Jack Preston King

I feel space —
tangled and expecting

Sharing with my students tomorrow.

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

13th Time is the Charm! I've been writing my novel, The Third Day for about 18 months. I'm about 30 pages short of half-way through the book for the 13th revision!

Jymsbooks Newsletter March 2026 eomail5.com/web-version?... #booksky

Library Lions “I think you should call her parents.”

“𝑌𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑒.”

“𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎. 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝐴 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟.”

#paranormal #flashfiction #200WordStory #libraries

March is Time Traveler Awareness Month! Somehow we also managed to review The Treacherous Time Machine by Merlin Mesmer Merlino! Swear we didn't actually plan that! If you're a fan of obscure books written by someone into #ufos & important to #ufology, check this ep!
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Life is an act of narrative will.

I alchemized my actual living soul into this 7400+ words article.

This one contains lots and lots of practical tips & even a smidge of "creative homework"💙📚

From the series: How to Get Your Writing to Escape the Longtail of Obscurity & Make a Living as an Artist.

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How to Enter a Forest of Imagination with Dr Penny Hay In this episode of Be & Think in the House of Trust, join Servane as she engages with Dr. Penny Hay, an inspiring educator, artist, and researcher dedicated to igniting […]

If you have a space and time this weekend, do listen to this gentle conversation in ‘’The House of Trust’ with the wonderful @servanemouazan.bsky.social 🦋💚
servanemouazan.co.uk/captivate-po...

The Idea of the World: The Mental Nature of Reality Bernardo Kastrup's The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality is the most significant challenge I’ve encountered yet to the prevailing Physicalist paradigm…

My #BookReview of The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality, by Bernardo Kastrup

#Idealism #philosophy #ontology #metaphysics #Booksky

How much further? How long is it now!

At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010 At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. Discovered in digital archives by poet and...

Lucille Clifton fans rejoice!

This arrives in April...

At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010
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70+ previously unpublished poems!

Never read Clifton? Learn about her:

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucill...

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#poetry #poets #books

PKD died 5 months after this letter was written. What a great high note to end on.

Letter from Philip K. Dick to Jeff Walker (The Ladd Company) about Blade Runner. #scifi #sciencefiction

Build Better Poems Four essential tools for your poet’s toolbox

Poetry is more than simply prose broken randomly at weird places to make it “look like poetry.”

#poetry #poets #writing #WritingCommunity

I feel this new light
on an old presence

Dad: WHAT STORY WOULD YOU LIKE TONIGHT? WE CAN READ ANYTHING EXCEPT... Calvin: THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT D: NO! NO VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT TONIGHT! WE'VE TRIED TO DECIPHER THAT BOOK A MILLION TIMES! C: I WANT THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT! D: LOOK, YOU KNOW HOW THE STORY GOES! YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE THING! IT'S COMPLETELY UNREADABLE ! C: I WANT MYSTERIOUS GLYPHS AND SIGILS! C: WOW, THE STORY WAS DIFFERENT THAT TIME! H: (glyphs and symbols)๐๕๗๐ «aป cH=97เปิดด SonD arolfg fregroltg Totleos จารfor2riniden tazog N

The rise and fall of robots.txt As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

The text file that runs the internet www.theverge.com/24067997/rob...

Can Americans Love Poetry Again? How we lost poetry for the people—and how we can get it back.

thedispatch.com/article/amer...

We are all experiences — everything

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." ~ Henri Bergson

The Harvard Psychedelic Club Less than a year into my own life – I was born in 1963; The Harvard Psychedelic Club started in 1964 – four men met in the Harvard University psychology department and launched a consciousness…

My #BookReview of The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America, by Don Lattin

#psychedelics #LSD #history #Booksky

This secondhand experience,
let it flow — a broken, rattled
remnant of

And what is the best time for remembering? At noon
when shadows are hidden beneath our feet, or at twilight
when shadows lengthen like longings
that have no beginning, no end, like God?'
— Yehuda Amichai

According to a recent article by Thomas D'Agostino, one of my favorite signs in Massachusetts has been removed.
This is bullshit! They're erasing our cultural history of satanic imps! 😤

This is brilliant. ✨

Ready for occult jargon bingo 2026:

Coleman Barks - Wikipedia

R.I.P. Coleman Bryan Barks (April 23, 1937 – February 23, 2026) ...

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#ColemanBarks #Rumi

#MAURICENICOLL ON THE ONE NEEDFUL THING

“Everyone is born into the world with one lesson to learn from the esoteric standpoint, one task to perform in regard to himself, and unless he begins to see it, his life is really meaningless. We have to remember something we have all forgotten.

Ghazal for Joey Synonyms for dead: deceased, passed, the end, gone. Though familiar with grief, I can't comprehend gone. I searched why is my text message green? None of the options were your friend is gone. Like a hole in a sweater can I mend gone? On grief's highway, can I rear-end gone? There's not enough space for the words to breathe. I go to my email outbox, try to unsend gone. Synonyms for Joey: kind, special, empath, love. Your music and the poems you penned transcend gone. sarah mills

one year is difficult to fathom