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“You will not find it pleasant. There are #nightmares. Other undesirable symptoms. Our clinicians will see you through each stage. You will help them by telling them everything you feel. For someone as young and pliable as you, deprogramming will take less than a week.” #vss365 #TheTwistedGrain

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The mechanical #referee was his #pride and #joy. A device of unimpeachable accuracy and reason. Immune to bribery and blackmail, unable to be cowed or confounded. It was, in all rulings, perfectly fair. Naturally, the commercial league had no use for such a machine. #vssdaily #blueskyrelay #vss365

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General Bell had hazel eyes. He guessed few people got to see them this close up and lived to tell the tale. “So,” the eyes skewered him. “Professor,” a faint smile played, “Let’s talk experimental ethics.” Of course he’d know by now. #MartialMonday #BookSky www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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"That's enough syllables" _ #ed #7syllablesentence (with apologies to @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

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Anhedonia - no more rich #euphoria for jaded #palates #vss365 #haiku #senryu #haikuchallenge #palate

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The audience of students watched, transfixed. Would she sign? She mustn’t. She couldn’t. Not now. It would destroy everything she’d worked for: earned, fair and square. It wasn’t how these things were meant to go. Not even now, in the enterprising 80s: Thatcher’s Britain. #satsplat #thepriceoftime

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Run a nervous #hand through big hair - no! I've landed in the #1980s! #satsplat #satscifan #fantaiku #haiku #scifaiku #timetravel #TotalRecall

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Scored this pic of the #PartialEclipse this morning! As seen by my phone, looking through my trusty 1999 #eclipse shades.

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“The thought had... never occurred to me, Commissar. I feel quite faint.” She accepted his offer of a second glass and raised her eyes to his. “You have the most delightful dark eyes. Not unlike my husband, in #fact.” He raised his glass. “Your very good health.” #WIPsnips

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#Insatiable need to #paint! #7syllablesentence #vss365 #MicroPoetry

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In ancient Ireland, attaining the highest level of poet entitled you to wear a cloak of crimson feathers and carry a wand. ...just in case anyone is looking for a mid-career pivot.

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Classic #GhostTrees

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Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us all see your marvellous works! Tomorrow's #thurds prompt word is: #forward / #advance Put up quotes, buy-links, haiku, cover pictures... #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt #poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday #writers

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Nacreous clouds #inspire. #Spring has arrived, finally - at least, till next week. #HaikuChallenge #nacre #haiku #vss365 #spring #MotherOfPearl weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/...

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A carriage turned into the street behind her. As it drew level, two arms reached out and dragged her inside. She found herself seated between two gentlemen, in darkness. “We admire your initiative.” “I’m... just a boot-polish girl...” “We know who you are.” #WIPSnips #WIP #WorkInProgress #polish

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numeric power the teeming masses team up dictators tremble #scifaikusaturday

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“There is still this idea that 70 or so road deaths a year in Wales is acceptable. But we would never accept 70 deaths a year on the ferry to Ireland, or on buses.” #Transport

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In the dead of #night alien #magnolia #teem through the garden #HaikuChallenge #Haiku #garden #scifaikuSaturday #scifaiku #scifi #DailyHaikuPrompt

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Putting up again bc it fell off the air! Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us all see your marvellous works! In honour of the #equinox, today's #thurds prompt word is: #EQUAL #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt #poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday #writers

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#LuaViEr #Keen Know Every Episode, Naturally!

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Dark #inrerregnum between #Mars and #Jovian rule - silent belt of #dust #scifaikusaturday #AsteroidBelt #vss365 #scifi #scifaiku #haikuchallenge #haiku #planets

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“They can hear me scream, and they can see on that console, there,” she indicated two switches towards the right-hand end of the long row, “it says ‘severe pain’ and ‘risk of death’. If they have a conscience, they will disobey the Professor.” #scififri #MilgramTest www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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Just learned from the other place the #SCIFIFRI 03-14-25 Optional Theme is: #SWITCH. Goody, just one word! The lovely image below illustrated the prompt announcement with no credit ... so I've swiped it to show all you fans here. 'K?

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#LuaVier Life is (a)... Rather Arbitrary Non- Deterministic Oscillating Machine #poetry #flashfiction #prompt #Acrostic

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Does he think I’m not a person: just a square archin of land that you fight for, walk over, and #grow things from? And if he thinks such things of women, shouldn’t I just leave him to his fate? #WIPsnips

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Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us all see your marvellous works! Today's #thurds prompt word is: #FILE Put up quotes, buy-links, haiku, cover pictures... #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt #poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday #writers

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