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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I don't draw much at all anymore, but when my wife asked for me to draw an animal for her wall at work, I knew it had to be #punch 20 years ago this would have turned out amazing, but still, it was fun to scribble on paper again.

A pencil drawing of a little monkey holding a stuffed monkey plushie.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ICE and Border Patrol agents must be reined in. Here is one thing we can do right now. Please read and share. robertreich.substack.com/p/americas…

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

When the comet struck, the Wild West became the last refuge for humanity. My post-apocalyptic alternate history western novel Sorrow Draw is available in most places books are sold. Free to read on KU. Audiobook on Audible and iTunes. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587/

An ad for the Sorrow Draw by Tim K Brumbaugh highlighting some of the most commonly used tropes in the book. Including a western setting, multi-pov, ensemble cast, dead post-apocalyptic world, chase through the wasteland, alternate history, gunfighters and bounty hunters, and memorable characters.

A picture of the book Sorrow Draw by Tim k. Brumbaugh. It features a quote from an Amazon reviewer that says "the characters and the writing drew me in from the first chapter. It's pretty rare that I want to buy a physical copy of a KU book, but when the next in the series comes out I will be getting both"

A picture of the book Sorrow Draw by Tim k. Brumbaugh next to a colts 1851 Navy revolver. It features a quote by a Goodreads reviewer that says "first book I've read in over 20 years. Really enjoyed the dystopian backdrop being in the antebellum South in the 1880s. Great character development and I am looking forward to the next book. Was hard to put down that's for sure."

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Hey #booksky, Christmas Eve is my birthday, and my birthday wish is for you to check out my post-apocalyptic alternate history western novel Sorrow Draw, a multiPOV story set against the backdrop of a comet impact in 1863. Audiobook on Audible and iTunes. FREE on KU. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587/

The novel Sorrow Draw by Tim Brumbaugh sitting on a shelf with old leather bound books and assorted antique items.

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Sorrow Draw is my post-apocalyptic alternate history western novel set in the aftermath of a comet impact in 1863. It's been called "Tombstone meets The Road." Available in multiple formats. Free to read on KU. Audiobook on Audible and iTunes. #BookSky www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587/

An image of a dust covered landscape with a river flowing down the center and the words "When the comet struck, the wild west became the last refuge for humanity"

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A post apocalyptic alternate history western novel with: ✅ Gunfighters and bounty hunters ✅ Comet impact ✅ Multi POV ✅ Chase through the Wastelands ✅ Your new favorite characters ✅ Morally gray characters ✅ A band of hunters with a dark past www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587 #BookSky #western #books

A desolate frontier landscape with the caption "When the comet struck, the Wild West became the last refuge for humanity."

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I've got a handful of free Audible audiobook codes for The Last Goblin Shaman and The Mapmaker's Husband. If you want a free download credit, fill out this Google Form and I'll send one to you. No newsletter signups or anything shifty, just hoping for a few reviews. docs.google.com/forms/d/1nZE...

An image of a goblin woman and a nephilim woman with the caption "Get a FREE Audible Audiobook code while they last."

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

So the wife decided to start fostering #kittens and at first I was like, "Nooooooo" but just look at them.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

So I'm at Thy Geekdom Con this weekend. I had no idea it was an anime convention until after I bought the booth. I don't think I'll be making table this time, but I'm sticking it out regardless.

My indie author booth at a comic con with copies of my books and displays advertising them.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

When I was 12 years old, I wrote to @stephenking.bsky.social telling him that I wanted to be a writer just like him. I didn't become a novelist, but I do horrify readers with medical history. Every time I write a book, I send him a copy hoping, as I did as a child, that he may someday see it.

A handwritten letter from Lindsey to Stephen King.

An inscription from Lindsey to Stephen King in which she says: "Truth is gorier than fiction!"

A photo of Lindsey's first book, THE BUTCHERING ART, along with the hand-written letter addressed to Stephen King atop it.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Today’s news - Trump issues infinity percent tariff on Massachusetts somehow - White House releases revised upside-down graphs showing climate change is getting better - Scientists invent new universal supervaccine; RFK Jr eats the data and runs away - Something good happened wait no now it’s bad jk

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Trying to publicly celebrate my wins, which is something I don't do well. So here it is. I'm 3 days past my one year anniversary of being an indie author, but today I finally broke 100k KU page reads! #writingcommunity

A chart showing the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Reads showing 100,223 pages read from March 15, 2024 to March 18, 2025

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I've been sitting on a stock of about 100 copies of my book for the last 6 months. In that time, I've whittled it down to 60 selling at cons and my website. On Friday, I made a new account to run my TikTok shop and sold out my stock in 24 hours. Here's the first batch, off to the post office!

A table full of shipping boxes with labels on them

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Well, unless I get 1,604 page reads by tomorrow, I won't hit the 100,000 KENP milestone for my first year as a published author. But that's ok. 98k page reads are more than I thought I'd get when Sorrow Draw debuted. If you're one of those readers, thank you for taking a chance on an indie debut!

A graph showing the number of Kindle Unlimited pages read of my books so far for my first year as an author (98,396).

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Starting all over with my TikTok shop since my main account got age restricted from a bogus report that I'm a minor. I'm almost 50. Does TikTok care? Nah, they age restricted me and doubled down when I appealed.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

People are people. Full stop.

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is how I wrap up my book orders on my website and on my TikTok shop! Sorrow Draw gets the 19th century treatment. My fantasy books get my custom wax seal. Visit timothybrumbaugh.com to order. Or, unsigned editions and ebooks on the Zon. KU included. #bookrecs #BookSky💙📚 #booksky #indieauthors

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Ken Stark @kenstark.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The undead were changing. Evolving. Acting and reacting together in a kind of hive-mind. STAGE 3: DELTA. The latest in the Stage 3 series. mybook.to/stage3delta FREE on Kindle Unlimited Also on #audiobook #audiobook #apocalypse #horror #WalkingDead #zombie #mustread #NewRelease #zombies 📚💙

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

He’s had many names, lived many lives, worn many disguises. 🎭 a magician’s last act 💖 a burgeoning romance 🗡️ brothers at odds 📓 21 pages 🤍 only ✨99c✨ 🔖 book: mybook.to/H6oGDdB 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... [ #booksky ] [ 📚💙 ]

cover for the final act of jonas black by rebecca crunden; shows a faceless figure in a hat with glasses, black and white colour scheme

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

For #WorldBookDay, consider listening to an #audiobook like Sorrow Draw, available on Audible and iTunes! ✅ Multiple POV ✅ Gunfighters and Dandies ✅ Wasteland Apocalypse ✅ Alternate History www.audible.com/pd/B0DFMR7J7T

An advertisement for the audiobook version of Sorrow Draw by Tim K Brumbaugh

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Y'all, help me reach 100,000 page reads on KU before the one year anniversary of my debut novel! I've got 3 books to choose from: 1) Sorrow Draw - post-apocalyptic western 2) The Last Goblin Shaman - Spicy Goblins 3) The Mapmaker's Husband - Cozy Fantasy #BookSky📚💙 #bookrecs #KindleUnlimited

A graph from Amazon showing the authors Kindle Unlimited page reads at 97,898.

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The #WIPSnips word for March 6 is "reputation" In this scene, Barsam has just emerged from his cursed exile (trapped in an amulet - he gets ten days of freedom every five years) and is chatting with his friend and former captain, Warren. #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Barsam smiled again. A soft, sad smile. "It went well, I think. We have an understanding, Jakk and I. Em is understandably lonely. She is a goblin and has her needs. I knew very well what that meant when we met. I never fancied Em to be mine and mine alone. To be honest, I'm surprised—and somewhat flattered—that she still is. Goblins are notorious in their…appetites. Still, she has assured me that she intends to remain faithful, as arduous and unnecessary as that is. Jakk is understandably heartbroken, but he's accepted it gracefully."
"Gracefully?" Warren asked. His mammoth friend's reputation for jealousy had been something of a legend in his time as Captain of the Black Isle Company. They had all known him to be a jealous leader, a jealous lover, and a jealous friend.
Barsam laughed. "Of course." He sat back down on the cold stone bench. "You might not notice the change in a man when you are so close to him. You see him every day, and change comes slow. It is imperceptible from one day to the next. Like a child growing up, it doesn't happen all at once but in a thousand small and indiscernible ways over the months and seasons and years. I, on the other hand, have seen five years of change in an instant."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/03/2025

No One At Laser Tag Prepared For How Hard Dad Was Going To Bring It theonion.com/no-one-...

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If you came here for the politics please also check out my books 🥺🥺 my sales are way lower this month than they were this time last month and I know times are hard for everyone but they're only a few bucks each and they're PWYV on Itch so you don't have to pay anything at all

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

✅Standalone In A Series ✅A Bit Of Sword And Sorcery ✅A Little Spice ✅These #Goblins Are *Different* ✅Redemption Arc ✅Polyamorous Relationships Free to read on Kindle Unlimited. Paperback, hardcover, and eBook available. 👉https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1H3G7J/ #BookSky #BookSky💙📚

A lovely goblin woman sitting against a rock with the title The Last Goblin Shaman by Tim K Brumbaugh. Book one of the Goblins of the Moors Series

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🍂🕯️🥀 SHORT HORROR STORY 🥀🕯️🍂 🏹 dark fantasy horror 🗡️ girls protecting girls 🍃 a forest of spirits 🎭 two sisters 🪦 a deal made in a cemetery 🗝️ children outsmarting adults 👀 only ✨99c✨ 🔖 book link: mybook.to/JeltBy 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... [ #booksky ] [ 🩸📚 ] [ 📚💙 ]

cover for bailuchien by rebecca crunden; image shows an orange heart with flowers and plants growing out of it, branches come out of the heart's centre and come out of the border too. the title font is dark red and dripping blood. the name font is pale white.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I did a thing about this on Xitter. Here are screenshots. It's the only one I saved.

2020 thread of pitching a near-future novel on COVID to an editor in 1998. Editor is interested and intrigued...

Editor starts worrying about where the story is going. Then you say, "Oh, I forgot one thing. While all this is going on, Donald Trump is President." Editor yells, "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY OFFICE!!!!"

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The Mapmaker's Husband Warren is trying his best to raise his kids after his wife's untimely passing, but the mystery of her maps is threatening the life they had once built together. #cozyfantasy #BookSky💙📚 #booksky #fantasybooks www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS2JRLYV

A picture of the book The Mapmaker's Husband by Tim K Brumbaugh with a list of tropes:
Cozy farm setting
Getting the gang back together for one last job
Retired heroes
Found family
Moving beyond bereavement
Career change
Standalone in a series
Aging heroes

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

So the first two Amazon reviews for my latest book are good examples of how fickle genre expectations are, and how you can't please every reader. The first says there are too many tense scenes for a cozy. The second says there aren't enough action scenes and it leans too heavily on the "cozy" side.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Demelza, a world-weary witch, and Uliana, an even more exhausted vampyre, work together to send wayward demons, ghosts and otherworldly creatures back to where they came from. But some jobs are more difficult than others. 🔖 story: mybook.to/RXIIkD 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... [ 📚💙 ]

On Demon Wrangling and Interpersonal Relationships Between Weary Immortals cover; purple background with a cat and flowers.

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The #WIPSnips word for March 4 is "annoy" An excerpt from Sorrow Draw. Which is technically no longer a WIP, I suppose. Hasn't been for almost a year, I guess. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Erasmus cursed himself silently. His laughter brought them here. “My father shouldn’t concern himself with my comings and goings. And neither should his goons. I’m no child to be fretted over.”
Ransom pulled down the dust scarf that covered his face. “What was you two doing in the parsonage?”
“I was showing my friend here the spot where the old minister died. You know, the one that shit himself to death in this very house. A tragic tale. The mood was so somber afterward I attempted to bring in a little levity with some jokes and laughter.” Erasmus feigned annoyance, but his heart threatened to beat out of his chest. This is just what the Paluxy Boys would use to justify hanging Lupe.
Why wasn’t I more cautious?
Ransom smacked his lips. “You know what they say about you, don’t you? I mean, you have to know. And yet you still put yourself in this position. Doesn’t the Bible tell us to abstain from the appearance of evil? Yet here you are, decidedly not abstaining from a goddamned thing.”

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🤍 romantic fantasy 🔥 forbidden love ❄️ winter time 🌃 urban fantasy 🃏 gentleman trickster 🔮 magic 🖋️ binding agreements 🐕 doggy sidekick 🔖 book link: mybook.to/X7QtGZf 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... [ #booksky ] [ 📚💙 ]

A Game of Wings and Marks by Rebecca Crunden kindle cover; image shows blue flowers and wings

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🚀 spaceships 🌡️ dark conspiracies 🎭 brotherhood ❌ no romance 🐛 strange creatures 🤖 futuristic 🪐 other worlds 🐈 a rescue cat 🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... [ #booksky ] [ 🪐📚 ] [ 📚💙 ]

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Gonna tell my kids this was Garrus Vakarian

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Happy Monday! The #WIPSnips word for March 3rd is "ring" I feel like I cheated with this one, but nowhere in my draft did the word "ring" appear in its own. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

His lamp bounced in the wind and with each careful step his horse took. Though it did little to pierce the veiling dust, the light was a source of comfort to him in the darkness of the wastes. He rubbed the glass lenses of his goggles with a corner of his keffiyeh, but it did little to help his vision. The fog of Calamity grew thicker than usual tonight, and it made finding the cairns difficult. Conny feared, more than once, that his horse might drift on the trail, and he would be lost on the wastelands, wandering directionless until thirst devoured him.
Yet every time this fear became a burning, consuming thing, he would see the shadow of the next cairn behind the obscuring dust, and he would be safe again for a time.
He chided himself for his childishness. Had he not wandered these wastelands for months, tracking a single girl through the endless dust? Yes, he told himself. But I didn't do any of it alone.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My prayer for all of us is that we can reach the level of guilelessness born of freedom that i had when i wrote the line "wanna put my tender heart in a blender" and not only did not crumple the paper and throw it in the trash but recorded it to tape

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A Multi-POV novel that made one reader say, "No matter how hard I try, there isn't a single character here that I don't absolutely love." And another say, "I fell in love with these characters the moment they were introduced." #booksky #BookSky💙📚 #postapocalypse

Post-apocalyptic Western novel Sorrow Draw with the tagline "Your new favorite characters are waiting."

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In 1881, in the heart of the American wastelands, a young woman finds a treasure that shouldn't exist - paper money from the Republic of California. Now, she's on the run from a group of bounty hunters who will stop at nothing to find her. #sorrowdraw #BookSky #BookSky📚💙 #indieauthor #bookrecs

An advertisement for Sorrow Draw by Tim Brumbaugh with the tagline "I am in awe at how much I loved this book." And a list of genre tropes including Western Setting, Multi-POV, Ensemble Cast, Dead Post-apocalyptic World, Memorable Characters, Gunfighters and Bounty Hunters, Alternate History, and Chase through the Wastelands

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This was nearly a year ago when Sorrow Draw first debuted. Sold out on TikTok lightning quick back then. #indieauthor #BookSky💙📚

Me in a black T-shirt signing a bunch of copies of my book Sorrow Draw

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Got my booth set up for Happy Valley Comicon!

A booth set up in a warehouse for comicon

A promo for Happy Valley comicon that says "I'll be at HVC3, will you?"

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I'm up to 24,000 followers. Thank you! That's more than 2/3 of the gang I had on Xitter. I was there for more than 7 years. I've been here a bit more than 4 months. Yeah, thanks!

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Always feels great to put that nominee sticker on the cover. 🖤

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The #WIPSnips word for February 21 is "whim" Wu can sometimes make up things on a whim. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Farhad said nothing. Wu disliked her people, and their beliefs, and she would often make up her own beliefs, almost on a whim, usually to be contrary. To everyone Farhad had ever known, crows were a sign of trouble.
“Come my love,” Wu said. She held him in her gaze with her narrow eyes that Farhad found intoxicating. “He is alright, too. He is alright, too.”
But this bloody trail and the hoof prints in the dust didn’t tell the full story. He might have been alive when he left the battle, but did he make it the long way back through the woods and to the safety of the lodge? And what was the fate of Crowkiller? The big Indian had always been almost as close a friend to him as Conny.

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Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The #WIPSnips word for February 19 is "sense" Conny and Nikki are sharing a moment together before Conny leaves for Sorrow Draw. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“Nonsense. You’re the only reason that all these men and women who ain’t dead yet, ain’t dead yet. Even with your bum leg, you outgunned all of us.”
“I sat at a window and shot at men from a hiding spot like a coward.” Years ago, he would have stood up to any man that hid in the shadows and killed men from the cover of darkness and called him out for being yellow.
“A coward? What them men did was cowardly. They came here and shot up a bunch of innocent people who was only minding they own. What you did was the noble thing. Coward my ass, Cornelius White.”
“Well ain’t you a daisy for saying so,” he said. “How’s it looking? The leg, I mean.”

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