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C L Spillard
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Your host, #Thurds on #Thursdays!
#WordGames
#Transport #Urbanism #SciFi #Fantasy #SFF
#Haiku #Senryu
#Author, #ThePriceOfTime, #TheEveningLands, #TheTwistedGrain

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Tomorrow's #thurds prompt word is: #Haze

Autumn haze, hazing, purple haze...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky
#prompt #Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #Sword

Sword of truth. Live by the sword. Sword and sorcery...

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October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Tomorrow's #thurds prompt word is: #array

Array of choices, arrayed against us, arrayed in splendour...

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#prompt #Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #Bulge

Bulging wallet, giveaway bulge, battle of the bulge...

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#prompt #Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #scale

Scale the hights, large-scale, off the scale...

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#Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #Doughnut

(or any ring-shaped object!)

Put up quotes, buy-links, haiku, art...

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#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers
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September 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #step

Step this way; mis-step; step to heaven...

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#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers
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September 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #Hollow

Hollowed-out, hollow victory, hollow soul...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers
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August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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#Quake on #malformed moon.
Giant fields tear it apart -
#best not #enter there!

#vss365 #2wordprompt #scifi
#scifaikusaturday #scifaiku #haiku
Artist's impression, Jupiter's moon Io seen from space near the giant planet. Io is seen ridden with volcanoes and earthquakes, as it is being stretched and squeezed by the steep gradient of Jupiter's gravitational field.
August 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Sky #lanterns drift by
#show off light, but thirsty fields
burn, then #reek of grief

#vss365
#HaikuChallenge
#HaikuFeels
#haiku
A leaflet warning of the dangers of sky lanterns, beside a panorama of a burning field
August 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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It's all a divertissement by hyper-rich people/media who don't want ordinary people to twig where our money has actually gone.
Cartoon: an immigrant, a hyper-rich individual who looks like rupert murdoch, and a white bloke in working clothes are sitting at a table. Murdoch has a plate piled high with biscuits, the white bloke has one biscuit, the immigrant has nowt. Murdock is saying, "Careful, that foreigner wants your biscuit"
August 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #eccentric
Eccentric millionaires, eccentric orbits...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
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#writers

#ItsThusdaySomewhere
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August 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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No.
That's your cat's job.
A dog staring right at the viewer
July 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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In the old days
no safety net to protect -
#Balance, or #die

#2WordPrompt
#Haiku #3lines #senryu
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven immigrant ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground in Manhattan, New York City.
July 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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So many questions!
But you needn't answer them -
it's #sealioning.

#poetry #Blueskyrelay #sealion
#haiku #3lines #senryu
#veryoldmemes
A sealion with an open mouth yelling, with the words, "Come back! I wish to engage in rational discourse!"
July 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #wave

wave goodbye, wavy hair, crime wave...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers #words #WIP #books
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July 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Tomorrow's #thurds prompt word is: #react/ #reaction

Give us quotes, buy-links, haiku, cover pictures...

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#writers
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July 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Felled trees - where leaves watch
the #arboreal #police
have their #agenda

#Haiku #3lines
#FoxProse
#HorrorPrompt
#MartialMonday
#VssDaily
#VssMagic
A forest with a large, scary face in the trees
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #blunt

Blunt answer, blunt instrument, Anthony Blunt...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers
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July 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #Sharp

Sharp tongue, sharp shooter, time for a sharp exit...

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July 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #castle

Bring on the quotes, buy-links, haiku, cover pictures...

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June 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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What Swimmin' Want
#WaterSportsInASongOrMovie
Poster for the film "What Women Want"
June 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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#ShowYourStripes - here's #York. showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...
A bar chart. Years 1850 - present along the bottom axis, temperature up the side. Vertical bars are the temperature for each year - colour-coded blue for coolest, red for hottest. The plot shos a distinct trend from low (about 1 deg below mean) to high (about 1.5 above mean), from blue to red, to deep red for the last two years.
June 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Every #bad #member
can peer in the silver #quaich
and see the #vortex

#2wordprompt #SecretSociety
#Haikuchallenge #scifaiku #haiku #3lines
#vss365
A silver quaich (scottish 2-handled shallow drinking chalice) with celtic-design handles, on a mossy tree in old forest
June 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #Fire

Light my fire, fired-up, hold your fire, pants on fire, Fire!...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers
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June 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM