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C L Spillard
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Your host, #Thurds on #Thursdays!
#WordGames
#Transport #Urbanism #SciFi #Fantasy #SFF
#Haiku #Senryu
#Author, #ThePriceOfTime, #TheEveningLands, #TheTwistedGrain

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Tomorrow's #thurds prompt word is: #Haze

Autumn haze, hazing, purple haze...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky
#prompt #Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Somewhere in #Japan
a #creature walks through #sleet, leaving
footprints of cold thought

#HaikuChallenge #Haiku #senryu
#SenryuSunday #DailyHaikuPrompt
#vss365
a pixel art drawing of a giant robot
Alt: a pixel art drawing of a giant 2-legged creature in armour, walking through mist and sleet
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November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Shape-shifting shadow
looms through #veil of fog - bring me
to a final #peace

#ClassicsTober25 #Charon #styx
#Haiku4U #haiku
#HaikuChallenge
#HaikuFeels
#SciFaikuSaturday #fantaiku #scifaiku
the word foundation is on the bottom of the image
Alt: Dark silhouette of a small boat on a river in twilight. A hooded figure on board rows, the other two are passengers.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #Sword

Sword of truth. Live by the sword. Sword and sorcery...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky
#prompt #Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Tomorrow's #thurds prompt word is: #array

Array of choices, arrayed against us, arrayed in splendour...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky
#prompt #Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #Bulge

Bulging wallet, giveaway bulge, battle of the bulge...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky
#prompt #Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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He took a deep breath.
“Ladies and gentlemen.”
Two dozen Brit faces fixed on him. Crooked teeth, ragged hair, dark eyes.
“I...”
Could he go through with this?
“Used to work at that Camp.”
He studied the eyes. #Curious, polite; expecting an explanation.
#MartialMonday
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September 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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#Hope spans like a bridge.
One side, your predicament -
across, the unknown.

#Scifaikusaturday #scifaiku #haiku
#Gephyrophobia
a bridge over a body of water in a minecraft world
Alt: a bridge over a body of water in a misty night
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September 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"Got
It?"
"Sort-of,
Thematically"

#LuaViEr #gist #acrostic
September 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #scale

Scale the hights, large-scale, off the scale...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
#Art #CoverArt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
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September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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what if it really is rapture day but there was only one person virtuous enough and they remained virtuous by living a quiet, solitary life and so nobody has noticed they’re gone and we’ll never know the rapture happened
September 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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‪ #Wayfarer in time
Earth shifts in #frosty orbit -
balance point moves on

#BlueSkyRelay
#HaikuChallenge
#weirdMicro #equinox

(Every 72 years, the #PrecessionOfTheEquinox moves the date of spring equinox back one whole day. In just 9 years' time, I will have seen this happen.)
a diagram of a comet 's orbit around the sun and earth 's orbit
Alt: a diagram of earth's, and a comet's, orbit around the sun.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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#Knot in the #blonde #crown...
that #design #turned simple gold
into deep #shadow

#2WordPrompt Design & Turn
#Penstricken Knot
#RetroArtPrompt Crown
#VssDaily Blonde
#VssFantasy Shadow
the woman is wearing a crown on her head and has black lips .
Alt: A woman with dark hair and black lips puts a gold crown on her head.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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“You didn’t reckon much to the #prospect of eternal life, did you? Turned it down flat when I offered you it.”
She struggled at the #knot fastening her hands. “That’s... not fair!”
She grasped at an idea.

#MartialMonday
#Penstricken
#ThePriceOfTime #Fantasy
September 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #invert #inverse

Inverted images, inverse relationship, inverse meaning...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers
a heart shaped mirror says i am inverted on it
Alt: a heart-shaped locket opens, revealing a smile and the words "i am inverted"
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September 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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#Vast, #infinite sky.
Does anybody #care
if rain falls on Mars?

#scifaikusaturday #scifaiku #haiku
#fantaiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels
a room with a lot of green and purple stars
Alt: a gridded flat landscape at night with a lot of tiny green and purple stars that look like rain
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September 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Old battered chair.
How many coversations
interrupted?
#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt Haiku
a wooden stool sits on a balcony with a cup and bowl on it
Alt: a wooden stool on a balcony with a view out over trees, and a cup and bowl perched on the railing.
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September 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The vampire, #sanguine
feels no #guilt for what he craves -
says "it's just my #style"

#SciFaikuSaturday #scifaiku #fantaiku
#HaikuChallenge #haiku
#HaikuFeels #crave
#vss365 #BlueSkyRelay
a man with long hair has his hands folded in front of him
Alt: a man with long hair, pale face and red eyes, wearing all black, has his hands folded in front of him
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September 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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She clenched her fists.
But lost her grip.
“It... Serves! You! RIGHT!” She looked from the flames to his face: recalled a daft ditty she knew, about making the punishment fit the #crime.
His words cut across her first, deep, breath—
“Aye. That it does.”
#scififri
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September 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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He made the effort - a big effort - to stop the haze coming again.
More words. He grabbed one:
“What’s ‘ #potential’?”
“It’s power. It’s what you *could* do, if things were different. If things worked properly, in your mind.”
“Oh. Like?”
“You’d no longer have to be a #criminal.”
#vss365
#scififri
a man in a red uniform sits at a table with a man in a suit
Alt: a prisoner being interviewed across a table, in a plain room, by a man in a suit.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Places that #contain
the #sacred powers of nature
are being #exhausted

#haikuchallenge #haikufeels #haiku
#vss365 #3lines
a man is using a chainsaw to cut a tree in the jungle .
Alt: a man is using a chainsaw to cut a tree in the forest.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Today's #thurds prompt word is: #Doughnut

(or any ring-shaped object!)

Put up quotes, buy-links, haiku, art...

#WriteSky #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookSky #prompt
#poems #haiku #micropoems #senryu #BuyLinks #Thursday
#writers
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September 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Once, their #power #ranged
the length and breadth of earth. Now
#only a #shell remains

#haikufeels #haiku #senryu
#dailyhaikuprompt
#vss365
#haikuchallenge #ozymandias
a barrel is sitting in the middle of a desert next to a cactus tree .
Alt: a man rolls a barrel - or possibly the thick leg of an ancient statue - across a desert.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM