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Heather Marie Cline

@hmclinewrites.bsky.social
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✨️📚💙 Writer | Caregiver | She/Her | 40s | Missouri | Words in Mud Season Review, Five Minutes, Bright Flash, & more. Writing a book. 💙📚✨️

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
😭💔
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I keep moving so grief won't catch me I've left it behind so many times" Felt! ♥️
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That is AMAZING!!! Huge congrats! 👏🎉
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congrats! 🎉
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Solaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i must not fear The Project
tumblr post by gailynovelry:
"The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project."
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This made me cry! Such a powerful, lovely piece. And yes we will! ♥️
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Trixie @miloandme.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The FBI used to be legitimate.
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton absolutely said it best! You must take a listen!
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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God @thegodshow.com · 20/08/2026
The other day, the president told a 10-year-old boy rescued by a lifeguard that if he were there, he would have let him drown, and everyone there laughed so hard because that shit is so true.
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks! 😊
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thank you! 🙂
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congrats! That's awesome!
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thank you so much!
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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you are still adding to this list, I'd love to be added to it!
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Congrats! That's wonderful.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/08/2026
Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️
Most people don't dream of being fancy-rich.
I dream of being rich enough to say, "Treat's on me," without thinking twice. Rich enough to have a home that feels like a hug, a fridge stocked like a five-year-old with adult money, and a tray of chocolates waiting for someone to grab. Rich enough to quietly help a friend before they even have to ask. To send a care package when someone's too tired to reach out. To buy all the pencils from a kid on the street so they can go home early. For me, the real money dream isn't about luxury - it's about having enough to give, enough to comfort, enough to turn ordinary moments into something extraordinary.
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How does it even get that far???
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Congrats! 🎉
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
I have no clue who needs to see this but start writing again.
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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
BRAIN: 7 devils by florence + the machine on repeat please ME: While I really like that song, putting it on constant repeat seems ... concerning. BRAIN: nope nope, everything is fine in here, honest ME: Oh yeah, that was 100% reassuring and believable. BRAIN: PLAY SONG NOW
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Last year at this time, I sent out my first long-form nonfiction piece. It was accepted by Mud Season Review, which later nominated it for a Pushcart Prize. It's the most vulnerable, meaningful thing I've published (so far), and I'm proud of myself for finally having had the courage to share it.
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Creative Nonfiction Issue #79 - Mud Season Review
A Way Out Of Nowhere My stepdad, Jay, jumped on the hood of the car as Mom was backing out of the driveway, then kicked the windshield in to stop her from leaving. Tiny, clear-blue shards flew with en...
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I love this song so much. Listening to it once is never enough!
youtu.be
Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~ Agatha Christie Summer (1911) 🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly of them, they should have behaved better” - Anne Lamott
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Friends, WHAT a day. I have two CNF pieces out today in The Sandy River Review. They’re both about my dear friend Jessica who passed 18 months ago. I’d love it if you gave them a read 🧡🙏🏾💔 sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/h... sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/s...
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Sugars by Sumitra Singam
Your mother and brother don’t know what to do with your sugars. On a summer’s evening, the air heavy with your loss, they bring them to me in a box. Icing sugar in a Tupperware, as if you’d packed …
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Heather Marie Cline @hmclinewrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes! I finished it a few days ago. It's sooo good!
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
HOW I GOT TO VIETNAM
 
I forget what year it was — 
memory will provide forgiveness.

I was 17. My grandparents had died, 
and we had lost the farm to the bank.
I was draft-able, and brought up
both Mennonite and Amish — 
war was not an option.

I met the Berrigan brothers
while they were burning draft cards.
They suggested becoming a medic
for the American Friends Service Committee.

I saw more action than most combat soldiers,
going in and out of warzones
bringing back the wounded,
assisting with surgery, 
zipping up the dark secrets of war
in black body bags.
 
When people find out what I did,
they ask, didn’t it bother you?
 
After years of butchering on a farm,
seeing men lose hands to combines,
finding a deer shot 
and dragging towards death,
it was not the blood or guts
or carrying trays with amputated arms or legs — 
 
it was the cries for mommy 

Martin Willitts Jr
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Murmuration of starlings: A natural phenomenon where thousands of starlings synchronize flying together to form stunning shapes.
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G. Lawrence 📚💙📚💙📚 @glawrence.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The enchanted forests of Finland-based artist Ulla Thynell
Four artworks depicting enchanted forest scenes, featuring a unicorn, a fairy, a woman in a cloak and several otherworldly trees, bushes and plants.
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Valorie 🐈‍⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Good morning ☕️
Post by @sketchesbyboze: If you're feeling discouraged about the future of our world, remember that somewhere tonight a little girl is reading a book about brave kids battling overwhelming evil, and she is beginning to make plans
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Yep. There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
I don't get greed. If I had Bezos cash, l'd be fixing a problem every week.
Homelessness? Not on my watch.
Hungry kids in school? No way. Animal shelters full? I'll build 10,000 more.
maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate
The simple truth is that anyone with anything close to that level of empathy simply wouldn't be able to reach anything close to bezos levels of wealthy, because that amount of money requires unbelievable amounts of human exploitation
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The extremely rare catcopus.
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Choose your leaders

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward

is to be controlled

by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool


is to be led

by the opportunists

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief

is to offer up

your most precious treasures

to be stolen.
To be led by a liar


is to ask

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant

is to sell yourself

and those you love

into slavery.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 01/04/2026
If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/03/2026
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.
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joesferatu @24fps.myatproto.social · 05/03/2026
i cannot believe i have to say this, but stop making burger ceo eating burger videos
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“Discernment can make you the villain in rooms where denial is the culture”.
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