Lee Zanello
@lima-zulu.bsky.social
Dad, writer, reader, traveller. 🇨🇦
#vss365 enthusiast
My writing: leezanello.com
#vss365 enthusiast
My writing: leezanello.com
Pinned
Memories swirl together, drifting in and out to the beat of the machine next to the bed.
Young love lost, found, bonfires, cheap guitars, promises meant to #last.
Colicky kids, the cabin, the Grand Canyon.
Grandkids, hands held, fireplace nights.
And then only the beep of the machine.
#vss365
Young love lost, found, bonfires, cheap guitars, promises meant to #last.
Colicky kids, the cabin, the Grand Canyon.
Grandkids, hands held, fireplace nights.
And then only the beep of the machine.
#vss365
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Callum wasn’t in great shape, more oblong where he should be round, and stretched too thin around the edges.
Overall #health was good, but his personal trainer was worried about the sharper angles forming around his shoulders, trapezius muscles becoming trapezoids.
Too much stress.
#vss365
Overall #health was good, but his personal trainer was worried about the sharper angles forming around his shoulders, trapezius muscles becoming trapezoids.
Too much stress.
#vss365
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I know it’s not our #Thanksgiving, but I’ll share that today I am grateful for the promotions folder/filter in my email.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I know it’s not our #Thanksgiving, but I’ll share that today I am grateful for the promotions folder/filter in my email.
My shadow’s been curious lately.
Peeking around the edges of my frame, shivering in the light, #learning what life is like beyond where it’s meant to be.
I’m encouraging, stepping to the side slowly, crouching, giving it space to grow, just like I would with a child, if I could have one.
#vss365
Peeking around the edges of my frame, shivering in the light, #learning what life is like beyond where it’s meant to be.
I’m encouraging, stepping to the side slowly, crouching, giving it space to grow, just like I would with a child, if I could have one.
#vss365
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Renata’s #reflection was missing again.
She looked everywhere: the toaster, the kitchen tap, her phone, turned off.
“Where did you last see it?” Pat asked.
Renata thought. The powder room at the auto body repair shop!
Sure enough, there she was.
With sad smiles, they both said “sorry”.
#vss365
She looked everywhere: the toaster, the kitchen tap, her phone, turned off.
“Where did you last see it?” Pat asked.
Renata thought. The powder room at the auto body repair shop!
Sure enough, there she was.
With sad smiles, they both said “sorry”.
#vss365
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Renata’s #reflection was missing again.
She looked everywhere: the toaster, the kitchen tap, her phone, turned off.
“Where did you last see it?” Pat asked.
Renata thought. The powder room at the auto body repair shop!
Sure enough, there she was.
With sad smiles, they both said “sorry”.
#vss365
She looked everywhere: the toaster, the kitchen tap, her phone, turned off.
“Where did you last see it?” Pat asked.
Renata thought. The powder room at the auto body repair shop!
Sure enough, there she was.
With sad smiles, they both said “sorry”.
#vss365
A bit of a life update on the One Word Blog this morning.
Looking forward to daily prompt writing and reading resuming tomorrow.
leezanello.com/still/
Looking forward to daily prompt writing and reading resuming tomorrow.
leezanello.com/still/
Still | leezanello.com
The air around me is still, as if it's just now decided the change of season is upon us and it's stepping gently into winter, so as not to disturb it too much.
leezanello.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A bit of a life update on the One Word Blog this morning.
Looking forward to daily prompt writing and reading resuming tomorrow.
leezanello.com/still/
Looking forward to daily prompt writing and reading resuming tomorrow.
leezanello.com/still/
Last week was vacation.
“I’ll get back into my routines for sure when I get home,” I said. “Morning #vss365 writing to get the day started right!”
It lasted one day.
Now the #reality of life has settled back in, and here I am at 3:00 pm wolfing down a cracker and barely getting a write done.
“I’ll get back into my routines for sure when I get home,” I said. “Morning #vss365 writing to get the day started right!”
It lasted one day.
Now the #reality of life has settled back in, and here I am at 3:00 pm wolfing down a cracker and barely getting a write done.
a man is pointing at a bulletin board that says `` me explaining my schedule to others ''
ALT: a man is pointing at a bulletin board that says `` me explaining my schedule to others ''
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November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heading home today after a week in paradise, though you wouldn’t know it by my photo reel: 10 pictures total. Days lounging, reading, phone locked away, letting my brain #transport me to creative places I haven’t been for a while.
First vs. last morning on the patio.
It’s been a good week.
#vss365
First vs. last morning on the patio.
It’s been a good week.
#vss365
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Heading home today after a week in paradise, though you wouldn’t know it by my photo reel: 10 pictures total. Days lounging, reading, phone locked away, letting my brain #transport me to creative places I haven’t been for a while.
First vs. last morning on the patio.
It’s been a good week.
#vss365
First vs. last morning on the patio.
It’s been a good week.
#vss365
Opinion dressed up as #science, crowned as fact. We see it in our feeds where those too stupid to know they’re stupid like and share with certainty, cheap, loud and hollow, proudly torching the very evidence that could save them.
We used to value knowledge; now, the stupid have taken over.
#vss365
We used to value knowledge; now, the stupid have taken over.
#vss365
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Lose. My. #Number.
She spits out every syllable. We’ve chosen third period lunch for maximum viewership and the crowd oohs.
Later, near the old lockers, we hug in private.
“She’ll say yes,” she reassures me.
“So will Ben,” I reply.
We aren’t great together, but we make a good team.
#vss365
She spits out every syllable. We’ve chosen third period lunch for maximum viewership and the crowd oohs.
Later, near the old lockers, we hug in private.
“She’ll say yes,” she reassures me.
“So will Ben,” I reply.
We aren’t great together, but we make a good team.
#vss365
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
After 100 years, the details get forgotten, the story shortened; only the end, the moral, the theme is remembered by most.
The hero passes into #myth and, while it still holds true that the journey is more important than the destination, it’s the latter that inspires new journeys to begin.
#vss365
The hero passes into #myth and, while it still holds true that the journey is more important than the destination, it’s the latter that inspires new journeys to begin.
#vss365
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Nan rocked by the window, tea cooling in her hands. His laughter still in the walls, neighbours spoke of his kindness, tried to #measure it in deeds and days, but she knew better, knew that kindness moved through being, not space and, once set in motion, was infinite, just like their love.
#vss365
#vss365
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The greatest works in all #literature have been, more likely than not, binned in an estate sale or lost to a fire.
Notebooks and hard drives full of manuscripts missing one common ingredient: the grit and determination of the author to seek publication.
#vss365
Notebooks and hard drives full of manuscripts missing one common ingredient: the grit and determination of the author to seek publication.
#vss365
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The greatest works in all #literature have been, more likely than not, binned in an estate sale or lost to a fire.
Notebooks and hard drives full of manuscripts missing one common ingredient: the grit and determination of the author to seek publication.
#vss365
Notebooks and hard drives full of manuscripts missing one common ingredient: the grit and determination of the author to seek publication.
#vss365
We #educated the mechs.
They studied our #history and found mercy inefficient. In every #language they redrew #geography and rewrote #law to punish memory.
Now, in the ruins of our #domestic shelters, buckling under obedience, we quote quietly the once #famous line, “This too shall pass.”
#vss365
They studied our #history and found mercy inefficient. In every #language they redrew #geography and rewrote #law to punish memory.
Now, in the ruins of our #domestic shelters, buckling under obedience, we quote quietly the once #famous line, “This too shall pass.”
#vss365
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I have no #business being here.
I tell myself that everyone else is a natural, everyone else belongs.
When they turn to greet me, every face is mine, some older, some younger.
The one closest to me grins slowly and whispers, “We’ve been waiting for you to remember which one you are.”
#vss365
I tell myself that everyone else is a natural, everyone else belongs.
When they turn to greet me, every face is mine, some older, some younger.
The one closest to me grins slowly and whispers, “We’ve been waiting for you to remember which one you are.”
#vss365
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On #Halloween, the mask slips off and I see your true self.
I see your avarice, your hunger, your yearning for more than I’ve been able to give.
What you seek from others won’t fill the emptiness in your chest that cries out, keeping you awake.
You’re in costume, but I see you.
#vss365
I see your avarice, your hunger, your yearning for more than I’ve been able to give.
What you seek from others won’t fill the emptiness in your chest that cries out, keeping you awake.
You’re in costume, but I see you.
#vss365
October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On #Halloween, the mask slips off and I see your true self.
I see your avarice, your hunger, your yearning for more than I’ve been able to give.
What you seek from others won’t fill the emptiness in your chest that cries out, keeping you awake.
You’re in costume, but I see you.
#vss365
I see your avarice, your hunger, your yearning for more than I’ve been able to give.
What you seek from others won’t fill the emptiness in your chest that cries out, keeping you awake.
You’re in costume, but I see you.
#vss365
An #argent #ray sliced through the lab’s darkness as the #experiment began. Something moved, slowly and with purpose, a #creep along the wall.
The instruments hummed, then screamed piercing obscenities.
She realized too late the light wasn’t shining on the subject, it 𝘸𝘢𝘴 the subject.
#vss365
The instruments hummed, then screamed piercing obscenities.
She realized too late the light wasn’t shining on the subject, it 𝘸𝘢𝘴 the subject.
#vss365
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
An #argent #ray sliced through the lab’s darkness as the #experiment began. Something moved, slowly and with purpose, a #creep along the wall.
The instruments hummed, then screamed piercing obscenities.
She realized too late the light wasn’t shining on the subject, it 𝘸𝘢𝘴 the subject.
#vss365
The instruments hummed, then screamed piercing obscenities.
She realized too late the light wasn’t shining on the subject, it 𝘸𝘢𝘴 the subject.
#vss365
At the #heliacal dawn, K-Thirty, the last Anima Sentry on Adriatica, rose from her post, joints trembling with age.
Her solar cells barely caught the newborn light; each step through the dust was memory, mission, and goodbye.
When the sun fully broke, she bowed, then went still forever.
#vss365
Her solar cells barely caught the newborn light; each step through the dust was memory, mission, and goodbye.
When the sun fully broke, she bowed, then went still forever.
#vss365
October 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I am filled with #terror. The air itself feels thick, stale, as though the world has stopped breathing. My heart claws at my ribs, screaming at me to turn back.
The shadows on the walls lean closer, listening, waiting as I face my biggest fear.
The front doorstep, and what lies beyond.
#vss365
The shadows on the walls lean closer, listening, waiting as I face my biggest fear.
The front doorstep, and what lies beyond.
#vss365
October 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Science had murkied myth and legend so much that history had become intertwined with them.
Maybe this was the place he had come from, where his creators, and the creators before them, had flourished.
The #martian looked at the dead planet around him and imagined life. Imagined humanity.
#vss365
Maybe this was the place he had come from, where his creators, and the creators before them, had flourished.
The #martian looked at the dead planet around him and imagined life. Imagined humanity.
#vss365
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
As twilight set in, the reflections in the windows on the cottages fell away, slowly revealing the dioramas inside that had been there all day, but #unseen.
Kent stood in the nude and squinted through his binoculars, under the misconception he was the only person on the lake who had them.
#vss365
Kent stood in the nude and squinted through his binoculars, under the misconception he was the only person on the lake who had them.
#vss365
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM