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#vss365 #past

I collect memories in the people closest to me. Boxes of random papers and photos pile up waiting to be riffled. At any time, I can choose to inhabit who I am.
September 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#vss365 #jovial His jovial nihilism made it easier to forget anything mattered to her. It was ok for a while until it wasn't. Then she had to try even through the discomfort and self-manufactured pain.
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#vss365 #bass

She placed both hands on her face and grinned at her. The club was dark with the appropriate lights to confuse. She felt the bass in her bones. "You are the sexiest dancer."
August 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
#vss365 #seethe I'm tired of listening to bad advice and then seething when it invariably goes wrong. My instincts are overwhelmed by the need to cater to people's feelings. I wish I had the grace to decline respectfully and the assurance that it was the right decision.
August 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Earth’s Awakening is avaliable in

Hardcover
Pocketbook
E-Book (currently only on Kindle)
Kindle Unlimited (until September)
Signed Hardcover

Check out chrissolbooks.com for full links to all options (check blog for signed copies)
August 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#vss365 #brownie

She woke up earlier than usual. Trudy needed to be milked. The chickens fed. The laundry washed and hung to dry. Sailor mewed plaintively at her feet, his fur covered in tiny bows. She picked up the old cat and gingerly returned his dignity.
August 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
#vss365 #mischief

I was never a mischievous kid. I stole strawberries from a kind neighbor, fed poisoned flies sugar in a toy teapot, and dropped ancient clay shards like breadcrumbs from the deep forest to home.
August 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#vss365 #sapphire

The grandmother gave a necklace to each granddaughter. Pretty and stones like sapphires. One placed the necklace on the nightstand and in a rush left it in the hotel. She never told her parents and silently said her goodbyes on each passing mile.
July 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#vss365 #together

No ticket. No ID. She left her backpack in the room trying to escape a weird situation. She got on the bus and the driver understood she was desperate to get home. She knew she could no longer be together with him. She will find the courage to end it in the daylight.
July 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
High Strung and angry
Passed from mother to daughter
It stops now with her

#vss365 #mellow
July 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#vss365 #wormhole to get from here to you would require a wormhole I will will it into existence I will tear the fabric of spacetime if it means I can be at your side to be sure you were ok.
July 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
#vss365
A proud #deviant
Locked into society
Waiting for the word
Deathly scared alarmed shaken
Too tired to function now.
July 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
#vss365 #taffeta

You were cute in your rainbow taffeta skirt and golden horn headband. I was trussed like a turkey. We were delighted when the town crier let us know the national animal.
July 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#vss365 #hamartia

I search for the collapsed mother for my sake and hers to heal what would paralyze every decision, sour every memory, and steal every moment.
July 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#vss365 #boxer "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America." Dad drove from post to post not knowing when a grenade would be launched at his vehicle to keep the military press going.
July 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#vss365 #nostalgia

Nostalgia steals from the present moment and a sanative future. It was never better back then. That's a lie of complacency and hopelessness.
July 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Since time out of mind a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence."

Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

#booksky
June 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#vss365 #scintilla

this is my balm, an anchor to my soul. as terrible as it is, this creates the optimism to continue in an uncertain environment. i hide to keep me sane. i step up in incremental ways.
June 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Happy Sunday all!😊

Your #vss365 #prompt for June 29th is #scintilla (Noun).

From Latin origin,a tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or a feeling.

I will be soon pass the #vss365 baton to @revsodhi.bsky.social who will be your host from July 1st, 2025.

Happy writing✍️
June 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
#vss365 #space #tanka

The final frontier
They created a scandal
Revolutionary
June 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#vss365 #moment

I held her the moment she transformed from one aspect to the next. She sighed in contentment and let go.
June 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#vss365 #vagary terrible #haiku

Busyness of life
That obscures the vagaries
No lucidity
June 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#vss365 #starscape
They coined a word to name a part of nature they feared losing sight of in the relentless pursuit of progress. So I need to be careful when I realize she's my starscape. The artificial light will hide her.
June 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
#vss365 #enigma

I am a fisher, hesitant to throw out the net, to let the line sink into the watery depths. The Skeleton Woman looks up impatiently from below but waits until I'm hungry enough.
June 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM