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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 22h

1/10 the 4 letter word called life: a few lemons "would you like a few lemons?" i was thinking of two. my friend was holding enough for a small hotel. he was thinking of transferring a situation.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

1/11 the 4 letter word called life: the twenty minutes nobody booked i arrived early for dinner. correct place. correct day. twenty minutes to spare. i had introduced a new problem. what to do with myself.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

1/10 the 4 letter word called life: the book i didn't finish i returned a library book with the bookmark still on page eighty-seven. there were quite a lot of pages after eighty-seven. they looked disappointed.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: please stop looking natural we wanted one photograph. five of us, finally in the same place. "quick photo," somebody said. we had not yet agreed on what quick meant.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: the house has its own rules a friend was coming over to water my plants. this should have required one sentence. instead, i wrote an instruction manual for a building that had apparently never been inspected by a reasonable person.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: the light bulb would like a review i bought a light bulb on tuesday. by wednesday, it had apparently hired a public relations department. "how was your experience?"

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: the people we know by almost nothing there is a man i recognize entirely by his dog. without the dog, he could probably sell me a refrigerator. with the dog, we're practically neighbors.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: the people who know where everything is every household has a person who knows where the batteries are. not necessarily the person who bought them. just the person who knows.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: the person who is going to do it later future me is an incredibly capable person. i have never met them. but i trust them completely. present me keeps assigning them things.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: the things we rehearse that never happen i have won a lot of arguments that never happened. absolutely destroyed people. calmly. eloquently. with devastating timing. imaginary me is incredible under pressure.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1/16 the 4 letter word called life: nobody tells you it’s the last time there was a last time somebody picked you up and carried you. you probably don’t remember it neither do they one day you were small enough to fall asleep somewhere else and wake up in your bed.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/10 the 4 letter word called life: maybe it doesn't need to become anything i've spent a lot of my life believing that if i was going to spend time on something, it needed a reason.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/10 the 4 letter word called life: you are allowed to change your mind i've made decisions that were absolutely right for me. then, years later, they weren't. this felt suspicious at first. like i'd somehow violated the terms and conditions of my own personality.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/12 the 4 letter word called life: the person they think you are somewhere, there is a person who thinks you're quiet. this may be extremely funny to everyone who actually knows you.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1/38 the 4 letter word called life: the conversations that never happened i have won a remarkable number of arguments that never occurred. absolutely destroyed people. they had no response. mostly because they weren't there.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1/36 the 4 letter word called life: the hill i was willing to die on i've been wrong before. not often, obviously. but there are rumors.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

1/32 the 4 letter word called life: the life you forgot you wanted there are things in my life today that an earlier version of me desperately wanted. which would be a beautiful realization. if i remembered to realize it more often.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1/36 the people we almost became there are entire versions of you that never happened.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1/35 the 4 letter word called life: the things we keep there's a drawer in almost every house that makes absolutely no sense. you know the one. batteries. a key nobody recognizes. three pens that may or may not work.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1/26 the 4 letter word called life: the space between before and after there's a moment nobody talks about when your life changes. not the moment it happens. the moment after. when the world has changed but apparently nobody bothered to tell the world.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

1/25 the 4 letter word called life: the space between before and after. there are people i've lost without them ever actually leaving. i still know where they live. i could probably find their number.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

1/25 the 4 letter word called life: most of life happens on tuesdays. the alarm goes off at 6:00 a.m. the alarm goes off at 6:00 a.m. they've been awake since 5:17. naturally, they wait until the alarm rings before admitting they're awake. there are rules.

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the 4 letter word called life @life4letterword.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1/25 the 4 letter word called life life is a four-letter word. which makes sense. some days you whisper it like a prayer. some days you scream it like profanity. this is a story about both.

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