Denise Bayes

I have felt like this since we got our new car. I don't trust a button to be a handbrake!

Congratulations!

Thank you Suzanne!

Thank you for all the inspiration and incredible feedback this year. I was scared to join @smokelong.bsky.social . I was wrong!

Totally agree!!

Absolutely agree!! And meeting you this year virtually and in reality was great too

Exciting to be part of this excellent edition of @underbellypress.bsky.social Beautiful production

Sparking with joy!

Thank you for sharing @templeinacity.bsky.social

Issue 5 Teasers Frost is tinging the leaves on the pavement with silver when Claude leaves at the end of his shift. The wrapped parcel nestles deep in his coat pocket. He treads with care as he heads back down the steps to the underpass. Stale urine fills his nostrils while traffic roars around the ring road above them. Going Underground Denise Bayes Text is on a black background. Underbelly Press logo in the top right corner. In the background is an image of an orange leaf.

Going Underground by @deniseb.bsky.social

'The wrapped parcel nestles deep in his coat pocket. He treads with care as he heads back down the steps to the underpass. Stale urine fills his nostrils while traffic roars around the ring road above them.'

Me neither. Bath continues to elude me. Congratulations @quickasaflash.bsky.social

Excited for this! Thank you for the support @underbellypress.bsky.social

Absolutely

And used to live in Robin Hoods Bay!!

Especially when you are married to a retired geography teacher...

Oh I loved that book.

Agree!!

Totally agree. Lovely editor. Share your work. A pleasure!

Haunting. Great title too.

10 days to go until submissions for Issue 5 close. Get those literary gems to us ASAP!

I am reading a book called Found at the moment and this echoed all of the emotions. And as a primary teacher, it really underlines the responsibility that is so much part of our job. Brilliant writing.

I am still loving @smokelong.bsky.social too. And the critiques are so helpful.

How did you know I would be here? Waiting in the shadows, stalking you through the smiles and the laughter and the happy ever afters? Because It knew you would come here, into this dank dark corner away from the crowd. And I would be ready for your return.

Temple in a City Temple in a City literary journal, Denise Bayes fiction

Every day is a good day to remember this. @deniseb.bsky.social
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Wow! That was worth a read.

Butter by Annabelle Taghinia The platter with the tea trembled in my hands. The teaware was glass, our finest, translucent rosebuds rising out of the sloping sides, rounded and gentle under cupped hands. If I dropped it, my sk…

'I swallowed injustice with my breakfast.'
Beautiful writing in this piece.
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Issue 5 O’Halloran/Recipe For Birthday Cake — Neither Fish Nor Foul

Bottoms up to @quickasaflash.bsky.social for this amusing and clever hermit crab tale. Love it
www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-ohal...

Issue 5 Gill/Afternoon Tea In Mandalay — Neither Fish Nor Foul

Love afternoon tea. Love lemon cake. Love this sharp little tale
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liminality slides into dissociation, quiet as a dovetail joint

Beautiful image. Loved the serpent too.

Don't move to Barcelona. I see a nun every time I leave the flat and live opposite and round the corner from convents...