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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 10h

Mum said you must hang your #raincoat in the sun every day. Thank the seams for their strength, the fabric for warmth, the hood for protection, the buttons for togetherness, and the pockets for holding your secrets. Then when the sky cries, the coat will send your love to replace her tears. #vss365

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 11h

Some people collect books or stamps. Porter collects lonely people. He wears a long #raincoat, gray as a cloudy sky. He finds folks walking all alone and his magic coat pulls them inside.

I met all my friends inside these plastic pockets. It's nice to finally be included, isn't it?

#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 11h

I love this 😍

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 1d

"He came right up, gave me a kiss on the cheek and slipped his card into my suit pocket. The #verve of the guy," Alice sipped her sparkling wine.
"Don't you mean nerve?"
"No, I loved it - refreshing like an after dinner mint."
"Are you going to call him?"
"Already did. First date tomorrow."
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you 😊

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks 😊

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 2d

"I like morals, but I can't imagine trying to eat a whole one," Sal laughed at her own joke while helping herself to more wine.
"You really are such a #libertine. I don't know how you get away with it," remarked Rich, her companion for the evening.
"Oh, don't worry I'll show you how later."
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 3d

Crowds ran screaming, fleeing the heat of the lava streams, she ran towards them like a hunter pursuing prey. Hungry to feel this message from the earth's core. Sensing her danger, the eruption stopped, shooting a jet of #ash into the sky. She opened her mouth to taste something new.
#vss365

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 3d

Morning my pen & pencil wielding friends its time to enter week 2, it's day 8 of our musical mystery tour.

Today's word is inspired by a sci-fi infused indie classic Girl From Mars, our #vss365 #prompt for 08/10/25 is #ash. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What's your favourite sci-fi movie or programme?

a woman talking to a man with the words " you 're from mars " on the bottom

ALT: a woman talking to a man with the words " you 're from mars " on the bottom

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 4d

I went for a walk to clear my head, enjoyed stepping on crisp autumn leaves. As I turned into the woods, a tree tutted. "You only come here when you're thinking, all that stuck energy for us to clean up like trash."
I laughed, never expected a #clash, I promised to take my mind trash home.
#vss365

A tree with a face in it that looks like it's shouting.

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you 😊

Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 5d

"I thought he was just a work #associate."
"He is," Shep, hon, let go of my arm.
"Then why do I have a photo of you going into his house?"
"It must be an error, let me see. That's a green door, that's not his."
"You know his door then?"
"Babe, I drove past once."
"Then whose is this belt?"
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 6d

🤣🤣🤣

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 6d

Lol it's ok - I hate bananas 🤣🤣

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 6d

He'd asked for her number at the gym, but she didn't have any paper. She'd been checking him out, so didn't want to let him get away. She wrote a note on her post workout banana. Did she hear from him again? No - but her friend showed her the #advert for her fruit heart on ebay. Relisted.
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you ❤️

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 7d

😍

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Emma Wulfe @emmawulfe.bsky.social · 7d

#Elastic wants. Wants what held it. Summer made you liquid. More or less. The waistband thinks, measuring difference. Between the thenflesh and nowflesh. Behold! The snap, the red of return!

Elastic is elastic loudly. Demanding.
To hold in fear.
Or be exposed as lacking.
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 7d

Her skin and joints were #elastic, just like secrets. They stretched beyond normal breaking point - bending the fabric of reality as she turned over in bed. Just like secrets, the ligaments always return to their rightful place. Leaving micro tears and the wince of shock at the betrayal.
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 8d

"Name?"
"Gob."
"Yes, this is the Jobcentre, I need your name sir."
"Not job, g-o-b as on joe-b."
"Gob, as in shut the jabber, and grab a ticket."
Everytime he heard a glib jibe, he wanted to jab their pointy nosed jibs to a #pulp. But he needed the green for his silver jubilee anniversary
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 8d

Love this

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Sillionshine @sillionshine.bsky.social · 8d

a mango pulp sunrise
already giving way
to light blue skies ruled over
by that unrelenting day-star

So much of life's beauty
is ephemeral, between heartbeats, ghostly

I walked home from the
promontory soaked in sweat
a man-mirage in the heat haze
a hard won treasure that
I'll own forever

#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 9d

She wakes with a banging head, floating inside a supernova, again. She'd promised herself no more champagne cocktails. Last time, the chat up line about the difference between mass and weight had her stuck in orbit for a week. She sees an #oasis of smoke of a rocket ship ahead and waves.
#vss365

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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you - look forward to your prompts 😁

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