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Rick Milone

@rwm1955.bsky.social
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Writer (Clear Green in Dade County & Dog Days of Summer), hiker, Granddad (Capo), movie extra (Captain Fantastic- Oscar winner), student guitarist, FIU - BBA year '81

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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 15h
Was it a tiny glitch in his synapses or an entire brain_malfunction?He didn't know & truly didn't care. He'd recently begun to enjoy using his power driver to screw random people's toes to his cabin floor. He'd lure them there with money that he'd never spend. #horrorprompt #vss365
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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 19h
#vss365 #lure The hardest lesson to teach children growing up Is not to fall in the trap or follow the pup If someone dangles a lure Their intentions are not pure And absolutely don’t get in stranger’s pickup
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 19h
Rhetoric of resonance thrums in alpha pack's howls, neath lunar beams sly werewolf lures the maiden bloodlust fangs glint carving sigils on her skin sabotaging the path of rescue, her screams are carried by the wind grey ashes cling to cobwebs. #vss365 #inkmine #vssfantasy #emoetry #Foxprose #BSPP58
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 19h
indoor cat the monotonous lure of a warm lap #vss365 #senryu
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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 17h
Poisoned mouths opened Anguished cries for futile hope Mustard_breath released #haikuhorrorprompt
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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 18h
Sly Lupo, the bounty hunter, gazed at his dog, Macho, sitting on a rock, sniffing the brisk breeze. The wind made a soft whistling noise as it pushed thru the bullet hole in his ear. The dog was not only his companion but was also his loyal partner. #satsplat #WIP
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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rain fell heavily on the solitary mountain cabin as he waited outside. His knife set rolled up in a sheath under his arm. Perfect weather for a Jack_of_all_trades like him. His favorite trade was human butchery. The newlyweds inside would be quite tasty. #horrorprompt #vss365
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#vss365 #vsshorror #microfiction 1/2👇 The group of climbers had reached half way up the #mountain, when they noticed 5 huge roughly ball shaped lumps of snow in a circle; nothing like this had ever been mentioned in any previous explorations.
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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Over the precipice was nothing but a cold welcome to the savannah. They spoke of doubts under the might of the high ones, above the #mountain's apex. A wish to live felt heavier with each day but they kept climbing on every breathe. #vss365
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John Everex @johneverex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The #mountain had always been a friend: solid, unwavering, permanent. Some called it extinct. Others warned it was only sleeping. On the day we married, dark smoke marred its peak. By morning, the horizon was bare—flat and featureless. #vss365 #scififri
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rory had to actually have Esme climb the #mountain. There was no fast-travelling to the summit. No shortcuts. No cutscenes. Just practically endless contouring, edging up bit-by-bit, fighting all the way. And for what? Some quest and a minor in-game reward? He still did it. Obviously. #vss365
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Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 02-OCT-26 is: Hover & Star #Prompt
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If the reports and communications were actual, real paper, Dylan would have been suffocated by the avalanche from the #mountain of information it contained. The perils of authority. The responsibilities a captain had to bear. But none bigger than his responsibility to his agitated crew. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New arrivals to Tarkar’s Bridge were easy marks. As high as a #mountain, the jarring, thin air made newcomers dizzy and pockets were empty soon enough. Ilyna only pickpocketed to waste time before bigger scores. She was, after all, many-talented. Real Bridgers were born to that air. #vss365
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some scale mountains high effortlessly Reach for stars relentlessly Others admire grand tetons from afar When repulsed by vain heights and false regret remove all with one breath #vss #poetrysky #Emoetry #poetsofbluesky #writesky #photography #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #WCK #ECK 💙📷 me
Mountain High 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2022, All rights reserved. 

Mt. Jefferson as viewed from Crooked River Ranch in central Oregon as the sun sets behind the peak.
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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On that planet, the mountain tries to actively throw off any being it can feel climbing it. As far as you can tell, it feels everything. It's the planet you find yourself most content to wake up on, knowing the collective climbing culture may fade without easy gilding. #scififri #vss365 #mountain
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At nightfall repulsive apparitions crawl the gloomy mountain, in an unnoticed moment a haunting story of chaos unfolds, gnarled yew spawns sinister specters blood smeared scythe descends in the darkened woodland silencing the final cries. #vss365 #inkmine #vssfantasy #emoetry #Foxprose #BSPP58 #poem
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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#vss365 #mountain We say “Don’t make mountains out of molehills” But who judges if their mount is Catskills Or it’s the Matterhorn Don’t know the load they’ve borne Sometimes it is hard climbing the foothills
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dan with glasses @antiviolentintelligence.ai · 02/10/2026
#vss365 🪶 #mountain The baddest lives near the roads to and up and around the mountain of urban trash where piles are organized into styles of peaks to be rounded down into higher ground— away from the wrappers, used cups, bottle caps and litter; to be upheld, gathered and expelled into a geography.
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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Morose clouds of humiliation had cleared. He had 10 weeks to live. After dusting off his revenge list, he prepared 10 syringes & planned 10 visits. They'd purposely publicly embarrassed him at his prom. He had 2 1/2 months of life left. They'd die quickly. #horrorprompt #vss365
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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hidden in the cloud a magnificent downpour to lash tears away #vss365
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#vss365 #vsshorror #vss part 1/2 Beneath a skull shaped #cloud Crow screams a ghastly wail As the witching hour strikes and the veil is thin Ship flooded by thick fog
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pleased to meet you greet you seat you in the wrong place at a tricky time But perhaps we met before clouds began Perhaps we’ll meet again on a railway in the sky #vss365 #PaintbyWords #OurPoetryX #Emoetry #poetsofbluesky #poetry #poetrysky #writesky #photography #wck #EastCoastkin #eck
Somewhere on Railway in the Sky
Photograph / Photo art by Winter Ives
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A photograph of a bright blue sky with serene, billowing white clouds, expressing a hopeful reunion someday, somewhere in the sky.
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every time, well, maybe not every time, a #cloud would pass overhead and a corresponding shadow snaked across the ground, Rory would find himself captivated by the attempt at accuracy in what was a very old game. It looked incredible, giving much-appreciated realism in clear sight. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every communication, every supply ship and every unexpected, but very much expected surprise inspection visit by the brass only served to grow a #cloud of resentment within Dylan. The punishment had gone on long enough weeks before. It was time to stop punishing the crew, too. Enough! #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the makeshift home that she had fashioned between a number of other shanties dangling from the Underside, her little sanctuary away from the tumult of Tarkar’s Bridge, Ilyna surveyed her loot. Through the gaps in the floorboards, she saw a #cloud drift underneath and pass beyond. #vss365
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Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 01-OCT-26 is: What & Volume #Prompt
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Showshannahs Space @showshannahs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Such a clear sky, but In the distance, a lone #cloud Makes its presence known #vss365 #haiku
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Heart Cloud in Blue Sky
ALT: Heart Cloud in Blue Sky
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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You would prefer it was cloudy. It shows a kind of possibility people who prefer clear skies don't see readily, or at all. But it's not cloudy, and you've got to work around all the minds that don't see that kind of possibility..have to subtract a bit more than you'd like. #writemap #vss365 #cloudy
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PoetessOProinntigh @poetessoprunty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
nipping tender leaves crisp cool morning ablaze hues of lemon, lime, cranberry and orange colors bleed & blend in the breeze, an impressionistic painting comes to mind a one tooth pumpkin smiles mischievously at me the holiday season has begun what fun, what fun! #poetrycommunity #autumn
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Kitty in a Pumpkin
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
unzipping the clouds a murmuration #vss365 #monoku
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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
they remove their masks #clouds part to reveal blue sky all the people #gasp glass eyes can't see #what scalds lungs silent toxins speak #volumes #vss365 #haikufeels #2wordprompt #haiku #tanka #poetry #writing #endtimes #vsshorror
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RAELLE LOGAN, Romance Novelist, Pirates @raellelogan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When pirate Hunter Draylin finds a woman sitting on his bed aboard his ship, he soon realizes who her father was, a man Hunter was desperate to destroy. Is Lone Stafford innocent of her father's pirate evils, or is Hunter being led astray by the alluring beauty? ROMANCING A PIRATE #PirateBooks
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m delighted to have this poem selected for the long list in the latest installment of Haiku Dialogue, with the theme of ‘Intoxication - Writing Poetry’. Thanks so much to Guest Editor Deborah Karl-Brandt. Congratulations to all featured poets 🎉 #haiku #senryu thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
A text based image of a three line poem. Grey text on a white background. The poem reads:

old journal
the lingering scent
of lilac poem
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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🩸 Horror Writing Prompt #2326 #wood_chipper Write a short, terrifying tale inspired by this prompt. Post it and tag #horrorprompt for all to see and fear. Thanks to Shaq x.com/Alexander_Shaq for today's inspiration!
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
early autumn two squirrels squabble over the oak’s bequest #vss365 #haiku
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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Built on deceit and crafted lies,
the elaborate facade you framed
will implode beneath its own heavy weight. 
No honour do you #bequest,
only division, fracture, and hate.
We will stand and watch you fall.
For that, I'm afraid, is your fate. ~rev #vss365
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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Squirm Two hours before closing seven men seek a witches favor to be assuaged of guilt, she questions whom they’ve offended, how many hearts they’ve drawn near still; too afeared to answer the witch sees their glee in causing terror, changing them into worms #poetry
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dan with glasses @antiviolentintelligence.ai · 30/09/2026
#vss365 🔥 #bequest The baddest girl is fire. Her constant bequest betrays each liar who alone betrays reach. Her best is always now; for the only reason: the baddest girl knows how. To be cool, she leads. We follow the weather— not the fool with fossil fuel, a made-up rule, and no feather.🪶 #SDG5️⃣
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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365 #bequest I was called to the reading of a will Of a long-lost friend who we will call Bill Surprised there was a bequest Wondered what he would request He left a letter written with a quill
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pristine rivers hold afterglow of alpenglow, spry wrens soaring toward an onward horizon, sweetness filling the orchard maple seeds spin in cool air dew sparkles on flowering meadows, abundance coming into season nature's bequest #vss365 #inkmine #vssfantasy #Foxprose #BSPP57 #BlueskyRemnant #poems
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dying light doesn’t give the living a second thought Even when a sunset bequest springs forth Spry rain in sly agreement won’t give the undeserved a single, terrifying drop #vss365 #bequest #poetrysky #inkMine #spry #poetsofbluesky #Photography #ECK #WCK #OurPoetryX #terrify 💙📷 me
Spry Rain Sky Art 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of a vivid reddish pink sunset sky dredged with rain clouds.
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Lizzy Perkins @lizzyjperkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The day after the FCIS caught Tod at the border, Brit received a box with ‘My #Bequest’ written on it in blood. She opened the lid carefully and as she placed it on the table a fairy flew out and waved her wand at Brit who found herself encased within a glacier #vss365
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Skeleton Fairy Godmother
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Reprieve Day 14 - Death is a #Reprieve cause it teaches us to just be The long exhale. Names loosen. Edges soften. Old recriminations fall away. Nothing left to prove. Only the quiet of letting go. 🖤🖤🖤
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By way of #reprieve for not dropping him from the very, very great height of the bridge, the servant swore on both his mothers’ lives, all the Patrons and even the Lord Protector himself that he would not, under any circumstances, tell anyone that Ilyna had been there. He lied, of course. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rory, or Esme, rather, had his #reprieve. The Brotherhood of Broken Bones would not execute the character for stealing the Sacred Bone of the First Brother, if Esme, and Rory, of course, stole the Sacred Skull of the Second Brother, which had also been stolen & was, apparently, more sacred. #vss365
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Dan/Danj/Daniel @danj72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Morning cup of tea A welcome but temporary #reprieve Before the working day #Vss365
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Dripping With Words @drippingwithwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
..i think once you find you’re trying too hard at anything in life.. you have to stop.. go.. watch birds.. stare at the pastel-triple-shaded-sunset.. read stuff.. and only after you've lost your-’self’ again.. can you really go back to it.. you were getting in your own way.. . -dww
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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Agnes was due to work on fire watch as a punishment for the nurses absconding with a lantern belonging to St. Paul’s Cathedral. However, a temporary reprieve came in the mail telling her that her duty had been postponed until December. #vss365
In an earlier storyline the nurses had found a lantern by the Thames River They took it home and later the constabulary came looking for it. Agnes said she alone had taken it. She ultimately was given service on the fire watch as a punishmen in lieu of jail time or a fine.
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