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There were singing women who drew men to their demise: #sirens. Now, they blare a different tone through dense, damaged city streets. They call me, camera held, from blocks away. Miles through my scanner. I crawl through the night towards them, yearning for the perfect shot; it will end me. #vss365

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is perfect for Etienne, the Cryptwright. He would rather be able to forget anything for sure. He is entirely motivated to find quiet isolation away from the chattering thoughts of humanity's living and dead hivemind late in Endobiosis' third act #lithodgepodge #writingcommunity #writesky

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Sages say #sin is disobedience; immoral selfishness. Sin led to downfall. Looking from the other side, downfall was gravity, motion, direction. Without down, no up. Sin is to create, decide, shape, choose," he waved me over, "Come look from here. You decide. Who's guilty? Vote up or down?" #vss365

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fake light makes rocks glow like a volcanic #island in the black of space, spewing red-hot wavelengths across spacetime. They're bright beacons in the cosmos' lonesome, crowded, quiet, dark forest. They draw in hunters, battling, hungry to claim an easy meal. Monsters grow stronger in light. #vss365

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love this! "Amusingly, those that asked the most questions the loudest were usually raging sociopaths of some garden variety. The hard part was, then, not just asking a good question, but the right question," is one example. I feel like I tone shift a lot. #lithodgepodge #writesky

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hecate, the city-sized megaorganoid brain living in the Moon's hollowed out underside is positioned as an underworld archetype. It makes a bargain with Dan, part1 pov char, but we subvert Faustianism for a more complex, nuanced, and uncertain story of free will & higher powers #lithodgepodge

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Keeping up with yesterday's #lithodgepodge post, here's a random image I found on Google that oozes the sort of CEO photo Bellona would have taken, versus my head cannon for how her dad, Dan looks #writingcommunity #writingprompts #writesky

Mixed-race woman in a red tweed suit, red skirt, red tights, and black heels sits on a black director's chair against a red background, hand resting at her chin

A man with short brown hair and a calm, direct expression stands facing the camera, wearing a black double-breasted suit with pearl-white buttons, a white shirt, and a pale, textured tie. One hand is tucked into his pocket. Behind him is a graphic of concentric, swirling dark blue spirals that resembles a gun-barrel opening sequence

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why does work keep on interrupting my promptober writing?

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok where is everyone putting their promptober or pentober stories? Im using this list.

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are you more write first, find the submission call later type or do you write specifically for theme? I keep running into increasingly specific themed calls, and I'm starting to wonder where the line is between a useful constraint and someone just assigning me homework. #writingcommunity

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok its nearly October...any spooky themed submissions I should start writing for?

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some fic faves: Ubik, the Screwfly Solution, Running Out of Time, Vermillion Sands, I Have No Mouth..., My Work is Not Yet Done, The Only Good Indians, One Flew Over..., the Giver, American Gods, Bright Lights Big City, A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Water Knife, There Will Come Soft Rains.. #booksky

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You ever start editing an old draft that never got published and are like [the gif] to some of your own writing? Its like 'ah yeah...needed another edit...maybe next submission.' #writingcommunity #writesky

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J.J.A. Smith @jjasmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi! New here. I write science fiction and horror about people, systems, and realities coming apart at the seams. Big fan of anything weird, Philip K. Dick, Matt Cardin, Jeff VanderMeer...I could go on. How does this site work. I'm bad at social media.

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