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Happy anniversary 🍰🎉🍰🎉🍰
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Thank you!
Woke up to a pile of reviews and a Merit Badge from Reluctant Halloweenist Author IconMail Icon today. Thank you so much! 😊

Just wanted to share the appreciation.
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Highly recommend checking out their port, too!
Drove the family all the way to Spokane Washington, and here I am on my 3rd hour in Auntie's bookstore. 😂 Some things don't change.
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Good way to spend the day!
Gravedigger Dave Author Icon - buy each kid a book and I've got another 2hrs before someone says they're bored or hungry. 😁
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Question, what's with the emails from people claiming to be graphic artists asking to chat off-platform?
I've had 4 reach out since July. Is this a regular thing here? Are these real people or a scam?
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Scam.
Block.
Delete.

Many of us got these.
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The recent poetry newsletter from Fyn-dragon Author IconMail Icon challenged us to write in a manner that captures the essence of an animal. The feel, the movement, the weight. Perhaps you were inspired to go beyond and write about the swaying movements of a tree in the wind, or the wisp of a cloud on a hot summer day? I'd love to read what you felt inspired to write... that is, if you rose to the challenge! ;)

The Golden Mare Open in new Window. (E)
Can you feel the animal? ** Special Sonnet.**
#2347433 by Claevyan Author IconMail Icon
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I spent the last week tending to the bees and extracting honey. Today my wife asked if that's why I wrote a song talking about meat dipped in honey...
I don't know maybe! *Smile*
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Annette Author Icon - 😅
Sounds like life is talking to your Muse.
Gravedigger Dave Author Icon - it's buzzing for sure! 😁
Anyone here good with writing music? This is my second song and I think it's good. Thoughts?
It's a tavern song for the weird western type stories I've written.

A Copper for the Cup Open in new Window. (E)
Tavern Song in the Weird West
#2347054 by Claevyan Author IconMail Icon
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Another day, another several hours doing something productive instead of working! ;)

Here's a darker story - the written account of a knight commander after their battle with a Lich-King. There's consequence to every choice, intended or not. What future unfurls when one's wish for release from personal torment affects the very fabric of the world?

 The Fall of the Lich-King Open in new Window. (13+)
The account of Sir Alric and the Grand Company at the Battle of the White Star.
#2346933 by Claevyan Author IconMail Icon
Anyone see a dense fog settle over the road below you as you drive down a mountain pass and watch the cars ahead of you just get swallowed up - gloop! - into that misty veil?

Ever had your mind go wild with all the possible things that may be hidden along that foggy road? Oaks and Walnuts and Maples peeking their limbs out, like fingers pressed against a glass. It's no longer the commute to work, it's now the mythical place between your dreams, and the held breath before the cannon fire of an ancient battle ground!

Right? You've all experienced that before? It's not just me?! :D

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Through Stranger Pass Open in new Window. (E)
A foggy road holds many secrets of the mind.
#2346268 by Claevyan Author IconMail Icon
Had a latin phrase come to me today after reading some sci-fi stuff. Next thing I knew a sonnet was forming in my mind to fit the phrase. Through struggle we reach God, through God we reach the stars.

 Per Aspera, Per Deum Open in new Window. (E)
Per Aspera ad Deum, Per Deum ad Astra / Through trials to God, Through God to the Stars.
#2346193 by Claevyan Author IconMail Icon


I imagined these words as a family motto or slogan, and then followed that thread to this moment. Hope you enjoy!
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OMG... I'd hate the competition, but Brian needs as many people to join as he can, and quite honestly I think what you've written is perfect for
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Closed: INVICTUS ~ 25 Years Strong… Open in new Window. (13+)
Hosted by Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Group (RWB), a contest celebrating invincibility.
#1390406 by Citizen Journalist: 8/25/25 Author IconMail Icon
Amethyst SkellyBones Angel Author Icon - I had no idea this contest existed! I will definitely enter it. May need to edit some as I go, today's upload is just a rough draft.
Camping with the kids this weekend and had a little visitor arrive just after the tent went up. Eastern King Snake, juvenile, maybe 16-18 inches long.
Taught the kids how to appreciate, approach, and handle a snake situation, venomous or not.
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I sat down to draft my second installment to Ballads for Bullets and it just kept going! This story is a weird western fantasy from the point of view of a young man named Thomas, attempting to prove himself and begin his own journey. He signs on as a caravan guard, doing work his father taught him as a boy. Thomas is very quickly pulled in over his head and must fight to survive with the help of a pale stranger.

 
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The Night in Kingswood Open in new Window. (13+)
A young Caravan Guard grows up fast on his first trip through the Kingswood forest.
#2345950 by Claevyan Author IconMail Icon


This is a draft and quite rough. It is a continuation of story elements, themes, and some characters from The Wounded knight (also recently updated!) and any feedback is, as always, GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks and Write on!

(I may have to just create a book soon and keep all this organized)
It’s been a reading day. First alone, then with the kids, then by myself again.

Like that fairy lady of shalott, I feel a curse if I but thought, to stay my hand, steel my heart, and look down to Camelot.

… I’ve got to go mow the yard or something or I’ll be here all day! 😆
I’ve updated the opening of The Wounded Knight to hopefully improve clarity in this short weird western. Let me know if it works better with or without the additional content. A tilde (~) separates the opening paragraphs from the original story.

I’m new to short stories so there’s plenty of trial and error at the moment! 😬😅

 
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The Wounded Knight Open in new Window. (13+)
Short story intro to my "Ballads for Bullets" series.
#2343765 by Claevyan Author IconMail Icon


As always, write on!
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Someone just reviewed a poem of mine from 13 years ago and I was not prepared for how joyful that would feel. 😁
Thank you, random reviewers of old works! You are a treasure.
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