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Chris E. Sol

@telaranrhiod.bsky.social

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Fantasy author weaving myth, magic & Light. ‘Earth’s Awakening’ out now! More books coming soon! 🇳🇴 from Norway | 🌈 proudly gay | eternally single Dog dad to Zazu | WoT, Trek, Who, Stargate, Cosmere 🔗 chrissolbooks.com

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · Aug 3

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)

A stack of books, and the front visible on two, the front cover is of Earth’s Awakening featuring a starry background with Light emanating from the corner. The earth is depicted, showing the angle of Africa and Europe.

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 9h

Two days to go.
A serpent will come.
Not to dwell in the #dungeon
But here in my #library
Though, with less than 100
Probably doesn’t qualify.

Her scales are shades of red
From #crimson to orange
She’s lacking a gene
So no black scales at all!
The drive will be tough tough
5 hours each way!

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 10h

One night the sky was dark
Cloudless and moonless
On nights such as that it’s easy
Or at least easier to see them
The artificial #satellites

Not just the natural satellite-
Or the one perturbed to be so
The moon, our luna
Usually so bright.

#vssmagic

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 11h

Let me be #candid
I forgot this prompt!
Damn! That’s sad!
And I’m so sorry!

#emoetry

Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 1d

#Emoetry prompt for 10/8/2025

is

#Candid

#writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 15h

Tricky one today, but I guess life goes on…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSDaily #VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

Life, continued.

Lots of time spent in the #library
The local one was in a #dungeon
Long gone now, a bitter ode to that!

Once lived in a city called #satellite
Close to pyramids and ancient history
Long since now, but still alive in me

I am strange, I know that well, really!
I also don’t need to #sonder at all,
I know everyone else has their own stuff

I thrive with #crimson walls - really!
#peas on the other side - despised!
Two opposites sides, both whithin my life

The future is unknown to all
Unless the world burns to #ash
Let’s live each day as if it’s the last!

#VSS365 Ash
#Whistpr Crimson
#VSSDaily Pea
#VSSMagic Satellite
#Emoetry Candid
#WIPSnips Dungeon
#BlueSkyRelay Sonder
#WoTtober Library
#WeirdMicro Bitter Ode

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 1d

@marcialynnpaul.bsky.social
@jangoeswriting.bsky.social
@fizzytwizler.bsky.social
@poetickunal.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social

And all the other lovelies!

Thanks be to thee for reskeets and likes!

This lonely guy will now retire! At least for the eve, plotting tomorrows poem…

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 1d

Lost in my own mind….

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity
#VSS365 #Whistpr #VSSDaily
#VSSMagic #Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

Lost
Sometimes I feel like an #insect
Unworthy of notice, hiding.
Never finding my #niche

I see others #beaming, shining in Light
They’ve been #granted special things
Not a depraved hack like me.

I hide in the darkness, as the #rain pours.
That’s where I feel #safe. Secure.
This appears to be my niche in life

My goals often #clash, though…
My feelings is #ineffable always.
Never easy to say or explain.

Lost in my own mind, between all
Thoughts and feelings’ clash
Safe, but never found.

#VSS365 Clash
#Whistpr Insect
#VSSDaily Grant
#VSSMagic Niche
#Emoetry Beaming
#WIPSnips Safe
#BlueSkyRelay Ineffable
#WoTtober Rain
#WeirdMicro Depraved Hack

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 2d

And one last reskeet happened before I log out, thank you! @elizabethtitus.bsky.social

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 2d

And of course my dear friends at the @wottober.bsky.social

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 2d

This must’ve resonated with more than me. Thanks for the love and the reskeets ♥️

@fizzytwizler.bsky.social
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
@thedevilstuna.bsky.social
@leebaileswriter.bsky.social
@markpaleo.bsky.social
@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
@jangoeswriting.bsky.social
@skittishr.bsky.social

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 2d

His life was scarred, by cruelty…

Unfortunately these are real events. Experienced by myself and people I’ve known...

Always be kind, always respect each other, always take care…

#VSS365 #Whistpr #VSSDaily
#VSSMagic #Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

Abuse

He hated High School
The hunt for #ribbons in the sports…
He was #abused by his peers
He doesn’t #miss that time at all

Kids hold unknowable evil
At least some of them.
They abused their #powers
Wherever they claimed their #realm

To this day he #associated teens
As the evil kind he’d known
Like a #veil stopping him from the truth
He’d been #bitten by the evil of teens

He wouldn’t have kids of his own
Didn’t want those experiences on them
Even though he knew most kids weren’t
All that bad. Still he feared them.

The echo of cruelty never quite left

#VSS365 Associate
#Whistpr Ribbon
#VSSDaily Power
#VSSMagic Bitten
#Emoetry Abused
#WIPSnips Miss
#BlueSkyRelay Realm
#WoTtober Veil
#WeirdMicro Unknowable Evil

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s lift the #veil
From this old tale
Reveal what was lost
Bring back the Light

Let the #power flow
Forgotten though
Hidden it might be
It’s time to shine again

This world has been
#abused enough now
It’s time to rebuild, renew
Let us bring it back together

#WoTtober #vssdaily #emoetry

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

Good save! 👍🏻

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

Hehe, cool! The breeder for my Z’Hera suggest I call the next one Zee-man lol I had a Zol once named for a witch in a book, and Zack was named for Thackery Binx in Hocus Pocus, Zazu for the bird in the Lion King:) I’ve had many more too lol cats. Birds. Of course Zimbah was a budgie:)

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

I want a child, but I’m too old, too poor, lonely I am! But I have my pet children;) and my love will come up for my birthday;) that’s the best gift in the world!

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful too! Rand, good name;) I called mine for She’Ra, the goddess Hera, and my tradition for naming every pet I’ve owned as an adult with a Z name! (Plus she’ll show up in my upcoming novel lol)

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

Yet, memories are for ever!

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

Here she is, Z’Hera, two weeks ago she’ll probably won’t have grown much in the meantime 🤣 apparently she’s a ultramel morph corn snake:) I know, the most common pet snake in the world, but they are friendly and docile- as adults anyway;) she is used to handling so I have hopes!

#cornsnake

A orange and white cornsnake juvenile slithering on a woman’s hand.

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

A micro scene from my book universe today, a couple prompts do be stretched… lol

#writingcommunity
#wordprompt

#weirdmicro #wipsnips #wottober #vssdaily #vss365 #blueskyrelay #emoetry #whistpr

Scheming

G’Roth was #foaming. His anger great.
They claimed his opinions were caused by #mental #illness and not his visions.

He would find a way out. To escape
Reform his #armada and get revenge.
He had #zest, a hunger to see them fall.

They had shaved him, made him #bald.
His #fall had been great. His trusted-
They all betrayed him, #stored him here.

Before the sun reaches its next #zenith
He would find his way out. He hoped.
This prison couldn’t hold him. Not him!

‘I won’t #advert my intentions to them’ he thought they couldn’t predict him.
Though, of course they knew it all

#VSS365 Advert
#Whistpr Armada
#VSSDaily Bald
#VSSMagic Foaming
#Emoetry Zest
#WIPSnips Store
#BlueSkyRelay Zenith
#WoTtober Fall
#WeirdMicro Mentally ill

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

Are we in November already? Damn! Time moves fast 😂😂😂 dark prompts!

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

No, sadly. But a baby nonetheless… just a small serpent:)

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for your support, and for the reskeets!

@mwplovesmusic.bsky.social
@wottober.bsky.social
@poetickunal.bsky.social
@jangoeswriting.bsky.social
@acturek.bsky.social
@blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social
@dreamcatalyst.bsky.social
@fizzytwizler.bsky.social

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! It’s an amateur project, but, hope it is readable! Thank you!

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 4d

Seconded!!!

Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 4d

T-6 days till I venture 150km to pick up my little girl. I live in the, probably only country where such creatures aren’t sold week old in plastic tubs in the pet store. She’s 3,5 months old, and is feeding well.

She’ll be the first of her kind I’ve ever had. 42 is a good age for a first timer eh?

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 4d

The procession moved slowly. The minister reverently held the box containing the #charnel #fragments of the deceased.

The Dreth attack had ravaged the poor man, purple goo acting like acid had dissolved everything in its path, only fragments remained to be placed in the charnel house

#weirdmicro

WeirdMicro @weirdmicro.bsky.social · 4d

In the mood to write some dark, melancholic whimsy, or perhaps some dreadfully cosmic balladry?

Here is today’s #WeirdMicro daily prompt:

Charnel fragments

#MakeItWeird #TurnUpTheDark
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