Many thanks to Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social , EIC for including my microfiction “The Margin Bleed” in this fantastic issue “Rebel” of #SciFanSat @scifansat.bsky.social
As usual, a fabulous cover page art. ✨✨ read it here:

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…so that they’d learn later, regretfully much later, why it was important to hurt and to hurt each other…when they’d finally shed all that they #nurture -d & wore…or bore, but regretfully again, bare before none but themselves.
Of a lightness.
Minus lightning.
#Reckon -ing. Barely.
#vss365
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#Sustain

A breath
A beat
And count
I can’t I can
I try
In #Within
Out
Without
I tried
Retried
#Float a breath
Out without
Drop the salt
Now Count with me
the breath
the beat
I can I can’t

Mist and Clouds
I tried
I tired

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Easing her luggage into the train’s #vestibule, she made her way uncomfortably through a missing crowd. Signs didn’t matter. They glitched anyway. With half a bulbul’s sigh, she pulled out a lone sheaf of wheat stolen from godhuli #yesterday — a #symbol of end, and #commence -ment. #vss365 #Oulens 🌾

He’d thought she’d be #autumnal. Fall. Fade. Be blown away with the first cold wind he’d funnel. Dead, like #most. Or tucked, a leaf of his book. He liked to rest his limbs. Feel spring afresh. She did wither, but was marcescent. His winter whisper.

…his spring tear.

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The signs stayed #sanguine. Nothing in #particular. Just the bulbul’s no-morning song. The #wheels that screeched soundless—a plot away. The two-minute Wi-Fi glitch. And she sang with the chords from the bulbul’s throat. Of joy. You don’t hope for what you already have.
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👋 Jeggy Po, “canvases are true” what a lovely thing to say🙏
I don’t post music here but one for your perfectly brewed cup of ☕️

🎵 “remember what the dormouse said: feed your head”🎵 …except that the dormouse only said nothing (I think🤔)
A b’ful week to you friend💫 🫶 #Oulens

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It wasn’t what she said; it was the silence trailing and spiraling around her words. Making you feel as if she’d said nothing at all, not even in the original space of her very breath, and all that you thought you’d heard was mere delusion. That amorphous void was the true #esoteric. #vss365 #Oulens

In response to Susan’s delightful haiku.
@andrewssusanm.bsky.social

squirrelly!
hibiscus buds now
on parapet wall

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Yay! Thank you so much @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for this lovely surprise. 🙏😊
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For #fragmentsfriday
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Huge thanks to Editors Sally Quon and Michele Rule
@thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social for selecting my #haiku. In this issue. And much grateful to @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social for such a beautiful commentary. Sharing some snips here. Pls read the issue for the full commentary and others work #Oulens

Much ‘heart’ened to have a poem in Molecules Unlimited @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social Heartfelt thanks to Editor Stephen Paul Wren for including my poem “Dosis sola facit venenum”. Enjoyed researching (heart failure-digoxin-foxglove-overdosage) as much as writing it. #Oulens #poetrycommunity

#BlueSkyArtShow #minimal

#UrbanLiving & #UrbanStory (in the adjoining image) by #Oulens

#PhotographersOfBluesky #BlueSkyPhotography
#photographybyme
#CaptureTheMoment
#urban #PlainsCupid
#micropoetry #poetry #senryu #haiga #haibun #StoryTelling
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In response to Susan’s lovely haiku.
@andrewssusanm.bsky.social

#HaikuSaturday #haiku
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