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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories

@drkimiww.bsky.social
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Poet, professor, scholar of Indigenous rhetorics & literatures, actress, producer, consultant, crocheter, seamstress, beader, Mom, Kaku/Nana, Wonder Woman, Rance’s nukwupu. Warning—this is where I almost strictly poet away my time. “I” is not always “me.”

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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 9h
Pt561 Essie was scared, more than anything, of letting her #guard down. For years, she had been on her own in her casita in Little Tlatelolco. She’d had to look out for herself. She did NOT want the same for Anita. Her #bequest to her great granddaughter would be coraje. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really vivid scene! Nicely done!
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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#vss365 You cry damnation And then expect a #reprieve From your own sins #haiku #poetry
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TL Morganfield @stitchingfiend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's word is "Well". Olivia, the proprietress of a hotel in Moreno Springs NM, has some unusual abilities for a human: she can smell everyone's teotl and read their emotions. #weirdwestern #wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity #Aztec
Going blind had only accentuated her ability to detect these scents, and she now relied on them heavily to guide her upon meeting new people. That, and her empathic perceptiveness. She’d always found it exceptionally easy to know what most people were feeling at any given moment, but maybe because people didn’t fear showing their emotions on their face when talking to a blind woman, everyone now exuded their intensions even stronger than they did their unique scent. The eyes could deceive; the heart could not. Had she been so attuned to this back when she first met her soon-to-be husband Hector, she might have seen past his handsomely charming smile to realize that nothing but pain and misery lay ahead for her for the next seven years.

And this confluence of scent and empathy had served her well in the years since. Whether it was the drunken stagecoach passenger who thought access to the widowed proprietress’s body came with the price of his room or the strange woman who kept trying to pass off a Mexican silver dollar as an American one, as if Olivia wouldn’t know the difference. Though in truth she might have just let it go had she not sensed the woman’s implicit desire to trick her. She was glad the woman Coyolli didn’t return after breakfast, for her very presence had the unsettling feeling of gazing into a dank cave that smelled of dead, slimy things.

But her newest crop of guests were a bit of an enigma. While one of them—Fiona—was clearly in the category of “normal” as far as her smell went—lake water teeming with playful otters, like the ones Olivia’s father used to take her to see in the remaining vestiges of the once mighty Lake Texcoco—the remaining three were something else entirely. The smells themselves were almost otherworldly in their intensity, and they painted strangely vivid images in her head of things she knew she’d never seen even in her sighted days
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YS Lee @writeryslee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People think that it’s my job, as a medium, to #purify places of ghosts. And that makes sense. After all, the idea of someone’s home being haunted by the dead is terrifying... #vss365 #writesky #writingcommunity #microfiction #flashfiction #ghosts
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From: ‘Soulstice’ Prompt: ‘Well’ #WiPSnips
“The point being that I’ve let this, all of this, get to me.” In the scene before her, Death was just starting to realise that something wasn’t quite right with the night. “I suppose I should better snap out of it, then? Honestly, though, I have no idea how to help that boy. How do you stop a grieving child from sacrificing himself in order for his parents to live?”

“Well, that remains to be seen, doesn’t it?” The Death in illusion of the events of Gimble’s … death, turned to face Flirty.

“Death? But …” Flirty looked around, the scene in Gimble’s house fading away, replaced by some indistinct, fog-like miasma. Mumma Troutcatcher and Gimble didn’t look half as surprised as Flirty felt. “… but you were part of the illusion! How can you …? How is …?”

“Dramatic reveal!” Death lifted the pleats of her dress wide, curtseyed, her pigtails bobbing, and then laughed, bouncing on her little black shoes. “Shocking, wasn’t it? Have you finished? Learned anything useful?”

“Not really.” Not exactly enthusiastic about her part in all this, Flirty looked around the fog. “I suppose I’ll just have to muddle through. Somehow.”

“That’s the eighteenth … no, twentieth most important thing you learn as a witch.” Mumma Troutcatcher nodded solemnly. “‘Making things up as you go’ is largely the same thing, but, for some reason, it’s much higher on the list. I have the list at home. You’ll have to ask Cremly for a copy. She has wonderful pen work.”
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By way of #reprieve for not dropping him from the very, very great height of the bridge, the servant swore on both his mothers’ lives, all the Patrons and even the Lord Protector himself that he would not, under any circumstances, tell anyone that Ilyna had been there. He lied, of course. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rory, or Esme, rather, had his #reprieve. The Brotherhood of Broken Bones would not execute the character for stealing the Sacred Bone of the First Brother, if Esme, and Rory, of course, stole the Sacred Skull of the Second Brother, which had also been stolen & was, apparently, more sacred. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When the unexpected com-burst came through, Dylan had thought he and his crew had earned their #reprieve from their duties in the Savannah System, but such was not the case. Instead, it only told him that he had missed a great battle in the Republic System. He still had to wait to fight. #vss365
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pt 560 Meona’hane’e whined, “But I just nearly drowned!” “No #reprieve,” said the first Grandmother. “Entirely your own fault,” said the second one. “You’re absolutely #well!” said the third. “Looked like lying around being lazy after a joy ride to me!” said the fourth. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💫 LIGHT AFTER THE FALL💫 🎃 Coming Oct 20, 2026 🔥🌱 What GROWS from the ashes? 🌪️🌊 #climatefiction 🌲 #rewilding 🌬️ #mindfulness 🔮 #magic 🌊 #tarot GR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... SG: app.thestorygraph.com/books/eb07b0...
"Light After the Fall: an adventure in transcending the post-apocalypse" by Iza Krendl Titus
a river winds through a colorful landscape toward a colorful dusk sky with hopeful star
a tarot Fool figure holds a lantern on a cliff in foreground, symbolizing the tarot-themed journey in my debut novel


#ClimateFiction #clifi #indigenousfuturism #hopepunk #Portland #PDX #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky #ComingsSoon #bookrelease #debutnovel
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
💫 Look for the light coming through the cracks of this crumbling empire 💫 🌪️🌊 #climatefiction 🌲 #rewilding 🌬️ #mindfulness 🔮 #magic 🌊 #tarot 🎃 Coming Oct 20, 2026 GR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/257008812-light-after-the-fall SG: app.thestorygraph.com/books/eb07b027-9ba5-471a-915d-ccd31838a01f
"Light After the Fall: an adventure in transcending the post-apocalypse" by Iza Krendl Titus
a river winds through a colorful landscape toward a colorful dusk sky with hopeful star
a tarot Fool figure holds a lantern on a cliff in foreground, symbolizing the tarot-themed journey in my debut novel


#ClimateFiction #clifi #indigenousfuturism #hopepunk #Portland #PDX #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky #ComingsSoon #bookrelease #debutnovel
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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i look for meteors when i smell your eyes deciduous trees eat the sky a night frog quiet is draped owl sung the silhouetted horizon is velvet belly soft hung deboned, fuzzy sway melodies red elms, bur oaks, catalpas black walnut, sugar maples and hickory all the other obscure angiosperms here
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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
she wears the forest deep bough swept arms and unseen clocks she keeps tidy whorls madness furls and unfurls her hair is a barometer and i always know begging into her eyes i will crawl like dew would on window sills when Autumn begins too a cry of arrows immutably fleeting one supposes
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⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wearing death where we are born the vines, tines, clack loom dowel thread supine low to high fidelity we bell tell bees see wee to buzz give us them fat pollen bellies and fuzzy memories say to us tilt-a-whirl and tea cups this scent of us is and was where all the womb attendants till and sow
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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still AMANDA 💎 Writing Rushak but dressed up for Halloween! #fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #prime -> spring Lara gets a warning from her father - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
"It is your love for him—I see it in your
eyes—that gives me pause. As you say, the war is close to him, perhaps too close, and he is no warrior. He has not even the temperament of a hunter, though
I suspect he kills well and mercifully.
I’ve had a disturbing dream, my daughter,
and I fear he will not return from Gibil the same lad who left the Forest in the spring of young manhood." He stroked his chin. "Observe this fire. See how cheerfully the flames dance, but without soul."

Brother's Keeper
A.C. Turek
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From: ‘Soulstice’ Prompt: ‘Prime’ Alt: ‘Primary’ #WiPSnips
“Gods’ truth! What is the point of roots that aren’t in the ground? That’s what they’re for, isn’t it?” Here he came. Oh. Ilbnot had not forgotten how young he had been, but it was rare to look in mirrors as a mage, lest they look back. “Honestly, Pop. Don’t you think it’s about time you moved to a city. You don’t find undergrowth trying to kill you in a city(1).”

“Nowt wrong wi’ a bit’a murderous undergrowth, my lad. Keeps you on your toes.” Pop hadn’t looked around and Ilbnot remembered thinking that was good, because he wanted to surprise him. So he had.

“Ta-daa!” He jumped in front of his father, careful not to jump too far and fall into the water, balance not being a primary skill for a mage. “What do you think?”

“You’ve grown a beard.” Pop had scrunched his nose up in distaste, but Ilbnot hadn’t felt insulted. Pop rarely showed enthusiasm for, well, anything. “I don’t like it. Them there slippers aren’t practical. Boots, my lad. Can’t go wrong wi’ a nice, solid pair’a boots.”
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dylan hated the petty, everyday work of the captain, now having to head down to engineering to discuss replacements for the carbon dioxide scrubbers, needed to #purify the air and keep this boat liveable. Of course, going down there had its benefits, but when he arrived, she was it there. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The religious icon was now, after a great deal of fighting, in Rory’s hands. Or Esme’s, rather. Now he only had to #purify it, return it to its place in the temple, back through the monsters and demons, and say a little prayer. Not a problem. How hard could it possibly be. The god willing. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every so often, some madman, or religious zealot, took it upon themselves to attempt to #purify the Underside. Fire was usually the preferred weapon, and people died, yes, but the Underside always survived. Ilyna had lived through two blazes, she expected the next would get her, or not. #vss365
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Currently on Stephen Graham Jones The Buffalo Hunter Hunter in Indigenous Vampires and Tim Tingle’d How I Became a Ghost in Native Children’s and Young Adult.
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#vss365 #WIPSnips
Pt569
“Who ARE you?” Meona’hane’e asked in bewilderment. “We’re the Grandmothers!” said the first one. “Or at least some of them,” added the second. “Our old men have been holed up talking for over 500 years, so we found ourselves a few things to do,” quipped the third. “And now, we have decided to help you,” said the last. 
Meona’hane’e stood up, straightening out her damp clothing as best she could. “Okay,” she said. “Help me, then.” 
“Pivot!” said the one who looked Néške'éehe, “first, we’re going to have a sweat to #purify you. You’re in the second #prime of your life! We have to make the most of it.
#vss365 #WIPSnips
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New blog post is up! Chapter 15 of Avalon Tales is now live, as Isabelle, Robyn and Cade take on the traitor! But will he give up easily? Better read to find out! Also, is Riz finally getting out of his hole? tstpjm.blogspot.com/2026/09/194-... #blog #riztherogue #WritingCommunity
tstpjm.blogspot.com
#194 Riz In A Hole Part IV + Short Diversions: Avalon Tales Chapter 15
Happy Blog Day Everyone! Chapter 15 of Avalon Tales is here, and we really are getting close to the end! There's only two - three things to ...
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chapter 15 of Avalon Tales: The Girl With The White Hair has landed on my blog 🙂 tstpjm.blogspot.com/2026/09/194-... Now face to face with the traitor, can Isabelle, Robyn and Cade survive the demonic horde and apprehend him? #urbanfantasy #shortread #WritingCommunity #amreading
Front cover of Avalon Tales
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Comic Tales of Brennan and Riz Issue 119 (First published 16th April 2025) Happens so often Don't forget to check out the other issues of the Comic Tales of Brennan and Riz over at my blog: tstpjm.blogspot.com #Comic #riztherogue
Too good to be true
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Wat does she want me ta say again?" Riz let out a big sigh. "Alice wants you to #renounce your childish ways," I said, looking at the letter again. "Argh! Do I ave ta!" "If you want more money from her... What is the money for?" "Err...Ya betta not knowin!" #vss365 #riztherogue
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From: ‘Soulstice’ Prompt: ‘Delay’ Alt: ‘Pause’ #WiPSnips
“She’ll be trouble for ye, no doubt.” The witch busied herself filling a sturdy looking bowl with various ingredients, but she didn’t look at Flirty. “She’s nothing but trouble, that girl.”

Gammer Goodhiding had that kind of face that wasn’t plump, so to speak, but had cheeks that squirrels would be extremely envious of. The kind of cheeks that dimpled when the owner of them smiled. Eyes that grew little creases at the sides during the same smile. Gammer smiled a lot, but that only seemed to add to the tension and Flirty really wished the older woman would stop smiling so much because it just felt like a trap before the inevitable deadly attack rained down upon her.

“Death?” The pause after Gammer had spoken seemed like it needed filling and Flirty could think of nothing else to fill it with. She filled it with a little more. “Trouble?”

With her knees pressed against her chest, the stool about the size more commonly used by children, or to place feet on to fasten boots, Flirty tried to look around without making it look as though she were judging Gammer’s workspace. She had no room to judge. Her workspace was, effectively, her living room, kitchen, bedroom, by use of a carefully placed curtain, and sometime laboratory. Though, in recent days, she hadn’t had much time to do any research
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dylan would never #renounce his smuggling ways. Not ever. They were, for the moment, on temporary cessation, but he would go back. One day. After The War. Just him and Magpie, thumbing a nose at authority, barely making enough to survive, living day to day. But still flying. Flying free. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A priest of one of the Patrons had once caught Ilyna. He had prayed for her and begged her to #renounce her dastardly, thieving ways. She had left him stripped and tied to his altar as she left with a sack of gold and robes for disguises. She didn’t want redemption. She wanted excitement. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All the man had to do was #renounce his faith in the demonic entity that, quite honestly, couldn’t care less whether the man died or not. He was nothing more than a teeny-tiny cog in a vast conspiratorial scheme among many demonic schemes. That was the way of the game world, really. #vss365
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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rush lets Drisal “in” on his secret, risk-free. #SundaySnips #writingprompt #writingcommunity #fantasy
Shafted light tinted the old vellum gold, the
ink indigo. Mysterious creatures twined into one another, rooted together like a tree clan. And the writing itself, some queer hybrid of runes and script ... he could only blink at it. It hurt his eyes. "What is this?" He TURNED the scroll upside down. "I can't read
it." He squinted. He TURNED it sideways. "The letters are lovely, but the words ... they're gibberish."

Rushak chuckled. "That one is Ancient
Tellinaeic, I believe. They are all like that. If you want answers, you'll find none there."

Brother's Keeper by A.C. Turek
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pt568 #vss365 #WIPSnips
Oeškeso wasn’t alone.
Meona’hane’e was startled to see four old ladies —which she herself had recently been. “Eh bien,” said one. “Ya-de-lah,” said another. “Šaaaa,” said one, who really looked like Néške'éehe. “Oy vey, don’t #delay!” said the last. “#Renounce your ways! This independent streak of yours isn’t going to cut it. You need help”
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pt567 She had #nurtured him back to health, & here he was, taking care of her. She had been so hypnotized by Marvin’s manipulations of the cavern’s miracles, she’d become #unobsevant, forgot her little friend, who was now just puppy himself from drinking & playing in the waters. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ilyna didn’t need to wait and #reckon the distance between the rooftops, she’d already cased both houses days before, watching the movements of the people within, noting the weaknesses, the less obvious entrypoints. She was a small woman, able to slither through practically any hole or gap. #vss365
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This!
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RiddleyThomas @0ffkilter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There always was a reckoning. For not speaking up Not remaining quiet Not smiling Being too noisy. For admitting wrongs not done Then saying you did them. For laughing out loud Moving too slow. Breathing too hard as you cried with no noise A childhood. Then a life. Filled with reckonings #vss365
There always was a reckoning.

For not speaking up
Not remaining quiet
Not smiling
Being too noisy. 
For admitting wrongs
not done
Then saying you did them. 
For laughing out loud Moving too slow.
Breathing too hard
as you cried with no noise

A childhood.
Then a life.
Filled with reckonings
#vss365 



Written for today’s prompt of #reckon

*Black and White image of a blurred child’s figure.


#vss365 #poet #poem #poetry #story #words #writer #photo #artyear #blueskypoetry #australia #EastCoastKin #life #seasons #photography #existence #imageandverse #feelings #Dying #childhood #ImageAndVerse #love #rage #conflict #anger
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The only TShirt I have with poet on it sports the face of Maria Sabina, trekked up from Mexico by a former student who introduced my second husband to the girl he left me for. At least I still love the shirt. #poetry
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cheyenne saying— “A #nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground,” & I #reckon it sounds brutal to some, but it’s about being not. Knives in women’s belts were never just tools. Lululululululu! #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
She felt a deep #hunger, still, she wasn’t about to have someone #medddling around in her kitchen. She’d starve tied in this chair before she’d eat anything that evil hag cooked for her. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Back-ish. Life and work have been keeping me away. Sometimes we #tumble, sometimes we fall. We find our #passion, then get turned aside by life’s twists. It’s hard to stay the course. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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TL Morganfield @stitchingfiend.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Today's word is "advertising" but I'll be vibing with "announced". From the Bone Flower Trilogy. Brothers Red Flint and Obsidian Eagle agree to play the ritual ballgame to determine who will take the throne of Xochicalco. #writesky #writingprompts #TFOTSnip #writingcommunity
Uproarious cheering came when Obsidian Eagle strode out of the hallway opposite us, wearing his father’s yellow and white feathered robe and the enormous quetzal-feathered headdress. Red Flint—who’d been pacing by himself—clenched his fists. Slaves hurried the robe off Obsidian Eagle’s shoulders, revealing his elegant, jewel-encrusted Tlachtli gear. They also replaced the headdress with an eagle-head wooden helmet with feather-covered flaps over his cheeks. 

Lord Spear Fish came out of the same hallway, carrying a maroon rubber ball under his arm. He called both Red Flint and Obsidian Eagle to center court.

Red Flint flashed me a weak smile then ran out to Lord Spear Fish. Obsidian Eagle strolled out, waving to the cheering crowd.
 
Lord Spear Fish raised his hand, and when he spoke, the crowd fell silent. “The first player to win five points, or to knock the ball through one of the rings, will be the winner.”

“I’ve put balls through them three times myself,” Obsidian Eagle announced, smiling up the crowd. “And I intend to make my fourth today.” The audience cheered.

“Today will be my first one,” Red Flint said. “Though it shall be done with your head.”
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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #moth Drisal tries. CW familial abuse - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
"You don't understand!" Drisal cried,
struggling to free his brother. With a swift,
economical motion, Lord Deran threw him back. He tripped across the landing and almost toppled over the tangle of gnarled, woody growths forming the rail.

But Lord Deran only stood over the other, like
a carrion bird over a dying thing. "Law! You believe Law is still alive." He scoffed.

Rushak looked up at him, blood trickling
down the left side of his face. For a shocked moment the only sound was the whisper of MOTHs' wings battering against glowing gem lanterns on the next level. Still glaring, Lord Deran unclenched his hand, only to tighten his fingers around the pommel of his
sword. He wore the weapon always, for no reason Drisal could fathom. "Get your bows and accompany me to Ralla Etania. I won't be your messenger. The Edin will want to hear what happened from the mouth of a witness."

Brother's Keeper
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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #snuggle vibes I don’t use this word, but here’s probably the happiest snuggliest thing you will ever see from me - a joyful reunion! - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
"Oh, Drisal."

His arms encircled her. He buried his face in
her hair and they clung to each other wordlessly until Teryl burst through their door. Drisal gestured, and
the boy bounded to him and up onto the bed and the three dissolved into a puddle of laughter, hugs and tickles.

As much as Lyn needed more of her husband
and he of her, they lay down on either side of their son. And they all went to sleep together like they did when Teryl was a babe, only in more of a heap and with less care.

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Drisal was comforting Rushak after the Archdruid made a horrible request. Lord Deran came upon them, his face twisted with something between a scoff and a scowl, and gestured with his chin. “Drisal, come with me. And leave your poppet.” #FaveLineFriday #WritingCommunity #fantasy #WIP #WriteSky
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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #adept Sucky times in enemy territory. Cerel’s homesick; Rush is comatose; Drisal’s near his breaking point; oh & he hates Virgil. Nothing bad is about to happen. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
Oh, for the hearth-fire of a gathering hall in
the innocent safety of a felara, warm cider in his belly, his palms curled around a steaming mug ... His head snapped around at a disturbance to his left. Weatherlin, one-handed, ADEPTly shortened Mistral's plunge down the little slope, but Drisal couldn't keep up. Exhaustion and cold had the better of him and he fell. Virgil dismounted and hauled him to his feet.

The drag hung unevenly. The end of one pole clung to the lip of the gulch and the one he had dropped sank in the snow. Virgil reached the foundering pole first, but Drisal caught up with him and shouldered the larger man aside. "We don't need your help!" he cried and groped with a stiff hand to
take hold of it again. And he bore the weight for a moment, but lost his grip and staggered as Mistral heaved across. Virgil caught him by the elbow, keeping him on his feet. The drag lurched, cutting a crooked swathe in the snow. Rush's head lolled.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #soup -> stew Rushak reassesses a crystal after Drisal’s first try to imprint it didn’t work. Life in the Workshop can be very emotional. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
"It either works or it doesn't. Let me see." He
settled a tremorous hand on Drisal's shoulder, gently as a bird alighting. All that had come before remained, and the cauldron expanded. Drisal reeled in the STEW. His heart raced, heat trickled in. There was no help for his tears, no help for the livid anguish swirling around and filling him. This, this was real. This was right. And much sooner than it seemed came that which gave meaning to it all, which was the meaning of it all. Love, such love amid the grief, entwining with the rest. The light in the room
brightened; the crystal flashed with a promise of golden hues as Rushak finished his assessment. The glamour faded with his words the instant he took his
hand away. "Let's get it done. It must be what it must be."

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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rushak and Princess Aarrila #SundaySnips #shade #WriteSky #WIP #WritingCommunity #fantasy #writingprompt
Rushak gazed upon her and a weight of
feathers settled itself upon his heart, as if it were an egg containing something precious. The golden eagle's eye in the midst of that weight caught the light of the waning afternoon, reflecting from her sunny hair, and she drew him with her as she glided from
the hall out onto the Sunset Landings. They walked alone to the far sheltered edge where the shadow of a balcony overhead blended with the night SHADE of thick, dark greenery. Her robes flared a little in the breeze, and particolored gemlight sparkled on her
circlet. Her two Acolytes followed at a little distance and halted between them and the people, making a barrier of themselves.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #button Rushak has a nice time with family and friends. They’re talking about another couple. Teryl is 8 years old. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
"It was a wonderful concert," Lara was
saying. "We all experienced Iryla's blessings in the music."

"You belonged there," Drisal said, in response to Rushak's hidden misery. "No one doubts that. Don't you."

Rushak sighed, unBUTTONing his cuffs. He shook his loose sleeves down to his elbows and rested his bare forearms against the edge of the table. "It was missing something. It was missing Flute and Lute."

"Flute and Lute would have been proud to be
up there with you," Thea said.

"Fimb the Flute, Lia the Lute," laughed Teryl.

"That's them," Cerel agreed. He glanced over toward the Frithémerë tables. "Too bad she wasn't."

"Can you blame her?" Thea asked, and Teryl
broke off from laughing, looking sad and thoughtful.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #collapse They knew their guides were assholes, but this is the moment they all realize they’re actually prisoners now. (Ath’kura are the MCs’ bonded horses.) - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
When they reached the north outer gate of
Topan the procession halted. Rushak forced himself to look when the gate ground open, spilling yellowish light over the blurred faces of his companions. Two soldiers took the Agents' horses and disappeared
inside. The ath' kura could not be touched, and Virgil was compelled to remove [redacted] from the striped
one and hand it over to the Redacted]s. Rough hands grabbed Rushak by the arm and yanked him from Shalhra's back, from Drisal's embrace. His leg COLLAPSEd as his foot hit the ground, and he dropped
to the muddy cobblestones in a heap of shattering pain. Lights dazzled him like flashing leaves, the [Redacted]s' laughter, Drisal's enraged, helpless cry.
But that cruelty did not bother him nearly as much as their demand for the surrender of the Sheltri horses.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I regret posting a whole snip (I prefer just a line or two). This is a brand new thing I’m wrestling with - building the foundation of one of Rush’s horse talents but it’s complex to explain. I love a couple of the lines but it needs more work. BQ in comment. #favelinefriday #writingcommunity #wip
In his terror he imagined them running away,
leaving their masters unhorsed while Frasca swept to his rescue. And he felt a lurch as his consciousness shifted and he saw two halves of the world out of two
bar-shaped lenses. One of those fixed on the Kudrum, the vision drenched in his terror. The horse's trusted master transformed into a monster in that eye, triggering a puff of alarm that spread through all four
steeds and they fled. Rushak, his vision normal again, gaped after them even as Frasca came upon him. As the first Kudrum reached for him he vaulted aboard.
Two others unshouldered their bows. He knew they were targeting her. She made for the trees.

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