Laura Duthie
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Laura Duthie
@darkonelf.bsky.social
Just another Twitter peasant trying to survive the attention economy. Writer and creator @auntysocialworld.bsky.social. Cycling.

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Web: auntysocialworld.com
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I wrote this story in a mood during summer. The heat, the crowds, the emotional stuff that happens when we feel caged & then autumn comes along & changes everything.

So happy to be published with Underbelly Press. Here it is.

Beneath the Sun

#writing

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They said we couldn’t write it, but we will and we are.

#writing
January 22, 2026 at 6:23 AM
January 20, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Eyes in the dark.
January 19, 2026 at 6:03 PM
January 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Short loop up the hills before visiting my mate today. Tropical climbs, thermal fail.

#cycling
January 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
The only one from yesterday’s ride. Missed the rain, by 45.

#cycling
January 17, 2026 at 7:41 AM
The day is young and there’s a place you can go without rain.

#writing
January 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM
The quiet road.

#scape
January 16, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Definition of a good one.

#cycling
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Song of the bleak.
January 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
That sleep was good, but I’d have appreciated a little more time than three swigs of tea and 1.5 paragraphs. The pushups still happened though, nonnegotiable.
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 AM
January 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Turns out the best lines come not during the cortisol angst of dawn, but the final hours of a windswept Sunday when you’ve not had to talk and spent hours in blissful silence.

#writing
January 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
January 11, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Gravel tyres aren’t invincible, some cats love you without knowing your name and that 21% climb you did in 2024 just got a minute faster.

Great ride.

#cycling
January 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Off out on the bikes, don’t know quite where we’re going or what time we’ll be back. The lights are charged, the cakes and Haribo are packed, phones will be off and Coros will do the rest. The best feeling.

#cycling
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Wild times.

#scape
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 AM
For the first time this week the morning isn’t spinning. Kudos to the Epley manoeuvre.
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 AM
When you go for an eye test together and they split you up in opposite ends of the corridor like misbehaving teenagers.
January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
It all played out on a vertigo wave.

#writing
January 8, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Busy day, lovely people.
January 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Huge road and bike trip planned this year….🖤
January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Day of the snow.
January 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Morning edits.

#writing
January 5, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Gratitude for all of the amazing outdoor rides we’ve had over this break. Fully expected to spend most of it on Zwift but we’ve been out almost every day hitting PRs and reclaiming our long lost local legends.

Rested and ready for routine to resume. It’s been a good one.

#cycling
January 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM