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C L Spillard
@candispillard.bsky.social
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#WordGames #Haiku #Senryu
#Transport #Urbanism #SciFi #Fantasy #SFF

#Author, #ThePriceOfTime, #TheEveningLands, #TheTwistedGrain

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@danigracewrites.bsky.social Am going to get a new #prompt up and running this or next week: #SunStuff.
A decorative quill and paper on a dark wooden desk, with the words SunStuff - Buy links welcome!
February 13, 2026 at 6:53 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
"Please would you #refrain
from stirring the #lacuna."
Oops! I did. Too late...

#haikuchallenge #haiku #3lines
#vss365 #scifi #fantaiku
#scifaiku
a black hole in the center of a galaxy
Alt: a black hole in the centre of a galaxy
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February 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
The whole shifted as she stared at it; as if her eyes couldn’t make sense of it — couldn’t even focus on it. Like a badly-done special effect from the early days of film it looked there, but also — somehow — somewhere else.
#SciFiFri #shift #ThePriceOfTime
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Books on a black velvet cloth, with the legend, "She came face to face with her guardian Devil. She defied him" "The Verity Player novels. Fear. Questions. And revenge."
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
"Why do people like #stories?"
lima-zulu.bsky.social Lee Zanello @lima-zulu.bsky.social · 20d
Last night, in an attempt to distract my thoughts from the news, I started a ChatGPT prompt.

The exchange that followed was exactly what I needed to be reminded of.

“Ask yourself a question then answer it and ask a follow up and answer that and keep repeating for ten full questions and answers.”
January 25, 2026 at 2:29 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
You cannot #compute
your way out of a #dungeon
of your own making.

#Fantaiku #haiku #scifaiku
#scifaikuSaturday
a computer screen with a lot of green numbers
Alt: Scene from the film 'The Matrix' - a computer screen with cascades of green numbers on black background
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January 25, 2026 at 1:05 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
Feel #lonely?
#Equip yourself with company -
a #ruse from nature

#HaikuFeels #Haiku #Senryu
#DailyHaikuPrompt #vss365 #3lines
#bird #winter #robin
a bird is perched on a branch with a red heart that says hello
Alt: a robin, with its distinctive red front, is perched on a branch with a red heart that says hello
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January 25, 2026 at 1:01 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
Had my first-ever go at #RSPB #BigGardenBirdWatch earlier today - Easier than I thought it would be, and I actually scored some birds in our small garden.

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Birds to look out for in your Big Garden Birdwatch
The birds we see in our gardens, from our balconies, and in our parks, are a lively, colourful and endlessly fascinating part of all our lives. Here are some of the birds you might see during your Big...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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it's just physics
a mere miscalculation
Point A to Point....

#ScifaikuSaturday (compute)
January 25, 2026 at 5:14 AM
candispillard.bsky.social
January nights.
Too early for #jonquil blooms -
snowdrops gleam in rain

#Haikuchallenge #haiku #3lines
a close up of a snowdrop flower with sparkles on it
Alt: a close up of a snowdrop flower with sparkles on it
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January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
How do Ich turn off the cursed AI summaryes yn gmail? How do Ich have them nevir appear agayne? How do Ich sende them back to the hell dimensioun yn which thei took form?
January 20, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Ai summaryes for emayle: inboxshittification
January 20, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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frankconniff.bsky.social
I'm just not feeling the Black Friday spirit this year. It's gotten so commercial.
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
Her heart had nearly stopped at the sight of him. His angular shape like a #black rip in the cheerful fabric of the room defying the rustic wallpaper, the roses on the bedspread, and the soft drapes tied back to the four-poster's uprights.
#SciFiFri #scifantasy
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The Price of Time|Paperback
Some people have a Guardian Angel. Some aren't so lucky, and have a Guardian Devil.And lifelong green campaigner Verity Player of York has just come face-to-face with hers: evil genius Stan 'Satanic' ...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
candispillard.bsky.social
Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us see your marvellous works!
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
candispillard.bsky.social
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
candispillard.bsky.social
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
candispillard.bsky.social
Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us see your marvellous works!
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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Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us see your marvellous works!
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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Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us see your marvellous works!
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
candispillard.bsky.social
#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
candispillard.bsky.social
"Got
It?"
"Sort-of,
Thematically"

#LuaViEr #gist #acrostic
September 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
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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Write things! Quote your stuff! Let us see your marvellous works!
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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jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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