Rachel Deering (@racheldeering) — Bluesky Profile

6 minutes ago

Night! The foot is ok, ten more days in boot, able to walk barefoot around the house, a bit limpily…but recovering well, I think, thank you for asking!

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7 minutes ago

Goodnight x

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7 minutes ago

Night 🖤

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7 minutes ago

I agree.

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1 hour ago

Painting of Leeds damp street under cloudy night shy with full moon, cathedral in distance, former Leeds museum in foreground, entitled Park Row.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Park Row, Leeds, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1882.

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2 hours ago

Black and white photo of Mark Twain sitting up and writing in bed.

Notes from across The Pond.

hudsonmoon is ageing gracefully (I think).

“How Terribly Strange to Be Seventy - A Short Ramble” is today’s wonderfully diverting Pick of the Day.

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1 day ago

Ashton Macaulay's - Nearly Critically Acclaimed | Substack First looks at new stories, novels, short form video, and whatever the hell else I can cobble together on a given week. Click to read Ashton Macaulay's - Nearly Critically Acclaimed, by Ashton…

I don't know how to start this post. I've done something incredibly brave, and I don't want it to seem like virtue signaling. I don't think I'm better than you. Ok, here goes. I started a free Substack (hold for applause).
Please subscribe/share with fans of humorous #writing. macashton.substack.com

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3 weeks ago

A Subsequent Engagement (The Undertakers) A Subsequent Engagement (The Undertakers) [Whiteland, Philip] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Subsequent Engagement (The Undertakers)

Love amongst the coffins!

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15 hours ago

Cover of Saltburn. A seal sits under a beach umbrella.

Saltburn by Drew Gummerson.
A collection of overlapping short stories set in a fictionalised version of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, featuring mermaids, a foetus museum, and a psychic piece of ass, among other bizarre elements. Yes, this book is surreal, but it's also a biting commentary on capitalism, war & homophobia. At its heart is the outsider, a boy who doesn't fit in, sometimes because of his sexuality, sometimes because he turns into a girl at midnight. It has some very bleak moments but also parts that made me laugh out loud. A great read if you enjoy the bizarre, and aren't squeamish about gay sex (which there's a LOT of).

Profound and perverse, this collection of stories is set in a fictionalised Saltburn. Told with deadpan sincerity, these interconnected tales shift between playful and obscene and include - a gift shop owner exposing a scam involving seaside rock and kidnapped women, a boy developing psychic abilities after preserving an accidentally-bitten-off piece of ass and a rebellious son of the glove manufacturer who falls in love with a deep-sea diver.
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Six short stories set in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, a few miles from Redcar, not far from Middlesbrough.
Themes of poverty, grief, sexuality, sexual discovery...echoes of Bukowski, Hunter S.
Thompson, and Burroughs, but set on the shores of the United Kingdom. There's a bit of the ordinary madness of Magnus Mills thrown in there as well.
This is a brilliantly bizarre book, just like one of Drew Gummerson's other novels Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel that I read a couple of years ago. It's hilarious, innovative, the attention to detail is unreal and the imaginativeness unrivalled - beginning with a young boy's chaotic life as he grapples with his mother's eccentricity and the rest of the town's madness.
Difficult to sum it up in a few paragraphs, one of those you have to experience.
Talented writer and definitely recommend.

Happy 1st Birthday to my short story collection Saltburn!

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16 hours ago

Post by @whatthecrowtold · 1 image 💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · March is a deceiver, O best beloved. The sun grows warm, the rivers run free, but winter’s bones still lie beneath the thaw. March winds wild take from his mother the child, as th…

"And he found her there, in the hills, where the first St Agnes flowers trembled, and lilacs waiting to breed from the land. There she stood at the edge of waking and dream, Winter almost gone and Spring not quite here yet."

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14 hours ago

Painting of a birdsnest in a bed of wildflowers.

Birdsnest in a Bed of Wildflowers, O.D. Ottesen (1816–1892).

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14 hours ago

How Reynard prepares for a great pilgrimage and is read by Belijn, and how he bids farewell to the court, Gustave Van de Woestijne (1881–1947).

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5 hours ago

The Invisible Prince and His Phantoms – Sheridan Le Fanu Sheridan Le Fanu, Dublin’s “Invisible Prince”: creator of Carmilla and Uncle Silas, master of ghosts, Gothic desire, and haunted Ireland.

And a bit more on Sheridan Le Fanu from yours truly can be found below!

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16 hours ago

In autumn, ensorcelled knights dream of death pale kings et al

... but what dreams may come if a faery’s child catches them in spring?

We get to the bottom of it, in our 12th #darkspringtide tale, from the hills of Hesse.

🎨 Frank Cadogan Cowper

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5 hours ago

Yes!

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11 hours ago

It’s jib is good.

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11 hours ago

Morning 🩵 🫖 🪕

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15 hours ago

Morning! 🐰 🌸

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15 hours ago

Yes.

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16 hours ago

Illustration of hare in black waistcoat sat on stool next to a side table with white floral vase with spray of red leaves in front of window with beige drapes, sun, rabbit is holding a balalaika.

Hello Thursday.
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

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16 hours ago

Grey Squirrel and Wood Anemones, Raymond Booth.

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16 hours ago

Photo of Canyon Wren. Description from ebird: ‘Subtly beautiful wren found in picturesque canyonlands and rocky outcroppings of the western U.S. and Mexico. Exceptional songster most often located by rich cascading song, or harsh call notes. Rich orangey-brown body with tiny black-and-white spots, bright white throat, and thin decurved bill. Most similar to Rock Wren; note more contrasting white throat. Almost always on the ground or cliffs, running up and down rocks, repeatedly disappearing from view only to suddenly pop up atop a lookout. Feeds on insects. Nests in crevice or under ledge on cliff.’

Wren of the Day:
Canyon Wren
📷 Bryan Calk

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16 hours ago

CURIOSITIES THE SKY
GARRETT P SERVISS
Blue cover with gold lettering with decoration of crescent moon and a star.

Book Cover of the Day:

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16 hours ago

March
It is the first mild day of March
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door.
There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green field."
WORDSWORTH.
Slayer of the winter, art thou here again?
O welcome, thou that bring 'et the summer nigh!
The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
Welcome O March! Whose kindly days and dry Make April ready for the throstle’s song.
Thou first redresser of the winter's wrong!
WM. MORRIS.
"The roaring moon of daffodil and crocus."
TENNYSON.
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The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady, Edith Holden, 1905.

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16 hours ago

Painting, nest of three blue eggs and one golden egg, surrounded by red berries.

🖼️ Catherine Hyde

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16 hours ago

Painting of both birds perched on cut branch with budded stems growing from it.

Mistle Thrush and Song Thrush, Tunnicliffe.

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17 hours ago

Goldfinch in pink tree blossom, illustration.

Morning.
Six Birds, George Brookshaw.

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22 hours ago

Ooo, thanks.

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22 hours ago

Indeed.

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22 hours ago

Night T 🖤

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