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Jac Forsyth

@jacforsyth.co.uk

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SFF writer. Advocate for gender diversity in sci-fi. Author of Ørma: The Song of the Lark. A soft sci-fi about a feather, a bunch of celebrity soldiers and an enemy too familiar to remember. #vss365 jacforsyth.co.uk

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

Sunday
is a gothic novel
on the dry riverbed

a haunted castle,
for a water #wraith
to roam

among the sticks
and storms of trespass
that carved a scar
of dust, pale as milk

where the sun casts her runes
in the space between leaves

and my shadow
is a nightdress
made of silk

#vss365

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Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · May 15

We’re excited to announce the Bookshelfie Awards — a new book award celebrating the best in independent publishing! We’re looking for books that take risks, break moulds, and showcase brilliant writing.

Submissions open now! Winners to be announced late December.

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 19

Thank you so much, Brenda ⭐️💛

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Rebekah 💙🏳️‍🌈 @rteller.bsky.social · May 18

This is a couple of days late. My firstborn graduated this weekend and there's been a lot going on for that! 🌟🎉

I'm catching up today. Here's my poem "Wrap" #PoemsAbout #NeverForget @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social

You know how it feels
when you slide the key into the knob
and it fits smooth
without a jiggle or jam?
It was like that.

You know how it feels
when you catch a throw one-handed
from across the room and you know
you’ve pulled off something amazing?
It was like that.

You know how it feels
when you’re soaking in the tub and
you lean your head back against the wall,
close your eyes, and for just a breath,
gravity doesn’t exist?
It was like that.

It was a
slide the key in smooth,
one-handed catch across the room,
floating in a dark, warm tub
kind of hug.

A bandage for my wounded soul.

It was like that.

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oliverbarkley.bsky.social @oliverbarkley.bsky.social · May 17

I dream in the old language
The one my father would sing in
when he didn’t want us to know
he had been crying
from a world that liked to break him like cheap porcelain
Swept up in sunshine
mended at night
only to be broken again
the next day

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · May 16

my coat pocket
contains a smaller version
of Tuesday

#poetry #haiku #micropoetry

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Lee Zanello @lima-zulu.bsky.social · May 18

In a town no bigger than a sigh, the #wraith of Margaret Gill rang the church bell at noon on Saturdays.

No one asked why; they nodded while whittling their wood, accepting that some secrets belonged to the town, watching the shadows stretch into the afternoon like truths too long untold.

#vss365

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

‘in a town no bigger than a sigh’
This is so beautiful, Lee 💛

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

You’re too kind, thank you, Steve 💛⭐️

Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

Thank you, Steve ⭐️💛

Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

It does need marking 💙
Walk gently with yourself today.

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

Oh gosh, Lawrence, that’s so kind, and such praise coming from you. I love your poetry.

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · May 18

#vss365
In The Mist Of Life We Are

A wraith
stitched from fog and fret
slips through the floorboards
toothless,
tongueless,
it feeds on wallpaper stains,
drinks light from the kettle’s hiss,
wears my name like
a borrowed book,
then folds into the mirror,
exhaling a
moth-bitten
sigh.

#wraith

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

I love this!

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funnyfrogget.bsky.social @funnyfrogget.bsky.social · May 18

Yesterday,
when I was thinking of you,
I caught myself
holding hands
with your #wraith.

#vss365

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Angela Watt @littlewritespace.bsky.social · May 18

My mother would see them. A #wraith. A forewarning. Thinking of those soon to be left behind, she would whisper her news, and give a chance to say last words and speak of love. They took her from me for it. Now when I see the not yet dead, I turn my back and pretend they are simply shadows. #vss365

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

How marvellously creepy and splendid 😁

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

I bet! It’s so cinematic, it’d work really well as an illustrated spoken word piece.

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

💛

Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

Opening stanza is exactly the right word 😁
It’s been so dry here, the river wrote its own poetry today.

Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

a cartoon of patrick star crying with the words it 's so beautiful

Alt: a cartoon of patrick from SpongeBob crying with the words ‘it 's so beautiful’

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Lawrence Glynn @spacedogpoems.bsky.social · May 18

Wraith

As I sit lonely on the shore
A silk wyrmed veil descends
A gentleness of turning mist
And as it bends I see
The faces of forgotten friends
Smiling down
Lovingly
Untill the wind
Across the sea
Softly
Stirs
The ghost
Of me

#vss365

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

💛⭐️

a woman in a red dress and top hat says " thank you "

Alt: Nadia from What We Do In The Shadows. Dressed in a red dress and top hat says " thank you "

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

Oh my word.
Love love love this, Kimberly. Such twisting, gnarly and enthralling storytelling.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · May 17

and the trees
spoke their quiet
into the boneyard beneath
while the crows gathered dire
and daring upon the heath

and the wind
threw its tenacious tail through
the dour heart of the woeful wood
certain its magnificent mischief
would lead to some good

#poetry ⬇️

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Jac Forsyth @jacforsyth.co.uk · May 18

Thank you so much, Kimberly. It’s a great prompt word ⭐️💛