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Jan Karlsson
@jangoeswriting.bsky.social
Watty Award winner 2021, 6x shortlisted. Ambys Award winner 2024 & 2x 2023. 4x ONC Award shortlisted. Writer (🤔).

(⛔️No DM’s⛔️. I’m too damned old to be verifying my damned age!)
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Here are the links to all my writing profiles.
I like to think there’s something for everybody here, in most genres.

Take a look!

Wattpad: www.wattpad.com/user/JanGoes...
Jan Karlsson (@JanGoesWriting) - Wattpad
[Wattys 2021 Winner, Sci-Fi Category - "Foston Slacks - Time's Flies"] [Wattys 2024 Shortlist - "Foston Slacks - Good's Intentions"] [Watty...
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Imposter syndrome is strong within me, I am mirror-blind to my own image. If it were not for the #reflection I see in your eyes, I would doubt that I even exist. You make me a better person. Your example raises me to higher levels, as I strive to become who you believe I am.
#vss365
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I had Liam help me set up the table when Patrick came in saying "This guy keeps coming to my town and I don't like it " We all say hi to Andrew I told Liam and Kathleen "He's been undercover since the wedding." #WIPSnips charming chocolates book 2
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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word of the day: impede

from my #YA #WIP

#WIPsnips 🤖💘🏹

#writesky #kidlit #writingcommunity
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I apologize for spending #vss365 on this trifle of an #haiku— a mere eleven words, some with barely enough meat on their typeset bones to make decent alphabet soup. It reflects poorly on my #writing, and—I can see my own #reflection in the soup!
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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"Can we attack? No #reflection?"

"No reflection."

"Are you sure it's a mirror and not a window?"

"Once! It happened only once! And it was a very clean window!"

#VSS365
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Runny noses
Running home
To warm the toes
Streaming eyes
Peering through winter
Glisten with reflections of fire
Face turns to a rose 🌹
#vss365 #reflection
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I look into
the glass and
see a reflection
I can’t deny.
Hope and pain
sit together
in my eyes,
indistinguishable.
My pulse quickens
for the dream
living in my heart.
I search
for strength,
but love keeps
rising through
the cracks.
And still I stare,
caught in the
truth of my
own longing.

#vss365
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Peach Schnapps, gazes at his #reflection in a mirror.
Kurt Kerf2: Whatchya doing?
Peach: Searching for meaning, my deepest desire.
K2: What? That's not the Mirror of Erised!
Peach: The Mirror of whatnow?
K2: Erised. From Harry Potter?
Peach: Nerd.

#vss365
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Otto #understood things.

Every crime solved; every mystery uncovered.

Except the weird gaps in his own memory.

And the Case of the Mirror Murderer, always one step ahead, leaving messages scrawled in blood.

"Look in the mirror."

All he sees is his own #reflection.

Curious.

#InkMine #vss365
a man in a suit and tie is reaching out towards someone
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is reaching out towards someone
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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#WIPSnips
Gallara relates the time she impeded a guy who deserved it. She didn't know he was a demigod.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writingprompt
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Bracing herself, Sulaire placed her foot under Sagart’s armpit, grasped her wrist with both hands, and pulled. Sagart screamed in rage and pain, but Sulaire pulled harder, heard a grating sound, felt the shoulder go back into its socket.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Frenemies take on high school, witchcraft, and daemons–both personal and magical.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #Q #F #YA #AmQuerying #witch
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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For better or worse, I used it twice in one paragraph in Something Familiar.
#WIPSnips
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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my #ride was late,
poorly #timed;
you're #inattentive,
I #ply my trade
you gave me a #marker
I'm here to collect
your #lack of means
is immaterial; clear terms
#adamant requirement:
repayment must be made

#vss365 #2WordPrompt #emoetry #wss366 #vssdaily #BlueskyRelay
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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#VSS365

I avoid the mirror
some days the tv
the PC monitor too
all the magazines from my youth
all the daytime talk shows too
told me my reflection was--
too ugly to be viewed
too little nose, too little forehead
freckles, acne, chubby cheeks
no use trying to be pretty
it will just be in vain
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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don't wait to be a #champion. On #reflection, you'll realize #tomorrow may never come. #Mesh your goals with your lifestyle needs and do the best you can.

#2WordPrompt #vss365 #vssdaily
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The desire for universal salvation
is a #reflection of one's beaming heart.
Do all flowers blossom under such a light
or do some require more darkness to grow?
#vss365 #universalsalvation #theodicies #religion #growth #spirituality #God
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Night crowded with stars
Reflections of lives past
Collected by constellations
On a background so vast
Each had its own story
As the generations passed
Memories faded away
Leaving space to be recast

#blueskyrelay #theskysavedroomforonemore #vss365 #reflection
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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morning #reflection
my open blind's wavy fringe
in my first coffee

#vss365 #haiku
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I often wander through
graveyards
wondering about
lives gone by
the living separated
from those they once loved
so many memories locked
in a place of reflection
filled with silence and eternal repose
#vss365 #reflection
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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"He just had to #impede..." Bailey glanced at the destruction Cosmo made at the gate. Cosmo was passed out in the front seat of the Humvee. Even when she moved to another state, he had to find her.
"You know him?" one officer said.
"Yeah, that's General Phoenix..." She shook her head. #WIPSnips
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Frenemies take on high school, witchcraft, and daemons–both personal and magical.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #Q #F #YA #AmQuerying #witch
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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#WIPSnips from Monah's Bk. 2 -- using synonym "prevent" -- Monah's reading a passage from Aleksander's journals that describes their initial journey to Piatra Invelis.
#writesky #writingcommunity #queerwriters
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM