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judepickledplum.bsky.social
Jude P
@judepickledplum.bsky.social
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Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!

Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/

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Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash Mother Karma. Ochre yellow background with a line drawing of a woman with a bindi and her hair in a bun holding a baby. The lettering is “Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash” above the picture and below the picture Sumitra Singam (which is me, that is my name. On the cover of an actual BOOK)
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
I also went to the London Museum Docklands to the exhibition on mudlarking, with @cancienne.bsky.social and had a fab time (and not just laughing at the fun the exhibitors must have had slipping double entendre in one particular exhibit marker).
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Secrets of the Thames
www.londonmuseum.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
If you can get there, I thoroughly recommend this secret maps exhibition. Different ways of thinking about maps, why things are hidden, how they are hidden, the impact mapping can have. Utterly fascinating - and surprisingly moving in parts events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...
Secret Maps | British Library
Step into the shadows at Secret Maps, a major new exhibition revealing the stories hidden in some of history’s most mysterious maps.
events.bl.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social
The detail of the landscapes I grew up with add an irreplaceable core of truth to even the most surreal of my tales. This is Western Australia. My stories live here.
#SaltCityRunaway coming 2026
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Cartoon of three panels. The first shows a flamingo standing in water, one leg bent, caption: Flamingo. The second panel shows the same scene, but just the flamingo's head and neck are above the water, caption: Flamingoing. In the third panel there are now just a few ripples in the water. Caption: Flamingone
September 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
I just found out I could buy a baby goat for £100, and now I really, really want a baby goat. I can see myself walking my goat, hiring them out to graze awkward patches of grass, bringing it as a talking point at parties. And suddenly I see how people end up with a chimp and 8 tigers....
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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kathyhoyle.bsky.social
I'll be hosting Flash Face Off for WHQ next Friday (28th Nov) - come and join us at 8 pm - Wonderful flashy readings, and it's not too late to join in. Write 300 from the prompts and I could pick you for the live readings! All FREE! 😃😊😃😊

writershq.co.uk/flash-face-o...
Flash Face Off - a free weekly writing challenge
For people with a head and heart full of stories. The fastest, most fun way to develop your writing.
writershq.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Delighted to be in the latest issue of WestWord (and alongside some other wonderful pieces from brilliant writers) with this little story from earlier this year:

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On Leaving a Familiar Place
A Micro Fiction by Jo Clark
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November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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maireadwrites.bsky.social
Very proud that my story about deep cleaners is out in Gooseberry Pie today 😁 gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
gooseberry-pie.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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meproctor.bsky.social
"Never Wear Heels on a Date" by Emily J. Edwards ... today at Punk Noir Magazine. Have a read.
Never Wear Heels on a Date by Emily J. Edwards
from TIGHTROPE: a PUNK NOIR Magazine series
www.punknoir.online
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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louellalester.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
Can we please end this culture where all companies you interact with are like needy teenagers in the throes of their first crush...do you like me? Do you really like me? Why don't you love me? Even my email account has started asking for feedback. It's exhausting.
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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saranaidinecox.bsky.social
Exciting!
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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saloneurope.bsky.social
And now 🥁 launching her book Cold Toast it is @kazbarwrites.bsky.social

Buy it here
www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
Looked at myself in the mirror before leaving for work. Realised I'm channeling 'substitute art teacher, circa 1987' - coloured jeans, DMs with ribbon laces, v neck sweater with roll neck under, multicoloured bead necklace. That's my vibe, apparently.
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
Telling you, people of the ether, so I don't forget: my shopping is coming between 7-8am tomorrow, not after work. Hopefully I'll remember now I've told you.
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
Tragedy has befallen me...I have had to throw away teabags because they WENT MOULDY. The box was damp when it was delivered, so I was suspicious of them at first. But they lured me into a false sense of security by tasting ok for the first week. Then I had two manky cups of tea, & found mouldy bags
a cartoon bear with the words tragedy brah written below it
ALT: a cartoon bear with the words tragedy brah written below it
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October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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therelphian.bsky.social
I’m so completely chuffed to be part of Bull 🖤
mrbullbull.bsky.social MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · Oct 20
"They promised to call us, their first loves, but we’d already packed away our broken hearts with our childhood bears. We’d already packed away our Big Dreams for ourselves, our futures—shattered as metal and bone in a box marked Goodwill." @therelphian.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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New issue available! Check it out.

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#rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
judepickledplum.bsky.social
Today is the most Mondayish sort of Monday. Oozing with it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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therelphian.bsky.social
The time of Spook and Ghoul is ever closer - a good time therefore to creep yourself out with a bumper read of short fictions full of darkliness.
Available for less than ten English poundlets, it opens with Wigleaf longlisted piece - A Whisper of Before.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM