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Bowen Greenwood

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Stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them. Thrillers are at www.bowengreenwood.com, sci-fi is at www.exilewar.com

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Smog and flame loomed like a mountain. Flecked with orange, the roiling cloud of #ash and black almost had to bend its neck to fit. Reality bent instead. The space seemed to grow to accommodate the demon.
--Seers Blade, WIP
#VSS365

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · 3d

With The Last Senator submitted to the contest, I've sworn off even looking at that manuscript until I hear the results. Back to editing Seer's Blade!

Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · 3d

A blade appeared in its hand, wicked, jagged, cruel. It batted the old man’s weapon aside. They turned and whirled through a dance of steel and smoke. A parry met every strike, and the #clash of iron sang in the small space.
--Seer's Blade, WIP
#vss365

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · 18d

In between sniffles, Miri whispered, “It’s just so . . . everyone’s dead. Why? Where did the Beaks come from? What do they want?”

Trent said nothing. He didn’t think answers would #reinvigorate her. He wasn’t sure anything would. #vss365

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

🤣

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

Love that last post!

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

"starry times
when gazes sparkled
between one miracle
and the next" 👏👏👏

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Butterflies perform a quiet waltz." Beautiful!

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

AI image. The final version will have a cover by a human artist. It's in the editing stages now.

Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 7

Trent took her hand and pulled Miri out the doorway. Dangerous heat prickled their skin. The incipient wildfire advanced until their path out of the rubble shrank to a mere trail.
--The Last Senator, WIP
#vss365

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

It took me a second . . .🤣

Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

👏👏👏

Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

A girl. A mysterious power. A revolution!

Mercy Rising is the perfect place to start the Exile War series. Available on all audiobook platforms and all ebook platforms. Check it out here:

exilewar.com/mercy-rising/

Mercy Rising: An Exile War Novel

The Archon Dominion crushes all dissent. Mercy Hail wants change, no matter the cost to herself. But freak accidents keep happening around her, and she can’t explain why. So when she lights the fuse o...

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 2

Scared as she was, the new world that had been so clear with Dante now eluded her.

Where were all those glowing threads? There was nothing but the ordinary world. She’d come here hoping to stop the war, but now she couldn’t.
--Mercy Rising: An Exile War novel
#VSS365 #Elude

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · Sep 1

Here's my offering for the theme of #past – welcome to our new #vss365 host C.S Voll @Steph_Lepht and big thanks to outgoing host Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · Sep 2

On a precipice
High up teetering
Deep from within an acidic
Bubbling belly forming crisis

Emotionless devoid
Cold sweats, face schooled
Can I stop its happening, #elude

It’s too dark all around though
I tell my brain STOP
Smart but fearful—stupid it says no

#vss365

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · Sep 1

The past and future,
hidden within the present;
illusions of time.

#vss365
#past
#haiku

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D.C. Swanson @dcswanson.bsky.social · Sep 1

The time we have becomes our #past.
The time that’s left will run out fast.
The time we spend will all get spent.
Make sure you’re glad where your time went.

#vss365

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edwardstjames.bsky.social @edwardstjames.bsky.social · Sep 1

The clock ticks forward
Never looking to the #past
With cool autumn winds

#haiku #vss365 #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing

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C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social · Sep 1

Books from my past will provide the prompt words.

So it’s fitting that today, 1 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Past.

“Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the #past.” (Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister)

Image: lux werk (Pexels)

#past #prompt

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · Sep 1

The sky’s looking a little heavy today
Full of cloud shaped ghosts of the #past
Hopefully it’ll rain, flushing them away

#vss365

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · Sep 1

Pistol
Fails to fire
As he points it
At my head

I live
On borrowed time
#Past when
I should be dead

I am not
A good man
Left evil
In my stead

Dreamlike
Pass the moment
Without
A 2nd thought

Til again
Feel cold steel
'Gainst temple
Firing naught

Maybe
Morbid replay
Is Hell
My evil bought
#vss365

it is a black and white photo of a flower .

Alt: it is a black and white video of a bullet splattering against a titanium surface

media.tenor.com

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Bowen Greenwood @bowengreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 1

👏👏👏

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∤ Songtsan ∤ 🪳🤍🎰 @songtsan.bsky.social · Sep 1

To know that in a world where any meme older than 9 minutes is considered stale, that there are elder meme Lords still in the game and still kicking ass, gives me hope. The fact that we were able to pass on irreverence to the next generation makes me very happy for the #past and the future. #vss365

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