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Jan Karlsson
@jangoeswriting.bsky.social
Watty Award winner 2021, 6x shortlisted. Ambys Award winner 2024 & 2x 2023. 4x ONC Award shortlisted. Writer (🤔).

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I like to think there’s something for everybody here, in most genres.

Take a look!

Wattpad: www.wattpad.com/user/JanGoes...
Jan Karlsson (@JanGoesWriting) - Wattpad
[Wattys 2021 Winner, Sci-Fi Category - "Foston Slacks - Time's Flies"] [Wattys 2024 Shortlist - "Foston Slacks - Good's Intentions"] [Watty...
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#Magenta’s hips gyrated to a tune only she could hear. It felt intrusive to be there, to witness what I was. This was her process, getting herself in the mood. I was already way ahead of her, I’m afraid. Should I make a move or just enjoy the show?
#vss365
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Love,
To spare others it's wilderness
I built a shelter
I filled it with books
With not word written
For the darkest beast,
Blooded in shades of magenta
And the faithful man,
In shades of sunlight
To discourse
The hardness of love bites
#vss365 #magenta
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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#Magenta coloured eyes
peer into the soul
he knows what you've done
but he stays silent
until he knows
you need his help
for a price.

#vss365 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #FFXIV #Elezen #Duskwight
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Magenta bruises
Coloring my sky
Might have fallen
My beautiful tries

#magenta #vss365
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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were dreams an #augury

were they portents of proximity

oh to be the one
to incite your #magenta hue
to be the one
to snatch a breath or two

i fantasise about you
over and over
and i adore you
above all else

reveries is never just a word

it's a wish
always for you

#vss365
December 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Rush, rush
A smileless stare
A push
A sharp toothed glare
A joyless path
No care
No wish to connect
Not even for this second
To share your one life
Rush, rush
Into the #magenta velvet folds of your end

#Vss365
December 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Back to the world-building text on this one.
From the entry on Caph, the Maw Unsealed. Demon Prince of hunger, excess and the devouring of all things;
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Joaquín's other friend gets to learn that Joaquín can time travel, too.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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When her bestie, and team captain, knows her too well and calls her out on her secret hookup.

CW: f-bombs galore😅

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #Romancelandia #hockeyromance
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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#WIPSnips

The empty, dark, sorrow filled loneliness between now and both the past and the future– the past coming back– felt so measureless, so endless, so lightless. It made him feel so sad. It made tears of despair well in his heart.
His mind touched the Darkness, the Darkness of despair . . .
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#WIPSnips

From "Dead to Begin With."
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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"When he sets his empty glass on the table, he leans toward her a bit and looks at her like he wants to feast on her."
#WriterSky #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #CurrentWIP #SwitchItUpDuet
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Laughter, brilliant and buoyant, tumbled out of Devin. The sound sucker punched Ian in the chest, leaving his heart racing and his lungs empty. There wasn't much he wouldn't do to hear that sound every day.

#WIPSnips
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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#Magenta star soul, portal to another world.
Through your eyes you see chaos and demise.
There are flowers hiding among the weeds.
Treasures strewn about.
Pick them up.
Use your knowledge.
A trail of breadcrumbs had been laid out for you to follow.
#vss365 #poem #poetry
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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She folded the dark-blue tailored suit and added it to the other corporate outfits in the Goodwill bag.

Now, there was only one thing left to do to celebrate being newly-retired.

She entered the hair salon. “Spiky, please, with #magenta highlights.” #vss365
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#vss365
#magenta

Nature’s color palette puts on amazing shows
From icy cyan Rocky Mountain river flows
To deep magenta roses
And cloud filled sunset poses
Beaches in the Caribbean where pink sand glows
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#Magenta

I mean,
it startles
when you see it
in nature

so out of place
among greens and browns
that the eye widens,

wonder taking flight
as if reminded
in a single burst of color:

life persists

#vss365
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"Print."

"You're out of #magenta."

"It's black and white."

"Need cyan."

"Fine. Added. Now print?"

"Paper jam."

"You should really let me print this. It's instructions to prevent a virus that will make every printer on earth simultaneously implode."

"You're out of beige."

#vss365
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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"I didn't say I was here to speak." Jeff calmly approached the table and pulled out a chair. "I said I was here to parlay."

One of Coronello's men was visibly shaking at this, his face turning a bright #magenta. Jeff nodded his head towards the man. "Is your guy okay?" #vss365
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Ok so Oscar didn't win so I'll reload on the #vssdaily #vss365 word #magenta

#Magenta clouds invade my..
.. thoughts that rhyme with clouds
When once I shouted
Magenta clouds sprouted
Like sunset? You ask
Sunrise say I!
But isn't it just purple and yellow?
Kinda. A scrinch more mellow.
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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It holds up one clawed finger, #magenta with its own blood, and pokes at the wound in my leg. I scream, but the pain settles.

More blood and the wound heals.

Every nightmare I’ve ever had comes true here and this beast that has chased me on countless nights… is it now trying to help me?

#vss365
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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magenta wine-
kissed memories
of summer days
in evergreen
shining warm
like a hearthfire
crackling, stalwart against
the draft of
winter's biting cold

#vss365 #magenta #poetry
December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM