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Sparks/Embers
@sparkswrites.bsky.social
A voracious #reader. Avid inquiring mind.
#NDwriter I believe people are WIPs. Supporter of edit buttons & sporter of pins #5amWritersClub
Be a 🦄not a 🧟‍♀️or 🧌
say what you mean⭐️🧠
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They say life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Then they say that didn’t go according to #plan.

I don’t know that they can be trusted, constantly rewriting the script.

Then again, storytellers are keepers of wisdom. They who share lessons learned. Narrators & editors #vss365
a picture of a man with headphones and the word storyteller on it
Alt: An animation of a man with headphones on a screen, the word storyteller across the bottom. His eyes are wide, his arms flailing in exaggerated typing motions that mimic clawing, eyes wide as he leans forward. A cosmos backdrop behind him.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
You know what time it is…
#5amWritersClub

Here to hammer out and play with some words!
a man in a superhero costume stands in front of a crowd of people
Alt: Thor putting on a show, throwing out his hands, the first in a mix of surfer dude signal meets spider man web throwing and the second a playful pow with his weapon.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Because books on sale is always a good thing to know about

👀 @pennyzang.bsky.social debut got a preorder link 🔗 📕

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/doll-parts...
Doll Parts: A Novel|Paperback
The Virgin Suicides meets I Have Some Questions For You in a dual timeline suspense following one woman as she begins to uncover the truth of the death of her estranged best friend and the Sylvia Plat...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The Māori word for autism is “takiwātanga.” It means “In their own time and space.”
A beautiful way to honor neurodiversity. It emphasizes individuality and the unique ways people experience the world.
April 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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April 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
You know your brain is done with #5amwritersclub when you say aloud, “I’ve made so much changes on this”

And you’re proud, until you hear it…

Eh, about an hour in today… not too shabby.
April 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The veil is thin here
Spirit and mind interweave
The mask can fall off

#haikuchallenge veil
#haiku #senryu #micropoetry
April 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
April 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It’s #Caturday edition of the
#5amWritersClub 👀

Aaaand #IndependentBookstoreDay
🤗📚📖📚🏃‍♀️
a black cat is sitting on a bed with a speech bubble saying morning
Alt: a black cartoon cat is sitting on a bed with a speech bubble saying morning, mouth and eyes open wide and tail swinging
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April 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It’s a tide,
always falling
and ebbing
#SenseWrds 58
Prompt 58

Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds so I can find your writing, and include the prompt number. Also remember that I ask for no combo prompts here. Feel free to message if you have more questions on how this prompt works. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻
April 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What makes a satisfied #customer?
Why, it’s the custom experience.
You see, at the root of everything
is the beginning and ending
& cycles repeat—
want to not err?
Sell something worth buying.
Meet needs.
Create an experience.
Respond well to demands.
Take back that not working.
#vss365
April 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Different day
Same scene
#5amWritersClub
April 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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The sky folds in gray,
but I still look up.
Each breath is a choice,
steady under pressure.
Hope is a thread
I refuse to drop.
It hums beneath
the noise of doubt.
Even in the silence,
it flickers.
I carry it like light
in my chest.

#vss365 #poetry #pressure
April 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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#vss365

i’ve only
measured light
by how heavy
darkness
has put #pressure
on it.

#poetry #joetry
April 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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#vss365 #vsspoem #pressure #instant
he lives a life
under pressure
never got a chance
to sip the richness
of the moments
his days
taste like
instant coffee
April 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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#vss365 | Pressure

The past outweighs the present, as the dead outnumber the living. A conglomerate of cells and synaptic accidents. War dust, weather, faded flags, endless sheaves of bargains written, abided, broken. And more, more, bearing down until our bones crack and we join to the majority.
April 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
#pressure, washing over me—wait, I recognize that—it ain’t no loving feeling, but it is gone, gone, gone. Indeed we’ve gone down, down. I don’t feel like coming out swinging, though the tangles of my heart have been crushed by a former love, so I’ll let it burn down to build it back up. #vss365 🎧🎶
April 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🤷‍♀️ I’m not surprised sources of deep rooted knowledge are rising up. Wisdom and discernment can only stay quiet for so long, while media and marketing (I’m sorry, but 👀 The System) are known to have loud mouths, be quick to speak (often before consulting fact checkers) & support teams to propagate
I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.
April 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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April 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
What time is it?
#5amWritersClub time.
Here to wrastle with the words
thor is wearing a helmet and holding a shield and a sword .
Alt: thor is wearing a helmet and holding a shield and a sword, which he flaps down to sides as he screams yess, a childlike look of delight on his face
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April 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Inverted a few sentences,
read it aloud &
found myself proclaiming
“I like this change!”

Just another morning at the
#5amWritersClub table
a woman sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in her hand
Alt: A woman sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in her hand, which she raises as she makes a face expressing cheers I see you
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April 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I wonder if Ophelia felt #euphoria more than the lamenting feelings of I-fell-for-ya, for there must have been something great to be fallen so far in so far as they say it’s better to have loved and lost than never at all… I let water wash my ears of those empty, hollow, ringing words too
#vss365
a woman in a red dress is holding a man 's hand while laying in the water on the beach .
Alt: a woman in a red dress is holding a man 's hand while laying in the water on the beach—he makes no move to help as a wave crashes over her knocking her down flat
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March 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM