Jenny Gaitskell
@jennygaitskell.bsky.social
Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
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Pinned
wind blown off the sea
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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MOONDUST WILL COVER YOU - A LITERARY TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE just got published. Featuring my short horror story Scary Monsters and a few film reviews of classic Bowie films by Nocturnicorn books. 🙏 #poetry #shortfiction #anthology
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
MOONDUST WILL COVER YOU - A LITERARY TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE just got published. Featuring my short horror story Scary Monsters and a few film reviews of classic Bowie films by Nocturnicorn books. 🙏 #poetry #shortfiction #anthology
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A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
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Moult is a reprint of one of my first pro sales. It was in a print anthology, so I'm glad people will be able to read it particularly since it was written in both English and Malay.
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Moult is a reprint of one of my first pro sales. It was in a print anthology, so I'm glad people will be able to read it particularly since it was written in both English and Malay.
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∴ skitterd sideways fate
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
∴ skitterd sideways fate
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
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I invented a moth
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I invented a moth
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
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It might seem odd that cats like cardboard boxes, but I don't think it's strange at all. If I could fit inside a cardboard box, I'd stay there all day.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It might seem odd that cats like cardboard boxes, but I don't think it's strange at all. If I could fit inside a cardboard box, I'd stay there all day.
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Thanks FemAsia for giving this a home.
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A Triptych of Epiphanies - FemAsia Magazine
(I)So, today I learnedthat the word ‘tense’ has many rootsand as David Armstrong on Quora puts itthe word travelled to English‘by doing a little violence to the Latin’and that somehow seemed appropria...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thanks FemAsia for giving this a home.
femasiamagazine.com/a-triptych-o...
femasiamagazine.com/a-triptych-o...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
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alien floral
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
alien floral
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We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
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If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
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“Cascade Dreams”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Cascade Dreams”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio
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I'll be sharing some small works for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme, #small
These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas 😊🎨
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas 😊🎨
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'll be sharing some small works for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme, #small
These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas 😊🎨
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas 😊🎨
Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/late...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
wind blown off the sea
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
wind blown off the sea
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
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These woods are lovely, dark, and deep…ly disappointing cuz there’s no gingerbread house
me, hiking
me, hiking
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
These woods are lovely, dark, and deep…ly disappointing cuz there’s no gingerbread house
me, hiking
me, hiking
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wild forests we walk, endless, a waving sea of green, hidden paths between lakes and fens, lichen entangled in our hair, humming lines of forgotten songs that have unbeknownst to our mind slept in the shelter of our souls -
can I know
what we have lost?
burning melodies
#haiku
#haibun
#poetry
can I know
what we have lost?
burning melodies
#haiku
#haibun
#poetry
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Pa's in the kitchen loading up the shotgun. Mama's outside sharpening her axe. I'm in the back room hid under the bed but I can see Billy with his back braced against the door. Won't do no good when the #bone yard starts to rise. We hear the crows call warning. Gonna be another long night.
#whistpr
#whistpr
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 November 22, 2025: #BONE
#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
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 November 22, 2025: #BONE
#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
The microplastics in my body unionised by Ross McCleary
The microplastics in my body unionised while I was staring at the ocean;they took matters into their own hands,making pickets in the alcoves ofmy prefrontal cortex, replacingfuzzy void yesterdays with...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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after the rain came
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
after the rain came
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
the sky lay down in the field
where the river was
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM