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Bob & Nora stories 🌿𔓘 🚫 no mass-tagging, #vss365 🌿 ⊹(◔◡◔)⊹
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 11h
"How did you even get your head stuck in the sleeve?" Nora said as she tried to free Bob from his knitted sweater. She reckoned he needed less enthusiasm and more direction. "It's #dark in here," he replied.

#vss365
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fizzytwizler.bsky.social
#vss365 #poetry

It’s a fusion
Of colours
Like rainbows
And shadows
Grey and black
Specks of white
That work
Together

Setting alight
My imagination
Though pages
Of a book
Are black and white

My mind sees more
That’s how the magic works
#Dark or bright
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 AM
starfish72.bsky.social
"How did you even get your head stuck in the sleeve?" Nora said as she tried to free Bob from his knitted sweater. She reckoned he needed less enthusiasm and more direction. "It's #dark in here," he replied.

#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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cribbowens.bsky.social
We are out of #touch now
When once we sought each other daily
Looking for that spark
That only the other could provide
The impetus to live
More fully, intentionally
Sharing the wonders of existence
With each other
And basking in the glow
#vss365
February 11, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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purple-polly.bsky.social
#vss365 (touch) #haiku #senryu
February 11, 2026 at 11:46 AM
starfish72.bsky.social
"The moment you #touch that button, the vibration plate starts and you will be shaking from head to toe, Bob. You won't be able to get a normal sentence out." Bob stepped on the machine, curious. "Ha, this feels funny!" he told Nora, his voice wobbling.

#vss365
February 11, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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katemachon.bsky.social
'Gabe, I'm exhausted. I #ache everywhere.'
'Really, Pixie? You only put 2 dishes in the washer.'
'They're bigger than me. Based on volume math, you should fill it for the next 3 weeks.'
'You have super pixie lifting powers.
'Oh sure - & you're JUST an angel.'
'Hmph.'
#vss365
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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poetessoprunty.bsky.social
a touch of spring
honeybee at my window
turning toward the sun

#Haiku
#poetry
BlueskyPoet

It was a welcome reprieve to see and feel the sun's warmth today. I'm thankful for that.
February 10, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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catherinebeavis.bsky.social
i felt that quiet ache in my soul
reminiscing about
my bright wildflower dreams
getting lost amid layers of you,
those nights of breathless sighs
enveloped within your caresses
'neath vespertine skies,
& how my shattered
forlorn heart still cries
since that day you said goodbye.

#vss365 #ache
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
starfish72.bsky.social
"I feel it in my #bones that people outside the Netherlands will judge me for eating chocolate sprinkles on bread every morning," Nora said as she hesitated to post her Instagram photo. "But it's totally normal back home. We all grew up with it."

#vss365
February 9, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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paddy-roberts.bsky.social
T-Rex bones stand out
White against red Devon clay:
Out of place, and time

#vss365 [checks notes - yes, definitely] #bones #haiku
Image: from an essay about the Far Side found at screenrant.com/10-best-far-side-comics-about-dinosaurs/
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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kokopellibfree.bsky.social
Leave her bones in peace.
Remember her love.
Now, go, and live.

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#WritingCommunity #poetry #vss365 (bones) #MPPrompt (my own Eulogy)
Leave her bones in peace. Remember her love. Now, go, and live. © Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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zyx-psilon.bsky.social
#vss365
Below the #pale fractures
of bones flows more
screams and shiny proof
Another day glides away
from a next step skipped
again too late too far
Kneeling asked for a truth
as pain raised in a future
Filled by regrets
purged within a path or
falling down the Matterhorn
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Thrifty Word Challenge 100 #50: & 50 #71: March
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February 8, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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roypendle.bsky.social
Edith, could feel her heart beating faster as the light of the #pale moon shone above her. Giving just enough light to traverse the row of back garden fences like a ninja, she fired the wild flower seed bombs across her neighbours pristine lawns with all her might.

#vss365
February 8, 2026 at 8:40 AM
starfish72.bsky.social
Bob found Nora staring at the #pale morning sky. "It makes you wonder, doesn't it?" she softly mused. "About what?" he replied. "You know, life..." Bob slipped an arm around Nora's waist. He loved how she found meaning in something as quiet as the start of the day.

#vss365
February 8, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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derickijohnson.bsky.social
#Pale poetic
Poltergeist
Haunts
My troubled sleep

Hear her cold
Consumptive cough
When my dreams
Get deep

I can feel her
Stalking me
Tho she
Never speaks

Last night kinda
Caught a peek
Of her
Neath a sheet

As I whip
The sheet away
Empty air
Sighs, “Creep”
#vss365
a man in a suit is standing in front of a book shelf
ALT: a man in a suit is standing in front of a book shelf
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February 8, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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revsodhi.bsky.social
Be fluid.
Be languid.
Do not let the darkness
entangle you,
drag you under,
colour you #pale.

Rise from your ashes.
Sow new trees
Bloom in defiance,
vivid and unbroken
the new you.

~rev
#vss365
February 8, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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daknews.bsky.social
In vessels where #blood does flow,
A life force that’s steady and slow.
With each beat of the heart,
It plays its own part,
In tales of both joy and of woe.

#vss365
February 7, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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blsamaddar.bsky.social
#vss365
#blood
The rustle of words, drowning in my blood of things I’ll never say. Our eyes of mirrored flame, lost in the gasp of open air, quiet sips of each other once warmed our skin like poems brushed across lips. Yet I have no picture to tuck into an old buckling box, no echo of your heartbeat burned into my chest. Only a silent history— our waveless sea, our windless storm. Affection, commemorated in fading breaths and the soft imprint of “you were here,” dusted over my heart.
February 7, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Happy #FebruArty and #Caturday... for the theme of #feline, here's one of my earliest pet portraits!
A predominantly white cat with red and black tabby markings around the top of the head and ears and soft green eyes. The cat is lying among willow leaves with yellow blossoms and rowan leaves with red berries. The cat has a sweet face, pink nose and pink toe beans.
February 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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authorpjm.bsky.social
"Ey Bren, wats it called again..." Riz asked.
"Eh? I'm trying to keep a look out for the thing causing all the bother."
"Wats da thing called dat looks like a ghost sorta but made of #blood?"
"A Blood Phantom?"
"Yeh! Dats it!"
"And?"
"Itz behind us."
#vss365 #riztherogue
February 7, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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ominoushallways.bsky.social
From the #vss365 jukebox, this is #Blood off the brand new Dry Cleaning album Secret Love.

youtu.be/zFIhdFjXHdw?...

#MusicSky
February 7, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social
Nation's wounds drenched in blood.

Transfusion stat.

#vss365 #Blood
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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ricpelongsc.bsky.social
Ok Joker, we can't take the tension
You've had us captured & bound for hours
So, what imaginative, grisly, drawn out torturous death awaits us?

Well.. Batman, yh, blood... Pain, obviously... Torture...

Robin sniggers:
I think he's got some kind of block, Bats
#Satsplat Tension #vss365 Blood
February 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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jennfel.bsky.social
blood draw
a child’s hand grips tighter
to the red crayon
#vss365 #senryu
February 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
starfish72.bsky.social
"There's definitely some Italian #blood in you, judging by the temper you reserve for bad customer service," Bob said when he watched Nora jump out of her skin during their stop at the market. He couldn't help feeling proud of her boldness. She was a feisty lady.

#vss365
February 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM