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Lisa Thornton
@thorntonforreal.bsky.social
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Writer, school nurse. SmokeLong, New World Writing, Cincinnati Review+. Pushcart & BotN nom. Wigleaf Top50 LL. Assoc FF Editor @JMWW. I love a good view & due process. Sometimes I post about bugs. lisathorntonwriter.com 🚫🧊
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · Nov 23
Sometimes you get all the things done you are supposed to do and sometimes you write a weird little story about a dead body instead.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 9h
Wow that is a beautiful song. Listened to it just now in my darkening room. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 13h
Thank you so much, Karen! That’s really nice to hear today 🙏💛
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 14h
The rabbit in the moon is upside down. Farmers harvest all night, dust in their spotlights. The mornings are cold.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 20h
Rain filled the birdbath and they haven’t found it yet
A reflection in the still water of a round birdbath of some long grasses with the yard and fence beyond
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 1d
Wow, this is incredible, Cole! I have the chills.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 1d
Sitting on my bed watching the light in the room get dimmer and dimmer as the sun goes down is some kind of peaceful magic that I've been dipping into since I was old enough to sit.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 2d
Lots of bats out here right now and the moon peeking
The full moon between some dry corn stalks
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 2d
Have been wishing for this my whole life. Time is relentless.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 2d
Today a 2nd grader looked into my vision screening machine & said it was illusiony. Later a 1st grader invited me to her bday & said everyone was coming except the meanies. I wish we all spoke this way.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 2d
😂💛yes!!
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 2d
Working up a Seuss-like poem for Mondays that starts “I cannot go to work today for I haven’t got the skin.”
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
This comment made my mouth water!
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
Me too! And baking it is so relaxing and fun. Even bad bread tastes pretty good!
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
Messed up multiple steps in the olive bread recipe so it is sort of wet. Dipped it in soup. Fixed it.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
“We write so that we can speak back to the world.”

I love the way this reminded me of how successful a writer I have always been 💛

The secret of writing success
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The secret of writing success
Conventional notions of success can dim the voltage of our ideas.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
Ugh, I’ve not thought of it that way before.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
They really need them!! Without them, there wouldn't be enough evil people to fill the ranks. This is strangely comforting and disturbing at the same time.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
It's difficult for me to fathom her/their way of thinking. They have 5 kids and I know they need the money. But they must have built a wall between what they deserve & what others deserve. They are following orders. Idk. I nodded and found somewhere else to sit.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
A woman in my town told me abt her policeman husband getting "higher training." She edged around. I asked what kind of certificate will he get? Finally, she said it was thru DHS & I realized he's training with ICE. We don't believe in all that, she said, but it's better money. She shrugged sheepish.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d
In other times, in other places, my migraines would make me a magician. People would pay for me to tell their futures when my vision splits down the middle. They would line up outside my tent to have their faces read as I rubbed my temples and squinted into their eyes.
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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 3d
11 and a half hours till our 31st Award ends! At midnight GMT today Sunday 5th Oct. Still time if you are so inclined 300 words max. £1460 prize fund bathflashfictionaward.com/enter
a hourglass filled with sand sits on top of a dirt hill
ALT: a hourglass filled with sand sits on top of a dirt hill
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 4d
Congrats!
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 4d
I love the part of storymaking that takes the seed and tries it out in different places. That lying on the couch and imagining your story in sleek New York, or a forest instead. Your story told thru teenagers or an irritable married couple. That part of storymaking when anything is possible.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 4d
All that love right back at you, Dan. I’m sorry for the loss of your dad, but glad you had some good people with you along the way 💛💛.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 4d
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