Liz Young
@youngliz.bsky.social
Old bird from the Deep South of England. ❤️ writing, family, kindness. Several books on Amazon. No DMs please.
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a man is riding a cardboard cart down a street in a city .
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov15
Good morning, writers!
From tomorrow your host will be the lovely & healthy Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social who will post at 8am GMT.
Thank you all; it's been great apart from the early mornings!
My final word is #transport - very apt as I trundle off into the sunset.
Good morning, writers!
From tomorrow your host will be the lovely & healthy Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social who will post at 8am GMT.
Thank you all; it's been great apart from the early mornings!
My final word is #transport - very apt as I trundle off into the sunset.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Scalpel. Suction. Sternal Saw.
Finding true love is not an exact #science. Heartache, broken hearts, hearts with holes —I fix them all.
But as soon as I open this man's chest cavity, I see the problem. No heart at all.
A politician. Sew him up. All that money can keep him company. #vss365
Finding true love is not an exact #science. Heartache, broken hearts, hearts with holes —I fix them all.
But as soon as I open this man's chest cavity, I see the problem. No heart at all.
A politician. Sew him up. All that money can keep him company. #vss365
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
#vss365 #prompt #Nov15
Good morning, writers!
From tomorrow your host will be the lovely & healthy Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social who will post at 8am GMT.
Thank you all; it's been great apart from the early mornings!
My final word is #transport - very apt as I trundle off into the sunset.
Good morning, writers!
From tomorrow your host will be the lovely & healthy Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social who will post at 8am GMT.
Thank you all; it's been great apart from the early mornings!
My final word is #transport - very apt as I trundle off into the sunset.
a man is riding a cardboard cart down a street in a city .
ALT: a man is riding a cardboard cart down a street in a city .
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November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
#vss365 #prompt #Nov15
Good morning, writers!
From tomorrow your host will be the lovely & healthy Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social who will post at 8am GMT.
Thank you all; it's been great apart from the early mornings!
My final word is #transport - very apt as I trundle off into the sunset.
Good morning, writers!
From tomorrow your host will be the lovely & healthy Sheila @lovehealthed.bsky.social who will post at 8am GMT.
Thank you all; it's been great apart from the early mornings!
My final word is #transport - very apt as I trundle off into the sunset.
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The imperative study of #science
Has been stymied by Trump's vile defiance:
Experts fired, grants blocked,
As he goes off half-cocked
To extort his foul brand of compliance.
#vss365 #Science #Research #Health #Medicine #Poetry #News #Resist #Trump #USPOL #USPolitics #Politics #RFKJr #Limericks
Has been stymied by Trump's vile defiance:
Experts fired, grants blocked,
As he goes off half-cocked
To extort his foul brand of compliance.
#vss365 #Science #Research #Health #Medicine #Poetry #News #Resist #Trump #USPOL #USPolitics #Politics #RFKJr #Limericks
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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If there was a science
for the space between
my worry and wonder
I'd study with fervor.
If there was a water
to hydrate the heart
and soften the spirit
I'd drink 'til I drowned.
If there was a doorway
connecting our minds
I'd never cross over
a coward at best.
#vss365 #poetry #writingagain
for the space between
my worry and wonder
I'd study with fervor.
If there was a water
to hydrate the heart
and soften the spirit
I'd drink 'til I drowned.
If there was a doorway
connecting our minds
I'd never cross over
a coward at best.
#vss365 #poetry #writingagain
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If there was a science
for the space between
my worry and wonder
I'd study with fervor.
If there was a water
to hydrate the heart
and soften the spirit
I'd drink 'til I drowned.
If there was a doorway
connecting our minds
I'd never cross over
a coward at best.
#vss365 #poetry #writingagain
for the space between
my worry and wonder
I'd study with fervor.
If there was a water
to hydrate the heart
and soften the spirit
I'd drink 'til I drowned.
If there was a doorway
connecting our minds
I'd never cross over
a coward at best.
#vss365 #poetry #writingagain
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"Why are you wasting your time with those #science experiments?" asked the #rich man.
"To make the world better," I said.
"For whom?" he asked.
"But who benefits from all your wealth?"
"What a ridiculous question."
"Precisely," I said.
#vss365 #vssdaily #amwriting
"To make the world better," I said.
"For whom?" he asked.
"But who benefits from all your wealth?"
"What a ridiculous question."
"Precisely," I said.
#vss365 #vssdaily #amwriting
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Why are you wasting your time with those #science experiments?" asked the #rich man.
"To make the world better," I said.
"For whom?" he asked.
"But who benefits from all your wealth?"
"What a ridiculous question."
"Precisely," I said.
#vss365 #vssdaily #amwriting
"To make the world better," I said.
"For whom?" he asked.
"But who benefits from all your wealth?"
"What a ridiculous question."
"Precisely," I said.
#vss365 #vssdaily #amwriting
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They talk about #science like it's somewhere between god and a fairytale. The walls get higher and the locks get heavier and we disappear more every day. My body is a bountiful harvest they tell me, my blood an elixir, and I try to remember what it felt like to have a name.
🏷️ #vss365 (science)
🏷️ #vss365 (science)
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The Universe seeded, our progenitors returned home to observe the progress of their creations from afar.
The #science behind survival and progress, quickly turned into the means of death and destruction.
The creators, reluctant Frankensteins, looked on in horror at their monster, Man.
#vss365
The #science behind survival and progress, quickly turned into the means of death and destruction.
The creators, reluctant Frankensteins, looked on in horror at their monster, Man.
#vss365
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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She gave up the science, questioning the magic. She hoarded words until she became rich in stories. Occasionally she would benevolently hand out poems, tipping words into an outstretched mind. Myths that grew in her thoughts like moss, logic packed away and forgotten.
#vssdaily rich
#vss365 science
#vssdaily rich
#vss365 science
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Rainwater beats
Unsparingly
Against
My windowpane
I wonder
If God chose to drown
The whole World
Once again
The Horsemen ride
War, Famine, Plague
With Death
To end an Age
I struggle to
Make sense of it
But I am not
That sage
I am a man
Of #science…
But I’m not
Ashamed to pray
#vss365
Unsparingly
Against
My windowpane
I wonder
If God chose to drown
The whole World
Once again
The Horsemen ride
War, Famine, Plague
With Death
To end an Age
I struggle to
Make sense of it
But I am not
That sage
I am a man
Of #science…
But I’m not
Ashamed to pray
#vss365
a painting of a noah 's ark in the rain with picmix below it
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November 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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#SCIENCE
“Take a close look!
As the chemicals cook,
each bond will respond
by the values
in my chemistry book!”
As I peered into her flask,
an endothermic reaction
completed its task.
With a roar of color!
With a flash of silence!
My eyebrows grew back but…
She blinded me with science!
#vss365
“Take a close look!
As the chemicals cook,
each bond will respond
by the values
in my chemistry book!”
As I peered into her flask,
an endothermic reaction
completed its task.
With a roar of color!
With a flash of silence!
My eyebrows grew back but…
She blinded me with science!
#vss365
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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#Science of Time
Gazing into
Her quiet eyes
Watching her die.
Man was sent
Meant to be
The protector
Human place
A gift
Not a race
No right
To destroy
Life
Serve disrespect
Politics should
Protect not
Cremate our planet
And all
That live on it.
I watched time die.
With terror
In her 👁️
#vss365
Gazing into
Her quiet eyes
Watching her die.
Man was sent
Meant to be
The protector
Human place
A gift
Not a race
No right
To destroy
Life
Serve disrespect
Politics should
Protect not
Cremate our planet
And all
That live on it.
I watched time die.
With terror
In her 👁️
#vss365
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
#vss365 #WritingCommunity
Remember the #science lab at school
the smell extremely strong
as Bunsen burners leaked nonstop
and to our clothes gas clung?
Perhaps that's why we could recall
our lessons after we'd gone.
Remember the #science lab at school
the smell extremely strong
as Bunsen burners leaked nonstop
and to our clothes gas clung?
Perhaps that's why we could recall
our lessons after we'd gone.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#vss365 #WritingCommunity
Remember the #science lab at school
the smell extremely strong
as Bunsen burners leaked nonstop
and to our clothes gas clung?
Perhaps that's why we could recall
our lessons after we'd gone.
Remember the #science lab at school
the smell extremely strong
as Bunsen burners leaked nonstop
and to our clothes gas clung?
Perhaps that's why we could recall
our lessons after we'd gone.
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#vss365
you could tell the truth
but it won't do you any good
we all got your number
everyone knows the score
and a better man would admit
he did irreparable damage
to girls somewhere on an island
you could tell the truth
but it won't do you any good
we all got your number
everyone knows the score
and a better man would admit
he did irreparable damage
to girls somewhere on an island
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
#vss365
you could tell the truth
but it won't do you any good
we all got your number
everyone knows the score
and a better man would admit
he did irreparable damage
to girls somewhere on an island
you could tell the truth
but it won't do you any good
we all got your number
everyone knows the score
and a better man would admit
he did irreparable damage
to girls somewhere on an island
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A giant bear waking from slumber
Craved a crispy dill pickled cucumber
With loud rumbling belly
He entered the deli
And was ordered to go take a #number.
#vss365 #limerick #limerickoftheday
#writersofbluesky
Craved a crispy dill pickled cucumber
With loud rumbling belly
He entered the deli
And was ordered to go take a #number.
#vss365 #limerick #limerickoftheday
#writersofbluesky
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
A giant bear waking from slumber
Craved a crispy dill pickled cucumber
With loud rumbling belly
He entered the deli
And was ordered to go take a #number.
#vss365 #limerick #limerickoftheday
#writersofbluesky
Craved a crispy dill pickled cucumber
With loud rumbling belly
He entered the deli
And was ordered to go take a #number.
#vss365 #limerick #limerickoftheday
#writersofbluesky
#vss365 #prompt #Nov14
Good morning. Today's word is #science.
Which is a category in my Xword book & a subject I touched on at O.level with Biology, Human Biology, and Cookery/Domestic Science.
This is my penultimate day as host, of early rising & much screen time. I will miss it, ambivalently.
Good morning. Today's word is #science.
Which is a category in my Xword book & a subject I touched on at O.level with Biology, Human Biology, and Cookery/Domestic Science.
This is my penultimate day as host, of early rising & much screen time. I will miss it, ambivalently.
an illustration of a chicken holding a blue blanket
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November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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number of days
red maple burning
yellow now in autumn’s sun
hoarding aged tender leaves
like coins in a purloined purse
opened only in secret
#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #vss365 #tanka
red maple burning
yellow now in autumn’s sun
hoarding aged tender leaves
like coins in a purloined purse
opened only in secret
#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #vss365 #tanka
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
number of days
red maple burning
yellow now in autumn’s sun
hoarding aged tender leaves
like coins in a purloined purse
opened only in secret
#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #vss365 #tanka
red maple burning
yellow now in autumn’s sun
hoarding aged tender leaves
like coins in a purloined purse
opened only in secret
#poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #vss365 #tanka
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I decline to renew the fractious arguments—the exceedingly acrimonious conflicts—regarding handwritten numeral standards.
I have steadfastly maintained the open-topped 4, the elongated 0, the unbarred 7, and a #number 1 with a fine, refined serif.
Any other convention is for common boors.
#vss365
I have steadfastly maintained the open-topped 4, the elongated 0, the unbarred 7, and a #number 1 with a fine, refined serif.
Any other convention is for common boors.
#vss365
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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They said no one would read it. She wrote anyway.
They said it didn't hit market trends. She wrote anyway.
They said it was too ambitious for a new author. She wrote anyway.
They said it wouldn't be real #literature. She wrote anyway.
She wrote anyway.
She wrote.
Anyway...
#vss365
They said it didn't hit market trends. She wrote anyway.
They said it was too ambitious for a new author. She wrote anyway.
They said it wouldn't be real #literature. She wrote anyway.
She wrote anyway.
She wrote.
Anyway...
#vss365
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
They said no one would read it. She wrote anyway.
They said it didn't hit market trends. She wrote anyway.
They said it was too ambitious for a new author. She wrote anyway.
They said it wouldn't be real #literature. She wrote anyway.
She wrote anyway.
She wrote.
Anyway...
#vss365
They said it didn't hit market trends. She wrote anyway.
They said it was too ambitious for a new author. She wrote anyway.
They said it wouldn't be real #literature. She wrote anyway.
She wrote anyway.
She wrote.
Anyway...
#vss365
