Laila Amado

The Deep: We all know the story of the Titanic . . . don't we? The Deep: We all know the story of the Titanic . . . don't we? eBook : Katsu, Alma: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

The UK ebook of THE DEEP is 99p for the entire month of October! A great way to stock up for spooky season www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Alma-Ka...

I just read it! It’s a beautiful, heart-breaking story 💔And now I need to read more of your stories 😊📚💙

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

Loved this essay: therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

I will not create new social media accounts. I will walk deep into the woods & spell out my silly little thoughts with sticks + fallen leaves for whoever finds them

Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India p. 60 Bhoota Vahana Yanta Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine- men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between 1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE. According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture, as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after him and kill him. At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated as a Roman. This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master Robot-Maker, and had a son by her. Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh, and sewed the wound back up.

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

Yes, not a good thing 😬

A storm is coming
Dock lines in the harbor snap
Like elastic bands

#scifaikusaturday #storm #vss365 #elastic #haiku

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The 04 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#STORM

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#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
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Here’s my little horror story 💀🐙

I’m so happy that @talestoterrify.bsky.social gave it a home 🙏

I have news! Tomorrow, my small flash horror is going live with @talestoterrify.bsky.social 💀 Stay tuned!

(this is my first attempt at a promotional video, please don't judge too harshly 🤦‍♀️

#horrorcommunity

Crafting Communities: Masons in Medieval London - Medievalists.net A look at how misteries, guilds and fraternities worked to create a sense of community for the masons of medieval London.

Crafting Communities: Masons in Medieval London www.medievalists.net/2021/09/craf... #Masons

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 27-SEP-25 is:

Wife & Stuff

#Prompt

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The 27 September 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#HOPE

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#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
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#PoetryCommunity
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Open For Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions. Responses usually in less than two weeks. BTW, our editor loves when an animal pops up in a story.

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction

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Six weeks remain to send us your best short story! Read all details here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

So, apparently, when you’re learning your third language, the first two give up on you 🤔

#writerslife #randomobservations

In the #eventuality of her death, however unlikely, she asked to be buried at sea. The ice-cold blue, fading to black, seemed like a perfect antithesis to the smoldering agony of her immortal, phoenix blood. She dreamed of it sometimes, when the burn of her fire had her struggling for breath #vss365

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 24-SEP-25 is:

Attach & Excuse

#Prompt

if I continue scrolling for just a few more minutes I will reach the end + enlightenment & be free

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 23-SEP-25 is:

Truth & Wall

#Prompt

A bunny takes a very scary-looking book from a bookshelf, in an old mysterious reading room. The book is red, and has a glowing eye on it as well as strange patterns. The entire book is faintly glowing as well. An apparition and a face in a painting watch the bunny apprehensively.

Daily bunny no.3086 unearths a tome

FREE Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads - September 2025 Be the first to discover Fantasy and Sci-Fi’s Rising Stars! New tales, endless horizons—start your new journey here. (Limited-time offer)

FREE SCI-FI & FANTASY SEPTEMBER 2025
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#ScienceFiction #mustread #readers #bookworms #TBR #fantasy #ian1 #IARTG #Booksky

Open for Entries - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write. Open for Entries - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

Today is the last day to enter our 2025 Fiction Competitions! ⏰

Ready to enter? We're rooting for you! 👏

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P.S. If you've already entered, give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back!

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 20-SEP-25 is:

Priest & Found

#Prompt

He has not a care
In one hundred galaxies
Orange cat sleeping

#scifaikusaturday #care #haiku

A Pixabay image of a spacesuit-helmeted person on an alien world. The helmet visor reflects the person’s view of the landscape. A golden rectangle highlights the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag.

The 20 September 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#CARE

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#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
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#WritingPrompts

Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk into the Woods by Anna Vangala Jones - CRAFT We’d agreed to never come back to this place yet here we are. The wind whispers through the trees and unsettles our hair, trying to remind us to leave. Why would we return to these woods? “I don’t car...

I have a new story in Craft Literary, “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods”, about the people & places that haunt us. would be so thrilled for you to read this one 👻 🌲 🤍 www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/19/t...

A cover image of Chuck Wendig's book, "Damn Fine STORY: Mastering the tools of a powerful narrative"

Shout out to @chuckwendig.bsky.social, who wrote an excellent book on how to write compelling narrative, which I reference every year in my Science Communication course.

Issues With Authority Where Dark Things Rise Uncertain Sons Bad Things Happened in This Room The Ghosts of Merry Hall Watching Evil Dead Exiles Fiend Good And Evil Veil The Whistler Galloway’s Gospel Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave American Werewolves

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