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Katya Mills

@katya444ever.bsky.social

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Independent author seeking representation. On Goodreads (7 titles). Psychotherapist in California. Gen X Nonbinary.

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · May 10

Pierce the Yearning Heart. A tragic love #story I wrote. Now published alongside many great poems and works of fiction and memoir in Journal X. Page 160. www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/

Journal X

A social justice literary/arts magazine

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 1d

she took a drag so long to the lungs it made good enough ash to cover up and smudge the memory out on early morning city streets with her brothers and sisters white brown black. young. restless. angry. thirsting for a better world. irreverent. antifash #vss365 #ash

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

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Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 1d

Misty haze floats across
My brown eyes to black
A flurry of melancholy
Begun as a pleasant reverie
Then the dark shadows
Crept way on in

Sun kissed days
Picnic baskets
Strawberries and cream
All crushed to #ash
All berries now taste sour
No longer are you mine

#vss365

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 1d

Dylan inspected the wreckage, his anger rising from every little thing he saw. Twisted metal, burnt plastic, the acrid smell irritating his nose, #ash that was once human.

He’d had enough of these fools and their petty grievances. Storming back to barracks, he shot the culprit in the leg.

#vss365

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 1d

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 1d

yes

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Robert J. W. @robertjw4688.bsky.social · 1d

I sit the pain down
for a candid conversation.
I let him burst
in terrifying clarity
while reminding him
of life's absurdity.
We hold each other
and watch this burning world
as we both smile.
The ash
becomes our blanket.
We drift into dawn
with fists scabbed
and free.

#emoetry #vss365 #poetry

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 2d

thoughts will not stop. what will become of us? someone turns you on to magnesium and finally you crash. you get some time remming with old friends and loose associations. you clash. money on black. give it all to indigenous nations. protest by stickers.

#clash #vss365

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 5d

"Tram Arrival" - my oil painting

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 8d

the blur of memory laughing with friends antagonized by the enemy falling into low vibration energy we isolate the problem only to discover it's not us we look up to the stars and polish our eyes with our fists tracing the scars on our wrists we come up
#blur #vss365

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 9d

"Bedroom In Arles" - my oil painting

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 9d

1 transgender shooter
GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!"

47,209 white male shooters
GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 14d

Thanx

Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 15d

we saw the city we fought for
all of us in our own way
some of us girls
were dressing the wounds lugging
water and bread
to the front
my dreams burned off with the clouds
shirt wet
your blood my tears
your green eyes I recall
carrying the dreaded
eventuality

#vss365
#poetry

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 17d

they beat us up
broke us down
took our dignity
we went home
tails between legs
to mommas tearful
embrace
reinvigorated
by love and
kindness

#reinvigorated
#vss365
#poetry

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 18d

perhaps
the light inside you
can be channeled 2 dissipate the various hells
perhaps
the best days are ahead
the pain will inform gratitude
perhaps
the kids born today will love paperbacks
the benevolent ones
when they die
watch over
us

#vss365
#perhaps

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J. Neutral @j-neutral.bsky.social · 18d

#vss365 - perhaps

Perhaps, thought Stephen, I could live my life in reverse. Watch the arrows pop out and restring themselves in the bow, watch the lady’s finger erase the what for, wheel the bucket back up from hell as the neighbors wheel in their complaints, leaving silence in the garden.

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itsmagicalmcb.bsky.social @itsmagicalmcb.bsky.social · 18d

I think I will give my story to a fish,
just for a little while,
& #perhaps he will show it to the world
in the flash of his scales:
red, orange, gold
lightning beneath the waves.

#vss365

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 19d

For your sanity; read! (And write 😉)

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20d

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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Katya Mills @katya444ever.bsky.social · 19d

there were subtle signs
concealed cash flows
influencer click bait
they even tipped the faith
productions with promise
of stained glass
cathedrals

what we knew to be
catastrophe
they designated
a beautiful day
in history

#Catastrophe
#vss365

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 19d

Like many cargo runs from before The Enemy came, this was a slow, boring process of flying outside the accepted shipping lanes, away from watching eyes. Long and tedious routes circuiting the system.

When Magpie came into orbit around the moon, #catastrophe was very apparent. The colony!

#vss365

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22d

Trans rights are human rights.

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 22d

Shed your working robes of green
dwarfed by needles
sandwiched in between
shy tree come dance
in your new dress
that synthesis of yellow
gold and red
no more repressed
step forward
centre stage
and pirouette
#vss365 #synthesis #poetry

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