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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 18h

On the first day of rock climbing lessons, the instructor told us, "The #mountain is beautiful. The mountain is fun! And if you do not respect it, the mountain will kill you." John did not listen to the instructor. #vss365 #skywrite #microfiction

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 23h

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." - Franz Kafka. #pretendpanel This is very true for me. If my future self somehow came back in time to tell me nothing everything I write would be lost in fire or to time, I would wake up tomorrow and #write. It would only change what I wrote.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 23h

The pimp wasn't tall, but had thin, powerful arms, nearly hairless, pale against his black sleeveless shirt. He was face down, dark, wiry hair nearly covering up the #dent in the back of his skull. There was very little blood, but that was a skill Sophie had perfected. #WIPSnips #amquerying #booksky

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Eileen Curley Hammond @curleyhammcozy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Merry March is a mom of a teenager and a business owner. As if a criminal ex isn't enough of a scandal, she's right at the center of several murder investigations. Her friends, food, and wine help her survive. Link to first book in the series ⬇️ mybook.to/MurderSoSinful

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Murder So Sinful: A Merry March Cozy Mystery (Merry March Mysteries Book 1)

Amazon.com: Murder So Sinful: A Merry March Cozy Mystery (Merry March Mysteries Book 1) eBook : Curley Hammond, Eileen: Kindle Store

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't usually describe it this way, but that was a beautiful cup of #coffee.

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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you know? In the Victorian era, a widowed lighthouse keeper repeatedly rowed into the dangerous waters of New York Harbor to rescue people from drowning? Kate Walker spent decades at the isolated Robbins Reef Lighthouse. #Victorian #history #lighthouses

It shows a photograph of Kate Walker reading a book from a rocking chair as she tended her lighthouse.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Following the trail of a dead man, Aggie McPherson ends up in a small town, wondering why a Neo-nazi had been headed there. Instead of finding her answer, she finds a strange case of arson. #audio #booksky #skywrite #UF

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The Case of the Sealed Deal, Chapter 3 - Shorthand Missile

Aggie McPherson goes to investigate where the stolen money has been going in Urquhart and makes a new friend she hopes never to see again.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The #cloud moved across the prairie sky, a lonesome traveler. Murdoch watched it go by, wishing somehow it would become rain, but knowing it wouldn't. His fields would remain fallow. #vss365 #microfiction

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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes we dream of greater days ahead especially during dark times. That's why today's #vss365 #prompt is #cloud.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the city of Slakterquay, there's an office that handles the strangest cases in the Paris of the Pacific Northwest. In this chapter, McPherson goes to investigate where the stolen money has been going in Urquhart and makes a new friend she hopes never to see again. #audio #booksky #skywrite #UF

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The Case of the Sealed Deal, Chapter 3 - Shorthand Missile

Aggie McPherson goes to investigate where the stolen money has been going in Urquhart and makes a new friend she hopes never to see again.

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Tom Bentley @bentguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders, articulating with verve, emotion and grace about how using AI to write our stories evades our very humanness, in all our human faults, fancies and flights. #AI #writing #stories #fiction Model Behavior: George Saunders on.substack.com/p/model-beha...

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Model Behavior: George Saunders

“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I smeared the blood across my face to make it look like the blow from Oleg was worse than it was. I used the #injury to avoid eye contact and get a count of his men. I did this until Pyotr muscled in. He smiled at me. I gave him a big, dumb American grin right back. #WIPSnips #booksky #amquerying

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The king would #bequest his kingdom to any man who married his daughter. So it was to great surprise that she was kidnapped. Upon finding her, though, it was found that she wasn't abducted, but chose the man that would take her without a price. #vss365 #skywrite #microfiction

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Out of bed, Sophie's every scar was visible, each one a reason she wanted to know about the kidnapping. She wrapped a shawl around herself, disappearing into her usual, #guarded mystery. She gave the cryptic smile she always did when she knew I'd do what she wanted. #WIPSnips #booksky #amquerying

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Madison on the Air @madisonstandish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's Madison's First Murder (accusation)! Can Boston Blackie prove she didn't do it? Now on @sparkk.tv #OldTimeRadio #AudioFiction #audiodrama #fictionpodcast #madisonontheair

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fatima's only #reprieve was from leadership was her gender. She was glad that she did not need to bear responsibility until her brother heaped scandal upon scandal onto the council he led. When it became too much, she disappeared one night, only to return as Falaq, lost brother to the tribe. #vss365

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The local toughs, voyous, were closer to being boys than men, but that didn't matter much. Boys could kill as #well as men. Maybe better. Mercy and hesitation were easier to beat out of them. These three looked like they might be that kind. #WIPSnips #amquerying #booksky #skywrite

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sooner or later, you're going to have to invent your own origin story. #skywrite

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They promised they could #purify their child of his homosexual urges, that this change would mean he would given them grandchildren and a legacy. The purification, though, only ended with him at the end of a rope he had tied himself. #vss365 #flashfiction #microfiction #skywrite

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"What? You have never seen a cadaver before?" Behind the light he held I could tell Sartre was smiling. "Not one this ripe." Sartre shrugged like a butcher showing a customer a piece of meat that past its #prime. "He has been down here for perhaps a few days." #WIPSnips #booksky #amquerying

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To #reckon with the truth is to look into one's own soul, to take a fearless inventory of one's life. The good, the harm done, all of it. Most only take an inventory of what they've acquired, which is how we find ourselves here, with the end on the horizon, burning like a comet. #vss365 #skywrite

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"You did more than kill." I thought about that truth, but then it swirled in my head with the idolatry my #nation hoisted onto its soldiers and the demonization that it heaped onto women like Sophie. "Yeah," I acknowledged, "but it's the killing they pay you for." #WIPSnips #amquerying #booksky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The American is the pulp adventure of an expatriate in France who finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl. In this episode, the American meetings a powerful member of the Avoritet, Russia's crime syndicate. #booksky #audio

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The American: Trouble with Escape (pt. 6) - Shorthand Missile

In this flash fiction chapter, the American meets another member of the powerful cabal, the Avoritet.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every full moon, the #hunger came knocking at his door. It flooded in through the windows, burned his skin as it stretched and changed. He had given up trying to resist it, till one morning he woke up and vomited tiny bones, too big to be a birds, to small to be an adults. #vss365 #skywrite

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Rachel Nel @redsaid1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every payday, our hunger is the worst. We barricade our doors and wait. Like gathering storm clouds, Dad's drunken return home looms large. #vss365 #vss #hunger

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calculating directions was #interfered with by sideways glances from Ears. Like a static discharge that cut through the air, I could sense growing attention from him. It culminated in him asking, "I know you?" "Yeah," I told him. "We've met." #WIPSnips #amquerying #booksky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Caught between self-destruction and apathy, Sal sought a #passion for life. He sought for it in his art, his hiking, his work. It never occurred to him to look for it outside himself. #vss365

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As we both tumbled to the street, the Russian had a death grip on me, but he glanced down and saw the pistol on the ground. He let go of me to dive for it. That left him exposed for the second I needed. I rained blows down on him, hearing the sound of bones and flesh give way. #WIPSnips #booksky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wanted to say that I had lost more, to point out that she had only known Cheryl a few weeks. As Sophie's hands guided my bulk into the bedroom, though, I let that go, #melting into the warm comfort I had retreated from almost every instance I had felt it with her. #WIPSnips #booksky #amquerying

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The #stormy night kept everyone inside. It would have been the perfect evening for swapping ghost stories, but the Campbell's argued over whose turn it was to take out the trash. It sat there, moldering, while they argued over who would have to get wet. Instead, the house just stank. #vss365

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He struggled, so I said, "Stop it or I'll break something." His #stream of curses trickled off as he focused his pain and anger onto me. I asked, as if I didn't know, "Why are you following me? We both work for Mitnick." #WIPSnips #booksky #amquerying

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We lay like that until a fart escaped me much louder than I expected. Sophie giggled. I couldn't help but laugh as well, using it as a #signal to get up. But Sophie pulled me down again and, eyes flicking towards the fading of the sun through the window, said, "We have the time." #WIPSnips #booksky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We decided to #explore the derelict home. With its lone presence on the prairie across from our neighborhood, how could we not, with its crooked shingles, shattered windows, and missing doors? Inside, we broke anything that hadn't already been broken. #vss365 #microfiction

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The #AI pushback is even creeping onto LinkedIn, where most executives have bought into the hype. Given that posting against AI on that platform might cost you a job, that says a lot.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"What do you want me to tell Atwell?" Sartre eyes flared up. "He must know of this?" "If he becomes unhappy with me, I go back to prison." I was, after all, receiving #payment for services rendered. In that way, I wasn't any different than the other players in this fiasco. #WIPSnips #booksky

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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did you know? In the Victorian era, you could encounter clowns performing right in the street, deliberately shouting, joking, tumbling, and mocking passersby. With no paying audience waiting for them, they first had to create one. #Victorian #history #clowns

It shows a photograph of a vintage clown.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the city of Slakterquay, Aggie McPherson handles the strangest cases in the Paris of the Pacific Northwest. In this episode, Aggie leaves the city to investigate the mysterious death of Randall Wayne. #UF #audio #booksky

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The Case of the Sealed Deal, Chapter 2 - Shorthand Missile

In this episode, Aggie McPherson goes to the local cow town in search of who murdered the Neo-nazi, Randall Wayne.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After crashing into the sea they had, miraculously, made it to a nearby island. It was, though, barren, with nothing to #sustain them. After a few days without fresh water, Amelia began to wish she had sunk with the airplane. #vss365 #flashfiction

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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The Case of the Sealed Deal, Chapter 2 - Shorthand Missile

In this episode, Aggie McPherson goes to the local cow town in search of who murdered the Neo-nazi, Randall Wayne.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mitnick made noises that could have been him ordering Chinese or making death threats. Then he stopped. I couldn't see his face, but I could see his hand tremble with an effort to crush the phone. When this failed he said, "Nika has been kidnapped." #WIPSnips #amquerying #booksky

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Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com · 17/09/2026

Why did they roll him out so early? Halloween isn't for 6 weeks.

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The ritual would #commence at the equinox and Hicks could hardly wait. The sheriff had robbed him of all he held dear, and the dark gods promised Hicks retribution. The cost hardly mattered. He hadn't used his soul since he held Lucy dying in his arms. #vss365 #flashfiction #booksky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The basilica had all the spikes and arches meant to evoke the majesty of God. The stone structure didn't bring up any memories of the catechistic education of my youth, though. Instead its tall, onion domes always reminded me of minarets and the long, lonely #call of the muezzin. #WIPSnips #booksky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"But there are rumors," Rotella persisted. "And these rumors make the men you desire the friendship of much more nervous than any snooping I do." Mitnick's cool rippled as this statement landed, a barely detectable change in his #exterior. "What rumors?" "You know of these rumors" #WIPSnips #booksky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Prison wasn't so bad. Yeah, it was a cold box filled with cockroaches, but I kept waiting for one of Verdicchio's buddies to send a shiv my way, but weeks turned into #months and it never happened. One day I learned why. #WIPSnips #booksky #amquerying

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