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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 15h

The #island was only there for three hours. It appeared with a flash in the pond down the road. There were clowns juggling pastries and monkeys playing guitars. Fireworks made fighting dragons way up in the sky. When it sank back below the water, I smiled. I'll remember that for a long time. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We place paper boats on the lake and watch them #sail away. The wind blows some in circles and others back to shore. A couple capsize, but that's okay. I'm proud of you for not getting upset that most were lost. Your good one that stayed afloat for an hour? We'll talk about that one forever. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The #hurricane looked pretty as it danced over the horizon. The swirls of smoke grey mixed with blue bruise hues and painted the whole sky angry. It was strange to watch the houses and cars get tossed through the sky like the whole history within meant nothing. I guess it didn't, really. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I ran past a #harbour today, down by Cardiff Bay. With 30,000 other people, 60,000 pounding feet, we ran across the raised stretch of land to chase down our medals and post run pint. Yet, as I crossed the water, I was still sure to take time to look st how big the water was and feel small. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I make a #lure from twigs and hay, then dress it in your old suit. As it sinks into the blackness, the face looks creamy white and far too familiar. I wait for a week before the thing's eyes glow from below. Slowly, I start to sink in the hook. I wonder if I will find your bones in its belly #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I said I was bored, so Dad gave me a spoon and told me to chip away at the #mountain. It took me a month to move the first rock, by the time it tilted my knuckles were raw and the spoon was down to the nub. So he handed me another. I'm not sure if he meant it as punishment or encouragement. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The sky had had enough of our nonsense, so it sent down a #cloud to calm us down. It settled like sea foam. For a while it worked. We were quiet from fear. But soon the confidence rose from the gloom and the screams began to sing. So the cloud tightened its grip and we all drifted to sleep. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On his deathbed, the Fairy King #bequest me his crown. I did not ask for it. He always hated me. As we gathered in the forest for my coronation I could hear the clipped clatter of sharpened wings from the leaves around me. My first and final request was to name his son the heir to my throne. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's been far too sunny for far too long. The plants in my garden look sad from the strain. I stand over them for a while, using my shadow to give them some #reprieve from the Sun. My neck begins to blister and my shoulders scorch raw, but I stay there, because I don't have anything else. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of blood was spilled on this ground. It dyed the soil rust orange for ten straight years. But the rain was more stubborn than death. One drop at a time it washed away the devastation, if not the memories. Not to #purify, but to restore. Now the grass grows as green as it ever has done. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He was an odd man, he tried to #renounce the ground. We did tell him it wouldn't work. But after three hundred tweets, a podcast and a TikTok account dedicated to Exposing The Truth, I can't say any of us were disappointed when we watched him float up into the sky, arguing with the clouds. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We found an empty house, though the beds were still warm and shoes still sat by the door. A kitten meowed at us, licking his paws. We loved that cat. We petted him and fed him and #nurtured him on the richest milk. When we woke up to find him nibbling our toes, we were sure we needn't worry. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I taste souls to assess them. These two look so plain. A couple and a car crash. How clichè. She tastes of home made cookies. He tastes of sad chocolate birthday cake. I #reckon their value against each other. Chocolate birthday cake is terrified, and he should be. Those awful things he did. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The tree had a #hunger, so he sunk his roots deep and drew everything in. The forest around him turned dry and brown, the crack of falling branches filled the air, but he still wanted more. By the time the Little People's fields turned to dust he was ten thousand feet tall and still eating. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm making potions with Nan. One part pink and one part orange. Some bubble water to make the magic tickle your nose. We cackle at our hubble bubble and pull our wickedest faces at each other. Then we sip them through a straw. My potion tastes a lot like #passion fruit. That's my favourite. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We watch as the stars #embark on their journey to nowhere. They flicker and float, then slowly the pinprick carpet splits apart into nothing. I used to like looking up into the past, it was comforting. But I can understand why they decided to leave us alone. Now it's so very dark up there. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The giant stands in the #storm. Thick black clouds crown his head lighting the ancient cracks of his face with each thunderclap. He stands there so long that the rains wear his age to dust and wash him towards the sea. As a million tiny pieces he gathers, getting ready to grow big once again #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The giants are in #conflict again. It's been rumbling for ten thousand years. I can see it in the cracks in the plaster on my living room walls, or the way the cliffs near my home lose inches to the sea every single year. They won't stop for us, of course. Who would ever think they should? #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm going outside to #marvel at the stars. I will lay on my back and count them. If I lose count I will start again, because there is nothing else to do. They're pretty, those twinkling little dots. I can't actually see them, of course. Too many street lights out here. But I can always dream #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I make a front midline incision, then peel the skin back with my fingers. I #explore the peritoneal cavity carefully. Three buttons. A roll of fly catching tape. A membership card for a club in Ohio with someone else's name. There was no scar. The GI tract is intact. How did they get here? #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's #vss365 prompt seems to have fallen off the rails a bit... Pretty sure the host chose #infancy and #sustain was just another tagged word in the post

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Giants start small, like everybody else. They spend their #infancy as a wash of a million pebbles, scattered across the ocean floor. The water's rage trains them. Not for violence, but for patience. When they are ready, they roll up on a random shore and wait until they grow into mountains. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We #commenced the celebrations too early. It was 2004 and we were dumb. We thought we had made it and the problems were fixed. That idiot W was the worst thing any of us could imagine. Now everyone is too fighty and shouty and loud. We still need to fight, but I'll listen to some Blink first #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No. Not today. I'm going for a walk. I'm going to go and find some moving water and listen to it babble as I sit on a bench and read. I'll enjoy the low hanging sun and #Autumnal flush of the leaves on the trees. You can leave me a message. I'll try my best to get back to you later. Maybe. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When the sky started to fall there were lots of screams and lots of tears. One man on the TV told us not to be stupid, how could the sky possibly be falling, they must be lying to us. As the stars tinkled off the roof, Mum was more #sanguine. She sang along to their beat until we fell asleep #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We were told growing up that the giants had an #esoteric language. It would take a lifetime to understand the aching creaks coming from deep in their bellies. Instead of listening, I watched. I watched them pull the day across the sky. Their language was hidden in wonder, free for all to see #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm used to people shouting stuff out at me when on a run. Something about my red and sweaty face invites it. But a guy rolling down his window to shout "Trump's grandson" at me, twice, is definitely a new one.

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That man has all the #eloquence of a follow through fart, and he leaves much the same impression. Don't worry, he will be forgotten soon enough. However bad it smells in here right now, we can still open the windows and the wind will carry him away. That's the worst thing he can imagine. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is a troll at the edge of the village, so Mum tells me. He feeds on the #naivete of passers by. Sure, okay, whatever you say. When I get close I see his shadow. You won't fool me, that's clearly Mum dressed up. As I feel the teeth sink in I'm still laughing at her fake mainstream lies. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I asked to see my future, so the boy lit his pipe and blew smoke hard in my face. The #mélange of life punched me in the nose. It smelled like holiday sea breeze, forgotten perfumes and Sunday roast dinners. When it faded away, I asked him if I would be rich. He shook his head, disappointed. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The forest is littered with good #intuition. The bones of people who could definitely find their way out, they were sure it was this way, just follow them a little bit further. The roots made a banquet of their confidence. Instead, I ask the canopy for help. It opens and shows me the stars. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I went for a walk one night, past houses with TV glow curtains and people who would be late for work in the morning. I walked until I reached the reservoir where it was quiet and still. There used to be a town here, deep under the #moonglade. They flooded it so my loud little city could grow #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You would hold me by the hand, but you never held it tight. When we spoke you would say the right words, but always say them over my shoulder. When you wrote your vows on #palimpsest, that should have been enough for me to say thank you, kiss your cheek and walk away. But of course, I didn't #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He was the most #adroit fairy hunter in the kingdom. You could tell from the chain of fairy teeth hanging around his neck. I got close one time. Strange, they looked much the same as the broken sea shells I found on the beach. When the buzzing rose from the forest, he was nowhere to be found #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mum spent a week prepping the party. We're forbade from entering the dining room, the buffet must look perfect when everyone arrives. Mum smiles. Mum opens the door. Mum gasps. Nan is snoozing in the corner, cake crumbs still on her plate. She decided to #reconnoitre the snacks an hour ago #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The tour guide's solemn voice drops slightly. There's excitement behind the hushed words. When we get to the dark shadows on the floor, he tells us about how they were flash burnt there when the bombs dropped. Each #silhouette a person's last moment. One looks like they were holding flowers. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We gifted the fairy king a bottle of our #elixir. His wings hissed as he eyed it through the light. We were allowed our passage and we took it quick. As we walked away we could hear the hum of jealousy descend on him from his courtiers. Each wanted a sip. So much blood over honey and ginger. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The littlest giant looked so still. They had laid him on a flat rock, barely three foot wide. The others stood like mountains around him, their sobs shaking the ground a thousand miles away. How could we #console them? Flowers wouldn't work. Words didn't feel enough. Silence was all we had. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I held his still bloody hand while he cried. It wasn't his fault. They drove him to it. He just snapped. I listened to it all while the bodies were still draining dry. He wanted sympathy where I could only offer #empathy, and the people looking on, judging me, couldn't tell the two apart. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Anyone else having problems with the #twistedtournament saying judging is closed when the timer says it should still be open?

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When the giant died we couldn't move the body. Instead, we painted him with #wax to stop him spoiling in the fields. It took a month. Layer on layer slowly hiding his eyes, his hair, his smile. Now he's a cream white mountain, watching over us. We tell the young ones he's pretending to sleep #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have a favourite #broom. It's made from willow twigs and a carved pine handle. I use it to brush away the feeling of bad times and unhappy memories. It doesn't work, of course. But there's something about losing myself to the rhythm of the scratch on the floor that takes me somewhere else. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have a #glove that has magical powers. When I wear it I feel special. I tingle as I take it from its silk lined box. I stare into my mirror and roll it gently down my forearm, picturing myself as one of those 1950s stars with a cigarette and I-know-your-secret smile. I wish I had the pair. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I knew a man with #tissue paper skin. Walking through grass, a too close hug or even strong winds could cause him to tear and bleed for days. Still, every day he would walk to the shop and buy a bag of jelly sweets. I think about him a lot. I buy jelly sweets every day too, even when I don't #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"I buried their face in the #pillow so that nobody would hear them scream," is only two words away from "I buried my face in the pillow so that nobody would hear me scream." Two words. One perspective shift. And the difference is horror to joy. Aren't words these wonderful little things? #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My face is on the #poster. There must be some mistake. I don't remember going missing, but the bright red letters say otherwise. I call the number. I speak to the nice people. When they arrive they have tears flowing down their faces. I do not get the reward, just a bed they insist is mine. #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The aliens felt like #sponge. We were told not to touch them, but really, who could resist? They fell from the sky with a splat splat splat, then lay there in the sun for a week. We laughed. We thought their invasion had gone horribly wrong. But then it rained. They're scary when they expand #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I pull on the #cord, then pull it again. He laughs, I hate it when he does that. We've already climbed 300 feet. The trees look like a soft blanket below. From down there, we look like ants. Nobody can hear us. Nobody can see an anchor deliberately put in the wrong place. Why is he grinning? #vss365

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We roll #dice to see where we will go. Six and a Two today, so we're off to the Moon. It's nice up here. Peaceful. We sit on a rock, drinking wine and eating cheese while we watch the clouds roll over Tuscany somewhere far below. I hope we never roll double one. Nobody ever wants to go there #vss365

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