#SealeyChallenge complete!
Just under the wire 😅
Gratitude to @nicolesealey.bsky.social for originating & to @sealeychallenge.bsky.social for carrying the torch. Happy 10 years!
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#SealeyChallenge complete!
Just under the wire 😅
Gratitude to @nicolesealey.bsky.social for originating & to @sealeychallenge.bsky.social for carrying the torch. Happy 10 years!
#TheSealeyChallenge2026
#TheSealeyChallenge #31BooksInAugust
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"Putting on last winter's coat to find
the gloves that, missing all this time, no longer fit"
Severance
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"Putting on last winter's coat to find
the gloves that, missing all this time, no longer fit"
Severance
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"be
an"
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"be
an"
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"tender like your vocal cords
straining, stretching,
a voice overburdened,
quivering"
Rueful
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"tender like your vocal cords
straining, stretching,
a voice overburdened,
quivering"
Rueful
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"They say when a goose flies south it holds a twig in its beak to keep from making a sound the hunters might hear."
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"They say when a goose flies south it holds a twig in its beak to keep from making a sound the hunters might hear."
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"and then, hopeful and persistent,
two hundred thousand tiny honey bees,
all gossamer wings, all wonder -
new sparks rising."
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"and then, hopeful and persistent,
two hundred thousand tiny honey bees,
all gossamer wings, all wonder -
new sparks rising."
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"The sensory depth added to a space by birdsong."
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"The sensory depth added to a space by birdsong."
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"I hate how everyone is either a tiny black horse or a big fat gnat, sans fucking purpose."
Philosopher King
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"I hate how everyone is either a tiny black horse or a big fat gnat, sans fucking purpose."
Philosopher King
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"Her bad taste in music, although several times remarked on, is not a problem."
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"Her bad taste in music, although several times remarked on, is not a problem."
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"it's OK. Here:
feel the space between your body & your shadow."
My body in three movements (coda, note to self)
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"it's OK. Here:
feel the space between your body & your shadow."
My body in three movements (coda, note to self)
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"A mist blurs the trees like a dream
and covers what lies beyond them.
But you keep walking."
Country Road
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"A mist blurs the trees like a dream
and covers what lies beyond them.
But you keep walking."
Country Road
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"what inside prison that the visitors see
in its to it deep mind
a Baltic Friday early in grey"
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"what inside prison that the visitors see
in its to it deep mind
a Baltic Friday early in grey"
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"If only in the morning silences, you are breath steadily falling
between my uneven exhales."
Rise
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"If only in the morning silences, you are breath steadily falling
between my uneven exhales."
Rise
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"How long ago was it, just last week
the streetlight burst again when I passed
underneath."
Heatwave
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"How long ago was it, just last week
the streetlight burst again when I passed
underneath."
Heatwave
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"he’s falling further into the trappings of passionate
intensity with gay abandon"
A Ban
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"he’s falling further into the trappings of passionate
intensity with gay abandon"
A Ban
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"Night's cool exchange of cars and voices."
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"Night's cool exchange of cars and voices."
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"To also go where the best of you goes,
the haloed expanse where your vision stays,
Digger, my friend, this man can dream."
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"To also go where the best of you goes,
the haloed expanse where your vision stays,
Digger, my friend, this man can dream."
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"now we are more more smiles quips smart talk runny noses shining
bigger fears bigger complications"
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"now we are more more smiles quips smart talk runny noses shining
bigger fears bigger complications"
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"O, how the cows moo
in solace."
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"O, how the cows moo
in solace."
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"the correct word for dog is wolf
the correct word for wolf is machine
the correct word for machine is womb"
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"the correct word for dog is wolf
the correct word for wolf is machine
the correct word for machine is womb"
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