter-uh-toid ] adjective resembling a monster a Greek word that means "monster-like." You can use it to describe the bizarre, grotesque, or that strange sculpture in your office lobby. When "weird" just isn't weird enough, teratoid has you covered.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Criticizing the actions of the Israeli government is not antisemitism. Recognizing the horror of Gaza does not mean support for Hamas. No one should be shooting anyone. At concerts. On diplomatic tours. In front of museums. In hospitals. Full stop.

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

In the dream, I soar with stars A soft #selkie of the skies Lithe in the night as I chat to the moon. And when she’s shooed away, Tucked up tight, My sinews reform to lumber the land #VSS365 #selkie

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Bone white fingers on metal. Gates that #whimper as they’re closed, afraid of what they’ve allowed in, perhaps. Steady footsteps on dead grass. Not long now, just one more. Ahead, laughter rings joyful, free, alive. Not long now. Just one more For #VSS365 daily prompt #whimper

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When #defence looks like life stunted, shrivelled, shrunk Snapped in two Wrapped in white When shrouds line up like broken teeth Fodder for an ever hungry beast When every bone’s a scream, And every soul a call, Then humanity has been the fee #VSS365 #defence

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq... I think we need to be quite clear that starving people's babies is not OK. Glad to see that more countries are now taking action against this. What an absolute disaster for the families out there.

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UN tells BBC 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without urgent aid

Tom Fletcher says five aid trucks allowed into Gaza yesterday have not yet reached people, as the UK, France and Canada threaten action against Israel.

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Scottie2 @scottie2.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

60 more people mostly civilians women & children killed in Gaza last night with further action threatened soon Meanwhile blockade of supplies threatens famine Starmer should do more but Trump has lost interest to UN must act

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Rachel Prozac @rachelprozac.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Some of my favourite Nikita Gill for International Women's Day.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The power of Crufts compels you.

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I genuinely can’t wait to gets my hands on a copy of this new beauty from award-winning author @erandalljones.bsky.social Just get a load of that cover page! 👻🚂

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Emily Randall-Jones @erandalljones.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I've finally made it on here! I'm a proudly neurodivergent children's author so come connect if you don't mind babbles and rambles on all things books and whatever my special interest happens to be at the time. Also... COVER REVEAL AT 1PM TODAY!

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year everyone 🎆🥂🍾

A short poem by me, Cate Haynes, which reads; May the returning sun light up the new year
May you have fun creating things you’re proud of
May you make new friends and cherish time spent with old ones
May you find magic and love and wonder every day
May you thrive

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thanks to everyone who responded with band names, you all rock* 🤘 * pun intended

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Ok #Writers of Bluesky, hit me with some great punk/rock band names a group of 16-17 year old English lads might come up with for their band. The kind of thing that’s almost amazing but comes off a bit lame-sounding, like Twisted Pony or Melted Lemon, that kind of thing

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

My wip didn’t make a comp shortlist this week, but I woke-up today able to feel proud of having longlisted in the first place Then I saw this quote on another platform and remembered that we writers are pretty cool folk #Writing #ThisWritingLife

Donna Tartt quotation about how writing can change its readers from the inside

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Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Illness level; functioning (barely) on 4 hours sleep and two cups of tea I am no longer human, just a fleshy bag of coughs

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