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Jason H. Abbott
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Author and artist of fantasy, science fiction, and more! Daily microfiction, and art sometimes. Host of #2WordPrompt. Editor and publisher of #SciFanSat Magazine.

Books and art available at — www.blueboarpress.com/jason-h-abbott
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 15-NOV-25 is:

With & Room

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November 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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“War,” Death says to Famine, “War never changes.”

“Sure I do,” says War, turning metallic. “See? Now I’m a robot!”

“That’s not—”

War’s body contorts and resizes into a battle tank. “Look! I’m a goddamned TRANSFORMER!”

Plague hacks a laugh, petting a virus.

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November 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 14-NOV-25 is:

Hazard & Inform

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November 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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“They can’t see me,” the girl wept. “How can I be home, and they can’t even see me?”

“Blood and guts and brains, all that rots in the grave,” the ghost boy said. “You’re the part that goes on. I’m sorry, but in bodies or not, we’re ghosts from the beginning.”

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November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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“Encroaching Winter”

Art by me for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! Authors, 7 days remain until submissions are due on November 20th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html!

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An illustration of a stoic old man facing off against demon-possessed snowmen on a winter’s night with a flamethrower.
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 13-NOV-25 is:

Stare & Plummet

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November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Seth Skorkowsky is an author and experienced TTRPG game master. I've enjoyed his entertaining and informative videos on role-playing for years, and he just put out the BEST video documentary essay on the real-life lore of D&D and the "Satanic Panic" I've ever seen! Great research and commentary.
The 3 Waves of the RPG Moral Panic - RPG History
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November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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She had no love of the Deep Ones whose ranks she’d joined. Not for their gods. Not for their prevalent hated of mankind. But still she drank the shoggoth’s milk to hasten her unenvious ichthian transition.

For she loved the ocean, even as an outcast.

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November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 12-NOV-25 is:

Tough & Origin

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November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Writers, are you in dark doldrums? Grab a torch, grab a candle! Write by flickering light, as nine days remain to get your Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More to #SciFanSat before submissions close on November 20th at scifansat.com/landing.html!

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SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More! November’s theme is FIRE. The deadline for submissions is November 20th, 2025.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“I feel alive again,” she says leaving the masquerade, “but you love a lie.”

Hands shaking, the opera singer reveals the acid scarred face under her mask.

Erik removes his own mask, and she sees no revulsion in his deformed countenance.

“We are both, phantoms.”

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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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“Who Said I Was a Wizard?”

Character art I made for a D&D campaign I’ve joined after another one ended. Roan is very old school wizard coded (with a touch of druid). Portraying a witty grandfather and former farmer thrust into a dungeon crawl amid a party of otherwise young adults is good fun.
A fantasy illustration of a gray-bearded wizard, smoking a long-stemmed pipe and wearing rustic traveler’s clothes. His expression is weary under a tall, wide brimmed pointy hat while he holds a quarterstaff.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 11-NOV-25 is:

Tired & Wrong

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November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Don’t wait until time is short and the heat is on to place your vote in the issue twenty-seven peer review poll! Nominate your favorite piece and author today and put them in the running for the 2025 Bartleby B. Boar Award!
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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“How old?” I ask.

“Older than its star,” she answers.

Our ships dock above the tapered crescent: Its sun-facing side awash in clouds, ocean, and continents equivalent to a thousand Earths.

“A broken fragment,” she continues, “of a Dyson sphere or Niven ring.”

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November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 10-NOV-25 is:

Shape & Slight

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November 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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“Isn’t this a paradox?” my wife asks as the six-year-old sleeps.

“No, it wasn’t our timeline,” I answer. “It was an alternate universe where she would’ve died as a child before I was born.”

“She’s your mom.”

“She could have been. Now she’s an orphaned relative.”

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November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 09-NOV-25 is:

Total & Shock

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November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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We knap flint until evening. The woman makes fine arrowheads, I’m impressed. She smiles at my half-done spearpoint.

I set wood. Placing a crystal, she sings a song of flame. Fire kindles. Sorcery! This woman surprises!

I offer the warmth of my arms.

We are no longer strangers.

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November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 08-NOV-25 is:

Without & Time

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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d Enoi in our tears:
Did humans smile, their work to see?
Did he who’d slain us, doth make thee?

Fighter, Fighter flying bright,
Amid the stars of the night:
Did human hand and vengeful eye,
Frame thy fearful symmetry?

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November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 07-NOV-25 is:

Breeze & Role

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November 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I look at the dark-haired child. “You’re not what I expected.”

She smiles, hand offered. “Would you prefer a black jackal? An anteater?”

“What awaits me, Death?”

“I won’t say.”

“Then tell me... what was Life?”

“My lover.”

“What was I?”

“Our child.”

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November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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“Flame-Taught Witch”

Art by me for November’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of FIRE! Writers, 14 days remain until submissions are due on November 20th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html!

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A fantasy illustration of a witch floating atop a column of fire, a wave of illumed smoke and flames behind her. In one hand she holds her broom, in the other, a growing sphere of fire.
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 06-NOV-25 is:

Burst & Sail

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November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM