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@sayaashrah.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:28 AM

Perilous, but there was no other choice. To find the mysterious entity calling to her, Ashrah must brave the Silk Colony and its ravenous queen.

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@writinginsawdust.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:16 AM

A day to remember, a moment never forgotten. The first encounter.

From a recent short story:
The Last Morning Walk

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I do remember that long ago, a pool party at some person’s house that I don’t speak with anymore. I saw her drunk and dancing on the diving board.

Someone said she was someone’s cousin or a sister of someone else. I just remember that sunshine smile and the laugh that lit the afternoon.
It wasn’t until that autumn, that I saw her by the library talking to a professor. I wanted to get closer to catch her eye and maybe ask her for a coffee, but she turned her back and disappeared.

I gave up hope and moved on for a month or more, almost forgot that she was there, until one random Wednesday I was reading something dull, when right out of nowhere, she stood there and demanded that I ask her out.

@sageowenwrites.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:16 AM

Exhibit 3672 of how down BAD Matthew is for Billy, and a sentimental moment interrupted by Cory

#WIPSnips "cousin" from SmokeWIP
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Excerpt from SmokeWIP, a sage Owen m/m romance novel wip. Text as follows:

Billy softened. "I know you didn't really get it with Lark at first, but thank you for sticking it out with me. I couldn't imagine doing this without you by my side."

He put on his most inauthentic winsome smile, the kind that performed well at family functions and church banquets. "Of course. I'd do anything for you."

"Everything's coming up right for your special day." Matthew flinched at Cory's exuberant return. "I cleared out the vending machine around the corner-five packs of your disgusting favorite chips, since your wife won't be around to smell your horrible sour cream and onion breath after."

Billy was grinning. Matthew forced down a memory of tasting those exact chips so he could imagine the flavor of Billy's mouth. Cory dumped the armload in his cousin's lap and picked up the fresh beer

@stephanloy.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:51 AM

#WIPSnips The word is 'cousin.' From 'Nightwatch.'
The White One describes its home universe. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #AmWriting

Our nonsensical home spread to horizons both pressingly close and far beyond reach. The black land of onyx, the rocks covering its tumbled hills, sharp as razors and as jagged as saw blades. Over the dismal land, the black sky glowered, its weird, cartoon-like stars shedding no light, its suns no heat, and the great, impossibly defined spheres of its planets denied the majesty of their extra-celestial cousins.
A universe of dreams, of dreams from other universes. Potential to the limit of what thought can cleanly grasp.
We were flawed ideas, easily over-written, accidents on a Mobius loop. For whatever can be dreamed can be forgotten, or doubted, or debased.

@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:18 AM

Chaos beckons me
Illusions of calm waters
Deceive my reason

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@erikachandler.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:18 AM

Jiro and Ashe immediately bond over their mutual dislike of Ryo. #WIPSnips #amwriting #amquerying #writesky #writingcommunity #YA #fantasy

@lagahoo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:17 AM

Tight surface tension
Suggest the calm Façade hides
Severe rip currents

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@pjloop.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:11 AM

Little late, but I'm getting back up to speed.

Going for a vibe of fuzzy, with dizzy?

This is from TEOWAD EP2.

-- 8< --

Another wave of dizziness struck her. It came and went.
__Urgh… let's get through this already!__

-- 8< --

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The text reads:

She closed her eyes and breathed out sharply, shaking off the fear, shaking off the obvious effects of the bad air and humidity. She pushed herself away from the wall and stood fully back on her feet. The environment had been getting more oppressive as they’d descended, especially the last floor. Damp warmth, slippery surfaces, blackened materials —everything felt deeply uncomfortable. Outside had been bad enough, but here the air was thicker, and escape felt impossible.
Another wave of [dizziness] struck her. It came and went.
__Urgh… let's get through this already!__
Webb had continued forwards, reaching the double doorway. Feeling at least a little rallied, Distance took notice. The wooden doors were in a bad state, damaged and hanging open, with a foot-wide gap between them. Beyond, she could just make out the Atrium. That was an area she knew well, but nothing of the place looked recognisable now, not with lack of solarlight and signs of disaster at every step.
__What did **THAT** to the doors?!__
Smoke was curling through the gap and along the ground, wisping in a slow, tumbling fade.
__An explosion?__
__Hopefully an explosion.__
She groaned.

@thefellowsnip.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:01 AM

Day 59 - October 11th

Today’s word is: Music

Now who doesn't love good music? Give us your best music snips. Bonus points if you actually describe the tone and feeling of the music in the prose!

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@smoking-gnu.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:56 AM

#Octember
Well, some of these are spoilery answers, so i'll just say:
Milly is strangling out the truth, while her sometimes guardian Jasper is wearing the yellow suit. Because he is. More The Mask yellow than mustard yellow, though.
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@cl-ingro.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:55 AM

When you're a crime lord (ahem, *alleged*), you sometimes have to make difficult decisions to protect your children.

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Javier was tempted to suggest that his cousins be allowed to visit Erie for a change, but he knew from past experience how the rest of the conversation would play out. His uncle was highly protective of his children, especially after Fernando’s abduction years ago. He distanced himself from them for their own protection, and no amount of coercion would make him change his mind. Javier didn’t like it, but he understood.

Story: All In (The Gamble #2)

@crneal.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:18 AM

#WIPSnips

I disappeared just long enough to complete 3 rough drafts and now I'm back with Snips to distract from edits and querying.

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She shivered as she turned a corner and stepped over the knee-knocker of another passageway. Up ahead was the hatch to her and Hana’s quarters and, standing directly in front of it was Ben, waiting patiently with a small black plastic box in his hand.
His eyes snapped in her direction and tracked her approach.
“Hey,” She waved briefly with her free hand. “To what do I owe this visit?”
He held up the box, just large enough to hold a bar of soap.
“I pocketed this on the dive.” He shrugged. “I guess I just forgot about it in the commotion.”
It very well could have been more than him just forgetting. “That’s understandable.” Up the hall, two other crew members entered the narrow hall. “Come inside for a bit.”
She let the hatch slide open and walked him in, ensuring it closed behind him before leaning back against the metal desk on her side of the room. It had only been a few days, but being on land for even that long had forced her to have to reacclimate to life on the ship, yet again. She was re earning her sealegs, thankfully with less vomiting this time.
Ben stood in front of her with an intense focus and handed her the box.
“Huh.” She took it and examined it. It was a watertight container with a coded lock. “Weird. This was near the reactor?”
“I believe so.” He nodded. “It’s still pretty fuzzy for me.”
“Of course.” She examined the box for a moment more and then set it down on the desk beside her. “How are you feeling, by the way?”
He gave her a crooked smile. “Nearly good as new. If I could reboot my sleep patterns, it might be better.”
“I’m with you on that one,” she said, her hand reflexively going to her still-tender neck. She had no sleep schedule to speak of. She hardly slept at all. She had committed almost all her time to writing down everything she could remember about the reactor and drafting plans for a new fusion-centric plasma field. So far, her work was… suboptimal.
Ben bent down and moved her hand, examining the bruising on her neck closely as she st…

@spike1967.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:17 AM

The #WIPSnips word for October 11th is "cousin"

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From book 6

When Lance stepped into classroom one, his eyes widened, his grin widened, too.
Sitting at desks in the middle of the class, two faces he recognised and a third, he didn’t.
“Laz! Tom! Oh, this is brilliant! And we’ve got a sixth, too!”
Laz grinned back. “When my dad got that phone call last night, and then Rhy phoned a bit later… I begged him. I’ve been looking forward to this for nearly as long as you have.”
Tom nodded. “Me too, though, in my case… I doubt I’ll be here for the full year.”
Lance sniggered. “Oh, you will be. That form you signed made sure of that.”
Tom shook his head. “I’m here until the sea cadets start. Those stories Diah told Luke… He told me. It’s the navy I want, and they said I’d be able to go when it was time. Oh, I’d still be here. This is my home, but I get the best of it. Army and navy. If the navy do what we are, full time, I’ll transfer over permanently.”
It was Lance’s turn to shake his head. “Don’t think that’s possible with the navy cadets, Tom.”
“Why not?”
“There’s only twenty bunk beds in there. There’s hundreds here. They can spare a couple of billets for special cadets.”
“Damn! Worth a thought, though.”
“Who’s that?” Lance pointed at the boy at the end.
The boy smiled. “Cadet third class Fletcher, at your service.”
“Errr… I… I don’t know anyone called Fletcher in Golden Hill or Scholar Green.”
“Bet you heard of the Millers, though?”
“Rose Miller?”
His grin grew wider. “She’s my cousin. When they got news the cadets were starting, her dad rushed over. They knew I wanted to join and when they said there was something even better on offer, I jumped at it. Didn’t even need to beg Mum and Dad when they knew there’d be money in it and no need to feed me for a year.”
“Where are you from?”
“Brindley Ford.”
“That explains it. I don’t know anyone down that way. Welcome home.”
He nodded. “Thanks. I love it already. This uniform’s amazing. The most amazing thing is, they weren’t charged for it. Bet that would’ve got a big no from Mum and Dad i…

@smoking-gnu.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:50 AM

G'morning #WIPSnips!
I don't have 'cousin' bot i do have family, and that should broadly vibely count, right?
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“No, actually. While you have my deepest condolences for your loss of family and childhood, those details are not of interest to me on this occasion.”
And just like that the rug of righteous anger is pulled out from under me, and I sit back in my chair thoroughly embarrassed at my outburst. “Oh.”
“My interests lie with the people you protected since before you were a teen. From disgusting men and women wanting to prey on the defenceless, and you took the brunt of the abuse by yourself, risking your future at every turn.” The sound of flipping pages fills the room as Irena searches for a particular section in the file. “Ah, here it is. Even in college you risked your entire education saving a few other girls and even one boy from unwanted advances, always gaining backlash for your actions.”
I look at her for a few seconds, completely befuddled and grasping for words to respond with until I eventually find some. “It was happening right in front of me, and I wasn’t just going to let it happen without trying to do something about it.”
“That is exactly what I mean!” Irena exclaims with excitement. “I want that dedication to safeguard others to protect the students of this school! And now to answer the second part of your que-“
A knock at the door Interrupts Irena mid-sentence, and her eyes dart to it.

@smoking-gnu.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:15 AM

#AwesomeCharacters
That depends entirely on what the *thing* is. If honour demands some innocent gets hurt or killed or robbed or similar deprivations, ain't no way Milly gonna allow that to go through just to preserve her 'honour'. Otherwise, maybe.
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@pgsundling.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:15 AM

I reclined in slumber but never woke.
So tired, the mountain climbed me instead.

#Climb
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@sonnetsmith.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:03 AM

Today - October 11th - is National #ComingOut day in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. So all your best coming out stories in #poetry, #prose, and #artwork please!!!

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@sonnetsmith.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:46 AM

Hello Wild Walk #writers

Pink and purple dress
Fucsia ballerinas spin
In between the leaves

Your word today is

#Fucsia

Use the image/word to inspire your writing.
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@jasonmhubbard1.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:46 AM

Well, this is quite the morbid question. Sal's tombstone MIGHT say:
Wonder Teacher, Blessed Friend "The Secrets of your Past do not Determine your Future."
amazon.com/author/jasonhubbard
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