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Siege of the Spirit
@siegeofthespirit.bsky.social
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Wrestling bipolar disorder through music and writing. And horses.
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Dixie, that’s quite a bone you found!
#WednesdayWags #traildog #dog
Dixie, a black dog with brown face and legs and white paws walks below the viewer, head turned away, clearly displaying the very large white leg bone she is carrying. She is on the trail with us. We’re on horseback, though we and the horses aren’t in the picture.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Very cool juniper #snag on a cliff! Seen on a recent #trailride. I love how it sits among the rocks. #tree #nature #trail #SundaySnag
Bare juniper tree snag sitting on and among lichen covered crags and boulders with a few bare-branched bushes and one green tree overhead- piñon or another juniper I can’t tell.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Sneaking #caturday under the wire. This is absolutely me!
Four panels of drawings 1. Cat looks out window “I am so lonely…” 2. Cat looks out window “Why must I live alone in this solitude?” 3. Arm reaching to pet cat, cat turns back angrily “Don’t fucking touch me!! 4. Cat looks out window “Will this loneliness ever end?”
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Last Saturday’s gorgeous #trailride on my beautiful, faithful #trailhorse Zil.
Between the ears view of riding a bay Arabian mare on a trail between a yellow meadow and creepy evergreens Between the ears view of riding a bay Arabian mare on a trail through a yellow meadow toward an evergreen/aspen woods with bright yellow aspen canopy visible through on an opposite mountain slope. Photo is a little blurry. Left side of image: a tall evergreen on a steep mountain slope. Center: three creepy snags. Background: A leafless Aspen forest coating a neighboring mountain slope
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A thing about what God allows

- From Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #fantasy #darkfantasy #little #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
White text on a black and purple sky background threaded with lightning reads: “God would never hurt himself. That's absurd!" "How little you know of the torment of God." Siege of the Spirit
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Hellback’s terrible creation stalks the Forest. Its new life is death.

Doing something unusual (for me) posting a regular-type snippet over here, and really late, too!

- From Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #steel #fantasy #darkfantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
The creature sought a young man. His eyes were like blinding lights, and his voice was like the singing of summer birds. His hair was golden and short, and he wore a sash about the head. He was to be found in a dwelling at the southwestern part of the Forest. It was to this dwelling the dark creature hurried, for there its purpose would be fulfilled. But ahead, two Sheltri approached, mounted and armed. Clumsily it ducked into the brush, but one Sheltri saw the movement in the full dark of night. "Who's there?" They drew closer, their drawn swords invisible with the keen scent of STEEL in the air. Only their eyes shone, those terrible lights. The creature leaped to its feet. "Breath of Iryla, what is it?" Iryla. The creature rocked back from that name, but held its ground. It had terrible lights of its own. Siege of the Spirit A.C. Turek
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Boss called me at home today for help pulling an activity report and didn’t say why. Of course my brain is in the worst case scenario. I was WRITING, too! & now I can’t. Whole weekend ahead to freak out and worry. 🤯😭😭 #bipolar #anxiety It’s just a monster.😅
My supportive daughter tho.
My daughter: “you've proven yourself enough times to hold your own” Me: OMG I love you Daughter: It's true though.
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Revenant.

When our souls, emotions are compromised we are open to the invasion of hellish thoughts. It’s best to recognize them for what they are, just scary monsters to be banished.

- From Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #monster #Halloween #WIP #fantasy #darkfantasy #undead #bipolar
Something dark groped its way through the Forest. Though awkward, it moved silently, black rags dripping from its body like wet, rotten leaves. It was black, hairless and two legged. It cowered as it crept along, and stopped often to smell the air and listen, staring up into the branches of a tree or into distant a lights! Then it would sit. Its head would fall to its knees, and it would begin rocking like a lost child or a fresh-made monster mourning the loss of its humanity. Siege of the Spirit Image: white text over a dark, burnt forest
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A most unkind tether

From Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #spell #fantasy #darkfantasy #despair #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
At last in a blind frenzy he could think of only one way to deal with the SPELL. If he were lucky, he would neutralize it for good, or for at least a period of time during which he could travel. It was something he had never done before, and doing it now made his face burn. Siege of the Spirit
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Nothing is so small that it is meaningless.

- Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips whole for #total #selfworth #selfesteem #soul #bipolar #mentalhealth
Do not envy the microbe its smallness for you too are small. The world with its seasons turning beneath a sun as wide as an age, though it be but a mote in a galaxy spinning, still spans the planes of the universe. Small is not insignificant and so you cannot be. For all are part of the WHOLE, soul and substance, wave and particle. Drink, and remember. Siege of the Spirit
October 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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No such thing as free will. Until they need a scapegoat.

#WIPSnips #trial #fantasy #WriteSky #writingcommunity
This trial raises the question of our orthodoxy, sprung from the days of Nam-Tar. We believe that in those days [God] used people to achieve certain ends. We believe that everyone's actions followed [God's] prescribed plan. Everyone's. Are we now going to take the accused alone to task on this terrible, pivotal event? Siege of the Spirit
October 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I’ve only ridden this trail 23 bajillion times and just today noticed this crazy rosette burl. #tree #aspentree #forest #flower #trail #nationalforest
A black flower-shaped burl on a aspen tree
October 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Happy #caturday cool #cat!
Calico cat peeks from behind a guitar lying on a couch
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Bread and poison

On being forced to eat.

- From Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #loaf #WritingCommunity #fantasy #darkfantasy #bitter
White text on grayed-out photo of scattered elk bones reads: Thus coerced, he picked up a piece of bread and bit into it. It was a coarse, dark loaf containing small aromatic seeds. He met her gaze bitterly as he chewed. Siege of the Spirit
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The terrible wail at the end of all things

#WIPSnips #might #dakfantasy #fantasy #WritingCommunity #loss
Late as usual
It spiraled through the multitude and flew up the mountain's height to join the mighty knell on its dark voyage through unending night. Siege of the Spirit
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Follow your lifeline out of this despair.
Blessings.

- From Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #care #WritingCommumity #fantasy #darkfantasy #hope
If the rest of the country has gone mad, if the whole broken world has soured, at least you know your purpose. Take care. Take CARE for your life. I would stop you if I could, but I see how that would hurt you. Siege of tre: Spirit
October 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Aspen is a great #traildog! Taking a breather at a lunch stop on a #nationalforest #trail. #tripawdog #tripoddog #dog #DogSky #WednesdayWags
Black and white husky-heeler mix named Aspen sits in a mountain meadow beside an old fallen log. Aspen and spruce trees in background.
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Looking down at ashy ground through the interior of a juniper snag struck by lightning and burned decades ago.
#SundaySnag #tree #nature #juniper #struckbylightning
The interior of a hollow juniper struck by lightning and burned decades ago. Looking straight down inside the trunk at an ashy floor, encircled by the partially charred interior walls of the trunk. Sunlight has made it inside, too, illuminating the floor which seems to cast the light back upward so it appears to be the thing shining.
October 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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#WIPSnips hope #fantasy #darkfantasy #despair #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
There was a pathetic eagerness to the way he asked the question, though he was clearly without hope. Siege of the Spirit
October 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Good morning from Lily! I think she just woke up.
#Caturday #Cat
Calico cat faces viewer. She is curled on a lap, sort of.
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Morning walk with Aspen!
#WednesdayWags #tripawdog #tripoddog #DogSky #light #trees #nature
Silhouetted mountain range with golden light beaming from behind Black and white tripaw dog (hind leg amputee) coming toward the viewer beneath a canopy of hanging gray dead juniper branches (prettier than it sounds)! Snags against blue sky with golden morning light illuminating them and a shining carpet of weeds with a thick piñon-juniper forest behind A thick many-branched juniper tree, part alive, part snag, along a dirt trail with two large yucca plants in the foreground
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The thing he tells himself

From Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #darkfantasy #fantasy #WriteSky #safe #WritingCommunity
And now he would leave her again, in the heart of the Darkness. He told himself it would be the last time. He would find his brother, then come home. He would give the rest of his life to her, to his children, and keep them safe until the light should come again Siege of the Spirit
October 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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#Sundaysnag #tree #nature

Shadowy dead juniper #snag stretches up from the dark, past gloaming-lit treetops in a silhouette against a still-blue sky with an early star.
Shadowy dead juniper snag stretches up from the dark, past gloaming-lit treetops in a silhouette against a still-blue sky with an early star.
October 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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On contributing.
The lad is right.
So is she.

- Siege of the Spirit WIP, sequel to Brother’s Keeper

#WIPSnips #darkfantasy #fantasy #hunt #fear #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
White text over black and white image of burnt and devastated forest reads: "Thanilas taught me never to be ashamed of what I provide, no matter how small." The boy turned to go, hefting his sling. She grabbed him, a little too roughly, by the upper arms. She stared into his eyes. "Do not hunt alone. Promise me. Promise me you will not hunt alone.” Siege of the Spirit
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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In the liminal light she reflects
on what she has done.

- Siege of the Spirit

#WIPSnips #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #salmon #reflection
Every afternoon late, when the last light turned a certain cast on the trees, the leaves orange and the grasses an unearthly pink, the Forest seemed to stop breathing. In that pensive moment before nightfall one expected to see ancestors poised weightlessly on the carpet, or a live bear sitting motionless, silently watching; the frogs took a breath from their singing and human beings paused to drink the silence in isolation from one another. Every afternoon late, when the light turned that SALMON cast on the trees she saw him. Siege of the Spirit
October 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM