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Jenny Gaitskell

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Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic. she/her https://www.jennygaitskell.com/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jennygaitskell

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 19d

Seagazing, I wonder. These sparkles must be telling secrets.

Nah, Beach Crow says. The sea whispers her lickle myths into shells. All about moons & stars & comets.

But that's how most water began. As comet ice flying through space.

Cor, says Beach Crow. That's why she's full of sky.

#whistpr

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 2m

'But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.'

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

#BookWormSaturday
(is celebrating short stories)

🎨 Jennifer Moses

Painting of sunrise or sunset over a calm sea. Lemon yellows and blue- greys. The sun peeps over a thick line of cloud above the horizon. It is reflected on foreground ripples. Suggests maybe a moment of unexpected happiness.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 2h

'See! Sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.'
-Angela Carter

@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat 's celebration of the short story! :-)

🎨Lucy Campbell

Artwork of a girl with long black hair embracing a wolf. Trees in the background. Blue, white colours.

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#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 8h

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 11, 2025: #VISITOR

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Drawing in white ink against a black background of the head and neck of a rabbit in the lower right hand corner of the image looking up at a black and white peppered moth flying in from the top left corner to visit.

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 34m

Love this past/promises and wend/treden
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’dáːvɪ́d ’wɪ́ɡɡə́nz- forth unto the wode, bbs @wordingway.bsky.social · 5d

∴ past seeps oure marrow
gostes of days drip quyetly
wend we goe
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walls bear adverts
gilt’d promises shimmer
treden past þis schyne ∴

#senryusunday #vss365 #haikufeels #poemspell #anicca #anatta #vairagya #wuwei #mindfulmischief

🗣️🗝️
þ "th" as in this

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 38m

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 49m

I love these typing mice, and adore that tail waiting to be written.
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Salem Islas-Madlo (ella/she/her) @deepsouldiver.bsky.social · 5d

a watertall
speaks itself alive
waters cascading
storytelling a wildness
like a spirit released
it laughs and cries
all at once

#poetry

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 1d

for the heart
very small things
morning sparrows

- Deborah A. Bennett
Rattle Magazine, Issue 68

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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 3d

everybody's moon
the long strands of salt marsh grass
dumbstruck with wonder

#haiku

Adrianna Amari @4aamari.bsky.social · 4d

everybody’s moon

October’s moon rises soft and low in the sky’s pastel marsh where we stand amidst the green gold grass

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 4d

in the apple tree
lichen’s little curved fingers
clawing at the moon

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you very much, TD!
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, as acquiring/commissioning editor, my only wish for people who want to submit to the venue:

Read the magazine/journal/lit mag you are submitting.

Get a feel/tone of it. Otherwise, you will be sending something that doesn't really fit their vibe.

#writingcommunity #protip

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DADA Poem @dadapoem.bsky.social · 5d

Implode explode
Lightning sight
Lose resets
Rewinding twitches

#dada #dailypoem #poemoftheday #poem #poetry #writing

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 3d

1429) Vonbot. Mysterious European aristocratbot who's very keen to have you for dinner in its unnecessarily large gothic mansion. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

An ovoid robot with banded arms and legs and an antenna. It's wearing a dark, high-collared cape with a scalloped hem, and its antenna has little bat wings on it. It's holding a Winebot filled with dark liquid, which is smiling evilly. Vonbot itself is extending one arm towards the frame, has a raised eyebrow and a crooked smile that reveals two small fangs. Vonbot isn't casting a shadow, but the Winebot is.

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Wynn @oddlywynn.bsky.social · 16h

A little ghost, they're everywhere this time of year 🍂

#art #illustration

Digital painting of a ghost, hiding in tall grass and peeking out from behind an orange cosmos flower. The background is a dark purple sky at sunset.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 21h

Happy #Invertober Day 10!

Common earthworm (lumbricus terrestris)

Went for a different style as I wasn't sure how to make an earthworm aesthetically pleasing 😅

#Invertober2025

Black and white drawing of an earthworm in an S-shape on its side. The words would you still love me follow the curve on the left and the words if I was a worm follow the curve on the right. The background is an elaborate symmetrical doodle of teardrop shapes of varying sizes.

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 2d

My twelfth piece for my solo show at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social!

#kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #originalpainting #fantasyart #fantasyillustration

watercolor and gouache painting of a girl in a feather cloak floating midair above a standing stone as a crow and a storm come to greet her

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John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

Ink and watercolor cartoon showing an octopus peeking out of a coconut shell underwater. The octopus says: "I've been working on a novel, but I'm afraid to show anyone. Maybe I'll put one page out there." A fish swims up to look at the page and says, "That stinks!" The octopus disappears inside the shell and says, "Everyone's a critic."

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

Forgive me, I am by nature an open book,
but was discarded carelessly halfway through
a reading, pages splayed, binding strained.
But regard the spine: creases long and smooth
as the lines of the South Downs viewed from afar.

A chance, my friend, that’s all I ask.

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe

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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 14h

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Oct 10, 2025

Weekend #Prompt - TRANSGRESS
(any form of the word)
sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku

post with the hashtag: #inkMine

over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekend Prompt: TRANSGRESS

use any form of the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 13h

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

www.smokelong.com

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 14h

finding seeds
amongst the stubble
next summer's skylarks

#DailyHaikuPrompt (straw)

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 21h

*Bet not Beth