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Tracy Shawn

@tracyshawn.bsky.social
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#Author ✍🏻Novels: Floating Underwater and The Grace of Crows, Second Edition. Querying third novel📖 Member of The #AuthorsGuild 📚She/Her www.tracyshawn.com/novels-by-tracy-…

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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 3h
Hurricane warning Historic coastline bracing Tomorrow, vanished #vss365 #haiku
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The lure of deep blue Runs inside our hearts to sea Ancient mystery #vss365 #haiku
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Bequest Day 15 - Our Legacy, we #Bequest to the world What remains is the ones who remember: a gesture, a phrase, a kindness, a way of standing in the rain. We leave behind more than we ever knew. The story does not end. It becomes a part of something larger than itself. 💫🖤
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A whispered bequest My poems will be yours now Dreams forever hers #vss365 #haiku
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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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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Currently #querying #literaryagents for a character-driven women’s fiction story, which includes themes of mother-daughter conflict, unconditional love, and ultimate self-acceptance. #amquerying
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#vss365 #poetry dark #reckon
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Reckon Day 10 - It time to #Reckon those Midlife questions The mirror starts asking different questions. The past taps its ring against the glass. What did we build? What did we lose? And who is this standing here now? 😎🖤🖤
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the last hour before dawn A dream awakens Half-way between hope and dread Reckoning the truth With a swollen heart #vss365 #reckon
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Your beloved home perished alongside so many others This planet Plunging into a pathos That would have torn your heart And still Your daughters remember Your soft blue eyes Sad yet hopeful smile The embrace throughout storms Your love... Most of all, Your Love #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The entire premise of the #conflict with The Enemy was opaque. Dylan had spent many sleepless nights trying to work out what they wanted from The War, but he could see none. Nothing but slaughter for the sake of it. Resources? Were there no uninhabited systems for them to ravage instead? #vss365
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With the conflict of time Across my face Let me sip my tea As I close my eyes against the pale morning sun Those anxious furrows and hopeful smile lines Lengthened by the light #vss365
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#vss365 #poetry Underneath midnight shadows Of sweet empty wine glasses My wildest fantasies #Commence to manifest Of that old Stuck in love forever memory Making my eyes burst With the heaviest teardrops As my lost love stands in front of me Falling stars fill the sky endlessly
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dreaming Fall into sleep Commence into flight Unbound by reality #vss365
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Brewed hope in a cup Awakens eloquent dreams Stirred with morning light #vss365 #haiku
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
She dreams of strangers Then sees them the next day Without a word she passes them by Her intuition so thick, she cannot speak Their upcoming sorrows and joys seep into her bones Never to cross paths again Their stories still become her own #vss365
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.tracyshawn.com/advice-for-a... #bookclub #writingadvice #reading
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Advice for Authors: Don’t Just Visit Book Clubs—Join One! - Tracy Shawn, Award-Winning Author
by Tracy Shawn     Several years ago, I ran into an old friend who had read my second novel, Floating Underwater. She kindly picked it for her next book club read and asked if I’d like to be a guest a...
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Against the glare of sunset You could be anyone But I know your tilt of head, that lonesome gait, the silhouette of burden And just for a moment, before I reach out, I make wish for you As the wind blows past us both #vss365
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Bethany Samaddar - popping in & out @blsamaddar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
moonlight through dark leaves shadows on my lips our luminous loss of senses our soliloquy of surrender your consoling hands hold my spirit in your palm like cupped water learning the creases of your skin do you feel it? our holy, unholy language our liminal menagerie this electric dance #vss365
Couple dancing in a dark room under a chandelier, with a fireplace and starry night outside.
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Under a red, jet-streaked sky The earth trembles Trying to console the life she holds Hoping to soothe herself #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"She grabbed the broom and pretended to fly away." The #vss365 #prompt for August 30, 2026 is #broom Your next host (from Sep. 1 on) will be Robert, @tetrametracall1.bsky.social - a trusted member of our community. Yes! 😊 He will post his prompts at 02.00 pm GMT.
Picture of a broom by Daniel von Appen on Unsplash
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
August heat presses into the kitchen floor, dust and debris stuck like so many unrealized dreams Last night's nightmares still rattling her brain She scrapes her #broom across the surface Sweeps and sweeps and sweeps Until her breath is finally still #vss365
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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wrapped in human tissue, Trapped inside the corporate world Endless loop of fetch. ~rev #haiku #tissue #vss365 📸 net
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Bethany Samaddar - popping in & out @blsamaddar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#poem #poetry #blueskypoets
Blow a wind across your tongue,
the breath from Mondays lost,
warm and threadbare.

The fading trill of Saturdays old,
which found her lipping melodies

what she once took for song
folded in slight plumes of stardust
is only molecules searching for sun
on minuscule faces.

Hovering at her lips like a spirit 
caught between the living and the gone,

she lets it spill from that narrow
passageway,
her exhale,
her bit of Sunday still 
beholden only to the tide.
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Jyari @jyari3000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#vss365 #tissue #poetry
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Leaves blow past our feet As you hesitate Overhead, a cloudburst Finally, you take my offered tissue Finally, we are real again #vss365
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February Grace @februarygrace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sending extra love out into the night sky 🌌 to everyone who had a stressful day today. May sleep be restorative and may tomorrow be a better day. ✨💗🫂
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, Dolly, you were so loved❤️ Thank you for sharing your talent, kindness, and sparkle. You made the world a better place🩵#DollyParton
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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good morning—some Monday morning motivation
Why Bother?

Because right now, there is         someone 

out there with

a wound                               in the exact shape 

                                             of your words.

                         —Sean Thomas Dougherty
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Prompt 259 Following breadcrumbs My phone lights up in the dark Love remains hopeful #SenseWrds #Senryu
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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thrilled to announce a new deal for three fantastic new books by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social! And it's been chosen by @publishersmarketplace as the Deal of the Day
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What an incredible community. Let's focus on writing 🤗 Let's go! "She rolled the dice, hoping fate would finally deal her a winning hand." The #vss365 #prompt for August 23, 2026 is #dice
Picture of dice by Brett Jordan from Unsplash
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
She wanted nothing else But to roll the dice again A second chance, or really, more like a thousandth Still, even as she shook those cool cubes of luck She knew it'd run out #vss365
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
They say a mermaid will innocently comb her hair as she waits to lure a hapless sailor But when I was little, still young enough to dream in the day, A mermaid turned her green-hued face to me and sang, "We only want to breathe, sweet girl. We only want to live." #vss365
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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thrilled to announce that @rachelweaver.bsky.social's DIZZY has won the gold medal for memoir in the Living Now Awards livingnowawards.com/blog/2026-me...
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Enveloped in night Remote owl waking our dreams Releasing wishes #vss365 #haiku
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Underneath, the earth Toils with regrowth and time So plant deep, tread light #vss365 #haiku|
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The ordinary night Is made divine by stepping outside Searching the ancient light of stars Shining down on a lowly human trying to forget herself #vss365
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
He dreams of rain-washed breeze Of summer fruit—plumbs and peaches and something else he cannot name Yet yearns for just the same When daylight edges in He trudges into dust-hot reality Drinks his coffee and cries for all the things he cannot remember #vss365
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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Regardless of whether the ride is long or short, difficult or easy, windy or calm, inevitably I return back home. One final deep breath and life seems a bit easier. This ride has been simply amazing! Thanks to you all! The #vss365 #prompt for July 31, 2026 is #arrive. 🚴‍♂️🙌🙏
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
She will arrive in your dreams My auntie says About her sister, my mother And so she does, champagne glass in hand Smiling, but never talking Auntie says, just be happy to see her We're not ready, she whispers, for the answers #vss365
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please read..... #BookSky
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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In cycling and in life, physics works for us and against us each and every day. We take the benefits of and sometimes work against its forces. We are approaching the end of the ride so let’s just take it easy on this downhill. The #vss365 #prompt for July 29, 2026 is #coast.
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
To the California Coast where my grandparents fled And my mother learned to roller-skate All the way to the ocean All the way from persecution and the metallic scent of fear Where I learned to dive into the surf, My mother looking on, remembering Always remembering #vss365
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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Holding a new book I've been published in makes me happy, so having my stories included in 2 new anthos means double the book joy! 🎉🎉
Me holding The Best of MetaStellar Year Five (featuring my story "Time's Up") and Roots & Rivers: A Collection of Myth and Folklore (featuring my story "A Touch of Luck")
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Dylan knew his history. Humans tended to think of themselves as the #summit of life. The inevitable epitome of evolution. A conceit challenged from the moment they reached out to the stars. But were The Enemy superior, or equally small in the vastness of the stars? He couldn’t say for sure. #vss365
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
For one brief, bright moment plant your feet on the summit Close your eyes and smile at the sun For all too soon, another mountain must be scaled #vss365
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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
On occasion we are faced with the seemingly insurmountable challenge of propelling ourselves forward while lifting the full weight of what we each carry every day. Our reward is a form of euphoric exhilaration. You’ve got this! The #vss365 #prompt for July 25, 2026 is #ascend.
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Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The way this stranger glides past, face shining in the sun, sturdy, unapologetic body in denim skirt and clunky boots Has she been able to ascend her pain? And is that possible for any of us? She passes by and with a knowing smile, nods Maybe, just maybe, there is hope #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One of life’s great joys: Seeing a clearly excited doggo straining at its lead because EVERYONE and EVERYTHING is going to be its absolute bestest fren EVER! 🐶
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