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Jan Karlsson

@jangoeswriting.bsky.social
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Watty Award winner 2021, 6x shortlisted. Ambys Award winner 2025, 2024 & 2x 2023. 4x ONC Award shortlisted. Writer (🤔). (⛔️No DM’s⛔️. I’m too damned old to be verifying my damned age!)

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 5h
a Dickensian office in the 19th century was buried in bundles of loose papers stashed in boxes only specialised clerks knew where special papers slept one missing paper ignited a frenzy a #hurricane at Category 5 #vss365 #poetry
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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 5h
The #hurricane looked pretty as it danced over the horizon. The swirls of smoke grey mixed with blue bruise hues and painted the whole sky angry. It was strange to watch the houses and cars get tossed through the sky like the whole history within meant nothing. I guess it didn't, really. #vss365
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YS Lee @writeryslee.bsky.social · 5h
Some fun facts about our dog Winston. He is obsessed with cows. He loves apples and afternoon naps. And also he’s turning seventy years old this year... #hurricane #vss365 #flashfiction #microfiction #magicalrealism #dogs
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Mary and her Typos @msamios.bsky.social · 5h
#vss365 #prompt #hurricane a matter of course i became nothing but dross when your hurricane blew through the locus of my small life. You tore down the nests that sheltered me and carried me away. You dropped me by the side of the road crumpled, torn, without a backward glance. 10-05-2026
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DiMono @dimono.ca · 5h
Some of them had lengthy plaques she could read, which allowed her to loiter in front of them for a time. It felt like she was there forever, and only a #hurricane would make the man come back out. Eventually, to pass the time more quickly, she called out to the woman. #vss365 #writing
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H.A.L. Zaldívar 📚✏️🎮 #Orquestober Monthdragón @halzaldivar.bsky.social · 5h
There used to be a #mountain where people became gods. After the Greatest War, it became a desert. But the mountain endured. Or did it? Anyone who ventured there since, never returned. #vss365
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Frfly Wndrfly @frflywndrfly.bsky.social · 6h
The sugar cane The #hurricane The love of your life And the concomitant pain The heart is like A pin cushion The beads of blood The beads of blood The jewels That make the jewelry The storm And then its eye Sometimes you get low But then you get high #vss365
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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 6h
A pattern strikes where every shadow whispers doubt in my ear. I must clean the fur, yet a hurricane of incertitude cripples me over and over. Seventy is too loud, but sixty isn’t enough. Back and forth, which volume to choose? #OCD #thingstowriteabout #WildWalkPrompt #vss365 #FoxProse #2WordPrompt
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 6h
#hurricane (subbed original Mayan word, Huracán, God of storms) #wall #vss365 #WIPSnips
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D.C. Swanson @dcswanson.bsky.social · 6h
Some say they’ll brave the #hurricane, then run when it begins to rain. #vss365
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Lexikon @lexikonical.bsky.social · 6h
#vss365 Everything went quiet, like the eye of the storm. Her head was empty, silent for once, having been overloaded by the sheer tidal waves of thoughts and fears assaulting her. She stood dazed and confused, waiting for the feeling of helplessness to rise up and wash her away like a #hurricane.
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word-massager.bsky.social @word-massager.bsky.social · 6h
The blustery orator issued an apology of dubious contrition His sin of commission was a #hurricane of hubris lame ass excuses that blew away the natives now were very pissed they had placed their trust is such an insincere blow hard #FoxProse #vss365 #poetry #poem #amwriting
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scmom2jrjr.bsky.social @scmom2jrjr.bsky.social · 7h
#vss365 #hurricane grief: emotional #hurricane axis of despair while anger whirls all around and through so much anger previously controlled and contained the rage surprises yet sustains until calm returns and settles emotional hurricane
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𝑲 🎶🥰🎶 she/he/they @k-she-he-they.bsky.social · 7h
The traveler Jack carries? A #Hurricane Bringing hangovers and headache pain That red Solo cup Will mess him right up But it's Mardi Gras! There he goes again... #vss365 #poetry #limerick #limericks #WhyIsTheRumGone?
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Shoulder Dance Get Low with Red Cup
Alt: A guy dancing with a red Solo cup in front of what I believe to be an extreme closeup of Saweetie's face? Maybe?
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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 7h
= hurrycant = an arbitrary wind with one eye watching what we will learn before the tide rises #vss365 #hurricane #poem #poetry #micropoetry #imagist #imagism v3
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bloggingbaker.bsky.social @bloggingbaker.bsky.social · 7h
It was a mile off the road with the only access being a gravel drive with a marker that read 'Paradise Found- Bob's Collectibles'. The shop sat in a clearing dotted with seashells and garden gnomes. Beside the shop a tallish post showed the high water marks of each hurricane that came by. #vss365
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Castle shackles @crowslight.bsky.social · 7h
Black feathered Hurricane Overwhelmed The damed day Overcrowded At rodent Roundabout Waiting for A squishing Sound Four more, As I lay my Spades before Walking into Work today One, who Can't fly, He's hopping Around me Mad, mad, mad... #vss365 #hurricane He's home Art F W Benson
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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 7h
Jon had never been in a #hurricane before, but found himself mesmerized by it. The day had gone from beautiful to frothing mad in a few hours, the streets of the tiny town flooding as the surf pounded and the wind howled. He never thought it could be the siren that drowned him. #vss365 #microfiction
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Jaime @jamellen.bsky.social · 7h
A yellowing button, just the one; each hole was once stitched to his favourite jacket. Which remained in the back of the old oak wardrobe, safe like an old tatty boat in the harbour. #Vss365 #harbour #OurPoetry @ourpoetryx.bsky.social #Penstricken #button
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M @midnightineden.bsky.social · 7h
this day would have normally started with a #hurricane of feelings happiness and sad and everything in between no chairs or tables are broken bodies don't litter the road I am surprisingly content I don't know where to go #vss365
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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 7h
Tiny stars wink and shift in the translucent woven curtain from the afternoon October sun, a trick of the light. When the world seems even more of a hurricane than usual, it's these little respites of natural magic that remind you to still feel the wonder of discovering the world around you. #vss365
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Castle shackles @crowslight.bsky.social · 8h
It's eye Blinks at Its own Surprising motion, In capsizing Entire oceans Swirling Old world Debris; The flying church bells His howling wolf whistles The painful pricks of It's wildfield's snakes And overgrown thistles. The hurricane After treason, He says Its high season #vss365 #hurricane
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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 8h
#vss365 #hurricane Up I went into the hurricane’s eye wall Bouncing and tumbling around like a kid’s ball Centrifugal force Took over of course The wonders I saw from inside that vast squall
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 8h
In the center of The #hurricane There's a calm That makes My atoms scream The rain ceases— The skies part Like a torn veil There you are With a lady in each arm— Storm clouds who cackle At my irrelevance Hidden hazards Stand before us— My feet move I fall into Your eyes & sigh #vss365
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Cyrano @vgvg.bsky.social · 8h
Debt descends like a hurricane Taking your roof and your car Life sucked up on the whim of a wind The spiral of disbelief In the eye of self recrimination The debris of who you were Is a lemonade stand Dumbfounded children gaze When all is gone with the storm Rebuild #vss365 #hurricane
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Noor Mahal @rubbishpoet.bsky.social · 8h
Hurricane force winds Bring back vivid memories Trauma of past storms #haiku #haïku #haikupoetscommunity #haikupoem #haikupoet #haikucommunity #poem #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt
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Aeryn Rudel @aerynrudel.bsky.social · 8h
We called him #Hurricane Hartigan. The most feared and least seen hitman in the O’Malley Mob. When there was a big problem, and the bosses needed it handled fast, he’d blow into town, leave a dozen corpses in his wake, and a clear message that no one escapes the storm. #vss365 #microfiction
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A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social · 9h
#BraveWrite #vss365 #WIPㅤ #AmWriting #Script “Normal is a mirage. The only 'normal' is the setting on a washing machine. I'm not going to apologize for surviving my share of life's storms & pouring rain. For the most part, I AM 'sunny with blue skies'-but beware- so is the eye of a #hurricane.”
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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 9h
That new #pattern #over the #portal shows you where to #strike in the event of a #hurricane but not the actual location of the portal itself. How do you know that? Because I’m the wizard for this area. Ha! And I’m the Pope. Try again. #vss365 #vssdaily #2wordprompt #thingstowriteabout
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Castle shackles @crowslight.bsky.social · 9h
I want You in laughter And the Tears of Us getting Silly I want You happy, Smiling With everthing We dressed up Homely and Frilly Me, Escaping This hurricane, I only require Your words I want their Peace, Thats always Been yours To give Then, We get silly And frilly #vss365 #hurricane
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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 9h
“’Tis true I’ve butterflies inside my roly-poly belly.” BREAKING: THE HURRICANE’S NOW PREDICTABLY SPIRALING <yawn stifled> TOWARD THE HEART OF THE MILKY WAY. IT’S UNEXPECTED TO HIT BEFORE CHAOS IS ORDERED. “Shush, guys! Beat slower, will ya? Y’all remember the equation?” #vss365 #hurricane #Oulens
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 9h
#vss365 #hurricane i write you in the lines on my palms I touch you deep with my words I stir in you a hurricane born out of our desire’s dreams I absorb you all of you into my soul hiding you somewhere between my ribs where I can breathe you and raise you high in my poems 🖤 #ωнιѕρєяѕ
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Katherine Traverse @kattra.bsky.social · 9h
poll is live! #vss365 crowd, please consider my interactive story~ today: what? all the players are in one place? wonder how long that’s gonna last…👀 *cross-posted on the Bird🐦Site (same username/pinned post) *this is the best place to read the story from the start~💖
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Linda St. Vincent John @lindasvj.bsky.social · 9h
life can be compared to that of a #hurricane our moods fluctuate on a regular basis our words change course depending on a situation our thoughts become complex when challenged another major political storm is approaching as i speak #vss365 #poetry #writing
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Wicked Witch on Bike: Everyone Take Cover!
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Lizzy Perkins @lizzyjperkins.bsky.social · 10h
Nana! She races towards me flinging her arms around my waist then drags me to the garden to play football and imaginary games like running across the grass arms outstretched like a plane I’m caught up in her vortex she’s a #hurricane #vss365
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Animated Girl Running
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Professor Fox ✨🖤🌹 @darkxfer.bsky.social · 10h
patient until the eye of the hurricane as we love the torment of the chaos peace becomes a weapon to wield when we spend our moments on the edge #vss365
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S.A. Harper / Word Oyster @wordoyster.bsky.social · 10h
I'll bring storm to calm if you finally show me your hurricane's eye #vss365 (HURRICANE) #erotica #haiku
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L.D. Tudge @dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk · 10h
#Hurricanes are, by nature—though the reader, I expect, already knows this. However, there are times when the whole business of wind getting thoroughly above itself could be more assertively bridled. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #prose #emoetry #poets #blueskypoetry
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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 10h
Not a #hurricane, they said We spent that night Crouched by the kitchen stove In the grey light Tin sheets whipping round the walls Dishevelled morning rose In broken trees Tiles stuck the land like daggers Staggerment On a wind-up radio Send us, West Wind of fury No hurricane Amen #vss365
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Arti Sounds @artisounds.bsky.social · 10h
Sometimes I bottle up my frustration Until everything spins. Like a hurricane, tearing through and sowing devastation. Blowing over as fast as it arrived, Leaving everyone stunned that they survived..... #mondaymood #mondaymotivation #humor #poetry #vss365 #hurricane
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Jyari @jyari3000.bsky.social · 10h
#vss365 #hurricane #poetry #BlackSkyRelay
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Janique (they/she/iel) @puncprosody.com · 11h
Are we in the eye or on the other side? A #hurricane tore me from your arms or you from mine Who's to say? Semantics don't soothe the aching weight of the gulf of empty space Still my heart feels yours alive A mysterious sense science can't yet explain We'll weather it apart together I pray #vss365
Blurry shoplights at night through a rain-speckled windshield.
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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 11h
it is said that the wings of a butterfly may induce a hurricane chaotic principles — cause and effect yet I tend to believe this gentle fluttering of dusted fragile bodies feeding on last asters won't provoke mighty winds #vss365 #poetry
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Eileen Curley Hammond @curleyhammcozy.bsky.social · 11h
There would be a full moon tonight at high tide, and at the same time, a #hurricane was supposed to hit. People scurried, buying supplies, shoring up windows, and packing bags with sand. She painted her nails as the wind grew strong. It was the perfect time to dispose of the body. #vss365
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funnyfrogget.bsky.social @funnyfrogget.bsky.social · 11h
#vss365 #hurricane (published January 2024 in academyoftheheartandmind.com/2024/01/08/t...
The little things we say to get us through the hurricane

Fear not, my love, it will be over soon,, the howling
has become much lower & the loose roof tiles have already
stopped their banging.

Don’t be afraid, we’re safe in this house, 
it’s solid. My greatgrandfather built it with his
own two left hands. 

I know the trash cans are racing down Main Street. 
I’ll collect them tomorrow, when it’s over. 

Look, even the trees are waving to signal that
everything is allright. One is even
caressing the roof to console the house.

Put your head on my shoulder, darling, 
I will stay with you until the storm is over, 
even if it takes days or years.
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Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 11h
We started to see #patterns in #hurricane behaviour before they disappeared. They had become sentient. We found them gathering at the other end of a #portal. They were unhappy we had caused so many storms to be created. Now they were waiting for the time to #strike. #vss365 #2wordprompt #vssdaily
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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 11h
#vss365 #hurricane
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Catherine Beavis @catherinebeavis.bsky.social · 11h
#vss365 #hurricane #foxprose - 'every shadow whispers' #moonmystic - 'i thought i loved you' My #poetry #poem ©️
My Poem - ©️Catherine Beavis
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i linger within the onyx shade
enshrouding darkness my comfort
where every shadow whispers
every shadow echoes
uttering your veiled words of goodbye
a hurricane of hurt tearing me apart
for i truly thought i loved you
i thought you loved me
perhaps it is the only cure
to heal my sad nostalgic heart
& so here i sit pretending
convincing myself
that i never loved you
now i wait in my grey days of apathy
scared to step into the light
to trust or clutch at hope
for it may let me down
where then would i be
so on moonlit nights
with my dreams in penumbra
i watch the dancing stars
yearning to escape
yearning to join them
& to fly far far away
@CatherineBeavis
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B. Fowler @bfowler.bsky.social · 11h
There were no tsunamis. No #hurricanes. Just a Monday morning. #vss365
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Liz Young @youngliz.bsky.social · 11h
#vss365 No longer a #harbour now a slipway for swans and a diving board for dogs @Crom Church, NI.
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