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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 4h

#goodmorning FOR NO KINGS DAY. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." ~ Mark Twain #writersky #booksky #amwriting

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 4h

#WIPsnips "dodge" => "avoid" from Chapter 11, It's a Curse:
"Make me beautiful/rich/powerful/ young/healthy," they bleat. You're going to need a revolution or a miracle, I avoid telling them, & even then it will be your children's children's children who benefit. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I am visited by the scopolamine people, who leaned over my hospital bed decades ago, making sure I was well taken care of. Only now does it occur to me that they are traces of people who died in that bed or in that room. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPsnips "loaf" from Bonus Story #2, Rise of the Witches :
Her reward, besides not getting stuck in some "rehab" jail, would be a few trinkets and maybe a loaf of bread with most of the mold cut off. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 2d

In one of Bitchmuse's multiple hands, she holds a dictionary that provides words for everything that has ever existed — but printed in type too small to read. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 2d

#WIPsnips "might" from Chapter 4, What Doom Pony Knows :
Once a week or so, someone succeeds in their plan. Whatever else you might say about Doom Pony, they amount to job security for Eurydice the psychopomp. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 3d

After all, it's only the same old moon.
#goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 3d

#WIPsnips "care" from Ch. 20, Gods Need Tough Love:
The witches create some beasts in utero that surprise the very mothers whose wombs they arise from. Crèches spring up to provide respite care of children too strange & terrible for their moms to continuously care for. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 4d

He had been a great beauty in his youth, literally stunning. It was a relief when people began to ignore his gluteal architecture or look at him casually, without agenda. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 4d

#WIPsnips "ultimate" from Chapter 19, Gods Emeritus:
Recalling the collective experience of being in their bodies, the dead as a wholeness thrash and roil and spit. They (by which I mean the ultimate nonbinary "they") hurt. They are angry. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 5d

As Abecedarian Creator, I start with a list of words. However, before I get very far in the alphabet, Adam dies in a stupid dune buggy accident. I have to write a new origin story with a limited vocabulary. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 5d

#WIPsnips "push" from Chapter 6, The Revolution Will Not Be Euthanized:
I psychically push my newlydead clients toward the deadBlob. Predictably, only the Spood argues. I take my ectoplasmic foot to his ectoplasmic ass. He enters with an ectoplasmic splash. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 6d

Grab a handful of ice cubes. Squeeze them tightly so they cannot wriggle away. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 6d

#WIPsnips "hope" from Bonus Story #1, Who Lived Here:
Ever since anthropologists discovered it, Wanda has wanted to physically put her hands on that massive temple to the sun god in Peru. I hope things are good for her in that hemisphere. Better than here. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 7d

I suppose it is OK to imagine sex with creatures that have necks. Otherwise, please don't talk to me about it. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 7d

#WIPsnips "welcome" from Ch. 15, Friendzoned by God:
"Right. Welcome home, son," says the older Calhoun, unconvincingly.
"You're here," says the younger Calhoun, standing beside his father. He sounds about as friendly as a stick dragged along a picket fence. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 8d

Her special talent was to pass herself off as a cat, then get a job testing cat toys, often after being plied with the finest catnip. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 8d

#WIPsnips "prize" from Ch. 20, Gods Need Tough Love:
Greta breathes & counts to 10. I will not go there, she breathes. I will not take the bait. I am here for a reason & that is not the reason. Not not not going there. Eyes on the prize, eyes on the fucking prize. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 8d

Do I have to dumb down my prose or can I use words someone might have to look up? Can I get an agent if I compare somebody's smile to an axolotl's face? #amwriting #amquerying #WritingCommunity #writers

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 9d

In one version of this story, she holds up a gleaming brass astrolabe and considers which path to take. In the other version, while she ponders she tenderly cradles the relit cigarette butt she was lucky enough to find. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 9d

#WIPsnips "battery" from Ch. 12, Who Are You?:
Her self-styled subjects bring flowers, incense, batteries, birds in cages, fresh vegetables, lavishly decorated Faraday boxes, well-crafted daggers, intricately embroidered gowns, keys to beautiful places — and more. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 10d

Who are you to tell me I am not resolutely foraging for miracles right here in my personal wilderness? #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

NOTE: This is a rhetorical question only.

L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 10d

#WIPsnips "dungeon" => "cave" from Chapter 21 Promises, Promises:
Fang sees dream-Hermes everywhere, and now he is scowling. Now the dream-cave is cold and it echoes with loud howls and purrs and crashes and with sounds like tectonic plates sliding. #writersky #writingcommunity

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L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 11d

At intervals, you will believe you have nothing more to learn from or know about pain. You will be wrong. #goodmorning #writersky #booksky #amwriting

L just L @propagandaministry.bsky.social · 11d

#WIPsnips "safe" from Chapter 7, Doom Pony Love Children:
Nevertheless, she must find Pearl and she must make sure the baby is safe from Hugo's body shop. Once Hugo knows about his grandbaby's existence, he will be wanting that DNA. #writersky #writingcommunity

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