We tamed the sky like our ancestors tamed the land. Every gust of wind, every drop of rain was planned around our #domestic calendar. The moisture was dialled up to maximise crops and turned off at harvest time.
Our next target was the stars
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Maybe I should save them up

Budgie sat on his stool and looked out into the dark. As each band member walked out he tapped the snare, feeling Sid and Robert behind him.
Siouxsie looked over her shoulder, a fellow #creature meeting his excited smile.
This was where he belonged.
At last

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What you writing?

It's my #vss365

What's a beez 65 then?

V S S 3 6 5 it's a daily story on @bsky.app. I didn't get around to it yesterday.

Woss it about?

It's about a man who gets killed on a train because he keeps asking about things that are none of his #business

Sounds rubbish

It was the first Facebook group she joined: Everyone Celebrates My Birthday.
The gang had Christmas babies, Valentine babies and New Year children. But she was one of only two #Halloween birthdays.
She and her online twin spent their day watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
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He had a patch over his left eye and kept his right eye closed. He reached up a hand and took off his top hat.
He placed the hat on the floor and stood up.

A window blew open, he lifted the eyepatch and turned towards me.
"Duck!"
He shouted as the #ray came out of his eye.

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Nan had #argent hair in her twenties. She looked like a grandmother before she was a mother, but acted like a child when she knelt on the floor with us. She was our grown-up best friend. The youngest old person that I ever knew.

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It was just an #experiment. None of the three subjects knew what was meant to happen. It would have affected the result if any of them had suspected.

The two survivors never got over it.

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Whenever he tried to describe her he never got further than her eyes. They were like a clear sky on a warm summer's day.

No. Another cliché. He screwed up the page and tried again.

The #creep with his notebook kept staring at her. She turned away but she could still feel him.

Watching.

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Our theories only worked if there was something in the darkness, so we invented answers. We searched the stars, but the #heliacal orbit of their world kept them hidden..
Millenia are as moments and it took millions of years for our paths to cross. The reasons revealed after we were all dust.
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Dad looks out at me from the mirror. I can't tell if his expression is one of surprise or #terror. Whatever it is, I can't hold his gaze and we both turn away.

One of us weeping for the past and the other for the future.

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Every #Martian loved red paint but the only place selling it was Venus. Venusians loved green paint but had to buy it from Mars.
As there were twice as many Martians as Venusians Mars put 50% tariffs on Venusian paint. It meant Mars paid more for paint but it stopped Venus taking advantage.
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Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be invisible. She knelt by her bed every night and prayed.

Her reflection faded every day. People started looking through her. Nobody heard her when she spoke.

Finally only one man could see her. The man who'd made her want to be #unseen

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Every day still starts with a full tank. It's just that her #energy drops more quickly nowadays. She has to try a little harder. Needs a few more breaks.
Where they used to pull in the same direction, he now pulls away.
He asks her why she falls asleep on the sofa. She's too tired to explain
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Mum had her tea in her morning mug and allowed herself one hobnob for dunking.
When she had visitors, the mug went to the back of the cupboard and out came her bone China cup and #saucer. A selection of chocolate biscuits, was carefully arranged on a plate on the coffee table.

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Once, we thought an #atom was the smallest unit of matter. If a book was the world. Each chapter a continent. Each page a country. Paragraph a town. Sentence, a house. Every word a person. The atoms were the letters that formed the words.
What about the ink? The paper? The writer?

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I told them I couldn't leave.

I know how strong you are.
I've always known how special you are.

But.
Still.

I needed to be sure.

So.

I stayed.

I #hover just beyond the edge of your vision.

I'm the echo of your laughter.
The soft breeze drying your tears.

The sun on your wedding day.

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It was my own fault. I knew the rules on #android phones. Hoped they wouldn't check.

I started to apologise as soon as they opened my bag. Told them my wife didn't know. She'd always been iPhone. Never been unfaithful.

Steve Jobs looked down from every wall as they led me away.

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A shadow brushed his foot. He looked up and saw a lonely wisp of cloud hanging in the sky. He mumbled a quiet prayer.
The cloud hesitated. Momentarily taking pity on the #arid land below.
The man's lips mouthed "please", but the Sun brushed the cloud aside.

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We put camp beds on the lawn and turned out the house lights. As our eyes adjusted to the night sky, stars came into focus. The perseid shower wasn't due to start for a while but I was sure Venus was moving. The #unearthly light grew as it got closer, until it filled the horizon.

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He watched the black spot cross the rug. When it reached the floorboards it turned into a #beetle and stopped. He wasn't sure exactly where its eyes were but it seemed to look at him.
They stayed like that for a moment. Checking each other out. Wondering if anything else was still alive.

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We'd drive to the Sunday market rather than walk to the church. Coffee and a bacon roll was our communion. The preachers had handwritten signs telling us the saucepans were #deluxe and "only" 39.99. We recited the same prayer: "is that your best price?"

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Thanks. Loved the musical theme and always nice to find someone with similar tastes.

There wasn't anything she could put her finger on. He was never anything other than nice. It was just an #undertone when they were alone. Like a slightly out of focus photo.
That night he offered her a lift home. It was the natural thing to do. She was grateful. He was kind.

But...

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The first single i tell people i bought: I don't like Mondays.

The first single i really bought: Wanted by The Dooleys

The subsidence wasn't exactly a selling point and we had to be creative. The crack across the front garden had filled with water, so I made a sign and planted it in the middle.

WARNING:
#PIRANHA INFESTED MOAT

Still no offers, but we haven't been burgled. Every cloud...

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I'd go for Jesus and Mary Chain - Who Do You Love? Or the Was Not Was version of Papa Was a Rolling Stone

It had rained for forty days and forty nights. In the absence of the skills to build an ark, Bob bought a #raincoat instead. In line with the suntan lotion he'd bought just before the monsoon, the rain stopped as soon as he exited the shop wearing his mackintosh.
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How come you do everything like that?

Like what?
She said.

Like everything is the most brilliant and important thing ever.

It's the last thing he told me.
She said.

What?

To live my life with #verve.
She said.

And you're sure he wasn't talking about the band.

Oh.
She said.

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