Reading at the airport, and what a book! Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social and @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is so good! Iโm enjoying it immensely.
#booksky
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@amadolaila.bsky.social
Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
Reading at the airport, and what a book! Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social and @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is so good! Iโm enjoying it immensely.
#booksky
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A Pixabay image of a spacesuit-helmeted person on an alien world. The helmet visor reflects the personโs view of the landscape. A golden rectangle highlights the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag.
Just what is a โworld?โ ๐ค๐๐ช๐
The 29 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#WORLD
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#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
Now, this is an academic conference I can appreciate ๐ป
#writerslife
YEAR OF THE MER by @ldlewiswrites.com is an explosive epic fantasy of revolution and dark magic, as the Little Mermaidโs granddaughter marches to war.๐งโโ๏ธ
Perfect for fans of H. M. Long & Samantha Shannon. Coming April 2026! https://tinyurl.com/yvs4d29t
It was really lovely to see my story in @translunartl.bsky.social ๐
28.11.2025 16:31 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
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24.11.2025 20:40 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We should absolutely see this as a betrayal, and we should vote and act accordingly. @ec.europa.eu has to be held accountable for selling out Europe - and the world at large through it.
24.11.2025 12:07 โ ๐ 349 ๐ 94 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 6The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing ๐
09.11.2025 19:40 โ ๐ 133 ๐ 59 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 9This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thank you ๐ Iโm so glad you liked it!
15.11.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A Pixabay image of a spacesuit-helmeted person on an alien world. The helmet visor reflects the personโs view of the landscape. A golden rectangle highlights the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag.
There are those who just look at you, but then there are some who can see straight into your soul!
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The 15 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#OBSERVE
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#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
14.11.2025 14:16 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 5Selfie
On my way to Paris to read at @saloneurope.bsky.social !
#writerslife
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11.11.2025 20:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Looking forward to it ๐
11.11.2025 10:36 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0So thrilled to have this story published in @thedeadlands.com ๐๐๐
10.11.2025 18:43 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 05-NOV-25 is:
Minute & Prison
#Prompt
I follow the doctrine of falling leaves. An adept of autumnal sun, I sprinkle cinnamon on the foam of my coffee. Wrap myself in whispering, twilight shawls. I paint pictures, that immediately become #famous, with rain water spilling across the black asphalt. #vss365
05.11.2025 12:54 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0It was a persistent rumor. A constant buzz. Fans whispered that the bandโs most #famous song is cursed. Radio DJs laughed but removed the track from their lists. Tribute bands pretended it didnโt exist. One girl sang it on tiktok for hype and lolz. And was never seen again. #vss365
05.11.2025 11:22 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you! I joined the discord. Still need to introduce myself there though ๐
04.11.2025 13:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The best education he found was between the cutting stems of tall grasses in the wetlands of his homeland. Winds of change carried him half across the world, over mountains and planes, but he never forgot the letters written in sharp cuts on his skin. #vss365
04.11.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0UTTERLY BRILLIANT NOVEL. The construction, voice, emotional heft, and conversations with the cat.
22.10.2025 13:50 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโm very interested!
01.11.2025 11:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0People pushing a truck decorated for Halloween
Halloween is over ๐๐๐
The morning after edition.
#randomobservations
A man in a mauve top sits at a cafรฉ table. Part of tge bar is visible behind him.
The book till, with the bar visible behind it.
A long table stacked with books, with bookshelves on either side, cafรฉ tables visible at the back and Vienna Secession-style decor and antique lamps.
More bookshelves and cafรฉ tables.
It's a cafรฉ! It's a bookshop! It's both! Caffรจ San Marco in Trieste, which dates back to 1914. My first visit to Italy in 25 years, and I'd forgotten how fucking stylish the Italians can be. Photographs by Anne Billson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3...
29.10.2025 06:49 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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