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Rachel
@vignettes.bsky.social
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Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.

Words in Epistemic Literary, Pure Haiku, The Survivor Zine

British, moves a lot, currently living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
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Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social · Nov 12
She peeked under her tinfoil tiara, blew hair from her eyes & lifted her nose into the air. It smelt like salt, slippery, cleaned by cats & the singing of mermaids. She detached herself from the known land and hummed in reply to the portal. On the rocks, plastic bags billowed on gusty winds. #vss365
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victoriaspires.bsky.social
Great starter pack here from Paul, thanks Paul for including the #PromptCombo crew in here! 🙏🏼
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
a bold tune
caught in the wind at the throat
of a lonesome flute
floatin’
in
a vale of tears

#SenseWrds
Prompt 149: Hollow Surrounding Fearless

#Oulens #haiku #senryu #monoku
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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kshepherdwrites.bsky.social
geese
in V formation
raking the sky

#dailyhaikuprompt rake
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
vignettes.bsky.social
Oops. Italy wins the Davis Cup and then literally breaks it at award ceremony.

www.ansa.it/sito/photoga...
L'Italia 'rompe' la coppa Davis durante la premiazione - Sport - Ansa.it
Brevi momenti di imbarazzo per un incidente con il trofeo: la base della coppa si stacca e cade a terra, i tennisti italiani la rimettono a posto (ANSA)
www.ansa.it
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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madp03t.bsky.social
Riley repeatedly reviewed the most #relevant remarks,
yet every relevant remark rearranged itself
whenever Riley tried to reread it.
So Riley reread the rearranged relevance
till the relevance refused to remain relevant
and Riley refused to reread it again.

#vss365 #prompt #tonguetwister #poetry
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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thedevilstuna.bsky.social
#vss365

Saidimeant

What sticks is rarely what was meant:
a breath, a bruise, a stolen scent.
The heart decides what’s relevant,
buries the rest in sediment.

#relevant
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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leebaileswriter.bsky.social
#vss365 Every town had a local kook. Ours was Staci. Always clad in her nightie and boots, rocking back and forth by the entrance until they brought her in for lunch or bed.
She'd mutter the strangest things. Nothing seemed #relevant. It all sounded like gibberish, until she said...
a long skeet draft. It reads: "#vss365 Every town had one, a local kook. Ours was Staci. Always clad in her nightie and boots, rocking back and forth by the entrance until they brought her in for lunch or bed. She'd mutter the strangest things. Nothing seemed #relevant. It all sounded like gibberish, until she said "They'll get you first!" It sounded like a threat, till she gave me a birthday card and told me she liked my hair. I hid in the boots of cars to sneak out and in each day, to avoid her. Though she was right. I'll never know how she knew about the hunters in the grounds, sniffing at each window and scratching at the doors. But when they found me, they gave me my present - made me one of them. She still likes my hair."
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
vignettes.bsky.social
near the lighthouse feet /
billowing nets unravel /
night loosens its hold

#haikufeels
#unravel
#haiku
#prompt
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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anntigone.bsky.social
I, the string you pull
You, I ever unravel
Threading together.

#haikufeels #unravel #haiku #senryu
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
vignettes.bsky.social
a movie that takes place from where you're from
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
folding hands
a prayer takes a form
a hand in the shadow’s warmth

#inkmine : #form
#BSPP47 : #foldinghands
#Oulens
#haiku #senryu
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” - Einstein
… like this #solid cup that comes with multi- #utility —holding my tea, occasionally my tears, warmth to my palms in winter, & when empty—holding a #measurable infinity
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #Oulens
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
vignettes.bsky.social
Lovely to be part of this issue. Some new faces and a familiar one @francesca-laura.bsky.social
Congratulations to all.
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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chillsubs.bsky.social
It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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kymburlee.bsky.social
she is
a creature
of glinted glass
and f i r e

fragile and
consuming
and every kind
of d i r e

#poetry
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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saloneurope.bsky.social
Join us for the 4th quarterly edition of Café Littéraire: European Book Club

Each quarter, we discuss a book by a European author. Your host is @norami.bsky.social, an Associate Director of EWS and host and producer of Chosen Tongue, a podcast dedicated to translingual writers and their journeys
Cream background with black text reading [Calligraphy script] Café Littéraire: [regular script] European Book Club; [calligraphy] with Eleonora Balsano. A photo of the book is in the bottom right corner. It is blue with black art deco-style arches. In gold lettering, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, and in white, László Krasznahorkai. In blue, winner of the international Booker prize. To the left of the photo: Online. 13 January 2026. 6pm GMT/7PM CET
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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jason-h-abbott.bsky.social
“Fireside”

Art by me for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! Writers, submissions are due tonight by 11:59 pm EST for the new issue next Saturday. Full details available at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts
A science fiction-fantasy illustration of a young cavegirl and her triceratops companion beside a campfire.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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whistprword.bsky.social
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 20, 2025: #BEND

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing in white ink against a black background of a chicken bent over with its head toward the ground like it is getting ready to peck at the artist's name in the bottom right hand corner.
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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brechtdp.bsky.social
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
dust in a sunbeam-
a slow parade
of small things
#haiku #poetry #imagism
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
vignettes.bsky.social
This Is Not a Poem About Love

Your voice skims my skin
like a cheap match struck in darkness
The cold room tilts, warm at the edges
My pulse trips over its own shadow
and the air tastes of copper warmed by fear
Even the silence leans closer
learning the shape
my name makes in your mouth

#MPprompt
malformed-poetry.bsky.social Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 6d
Today’s #poetryprompt

Write a poem about a topic without touching the topic itself. Title it something like:

“This is not a poem about ____”

#MPPrompt
I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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gclifford1.bsky.social
Hi @dragonslayerma.bskyb.social

Thank you so much for hosting
#PromptCombo this week. #NorthStar

Here's my poem 'Obvious Constellations' from my Seren collection, The Hitting Game

@victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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rosannamcglone.bsky.social
Guys, buying from small publishers and indie bookshops, instead of Amazon is the best way to support publishers, booksellers and authors and to keep small presses alive 👇
Please buy, too, from my lovely publisher @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 6d
Update: we have sold a total of eight books this month. "The books go to their readers, one by one, quickly, slowly, halfway around the world or halfway across the city. There is no supply chain, only the postal network, irregular events, direct sales to bookshops, and local distribution."
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 7d
It may well be the case that small, independent presses are the lifeblood of literature, and a vital feature of our cultural landscape, providing an essential service in a complex ecosystem, like wrasses or shrimps. What is undeniably the case is that we have sold a total of five books this month.
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
vignettes.bsky.social
I was looking forward to two hours of writing on the train back from Rome.
Apparently the Italian for “quiet carriage” is “live commentary on your journey, at full volume, to everyone you’ve ever met.”
Now I’m doing that English tutting thing which is completely untranslatable & utterly pointless.
an elderly woman is holding her hand to her forehead while holding a cane .
Alt: Actrwss Dame Maggie Smith looking perplexed & displeased.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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thedodgemag.bsky.social
Happy Wednesday! We're excited to feature the final poem from our Fall 2025 Issue! Please enjoy Theodore Worozbyt's lovely poem "Bird in the Wood", and make sure to read the rest of his poem and our issue on our website, linked in our bio.
@theo23rd.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM