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Lee Bailes

@leebaileswriter.bsky.social

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Writer, filmmaker, Screenwriter, cat servant, nerd. A UK expat in Sweden. #Horror fan. https://linktr.ee/lee.bailes Published in various horror anthologies and working on a collection of short horror stories for publication in 2025

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 4d

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FV8F56B...? my tale THE IMMACULATE JUNK has been included in this mammoth 732 page tome - a tribute to William S. Burroughs #anthology #fiction #poetry #essays ✍️📖🥂featuring work by Poppy Z Brite, Graham Masterton and many more

The Junk Merchants: A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs, Director's Cut

Amazon.com: The Junk Merchants: A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs, Director's Cut: 9798268165432: Johnson, Alex S., Masterton, Graham, Jakubowski, Maxim, Berry, Iris, Whitehead, Ron Lee, Kiernan, Caitlin R., Nichols, Natasha Lyn, Busch, J.D., Brite, Poppy Z., Jaffe, Larry: Books

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KuroKoneko Kamen @kurokonekokamen.bsky.social · 1d

#FREE 4 everyone 10/11-10/15!
Wicked Warlock of Oz
💚Who's in the mood to root for the villain?🖤
The Wicked Warlock Jadyn wants World Domination. Cyborg Assassin Tina Woodcutter wants his life. Will these enemies become lovers?
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#BookSky #Romance #Fantasy #Adultfairytales

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Ken Stark @kenstark.bsky.social · 1d

"Horror as it should be. Detail high, blood by the gallon, suspense at every turn."

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SciFanSat Magazine @scifansat.bsky.social · 1d

Authors, avoid last-minute lunacy! Five days remain to get your manuscripts of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More into #SciFanSat before submissions close on October 16th at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More! October’s theme is MOON. The deadline for submissions is October 16th, 2025.

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IanBB ♾️🦋 @infinityloop.bsky.social · 1d

Slips on her boots
Slides naked
Into the raincoat

Pours brandy
Dons his smoking jacket
Lites a pipe.

Dashing out
In night rain
To cover
The bbq

Lites a fire
Settles into
His easy chair.

Morning
Housecoats n’ slippers
They wave
To each other
Collecting their
Newspapers.

#vss365 #raincoat

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 1d

How I write every piece

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Vanishing and Endangered Cultures @nowaykgn.bsky.social · 1d

In the remote, mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, girls from ethnic minority groups struggle to access education. In Pakistan, young Kalash girls face similar challenges, where a lack of female teachers, scarce schools, and early marriage hinder their growth and learning.

The mountainous terrain of northern Vietnam makes access to schools difficult. Many villages are located far from the nearest primary or secondary school, often requiring children to walk several kilometers each way—sometimes over steep, muddy, or dangerous paths. During the rainy season, travel can become impossible. Because families worry about their daughters’ safety on these journeys, girls are often kept at home.

Girls are often expected to marry early (sometimes in their mid-teens) and focus on domestic responsibilities rather than schooling. In some communities, education for girls is still seen as unnecessary or even inappropriate, reinforcing a cycle where women remain dependent and underrepresented in decision-making.

The Kalash valleys are extremely remote, accessible only by winding, sometimes dangerous mountain roads that are often blocked during winter or after landslides. Many villages are hours away from the nearest school. Even where schools exist, they are few, small, and often under-resourced, lacking classrooms, sanitation, and proper teaching materials. For girls, long travel distances raise safety concerns, which discourages parents from sending them to school.

Most schools in the region teach in Urdu or English, while the Kalash speak their own language (Kalasha-mun), which has traditionally been unwritten. This language gap makes it hard for young Kalash children to understand lessons, leading to poor performance and high dropout rates. Additionally, the national curriculum doesn’t reflect Kalash culture or traditions, which can make schooling feel alien and irrelevant to both students and parents.

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Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 1d

Hullo #vss365 and to #raincoat

Double-Decker Bus

Sometimes less obvious dates
matter most.

Tuesday, the first week, New Jersey.
I watch
from the hired car
a bunting of hefty Americans leave the bank you were in.
Each hoisting belts as a well-worn reflex,
spot-lit on steps
by the brazen late October sun.

Only then were we properly there.

Or that winter beach,
a time when every photograph counted.
Here you are:
turning away from me,
speaking with the rudely intruding ocean;
a nervous gust caught
gauche
under your long blue raincoat.

I asked you the following day.

Even the birth
has shrunk as the utmost date,
the love already decided.
It struck on the jolting bus,
after the phone call,
when we knew
for certain.

Upstairs,
front seat,
shaken and lifted
all the way there.

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 18h

🙌👌

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Dripping With Words | Intuitive Writer @drippingwithwords.bsky.social · 2d

..a sublime-tangerine-autumn-sky.. mother nature can be groovy like that..

©️📸 WIP-dww

#thoughts #quotes #photography #zen #sunset #light #spirituality #writesky #nature #landscape #sky #art #autumn #forestfriday #philosophy #life #sunrise #scape #bluesky #clouds #trees

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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 1d

He unclipped the buckles on his bloodied raincoat, peeled it off & hung it on a peg in the mudroom. He propped his axe up in the corner & pulled off his galoshes. His descent into madness began weeks ago & he was confused. He'd killed another neighbor tonight. #vss365 #Satsplat

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 1d

War season pollen.
Not transgression; it just flows
across space, they say.

#scifaikusaturday #inkmine #haiku

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 18h

Yes. Very much. You too 🙏🙂

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mmr @mmr3cords.bsky.social · 18h

Love how this version brings out the cosmic calm in Holst’s music. Enjoy your Sunday!

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 18h

The little creatures swarmed over Kluhm like land-based #piranha, all teeth and bad attitudes, but Rory had chosen Kluhm’s spells well. At least two that every enemy surrounding the character.

But, every time Rory cast the spells, more of the creatures arrived and Kluhm’s magic dwindled.

#vss365

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 18h

Dylan hitched Hogan against his ship, the courageously named #Piranha. A little ship with a lot of firepower.

At one time, Hogan was a scourge of the factions, a one-man revolutionary force who didn’t know, exactly, what he rebelled against, but he rebelled hard.

A shadow of himself.

#vss365

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 19h

🙂🙏 thank you

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 19h

a man in a cowboy hat is singing into a microphone with the caption i like it i love it

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 19h

#vss365 He never knew how. But he appreciated the results. Each time, he dropped the body down the well, and as if stripped by a shallow river of #piranha, only the bones remained. It was a killer's dream to have such valuable body disposal assistance. Though he always wondered...

A screengrab of a too long skeet draft. it reads: "#vss365 He never knew how. But he appreciated the results. Each time, he dropped the body down the well, and as if stripped by a shallow river of #piranha, only the bones remained. It was a killer's dream to have such valuable body disposal assistance. Though he always wondered who was doing the cleaning as he crushed the remains to dust.
He would lie in wait and listen for the chomping, but if he ventured too near, as if they picked up his scent, they hid.
Only when he got careless, when he slipped on ice and fell in did he finally discover the source.
They were on him before he could scream, in a flurry of furry legs and wicked teeth. Until only his bones remained."

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MT Hart @mthart.bsky.social · 19h

#writerslift!
Time to promote yourself on this #supernaturalsunday!
READERS find your next read here!
ABP=Always Be Promoting!
Post your links, websites, books, art audiobooks, pages, WhateverItTakes! #ShamelessSelfpromoSunday
BUY A BOOK!

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 19h

www.amazon.com/Junk-Merchan... a literary tribute to William S.Burroughs featuring poetry, essays and short fiction #anthology #collection

The Junk Merchants: A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs, Director's Cut

Amazon.com: The Junk Merchants: A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs, Director's Cut: 9798268165432: Johnson, Alex S., Williams, Alea Celeste, Jakubowski, Maxim, Berry, Iris, Whitehead, Ron, Kiernan, Caitlin R., Nichols, Natasha Lyn, Busch, J.D., Brite, Poppy Z., Jaffe, Larry: Books

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 19h

These waters, python
And piranha infested,
The river has teeth.
#vss365 #piranha #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 1d

It’s one thing if you enter the woods, it’s another if the wilderness shows up at your doorstep! 😰 Check out “A Touch of the Wild” by Anne Wilkins, our wilderness horror release this week

#writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction
@annewilkins.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-to...

A Touch of the Wild

Sometimes we hear him howling, other times it’s a scream to pierce the night, but more often it’s a low keening wail. Tonight the noise is a cat’s yowl; it rises from the woods, creeps under our do…

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 20h

This is a great ambient take on Holst's The Planets suite - very chilled Sunday vibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv70...

THE TOMITA PLANETS

YouTube video by COSTNER1121

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mmr @mmr3cords.bsky.social · 20h

Tomita – The Planets

冨田勲（Tomita）は、日本を代表するシンセサイザー音楽の先駆者。クラシック作品を電子音で再構築し、世界的に高い評価を得た。代表作『The Planets』（1976年）は、ホルストの「惑星」を大胆にシンセサイザーで再解釈した名盤で、音響の深みと幻想的表現が際立つ。グラミー賞に複数ノミネートされ、電子音楽史における金字塔とされる。宇宙的スケールと詩的感性が融合した、冨田の最高傑作の一つ。
▶️ youtu.be/Uv707GLbFGw

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Tomita – The Planets

冨田勲（Isao Tomita）は、日本の作曲家および電子音楽のパイオニア。

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GhostOrWeird👻🎈 @ghostorweird.bsky.social · 20h

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