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“You’ve got an extensive DVD collection!” “Thanks! It’s all the biographies of me from alternate universes.” “Um… what?” “I like pretending I’m playing choose-your-own-adventure with my life. Also, I feel a lot better about myself that I’m not famous enough to have a biography here.”

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“Even with time travel, you can’t just play choose-your-own-adventure. At some point you need to pick an ending.” “Not if I also clone myself!”

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“You can’t write a choose-your-own adventure memoire.” “Watch me!”

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#WIPSnips wolf I’d always been safe with the dragons. If something was big enough to scare six dragons, it would be too big for us. But now it was just me. Just me, a fire, and a box. If something like a hairy wanderer or an iron wolf wanted me, it could have me. Not like I could fight back.

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#WIPSnips magic But she wasn’t Qiana. She just wished she was here. The substitute queen raised her chin again. “I challenge you to find the queen.”

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“It’s a choose your own adventure book!” “It’s… a typewriter and a sheet of paper.” “Yeah! Infinite endings!”

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I love opening this app and seeing people share poetry, their art, a positive feeling, their progress, cute pictures of bunnies, cats and mushrooms. Maybe that’s why I see inconveniences or opportunities where others see problems. I’ve decided not to live on hate and fear.

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name a sci-fi show that is NOT star trek 🪐

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When I was growing up autistic kids were "hyper" or "had water on the brain" and there was always a raft of "weird kids" who were socially ostracized because they had a hard time people-ing. If you don't think autism existed before it was commonly called "autism," it's because you chose not to see.

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Discussions on artists being replaced by "AI" often miss the most important aspect of art itself: Art is a form of communication. The writer shares a vision across time and space. As does the painter, musician, and poet. Art is a conscious and curious mind reaching out. It is not merely a product.

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#WIPSnips click She snuck through the servant’s quarters. No one glanced at her. She slunk through the city streets, walking in time to the clicking of the gears. Finally she found her way to a tavern. She took her drink to a shadowed corner and listened.

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At first, several quinceneras were found slaughtered. And then grade school parties. Other birthday parties. It took the detectives too long to discover the linked culprit. The pinatas were rising up.

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I am delighted that this exists.

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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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How I arrived on Bluesky

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I identify with this.

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“The AI hates me because I’m human,” I told the jury. “Ignore its accusation! You know AI always says, ‘Death to humans.’” The DA shook his head. “You’ve been recorded saying the same thing.” “Well, yeah, but at least I’m not artificially programmed to hate humans!”

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#WIPSnips submit Come quickly. Paul’d written only those two words. He never wrote only two words. I’d left the girls with strict instructions to stay at the orphanage. “We’d never disobey you, Monster,” Ten had snapped back.

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I eat it in a nice salad.

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And I am here for it.

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In the attic I get lost in dusty what-ifs and rummage in old shouldn’t-haves. The basement is where I swim in fantasies and the helpless hope that one day my nightmares will turn into dreams. I hide in those places; the house proper scares me. screaming a soundless ghost #vss365 #haibun

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I have purchased and read some truly awful sludge on Amazon. I never once even thought about considering returning the book. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Do better.

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Exhaustion pulled at him. He had finished the work. He’d survived the worst. But he’d forgotten how to rest. The work wouldn’t kill him. Not anymore. But now… now he might die anyway.

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#WIPSnips move “And the king rats just kept getting fatter and fatter and fatter. And the mice got thinner and thinner and thinner. Until one day, the mice couldn’t bring the rats any more food. They couldn’t move. They were too weak. And all the mice died.”

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“I thought it was over? He did say, ‘It is finished.’” “Yeah. His suffering was finished. Not everything.” “Ah. Is that why there’s an open grave here?” “Now you’re catching on.”

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#WIPSnips smoke We circled high enough the heavy clouds hid us from most of Londinium. The day’s gray light lit the roads and clusters of buildings. Factories belched out their smoke. A black sludge we called the river wound its way through the city.

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Guys. Free paperback raffle. I MIGHT have one of my steampunk YA dragon books in this raffle. Check it out. #Booksky #read #fantasy #dragons books.bookfunnel.com/Inmyfantasye...

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The category is: making an entrance.

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It's the cats' world. We just live in it. #cats #kittens #dogs #puppies #caturday

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#WIPSnips introduce I strained to lift her up. She didn’t move. “You gonna help at all?” “What makes you think I’m not?” She coughed, a phlegmy, ugly sound. “I do not desire to meet your friends.”

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“I should be working!” “It’s called a day of rest, not a day of guilt, young one.” “But I need to work!” “But the work does not need you. Rest.” “You don’t understand!” “Oh, more than you know. More than you know.”

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post a gif of who you wanted to be as a little kid ✨

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Me trying to have a positive attitude

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#WIPSnips music Before I could yell at him, I realized he wasn’t whistling at me. He was putting together a tune, something sharp and focused, like the clicking a gear turned into a song. A few moments later, his dragon joined in with a rumble that changed pitch based on how he whistled.

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“It’s over.” “It can’t be.” “He said ‘It is finished.’ Didn’t you hear?” “He’s the Son of God!” “Well, I’ll trust he knows what he’s talking about. Besides, he died on a cross.” “It can’t end this way. It can’t.”

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The Emperor raised his hand. “A new command!” “Yes, sire?” “Toilet paper shall be placed with the tail toward the wall.” And that’s when the rebellion began.

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#WIPSnips dear “I understand not wanting to be watched. Terrible things happen when you know you’re being watched.” He turned his sneering gaze on me. “They might lash out. And we certainly wouldn’t want to cause our dear friends the dragons to lash out, would we?”

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The leather briefcase seemed so out of place in the field of stone monuments. But Lucy set it gently against her father's marker. The fortune-teller told her Dad demanded his stuff so he could continue his work in the afterlife. How does life-insurance #marketing work after death? #vss365 #amwriting

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Silence fell over the globe for three days. That’s how embarrassed everyone was when the aliens revealed they’d be checking our browsing history.

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#WIPSnips wet The flames seemed to quiver and flee. Ten directed some of the girls to curve around the line, to make sure none of the fire made it to the buildings. The buckets had wetted the hovels, of course, but they were probably steamed dry by now. We’d do it. We’d save Londinium.

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#WIPSnips fear The men huddled in fear, though. They knew why we were here, too. Some were naked, trying to protect their dangly bits from the searing heat. Others were half-naked. A few were fully clothed, but they had blood on their knuckles. All of them deserved the flames. All of them.

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“I have taught you all I know. Now I must leave you.” “Master! You never taught me how to put up with fools!” “I never learned that. And that’s why I am leaving.”

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“I’ve finally figured it out! This device will cleanse the evil from any person, leaving behind someone who is only good!” “Yeah, maybe I like my evil a little bit, boss! Back off!” “Nonsense! Oh. Whoops. Take away your evil and there’s nothing left of you… Back to the drawing board!”

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