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Annie
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I like puns and absurdities and odd juxtapositions and the stories that come from them. Sometimes I write flash fiction.
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What I’m enjoying this morning

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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March 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I’m sporadically going through old photos and found these from ~10 years ago!
Close-up of a gray butterfly, with a thin stripe paralleling the long edge of the wing and a little orange spot in one corner, perched in a patch of clustered green-white flowers. Close-up of a three-petalled purple flower surrounded by grass and little brown leaves, looking like a propeller about to start spinning.
March 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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more doodles #Zentangle
Rock Star & Piñata?
Doodle of a five-point star with the points curlng around. A line of “stones” (circles with a bit of shading) outlines each arm, overlapping in the center and on the sides. The angles suggest a dramatic rock star pose. Doodle of a curling four-point star crisscrossed with “ribbons”, hanging by a loop of “cord”. Each little section is filled with small shapes, a few of which are scattered around outside.
December 20, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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Tree art at the Menger Hotel
View looking up at a stained glass skylight from just beside a hotel Christmas tree. The skylight is subtle greens and golds, smaller rectangles surrounding a central rectangle, framing an oval of gold “scales” filled with a geometric floral design. The top section of the tree is visible, very foreshortened, with gold lights, lacy tinsel-ish ornaments, and gold and red baubles. An artistic “tree” of bare metal branches with small white and red blossoms, mounted on a brick wall. Large leaves from a living plant form a lopsided V framing the base of the “tree” from below.
December 6, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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From a Thanksgiving beach walk: this post is for the birds.
Grey sand, silvery water with waves rolling in, layers of ombré grey-white clouds. A line of uneven posts marches out to sea, most with a seagull perched on top.
November 30, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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From a Thanksgiving beach walk: is it still an attempted murder if it’s grackles?
Three glossy black birds on a patch of beach sand, spaced left-middle-right across the photo, staring intently at - each other? something else off-camera?
November 30, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Magpies! Not the best shot, but I was happy to get one that showed off the colors.
Magpie sitting in bright green grass next to a sunny wood fence Magpie in flight, about to escape out of frame. Patches of white show on the wingtips and shoulders; on the inner wings and tail is black shading to blue. Most of the picture is sunny green grass.
July 20, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Quiet time doodling tonight. It looks nothing like the #zentangle models, but I kinda like where it wandered off to.
sketchbook page with two triangle doodles pointing opposite ways, filled in with different line patterns and joined with a line pattern like a switchback queue or a top-straightforward maze.
June 15, 2024 at 4:11 AM
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Lines I lived #amreading

“Just count to three and take a breath when nothing makes sense. She reminds herself that making sense is a lie. Nothing has ever made sense. That makes her feel better.”

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Let the Star Explode - Lightspeed Magazine
The last picture that Karu has of her father alive is on the day of her graduation. She has this big smile that by the placing of her dimples makes it obvious that she is his daughter. He stands next ...
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May 5, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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I was not expecting to recommend @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and @clarkesworldmagazine.com at a medical appointment today, but that’s the way the conversation went. Maybe a new reader?
April 30, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Opening line I loved #amreading

“The universe ends at 7:42 on a Tuesday morning, at the end of June, when the raspberries are still only little white fists clenched against a late chill.”

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The Universe Ends on a Tuesday - Small Wonders
The universe ends at 7:42 on a Tuesday morning, at the end of June, when the raspberries are still only little white fists clenched against a late chill.
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April 26, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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Lines I loved #amreading

“For us, who work in the dark, in small, secret gatherings such as this one, we who dream of better worlds, we braid time, weave time, defy time, grant ourselves freedom from chronology.”

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Travelers’ Tales from the Ends of the World - Lightspeed Magazine
Welcome, Stranger! This is a story for you, you who wait for my words to fall into your ear, so that we can share being and become more than we are alone. The tales I have to tell today are woven into...
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April 24, 2024 at 4:22 AM