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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"That's right, um...what be his name again, lad?" "Lord Mouse Keteer, cap'n." "Ah yes! Straight on till morn-" *SPLASH* "Aye, straight on till yeh hits the water, then." @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social #onepanelvss

A person with their face obscured by a map is about to walk off the deck of a ship into the water.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

On his to do list, Dale had written, "See about chickens" near the bottom. After that weird attack last weekend, some of his hens started sleeping in. Clearly he needed to move that up in priority, after the cat scaled the coop and the hen...pursued. #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A man wearing overalls and a ball cap stands in the background, holding a rake, as a chicken with vampire fangs chases the tail of a cat.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

He was dressed to the nines, not a single hair out of place as he approached. But after knocking and opening the door, Vlad made an awful discovery: the fridge in the blood bank was empty. Now what? McDonald's? Bah, they never answer the door anyway. #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A male vampire, wearing a tux with a high collar and ruffled cuffs on his sleeves, looks horrified.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"Don't fall asleep." That's what they say, right? Bad things will happen. Very bad things. Thank God for the lava lamp. Without the glow, someone might nod off and... Nope, not going there. Be still. This doll isn't going out like that. Was that a snore? #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A man lounges on a bean bag with a very distressed looking doll on his lap. There is a lava lamp on a table nearby.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It was about that point in his ride that Geary finally understood why his wife left him alone after dinner on "Beans on Toast" nights. #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A man in a shirt, trousers, shoes, and a flat cap rides a bike up a hill. There is a truck ahead of him that is blowing exhaust and he is coughing.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

After recieving a letter from "the Boss" asking him to meet soon or "face the Duck," Tony hurried out of the house without taking the time to even grab an umbrella. He realized that he'd waited too long as the small yellow rubber toy hit him like a bullet. #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A man slips and falls in the rain. There is a rubber ducky in the air above him.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It was a cold night on t'Yorkshire moors as Geoffrey Snicketsmith was relieved of 'is stockings. The men what took 'em were crafty, hanging them at t'foot of 'is Grace's bed. Grave dirt would give tha socks away on the night tho, as St. Nick dropped a satsuma inside. "Krampus!" #onepanelvss

Gracerobbers stand in and around an open grave. One is down in the grave and hands the other one socks.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Elewyn gasped. Had she gotten it wrong? There was no way that he would drink this! It was starting to burn her fingers. Perhaps it wasn't measure once, pour twice, but the opposite? She heard the door...he was home. Maybe she should just throw it? #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A figure pouring a bottle marked poison into a goblet gasps as the liquid in the goblet bubbles over.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Okay, I thought when they said the lure was "confuzling", it was just clever marketing and a play on confusing. Clearly I was wrong. Anyone know where to buy a backup mouse-sized oxygen tank? @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social #onepanelvss #fuzzy

A scuba diving rodent is face to face underwater with a confused looking fish.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

About that time, it occurred to Brother Josiah that perhaps the wildlife in this new land was a bit different than what they'd left behind in Mother England... Thus, the very moment vegetarianism arrived in the colonies. #onepanelvss #Thanksgiving2025 @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A pilgrim holding an ax stares at a giant, angry looking turkey.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

It would be so easy, a slip here or there, and his worst critic would be no more. He held the razor like a pen, over his trusting yet blindfolded past, and weighed options. The need to rewrite his story was strong...but was it worth this? Was anything? #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A man holds a shaving razor above another man in a chair, blindfolded and sporting a thick beard.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

She wants romance? She needs to feel special, to feel loved and adored? A dash of charm, the scent of flowers? I'll give her romance. This cart of rose petals should do, if I can get them to the town before they fall out of... Dang it. Pedalsome wench. #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A figure pulls a cart toward a town. The cart is filled with red roses.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The plane reached the target...it was there on the entertainment screen attached to the seat in front of his. Here goes...pressure flip incoming! He hit the emergency door lock. [VO:] About that time, the semi-retired skateboarder made the wrong decision to reinvigorate his career. #onepanelvss

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It was at the point that the waiter offered them appetizers that Nick and Jayne realized that achieving silverback status in the company might not be the achievement they thought it to be. "Hurry," the waiter cajoled. "Mr. Kong is getting ready to address the crowd...over dinner." #onepanelvss

A couple stands in front of a waiter who has peeled bananas on a tray as appetizers.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Rob strolled down the street, pausing as he noticed a monkey climbing up a parking meter. "What are you doing? You don't even have a car!" "You're not wondering where I got a quarter...or how I can talk?" #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A man notices a monkey climbing up a parking meter with a quarter.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It was a long walk to get to the strangely glowing crater in the desert. The extension cord was longer, surely. #onepanelvss

Two people peek over the edge of a crater to see a light bulb.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

They kept up a #vigil until the sunrise. The #note said mind the hours... the way to break free of #prison. "We just wait for it to burn in the sunshine," he said. "But how long will it..." "It has no eyes or ears!" She stared. "How can it..." The worm paused. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #onepanelvss

Two people stand at a clearing in a forest as a giant earthworm moves past.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"We probably should have gotten our own crib for the baby," she whispered. "It's a family heirloom," he responded, his voice tight. "Yeah, well, I've met your family and... Was that a growl?" "My family's genes are strong." #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A crib covered in spikes with a mobile made of skulls and doll heads above it sits in a nursery as the parents peek in from the doorway.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Itar, God Under the Mountain, stroked the head of his captured Qatu. He stared out from the Void at the living realm, wondering if his dwarves were okay, or if his gnomes had left their homes finally. But really, he wondered most who was going to change the huge cat's litter tray... #onepanelvss

A dwarf king strokes the head of a giant and angry feline as he sits on his throne.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It wasn't #nostalgia that made me take one last glance at my hometown as we walked toward our future. There was nothing left anywhere... everything was just burning. It was the fact that Leo jumped onto my back to glare at... what was that? Where would we go now? "Woof." #onepanelvss #vss365

A woman crouches down with a giant cat on her back.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

She stopped in the kitchen doorway, staring. "Hon?" "Yeah?" He kept working on the project. "What is that?" "You said to carve what I know." He kept his head. "This is what I know." "Oh, you opened the cupboards." #onepanelvss

A cartoon of a man carving a giant ant out of a tree trunk.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The sun set, #orange mixed with pinks and purples. Today would not be the day Tral returned home to avenge the scar across his face. Tomorrow he would #walk the town, protecting and serving. Another day in the human #realm. His mechanical eye scanned the town. #2WordPrompt #vss365 #onepanelvss

Cartoon shows a man leaning back in a chair. He wears a hat and badge and has a scar on his face.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"All I wanted was to have company for lunch. I guess I shouldn't have read him the menu." From the hole cut into the labyrinthine web, a voice could be heard as it trailed off in the distance. "NOPE! I said good day!!" #2WordPrompt #onepanelvss

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"Lou! Come look at this here tuber!" he yelled. His wife came to #see what he was on about. "Law mercy, Archie, how many times did you #return that thing to the cursed soil?" "665," he said as dark clouds gathered. "Imma bout to put it back. Next time it should talk!" #onepanelvss #2WordPrompt

In a garden, a man in overalls holds a strange-looking root vegetable aloft as a woman inspects it.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Jolene gazed at the #pattern on the wallpaper, wishing she'd never answered the dating app. The fork that hurtled past her eye as he sneezed AGAIN should have been the last straw. Was the #roof too far from their table? Could she make it and jump before he noticed? #onepanelvss #2WordPrompt

Two people sit at a table. The man sneezes and blows a fork past the woman's eyes.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"We will not allow this," the #selkie leader bellowed. The kelpie herd glared in response, their manes floating in the current as though caught by a breeze. "Begone!" "Never." A whinny sent the herd stampeding, selkies in pursuit. At the beach, though, the kelpies were caught by men. #vss365

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

#Happy is what everyone sees. This diagnosis, this treatment, all of it an #adventure rather than a slog through the unknown. But the flowers know. The trees, where I pour out my pain and suffering, they know. I return, so that I may leave again, soon, ready to smile. #2WordPrompt #onepanelvss

A figure, clearly sad, stands in front of a tree and field of flowers.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

She couldn't go back to her friends, as they hiked the verdant Irish woodland. She couldn't go back home, though she knew the way. It would follow. "All I did was pick the flower." She shivered. "From the inside of the fairy ring," the voice responded. #onepanelvss

A girl sits on a log as an evil looking fae creature rises behind her.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Hey y'all. In case anyone has noticed, I've been quiet since last week...but I'm still around. I'm just in recovery from surgery and my brain isn't brain-ing. Back soon! 🤟🏻

A woman wearing an orange and maroon plaid shirt. She has short, curly, dark hair and is wearing large framed blue glasses.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"You don't #deserve her!" Ben was at the end of his rope. "Does she know #who you really are, what you've done?" "Perhaps," Sath snarled, "but at what #cost?" Gin put a hand on Sath’s arm to stop him. "What I DON'T deserve, TAEBEN, is you." She cut that rope with her sword. #2WordPrompt #vss365

All eight covers from the Orana Chronicles universe of novels.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Annie and Lucy raced to #find the #train with the changelings on board. It was headed for the closest station to the Strid, to force them back to the Fae realm. The platform numbers didnt match. Despite the #segmentation of long trains, theirs was missing. Or hidden... #vss365 #2WordPrompt

An antique train lantern sits on cobblestones against the background of the Yorkshire Dales.

The cover of the novel Strid by Nancy E Dunne. A gas lamp is shown in from of a map of West Yorkshire, with the words Strid: A Luminous Beings Mystery at the bottom.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Sath grabbed his #coat before dragging his son to a dark corner of the #restaurant in the tavern. His daughter watched, horrified. She was too young to understand what had happened. "Kazhka," Sath said softly, "keep #pressure here on your brother's wound. I need to find Gin." #vss365 #2WordPrompt

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"You really thought you were coming here as my #guest, didn't you?" she purred as she lit the candle. "Silly. Humans are so predictable. But it's time you learned your #lesson, my darling." As the wax hovered above my eye, I knew this was the #end... wasn't it? #2WordPrompt #vss365 #onepanelvss

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Gin thought about her #life as she looked over the edge of the guard tower. She was already whispering a healing spell as a #shout over her #shoulder interrupted her. "Sath?" "Darlin, don't..." He reached for her as she lost her balance, shouting the healing words as she went. #vss36 #2WordPrompt

Cover image for Guardian: Rise of the Nature Walker. Gin's face is superimposed over a woodland scene and a campfire.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

He was so brave. Everyone said so. When they presented him with the hottest pepper there was, he didn't even balk. After he ate it, though, his stomach was the one to balk. #onepanelvss @paintmonkeyart.bsky.social

A man reacts to eating a hot pepper in this cartoon.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

She was more than a #dog. She held a #little chunk of my soul in her clobberpaws, and that hasn't changed in #death. The chunk has just gotten bigger. 11.5 years wasn't enough. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Kazhka began to #bounce. "Kitten!" Tairn was silent a moment. "What has gotten into you?" "It's #because I have an #idea that will aid my training," she said, grinning. "Let me go home to Qatu'anari to visit Mama and Papa." Tairn's face fell. The one thing they couldn't do... #vss365 #2WordPrompt

A graphic from the novel Hero by Nancy E Dunne. The letters Hero have greenery on the H, scratches on the R and a compass in the O.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Gin pulled on a stray #thread on her tunic as she listened to the guild leader outline the specs of the #job. On the face of it, things seemed easy. Get in, rescue the mage, and get out. But the success would #depend on the guards and other hurdles... not to mention a dragon. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

The cover of Wanderer by Nancy E. Dunne. There is a tree on one side with a campfire at the base. The sky is full of stars with a compass superimposed.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"Where is the #girl?" the G-Man demanded, leaning #forward slightly to tower over the captive. "I'll never tell you," her twin replied, sputtering through the pouring rain. He didn't fear death; that brought the #euphoria that they would never find her. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #onepanelvss

A figure kneels in the rain in front of another figure in a black suit and tie. The standing figure is holding a briefcase and an umbrella.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

[From the author:] The hashtag challenge posts herein are not always verbatim from the books represented in the posts. Often, they are extended scenes and extras based on the story and characters in the books. I hope they will enrich the characters and scenes as introduced in my books. 😊

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Taeben watched Gin’s fingers draw the #needle back and forth through his robes, mending the hole left by an errant fireball. He longed to #invite her into his arms, feel her skin against his, but that was a line he could not cross...yet. The need was #insatiable, though. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

The cover of Tempest by Nancy E. Dunne. There is a compass that is being struck by lightning and blown off course.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The doors opened; the new First Wife gasped. Her guards leaned in, purring and asking after her. Her #voice had dried up, so she nodded. A rumbly chuckle from the throne made her smile. His #humor always soothed her. She met his teal gaze, and felt #inspired to step forward. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

The novel Darkness is shown. The cover is a light green with a rising moon, and a silhouetted dragon in the middle.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The weather was #excellent as usual on Qatu'anari as the new first wife left her quarters under the blanket of stars. It was time for her #wedding to the Rajah, but she paused to gaze at the sky. #That was their shared #passion, beyond each other - living rough under that sky. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

A tree stands on the left side of the image with a campfire at the base. The background sky is a starry night, with a compass superimposed over the stars.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Sath stared at the dark corner of the cell where Tee slept. That little man could sleep anywhere - a life living under the mountain near a forge. #Maybe it was the #tight manacles on his own wrists, cutting into his fur and skin. You didn't have to be actually #guilty here. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

This is an image of the novel Red by Nancy E Dunne. A red haired woman in a blue robe is holding a torch and the word Red is written on the front in red script.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Like the famed prince in a #lullaby his Tsarra sang to him, the king of the elves knew what he had to do. Unlike that prince stuck in #middle of a lover's triangle, King Nim was alone. His plan? #Refuse all until the All-Mother took him to the Afterlands. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #onepanelvss

A cartoon of a king sitting on a throne with a perplexed look on his face.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Ben thought about his apprentice. She could #carry the weight of his return to the realm of the living. All he had to do was find the #glass orb holding the magic of the Father of the Underworld into her #cerulean hands. With that, he would be unlimited. But would she do this? #vss365 #2WordPrompt

The cover of the novel Darkness by Nancy E Dunne, which has a light green background with a dragon flying through the middle of the image.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The druids tried to #limit the #evidence available to the Great Forest, but the citizens there felt the imbalance. With the #interregnum of the office of the Nature Walker, the balance of the world was off kilter. One druid to right it. One druid to save the world. But who? #vss365 #2WordPrompt

The cover of Wanderer: Origin of the Nature Walker. A tree stands on the left side with a campfire nearby, in front of a starry sky. There is a compass in the stars.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I wandered down the #narrow lanes from deep in my #memory, remembering going to the magicians guild. I remember the smell of the flowers climbing the tower to where the magicians trained. I remember the #chime that called us back. I remember my last day there - with regret. #vss365 #2WordPrompt

A young woman with long red hair wearing a green gown holds a magical ball of light in her hands.

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nancyd_writes 🏳️‍🌈 🤟🏻 @nancydwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

No previous experience to #compare to when it came to being a farmer, but I was pretty sure this was another #fail. Danged hen was running like her head was on fire and her ass... Uh-oh. I'm still not sure this #rigmarole is worth it. The city wasn't this hard. #vss365 #2WordPrompt #onepanelvess

A drawing of a chicken running through a yard with tail feathers on fire, past a farmer.

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