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Write4Eddie

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Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors. NYC! 🏙️ Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton

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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My essay on the nature of freedom. #MediumWriters #WriteSky #politics edwardrstapleton.medium.com/drinking-cha...
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Drinking Champagne by the Mississippi
The following is from an unpublished memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip around the USA at the height of the pandemic. I publish…
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Macaroni @crypticmacaroni.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hello cryptic crossword people on bluesky :) I’m Macaroni, I got into cryptics a couple years ago, and was just made aware of the community here! I look forward to getting to know you all. Heres a topical clue: X (originally Twitter) by soulless Elon (3) #cryptic #crosswords
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Have been working on my #MinuteCryptic game. Here’s one of my latest creations. Country dance bans northerners. Angry response. (6) www.minutecryptic.com/custom/8ceb2...
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Minute Cryptic
Minute Cryptic is a free daily cryptic crossword clue. Solve today's puzzle, learn how cryptic clues work with free guided courses, and build your solving streak.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I used to use the acronym HOMES to remember the names of the Great Lakes. Now it’s, fittingly…SHAME
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My thoughts on the age of the Earth. And America’s terrible twos. #MediumWriters #politics #WriteSky edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-age-of-t...
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The Age of the Earth
The following is from an unpublished travel memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip around the USA at the height of the pandemic…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How do we settle in or find security in a country that’s always moving? New chapter on our shifting demographics. #WriteSky #politics #MediumWriters edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-american...
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The American Diaspora
The following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote in 2020 following a road trip around the USA at the height of the…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You cannot love both Trump and America. You have to choose. edwardrstapleton.medium.com/adaptations-...
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Adaptations in Trump’s America
The following is from an unpublished travel and political memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip around the USA at the height of the…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
With many election losses, and disappointing politicians (cough cough Platner), there have been many disappointments in the last few decades. This is my take on them, from a COVID era memoir. #MediumWriters #WriteSky #politics edwardrstapleton.medium.com/on-disappoin...
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On Disappointment
The following is from an unpublished travel and political memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip around the USA at the height of the…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#Descriptables is the writing challenge on Medium where each Friday you describe something as vividly as you can. For this week, it’s fireworks. Comment on the article with your Medium handle to be added. #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #MediumWriters medium.com/descriptable...
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Descriptables #11: Explosive Freedom
Writing Challenge: Describe Fireworks
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hello #WeeknightWriters! I have written a novel about a professor who is forced to live out the lives of her ancestors. Currently querying, but find it difficult to pitch a novel that straddles science and historical fiction, which may not have overlapping audiences.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Clap for John Henry Arthur’s submission to #Descriptables, describing the colors of the rainbow. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #MediumWriters medium.com/descriptable...
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The Rainbow
Response to Descriptables Prompt #10
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
How the information crisis has divided us. #WriteSky #politics edwardrstapleton.medium.com/a-crisis-in-...
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A Crisis in Information
The following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote in 2020 during a road trip around the country at the height of the…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Read a poem with me! In this case, Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” Published in The Hub. #poetry #nyc thehubpublication.com/ferry-throug...
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Ferry through the Years
Read a poem with Me
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
For this week #WritingPrompt on #descriptables, we have a special challenge for #PrideMonth. Describe a rainbow. 🌈 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...
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Descriptables #10: All the Pretty Colors
Writing Challenge: Describe a Rainbow
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“When was the last time you stood before something so powerful, so immense, or so startling that the breath in your body froze like a startled deer, when your feet refused to move, and when your heart fluttered?” #WriteSky #nature #WritingComminity edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-rarefied...
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The Rarefied Mountain Air: A Lesson in Breathlessness
The following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip I took with my now ex-wife at the…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Finished The Lost Metal, closing out phase two of #Mistborn. Wayne belongs among the pantheon of rich and captivating literary characters. I don’t know who’s waiting in phase three, but they’ll have to coinshot their way out from under a big shadow. #Sanderson #Booktok
Book cover of The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Read if you’ve forgotten how incredible the world is. Don’t forget to be breathtaking. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #USA edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-rarefied...
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The Rarefied Mountain Air: A Lesson in Breathlessness
The following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip I took with my now ex-wife at the…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Clap for this #descriptables submission from LilWifey! #space #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #WtiteSky medium.com/descriptable...
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Blue Planet of Life
Descriptables #9: Describe the Earth
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Another #descriptables submission from John Henry Arthur. “The Enormity of the Pale Blue Dot.” Give a clap! #WritingPrompt #space #sagan #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...
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The Enormity of the Pale Blue Dot
Response to Descriptables Prompt #9
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Clap for a new submission to #descriptables from Shrirangdangre! #earth #space #WritingCommunity #WriteSky medium.com/descriptable...
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THE ONLY PLANET.
Descriptables #9
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Every picture of the earth is a mirror. For this week’s #descriptable, describe our planet. #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #space #WritingCommunity #MediumWriters edwardrstapleton.medium.com/pale-blue-do...
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Pale Blue Dot
Descriptables #9: Describe the Earth
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Another entry from my 2020 political memoir. The USA is a smaller country than you think. #politics #Trump #travel #MediumWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-new-worl...
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The New World Just Down the Road
The following is from an unpublished travel memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip around the USA at the height of the pandemic. I…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Barron Trump is increasingly reminding me of Paul Dano’s character in Little Miss Sunshine.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Another submission to #Descritables from author Shrirangdangre. This week’s #writingprompt asks you to describe a rock concert. To submit, seek out the publication, follow it, and request with a comment on Medium. medium.com/descriptable...
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LIVE IMPULSES..
Just a pull on the codes is all it takes to lift the electricity in all veins. The energy of thousand suns gathering for a performance. The ground seems to break with the steps than follow the rhythm....
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Currently listening to “Watchers” by Dean Koontz on Audible. Came for the sciFi, horror, and thrilling suspense. Stayed for the adorable golden retriever. #booksky #dogs www.audible.com/pd/B07D2JG8T...
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Watchers
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator with an afterword read by the author A “superior thriller” (Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times b...
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Raaaaage Rock! Another entry to #descriptables from LilWifey. Descriptables is the Medium publication that asks you to describe things as well as you can. This week’s challenge is a rock concert. #WritingPrompt #Music #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...
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Rage Rock
Descriptables #8: The Rock Concert
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Clap for Liane Fazio’s submission to #descriptables! To submit your own, visit the publication on #Medium. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...
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Just One More Song
Descriptables #8: The Rock Concert
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If the Knicks win, New York can celebrate. But if they lose, we get another chant. My proposal: Our mayor’s still Muslim. Our bagel’s still Jewish. Our president makes us sick. Knicks in six.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Clap for this rockin’ entry to #descriptables from John Henry Arthur! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #music #writing #MediumWriters medium.com/descriptable...
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Raise the Flag
Response to Descriptables Prompt #8: The Rock Concert
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Explaining injuries when I was younger: “I was riding my bike across an intersection...” “I was at a Muay Thai class…” Explaining injuries in my 40s: “I was opening a window…”
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Prepare yourself for the #descriptables #8 #writingprompt, to test your descriptive #writing. Who can give the best description of a rock concert? #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #music medium.com/descriptable...
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Descriptables #8: The Rock Concert
Writing Challenge: Describe a Rock Concert
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some political ramblings from 2020. #politics #nature #USA #resist #WritingCommunity #MediumWriters edwardrstapleton.medium.com/our-national...
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Our National Parks
The following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote following a road trip in 2020 at the height in the pandemic. I am…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The poet Ruth, her rich, tyrannical husband growing too old and tired to control her, celebrates vicarious freedom through her two young daughters.
A description of a character’s two daughters and the idyllic life she can share with them
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Clap for Shrirangdangre’s entry for #descriptables #Writingprompt #7! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #cats medium.com/descriptable...
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MINI PURRS…
Response to Descriptables Prompt #7
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Another villanelle from my #poetry collection, published in “The Black Veil.” #poem #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/the-black-ve...
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Words Confining
A Villanelle about Childhood and the Words that Wound Us
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Clap for LilWifey’s submission to #Descriptables about a cat on a windowsill. #WriteSky #Writing #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...
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Rest Up
Descriptables Prompt #7: The Cat
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It is 4,000 years ago in the Indus river valley, and a dying leader, shot through with arrows, gives advice to his successor. #WIPSnaps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
A scene from my novel
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
He finds the will to go about his day in a flood of fear and anxiety because the #horror of being seen is just vaguely surpassed by the horror of being invisible. #vss365 #WriteSky
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It’s 1780, and Eunice, son of a New York loyalist, learns of the prison ships on the East River. More US colonists would die in these ships than in battle. #WIPSnaps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A #descriptables submission from Shrirangdangre about the emptiness you get walking through Times Square. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...
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TIMES SQUARE..
Photo by Andreas M on Unsplash
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I know it’s not yet #caturday, but for this week’s #descriptables writing challenge: Describe this cat as vividly as you can. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky medium.com/descriptable...
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Descriptables Prompt #7: The Cat
Each week we print a new picture prompt. Your job? Describe it!
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In 2020, mid-pandemic, I visited Yellowstone and encountered a tiny pond on the continental divide called Isa lake, with different sides of the pond draining into different oceans. A perfect metaphor for America. #politics #Trump #MediumWriters #WriteSky edwardrstapleton.medium.com/isa-lake-544...
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Isa Lake
The following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote about America following a road trip I took in 2020 at the height…
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
During the Fenian raids, America’s Irish immigrants were #ready after the civil war to invade Canada and hold it hostage in exchange for a free Ireland, as is depicted in this scene from my novel. #AmQuerying #WIPSnaps #WriteSky
scene from novel depicting Fenian raids
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Love is a #gamble And life is a choice. Give laughter a stage And sorrows a voice. And when you get old, Look back in wonder At the burdens and pains You’ve crawled out from under. And cash in your chips And settle your debts. You leave here with nothing If you don’t place a bet. #vss365 #poetry
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
On a #midnight walk Through misty woods We dreamed and talked, And sang of good And wondrous Things we’d do Far from ponderous Truths we knew. Then night grew dark, Your grip grew tight, Your eyes a spark Of mad delight. I awoke alone On a dewy field Scarred and prone, Deep truths revealed. #vss365
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I guess they like me? 😢 #thankful #poetry #WriteSky #Writing #WritingCommunity medium.com/the-black-ve...
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Your Favourite Black Veil Poet for May
The writer you’ve appreciated the most
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#NaturePhotography is trending today. I live in Queens. Here’s a goddamn pigeon. #birds
A majestic pigeon in flight.
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flfictioneic56.bsky.social @flfictioneic56.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Edward Stapleton III takes us into the mind of the insane and their noble but nefarious plans. medium.com/first-line-f... #firstlinefiction #writingprompts #storytelling #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #horror
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The Misfit Warriors
First Line Fiction Prompt #93
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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
#caturday
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A petite little tale of madness published in First Line Fiction. #FlashFiction #ShortStory #horror #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/first-line-f...
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The Misfit Warriors
First Line Fiction Prompt #93
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