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

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · Oct 18
Here are the links to all my writing profiles.
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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sirrobinkingfisher.bsky.social
#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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chrisandprose.bsky.social
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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sifaswriting.bsky.social
#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
Magenta eyes peer into the soul...
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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nocureforchronic.bsky.social
Magenta bruises
Coloring my sky
Might have fallen
My beautiful tries

#magenta #vss365
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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dmiddleham.bsky.social
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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danj72.bsky.social
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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tacolewriting.bsky.social
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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rockwlrs.bsky.social
Joaquín's other friend gets to learn that Joaquín can time travel, too.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky
Show him, Joaquín!” I thought a bit about where to go, but I just pulled a blank. “Um, when do you want to go?” I said. He replied, “Wait, so you’re saying this is real, too? How long have you been doing this? When can we go to?” I told him, “We can go to whenever you want. It just has to be a time I remember.” He replied, “You mean, like the pizza party last week?” I remembered what he was talking about. “Sure, that will work,” I said. I held onto each friend, and soon one of my hands was empty while the other had a slice of pizza. Friend_boy spat his soda back into his cup. He shouted, “It worked! We really time traveled! I didn't believe it would really happen but it did!” My mother looked shocked. She said, “Friend_boy, what are you talking about?” But then Abuelita laughed and said, “It's time travel pizza from Planeta Equis, mija. Don't eat the pepperoni or you'll be fighting dinosaurs!”, and we all laughed. Angela, I guess because we were in a timeline I was never gonna go back to we coulda just talked about time travel some more right then in front of them, but I'm so used to keeping it a secret I didn't really want to, and I think Zephyr and Friend_boy picked up on that because they didn't say another thing about time travel.
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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tlmatson.bsky.social
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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freiyjah.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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scarrletmoon.bsky.social
#ofmd #wipsnips
“If I change you, I take everything, Edward.” Stede can’t cry, not anymore. Ed knows that. But he can almost convince himself that there are tears in Stede’s eyes now. “I take the warmth of the sun from you. I take your humanity. I take your future.” Ed struggles against the tightness of his throat, has to claw the words out of his mouth against every instinct that tells him not to, because he has to say it now or he never will, because he knows the regret will kill him. “Not everything.” He takes a breath but it doesn’t stop his voice from breaking, from being soft and weak and vulnerable. “I’d have you,” Ed says. Stede rips away from him. Ed blinks up at the ceiling, stunned, frozen where Stede left him. He takes a moment, takes a breath, takes a dash of strength to make sure no stupid tears are going to escape him before he sits up. Stede is perched on the edge of the couch, back straight, eerily still. He stares unseeingly at the mirror black window, his face unreadable. He’s not breathing. Ed is many things. A patient man is not one of them. “Stede, just–” “I need time,” Stede says. His voice is strangely hollow, empty, like part of him has already left the room, left Ed behind. “Can you give me that?”
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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midnightrose838.bsky.social
#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 . . .
But how long til it will come back? Lawcket thought, folding over and nearly throwing up the mouthful he had just tried to swallow. 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 and sorrow. Familiar Darkness enclosed him, beckoning his tears into that abyss of loss, of emptiness, of darkness that was itself a lonely infinite blackness, not just the lack of light.
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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finmonster.bsky.social
#WIPSnips

From "Dead to Begin With."
Text reading: “No, Jacob,” Scrooge replied with a pitying shake of his head, “You may have influenced me, but I know, ultimately, they were my choice, and I have seen that they have gifted me nothing but misery and loneliness.” “It gifted you wealth, prestige, and power!” Marley snapped, throwing his arms out in exasperation. “And no one to share it with!” Scrooge roared, rising fully to his feet, “What good is money if all it earns you is a drafty, empty house!?”
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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scarlettchase.bsky.social
"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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wildfaeriecaps.com
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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cassieoakman.bsky.social
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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anomalyerror404.bsky.social
#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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curleyhammcozy.bsky.social
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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msfulofgrace.bsky.social
#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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stevewestby.bsky.social
#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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lauraruthless.bsky.social
"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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dimono.ca
"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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the-pizza-dude.bsky.social
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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lima-zulu.bsky.social
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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csignymaraine.bsky.social
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