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Woodley Dowar

@wdowar.bsky.social
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Original #scifi very short stories daily #vss365 and #scifaikusaturday. Bartleby B. Boar award nominee #SciFanSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 www.wdowar.com

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Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 15h
The #tavern on the corner of dimensions Five and #Six was the most desirable drinking spot in the multiverse. I had been through literal hell to get here, yet a #cloud hung over me: There was nothing that I could drink. The people of dimension six hadn't heard of Vegans. #vss365 #vssmagic #vssdaily
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365 #bequest i found your voice inside me one morning. small as a moth, beating against my throat. I did not let it out. some things are better kept as bequest: a whisper, a breath, a word that still belongs to you. 🖤 #ωнιѕρєяѕ
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 21h
Pt561 Essie was scared, more than anything, of letting her #guard down. For years, she had been on her own in her casita in Little Tlatelolco. She’d had to look out for herself. She did NOT want the same for Anita. Her #bequest to her great granddaughter would be coraje. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 16h
Their heads Got lost in a #cloud On their way To #bequest What's left Of Sunday Memories & Saturdays Miseries It's a shame We have To shovel flowers We were meant To stop & smell To feed Someone else's Idea of hell When we take A riptide To the left Away— It'll be alright again #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 15h
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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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 15h
#vss365 my crazy old grandfather would shout at #clouds, demanding answers neither of us learned a thing from those clouds but I learned his questions they became mine in time I found my own answers
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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 18h
Love’s #bequest— Sand grains on the dune above me Some blooms on a few cacti for my balcony …and some runes ah, those ruins of our corporeality #vss365 #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #Oulens
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 18h
#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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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 18h
I walked through the storm But the dark skies follow me Personal rain clouds #vss365 #Cloud #Senryu
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 17h
Easily pleased with Coffee and words to inspire, It's a peaceful life. #emoetry #pleased #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 17h
all that distance and still the cloud finds itself in a puddle #Vss365 #Cloud #PoetrySky #Tanka #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin #Poetry my 📷
A cloud and a glowing streetlamp reflected in a rain puddle on wet pavement, with raindrops making small ripples across the reflected sky.
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 16h
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
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

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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Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Your #bequest was an entire planet?" "Yes, #Martinis all round!" "This is truly your #moment. I hope the people living there don't end up making you #squirm, I hear they can be very... #forward." "People live there?! I better cancel that new paint job!" #vss365 #2wordprompt #vssmagic #vssdaily
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Vss365 #poetry #vss365 My lonesome coffee cools & shadows stretch across the empty west As I watch the setting of our sun …a bittersweet #bequest
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An old smuggler colleague had died. Dylan got that note buried in a comm-burst filled with the usual banality. An old friend with a last #bequest. That Dylan make sure his family were cared for. Dylan checked. The rest of the man’s family had died in an attack on Hera. The man didn’t know. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The head of the noble house had left a substantial #bequest to a great number of family members, charitable institutions and servants. He was a good man, despite being of the nobility. Ilyna heard about it and knew where her next score would come from. The family didn’t need that money. #vss365
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A violent death Bright starry supernova Bequests a black hole #vss365 #Bequest
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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What are you talking about? She left me nothing - just her very annoying laugh. Exactly! Mom always loved you best. #vss365 #Bequest #Dialogue #Writing #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets
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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And in this Broken world Where the moon Still rises in splendour, And badgers burrow Amongst the Russet and amber #Bequest Of fallen leaves, Summer's ghost Finally falls To slumber, A faint, Barely audible Whisper carried On the breeze. #VSS365 #Writing #Poetry
An original artwork of a badger in an abstract style. Created using watercolour paints on A4 paper.
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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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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I #bequest my will No document nor money Just the will to live #vss365 #haiku #poetry
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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. 
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A photograph of a vivid reddish pink sunset sky dredged with rain clouds.
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September’s #bequest ~ a dahlia unfolds into October #vss365 #monoku #PoetryInPictures #nature #garden #photography
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SciFanSat Magazine @scifansat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Calling all writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy and More: #SciFanSat welcomes you to face your fears with October’s theme of SPIRIT! Danse macabre your manuscripts to us before submissions close on 10.22.2026 at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts
SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More! October’s theme for issue 39 is SPIRIT. The deadline for submissions to issue 39 is October 22nd, and it will be published on Saturday, October 31st, 2026... Happy Halloween!
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Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was no #reprieve from a life in #Slow #Town. After, living anywhere else just feels #plain wrong. Bodies become like trees with skin turning to #bark. But nothing compares to putting down solid roots in a fast universe and finally being able to breathe #vss365 #2wordprompt #vssmagic #vssdaily
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When the unexpected com-burst came through, Dylan had thought he and his crew had earned their #reprieve from their duties in the Savannah System, but such was not the case. Instead, it only told him that he had missed a great battle in the Republic System. He still had to wait to fight. #vss365
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Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unexpected rain Sudden reprieve from the heat Earth drinks thirstily #vss365 #Reprieve # Haiku
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Lee Zanello @lima-zulu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We slept in shifts at the wormhole. Noise for a month: radio signals, chatter, tongues that weren’t ours. Now the silence was a welcome #reprieve. We thought they’d gone. It wasn’t until after the attack that we learned they’d realized we could hear them and had just changed frequencies. #vss365
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
all day rain city sidewalks welcome the reprieve #vss365 #haiku
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#night rain on the rose a #reprieve between the gusts the petals hang loose #DailyHaikuPrompt #vss365 #haiku #blueskypoets #nature #photography
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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we said goodbye and closed that door then thought lost love could only grieve somehow we came home once more two stubborn hearts granted reprieve #vss365 #Reprieve #Quatrain #Poetry #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets
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RiddleyThomas @0ffkilter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If day doesn’t say hello giving no time to say goodbye. To hold on a little longer feeling the weight of before If the world were over and darkness took the sky stealing away the dawn. While waves forget the shore, grant reprieve before the leaving. A moment, to breathe you, just once more #vss365
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm falling head first No #reprieve awaits me here My past drags me down #vss365 #haiku #poetry
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ocean Lover enjoys reprieve from duty, honour tides out, tides in push pull, push pull Fickle Sea no solitary lover knows no bounds attracted to everything the reason we drown #vss365 #reprieve #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #TidesoutTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #Photography #ECK #WCK 💙📷 me
Tides out, Tides In
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of the Pacific Ocean, not quite low tide, but beginning to pull back. The water, vivid shades of marine blues and greens sprinkled with white foam.
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ghastly hounds howl scarecrow slowly raises its arms, niitpicking whispers surface skulls murmur of ancient curses, spirits trapped within the vault ache the walls hold their suspended breath seeking the witch's favor begging for reprieve #vss365 #inkmine #emoetry #Foxprose #BSPP57 #BlueskyRemnant
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Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When he came to visit on Prilly 4, I was kind enough to #purify my #uncle in a #flood of radiation. He wasn't happy. Mostly because I gave him no #warning. That and all of his clothes were ruined, his arm fell off and, oh yeah, he can't ever go home. Pfft. Ungrateful. #vss365 #2wordprompt #vssmagic
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dylan hated the petty, everyday work of the captain, now having to head down to engineering to discuss replacements for the carbon dioxide scrubbers, needed to #purify the air and keep this boat liveable. Of course, going down there had its benefits, but when he arrived, she was it there. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every so often, some madman, or religious zealot, took it upon themselves to attempt to #purify the Underside. Fire was usually the preferred weapon, and people died, yes, but the Underside always survived. Ilyna had lived through two blazes, she expected the next would get her, or not. #vss365
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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Puppy sleeps with paws in the air there is a purity in trusting the whole room #vss365 #Purify #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets
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Migs @ominoushallways.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From my #vss365 playlist, this is Condemnation by Depeche Mode: If you see #purity as immaturity Well, it's no surprise If for kindness you substitute blindness Please open your eyes youtu.be/bw0cAGymzag?... #MusicSky
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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wind against rock our purification left at the altar #vss365 #senryu
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Lee Zanello @lima-zulu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They told us the river would purify us, but I didn’t believe them. I pretended to drink. By morning, everyone had disappeared except me. I went down to the river and found it calm and dark, the reflection smiling back at me. Only problem was, it wasn’t mine. #vss365
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
grief does not purify it leaves the cup the chair the unmade bed exactly where love last touched them #Vss365 #Purify #PoetrySky #Poem #Nature #Photography #ECK #Grief #Poetry my 📷
Pink wildflowers beneath a hazy sun, surrounded by tall grasses and softly blurred vegetation.
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Daniel Cummings @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#vss365
Looking for answers, I met a holy man on the road, and gave him my number, but he hasn't called. The goldfish I bought to calm my nerves just looks lonely. I was rebirthed from the Basin Sen Jak Mud Baths. Cleansed, #purified and mortified. I have a sneaking suspicion that there are no depths to plumb. Everyone is a lost as I am.
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dance in falling rain #Purifying the spirit Human once agajn #vss365 #haiku #poetry
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
under the tree she sits without a plan her body rests her mind has stopped making lists taking leave of the person the town knows she lets the wind #purify the breath she brought along sky between the branches water close enough to hear from head to toe she’s out of reach for the afternoon #vss365
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A diamond black envelope arrives An invitation to dream gently drifts by careful darkness embraces the sky Come morn we must say goodbye Sunlit blue upon blue stirred white and gold purifies our souls #vss365 #poetrysky #poetsofbluesky #writesky #photography #wck #BlueSkyMonday 💙📷 me
Blue upon Blue, Invitation to Dream. 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
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Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On Planet Cinema, if you #talk during a #visit to the #movies, you have to #renounce your citizenship. Then you're slumming it on TV World, where the streams go on and on and nobody knows what to watch. Those that can remember long to return to the Betamax Dimension. #vss365 #2wordprompt #vssdaily
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nature or nurture? Sunset's bold independence Proof of love's embrace #vss365 #nurture #haiku #writesky #thingstowriteabout #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #micropoetry #haikupoem #photography #wck #PoetryAndPhotography 💙📷 me
Sunset Independence. 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of the ball drop over the Pacific Ocean. Vivid orange-red colours signify a bold embrace as glints of light shimmer across the water.
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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I #reckon there will be stars When the lights go out Across the universe They'll be picked Pickled & pampered By the force That keeps Their glows Until then It would be nice To #nurture The thought: I'll cycle A few thousand Lives So I can See it through— With diamonds For eyes #vss365
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