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Bravery TE Walker
@braverytewalker.bsky.social
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An #indieauthor. Currently writing a series of #shortstories called Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten.

No T.R.A.S.H.

Block the trolls.

🏴‍☠️ 💕🏳️‍🌈💕 🖕🍊 🩵🩷🤍 📎

Check out my website, where all my stories roam: https://braverytewalker.weebly.com
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Bravery TE Walker @braverytewalker.bsky.social · 24d
New flash fiction up on my site!

First line: "Sometimes, the world reminds us that humans are animals."

Read the rest of it here: braverytewalker.weebly.com/flash-fictio...

( #flash #flashfiction #fiction #writing #mywriting #writing #amwriting #stillwriting #writer #writers )
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A man grieves for a neighbor he has never tried to understand, and now will never get to.

Read one of the short stories I'm most proud of, The Whistling Woman, here:

braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...

A snippet.
White text on a black background. It reads, "I know that now. The whispering wind around her always carried the scent of vanilla, sugar, and coffee, and I hold such precious knowledge like a gift. I want to visit her family’s home and see if they can give me a bottle. I slash my hand through the air, destroying the thought. Her loved ones would sooner punch me in the face and slam the door than humor the nonsensical mourning of a stranger. I can already hear her older brother ask me what her name is. The sound of knuckles hitting teeth. The rustling leaves and sorrowful winds call to me, and, for the first time in months, I answer."
December 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
She's crass, blunt as a bat, and fed up with the world. Who better for the princess?

Read the full story here: braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...

Snippet:
White text on a black background. It reads, "“Hey, my Spanish is ‘caca.’ Go easy on me. Pretend I’m some five-foot-three red head.” He flutters his eyelashes, then purses his lips and makes loathsome kissing noises. “Your head’s gonna be red if you keep on talking. I hear blood makes a great hair dye,” I rub the side of my head. “Please tell me you didn’t drag me to this gilded shitshow so I could get laid.”"
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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( #fiction #writing #creativewriting #mywriting #writing #amwriting #writer #writers #queerwriters #queerauthors #LGBTQIA+Writers #indieauthor #indiewriter #indieauthors #indiewriters #litsky #WriterSky #AuthorSky #AuthorsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity )
braverytewalker.bsky.social Bravery TE Walker @braverytewalker.bsky.social · 1d
A man grieves for a neighbor he has never tried to understand, and now will never get to.

Read one of the short stories I'm most proud of, The Whistling Woman, here:

braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...

A snippet.
White text on a black background. It reads, "I know that now. The whispering wind around her always carried the scent of vanilla, sugar, and coffee, and I hold such precious knowledge like a gift. I want to visit her family’s home and see if they can give me a bottle. I slash my hand through the air, destroying the thought. Her loved ones would sooner punch me in the face and slam the door than humor the nonsensical mourning of a stranger. I can already hear her older brother ask me what her name is. The sound of knuckles hitting teeth. The rustling leaves and sorrowful winds call to me, and, for the first time in months, I answer."
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
( #fiction #writing #creativewriting #mywriting #writing #amwriting #writer #writers #queerwriters #queerauthors #LGBTQIA+Writers #indieauthor #indiewriter #indieauthors #indiewriters #litsky #WriterSky #AuthorSky #AuthorsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity )
braverytewalker.bsky.social Bravery TE Walker @braverytewalker.bsky.social · 1d
A man grieves for a neighbor he has never tried to understand, and now will never get to.

Read one of the short stories I'm most proud of, The Whistling Woman, here:

braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...

A snippet.
White text on a black background. It reads, "I know that now. The whispering wind around her always carried the scent of vanilla, sugar, and coffee, and I hold such precious knowledge like a gift. I want to visit her family’s home and see if they can give me a bottle. I slash my hand through the air, destroying the thought. Her loved ones would sooner punch me in the face and slam the door than humor the nonsensical mourning of a stranger. I can already hear her older brother ask me what her name is. The sound of knuckles hitting teeth. The rustling leaves and sorrowful winds call to me, and, for the first time in months, I answer."
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
A man grieves for a neighbor he has never tried to understand, and now will never get to.

Read one of the short stories I'm most proud of, The Whistling Woman, here:

braverytewalker.weebly.com/short-storie...

A snippet.
White text on a black background. It reads, "I know that now. The whispering wind around her always carried the scent of vanilla, sugar, and coffee, and I hold such precious knowledge like a gift. I want to visit her family’s home and see if they can give me a bottle. I slash my hand through the air, destroying the thought. Her loved ones would sooner punch me in the face and slam the door than humor the nonsensical mourning of a stranger. I can already hear her older brother ask me what her name is. The sound of knuckles hitting teeth. The rustling leaves and sorrowful winds call to me, and, for the first time in months, I answer."
December 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
Slimmed tf out of the sites I post on. Now I just have Inkitt, Royal Road, and ao3 for fanfics, plus my personal site.

( #writer #writers #queerwriters #queerauthors #indieauthor #indiewriter #WriterSky #AuthorSky #AuthorsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity )
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
I think Opal likes our new kitten.

( #cat #cats #catsky #catredistributionsystem #dog #dogs #dogsky )
A cat and a dog are sitting on a deep green ottoman, a red curtain behind them, sunlight streaming from the right. The cat is a grey-black tabby with white socks, and white markings on the face. The dog is a medium sized brown-tan mutt with blacking markings on her ears, snout, and on the tip of her tail and down her neck. They are both looking at the camera, their ears up and alert. The cat is slightly loaf-ing.
December 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
When the green light is so damn short, no one, including me, judges you for running that red.
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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secondlina.com
*watches the new Digital Circus trailer* I hope this episode absolutely destroy me emotionally.
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Oh no. The scam/phishing text people have finally figured me out.
A screenshot of a text message from "Today 4:21 PM" that reads "I bought new socks. Come see how soft they are."
December 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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roxiqt.com
ME: [after applying for every remote chat support & content moderation role I can find] psssst pssst psst *clicking noises* come here, employers, I have an open schedule, can stick to scripts while keeping chats professional and friendly and have a willingness to work night shifts for you~ 👉👈
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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roxiqt.com
ME: [using my Trying Extremely Hard To Get Employed voice] You know, you could even say that applying for a job is a job, these days
December 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks at Green in confusion, as Green is covered in pink hair rollers. Green: I'm going to find out what I'd look like with curls! Blue sits down to wait as Green leaves the room. Green: It's time to take the rollers out! Blue sits with the most neutral expression possible as Green returns, as a fluffy cloud of uncontrollable curls. With miraculous self-discipline, Blue manages to keep his expression neutral, while Green frowns at him. Blue: Requesting permission to laugh hysterically. Green: Request denied.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
I've officially accepted the fact that I am not going to do awesome on these last couple of exams/essays, because I am so burnt out.

That's okay. It's why I made sure I got good grades throughout the beginning and middle of the semester, when I had energy. Have a nice cushion now.
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
Hah! Easy money.

Fire chick, Colonizer, and Chosen One.

Nailed it.
robdenbleyker.com Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 8d
if you can name 3 of these dipshits I will pay u $1 million
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
What I want to do this winter break: Write until my fingers fall of.

What I'm probably going to do: Play Paralives and rot on my couch.
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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cmrosens.com
5 ways to give your fave authors free-to-you gifts over the holidays! 💙📚

1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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braverytewalker.bsky.social
A snippet from the new flash fiction on my site, Animals. It is the next entry for my series of short works, Tiny Tales To Be Forgotten, short stories that are a love letter to everyday mundanity and tragedy.

Read it here: braverytewalker.weebly.com/flash-fictio...
White text on a black background. It reads: "It isn’t the worst thing to have a cool mom. Not usually, anyway. It’s great when the principal is a jackass and Mom comes to the rescue to remind him I actually have a parent who gives a damn. People are just now realizing that they should probably be friends with my very single mother. And when people like her are single, it takes two seconds for someone to shoot their shot and hang onto her until she sprays her disinfectant. Me."
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
#WeeknightWriters

Any good feeds I can join? I want to join more author feeds, but all the common ones are spammed with AI.
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
Getting my English Literature degree while everyone around me tells me to just use AI and that my wants and dreams to be an author are growing increasingly useless...

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laborlibrarian.bsky.social The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 8d
I can’t believe I spent $40,000 on a creative writing degree when this is the kind of shit that gets published.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8d
At least 40% of the book is just tortured descriptions of her surroundings.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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rtgame.bsky.social
oh my God STOP EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW.

Today marks the 10 Year Anniversary since I became The Drift King back in college.

A lot has happened since, but one thing remains the same.

They used to call me The Drift King back in college.

Thank you.
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
Me writing 10k words in one day for my creative work: ARE WE READY TO RUUUUUUUUUUMBBBBBBLLLLLLLE?!?!?

Me writing a five-paged essay (double-spaced) for one of my classes: *exhausted gagging noises*
captlaserpants.bsky.social Casey @captlaserpants.bsky.social · 8d
Me, copy editing a 200-page manuscript: LETS FUCKIN GO

Also me, editing a 20-page document: Ughhh why is this so long and boring???
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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renay.bsky.social
If you tell people you like the art they make, you will eventually reach the creative people who screencap compliments and save them in a special folder to read through when times are hard. I have 5MB of one individual being rad about my writing. They have their own FOLDER. Be that person.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9d
It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9d
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
braverytewalker.bsky.social
Here's my bluesky harvest:

Happy that I'm offline so much.

WHOO, all of my posts have had alt text! Let's goooo.

And I am not surprised that one of my most used words is 'fucking'-

( #bluesky #blueskyharvest )
It is titled "Grass Touching." One side is labeled "Online," while the other side is labeled "Offline." The middle is labeled "Balanced." There is an orange circle, outlined in white, that represents me and my online activities. It is on the "Offline" side of the line, near the end of it. At the bottom of the graph, it reads, "You're a 'Daytime Poster' with 1 post a day." It is titled "Most Used Words." The bigger the words, the more they were used. Some of my most used words include: "Writing community, writers, shit, fiction," and "fucking." It is a percentage circle that shows how many of a user's posts have alt text with the images. Mine says "100% of images have alt text." The circle is completely filled out with orange. At the lower right corner, it says, "155% above average."
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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rtgame.bsky.social
It has only been TWO STREAMS and we've already hit our £50,000 goal! Thank you so much everyone for supporting The Trevor Project!

You can keep donating here. And donate £35 to receive a games collection with over $300 worth of games as thanks! Just make sure to click the reward tilt.fyi/TbgFUGt96b
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM