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Monique

@starfish72.bsky.social
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Creative writing ⊹ #vss365 ⊹ 🚫 no mass-tagging pls ⊹ happily married 💕 mum to a tuxedo cat ⊹ likes dad jokes

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Aurumsella @aurumsella.bsky.social · 3h
"Do you know who Quake's been talking to lately?" "A new girl in IT. Why?" "Keep a close eye on her. I don't trust them." "You think the girl's a mole?" "Something like that. Maybe. Definitely something going on that shouldn't be." "If #Quake ever leaves, it'll shake the company." "I know." #vss365
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 2h
#vss365 #vsshorror The old porch floorboards #quake with sudden cold whenever the dead are restless. Legend says a groom poisoned his bride, only for her ghost to drag his guilty soul into the dark. Now, locals pass quickly, spooked by the weeping inside.
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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 2h
#vss365 #Tarot The Tower is the tarot card that resonates most strongly with the concept of #quake. It represents sudden unexpected change, upheaval and shock.
The tarot card titled the tower.

It depicts, lightning striking what appear to be a stable structure and people falling.
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 2h
Bob and Nora hear that their favourite lunchroom is closing for the summer. The news sends a #quake through their routine. They are used to it always being open. Every Saturday, they enjoy an Italian panino of their choice. Now they must adjust and survive the summer. #vss365
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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#vss365 #Haiku #MicroFiction #HaikuFiction  2 AM, back alley footsteps vanish into #siren noise
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Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“So, this assassin robot, are we talking something like the Terminator?” The agent almost guffaws, then holds up vial containing a fly-sized drone. “Whisper quiet. Painlessly injects self-replicating nanites that cause something inconspicuous, like an aneurysm.” #vss #sff
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
plausible these ends of the world but golden those far windows #DailyHaikuPrompt (vivid)
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Alex K. Logan @alexklogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I leaned in and tasted her luscious lips. That's when I knew, once and for all, she was my #siren …and the ship of my soul was headed for the rocks. #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bob and Nora are shopping for groceries when a #siren sounds through the parking lot. Drivers carefully make room for a police car. Nora grabs her heart, as always, as if it somehow concerns her. Then she leans closer to Bob and wonders who they are looking for. #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you so much!
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think so too Rick
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Janique (they/she/iel) @puncprosody.com · 08/10/2026
Cast me into the fire The garden lives in my breast A #sin? Their words not mine I am kindling I am stone I am the name They dare not speak Reborn phoenix With your ghost of a kiss on my lips and my lips And a love and a knowledge We revel in #vss365
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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She came to terms with her Nana’s affair, but not the repercussions from it. Anna traced the ink with trembling fingers. What her grandmother called love, others might have called sin; yet it was that very sin that had given her mother life and her in return. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To Ilyna, #sin was more of a set of guidelines, and thievery shouldn’t be one of them. Surely it was up to her marks to take better care of their belongings? She never hurt anybody, though others had hurt her, so why should she worry what punishments the Patrons would bring down on her? #vss365
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Aurumsella @aurumsella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Positively sinful, wasn't it?" "What was?" "The Cake, my friend. The Cake." "You mean the chocolate one?" "Yes!" "It's not an actual #sin to enjoy a single piece of chocolate cake as dessert, is it?" "No I meant it was good." "Then why didn't you say so? And what is positive about sin?" #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very good 🍏👏
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nora finds a folded up piece of paper in Bob's pocket. On the inside it says, "It's a #sin to look this good." She thinks this really takes the cake. Surely he can't be serious? Nora thinks he planted the note there just to give her a giggle. #vss365
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Eric Lahti @ericlahti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So many tropical #islands haunted by ghost pirates, so little time... #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😎👻
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nora says her desert- #island disc would be The Nolans album with "I'm in the Mood for Dancing". Bob would pick one by his hero, Snoop Dogg. The only question: stranded on a desert island, what exactly would they play them on? #vss365
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Catherine Beavis @catherinebeavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
& she wonders if the luminescent sky will hear her poetic yearnings on this beautiful stella night where the stars are never shy but pirouette to whispering wishes & as moonstruck glimmering waves dance on the shore of dreams she casts love verses ~ to sail ~ deep into his heart #vss365 #sail
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Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it took a while to process it. Anna’s mother had been a love child between Nana and a Munich artist. When the storm inside her quieted, Anna felt something shift as if the letters had unmoored her. She now had to sail forward in her life with the knowledge Nana had left behind. #vss365
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sticks thrown off the bridge We race to the other side First to sail through wins #vss365 #Sail #Senryu
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bob and Nora binge-watch "Love is Blind NL" at night. Every time a proposal happens, Nora gasps. Bob says they #sail into commitment without knowing what they're doing. Nora teases him for acting like a relationship coach and gets ready for the next available episode. #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you so much!
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😆
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Post-it @postlurker2025.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Never seen him happier
Benny the male fawn greyhound, hunting in a green bush.  Only his reared is showing and his tail is up high.  Abused grass and sticks in the foreground, a variety of arborvitaes in most of the pic
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beth death & the slay-belles @dumb-belles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#vss365 the winds and the rain cyclone, typhoon, #hurricane— sea cries out for land her storms rise, fall, die away not all secrets make it out
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😂👍
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the CIC, the flight deck crew watched the enormous swirl of the #hurricane in the planet’s atmosphere. A storm so big that it could devour a moon, and the last place where the lone, errant Enemy ship had been seen. Dylan watched different screens for the ship with intense concentration. #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nora's mother arrives and a #hurricane of questions hits about Nora's life. Nora shrinks under the pressure. Bob redirects the conversation to give her space. Her mother notices and calms down. She knows she can be a lot, even if she never says it. #vss365
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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
- i have squandered the last of my obols, but i know i must depart this place i once called home. you are sleeping still, and mist has consumed the harbor. no time for goodbyes – tears catch in my throat. and i must now swim the Acheron behind a dwindling boat. - #vss365 #poetry
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funnyfrogget.bsky.social @funnyfrogget.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you remember the day we got caught in the rain and found a dry place on the #harbour ferry? Our ticket was valid for 3 hrs, so we just sat there, your head on shoulder, never moving, except for the occasional kiss. I I hope the memory does not make you sea sick. #vss365
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Ezekial @mi3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we all want a safe #harbour to moor our boats but times they are troubled and changing who to trust who to fear that's the question I was delivering leaflets about our Church nobody's interested just the old and sick hoping for a miracle and maybe they are still happening look he's here #vss365
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Joshua Shares @shortkingofhearts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
he tried he tried so hard but it was never the right time or the right woman alone there was still so much he could do he might never find but he could be safe #harbour call warmly to those in search of safety of a place to call home and so alone he became a place a person for them #vss365
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Envious Green sly lure that sabotages everything in sight even purest light Weightless malachite hard as heaviest stone doesn’t belong in grounded soul gardens #vss365 #Emoetry #inkMine #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #OurPoetryX #Photography #wck #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastkin #ECK 💙📷 me
Envious Green 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A CU of a vibrant green leaf, expressing the rich shade known as “Green Envy.”
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lighthouse shines Present in the dark Safe harbour #vss365 #Harbour #Haiku
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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A morning type out of a lazy introverts life #VSS365 harbour #VSSDaily exercise #VSSMagic tame #Emoetry tormented
Handwritten poem in dark blue ink on off-white paper.  

The text reads:
If I were fitter I'd wager I would,
exercise on the harbour, on the
equipment down there.  

Instead I sit alone
tormented by what could've been,
a tame boring life for sure.  

In a different life, one with more…
…energy - more will power
I'd be down there, exercising.  

I'd be fit and social, with friends
galore, not a dull moment at all.
This life though, is nothing like that.  

Below the poem, handwritten hashtags read: #VSSDAILY #VSSMAGIC #VSS365 #EMOETRY
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bob and Nora sit at the #harbour with their jackets zipped tight as gulls circle. One swoops in and snatches Nora's sandwich, and Bob laughs that trouble always finds her. He guards his own, then shares half. Next time they're bringing double. #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bob talks to Nora about one of his past relationships and how she #lured him in. He fell for the chemistry and her flattery, but she turned out to be a total toad. Nora has nothing good to say about this woman and she doesn't know why Bob is even talking about her. #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bob feels the #lure of vanilla pudding, but there are only veggies in the fridge. Every good plan slips the moment he gets peckish. He wants sugar, plump pudding scoops and raspberry sauce, but grabs a carrot instead. He bites, sighs, and thinks, good grief. #vss365
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rike @rikedraws.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it’s this time of the year again 🎃 — #spooky #ink #art #kleinekunstklasse
an ink drawing of a man in an elegant coat wearing a pumpkin instead of a head. he is looking to the left, one hand in his trouser pocket.
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know that I just realised that I don't even know if you are a woman or a man 😁
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You're welcome
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you so much Wynn. You are wonderful.
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Can I have my allowance?" "You're not getting that haircut." "Why are you giving me boomer energy?" "You know why. You want a mohawk." "One as tall as a #mountain." "I had one in the seventies." "Dad, that is cringe af." "Imagine how you will look." #vss365
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BadBardBared @badbardbared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Nature Sates Ya...' #vss365 #mountain #poetry
My own painting of a lanscape with snow peaked mountains in the background as the sun rises - oils
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Look at that peak towering up." "Snow-capped and massive, wow." "It would be incredible to climb it." "A fierce #mountain to take on." "We would need hiking gear." "Yes and we need snacks." "Let's focus on the snacks." #vss365
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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#vss365 At first I was unaware I was climbing a #mountain A witch can do that Bend space Warp perception Leave one on a precipice Then end the illusion But I remembered My grandma told me In her Scots brogue "If ye dinna kin Dinna do" So I sat Closed my eyes And waited Til the illusion passed
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Above the tree line Only the hardy survive Claim the wild mountain #vss365 #Mountain #Haiki
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