Rekha Valliappan
@silicasun.bsky.social
Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
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three ghosts are standing in front of a fence
ALT: three ghosts are standing in front of a fence
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October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Aww thanks so much, Damien, the Journal is so rich with choices, it's a pleasure overall 🎤🙏📙❤️
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Aww thanks so much, Damien, the Journal is so rich with choices, it's a pleasure overall 🎤🙏📙❤️
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Thanks so much, Joyce 🙏📗❤️
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Thanks so much, Joyce 🙏📗❤️
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@silicasun.bsky.social thank you for sharing--!
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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#WednesdayWin 🍁 #HappyThanksgiving 🎃 #writers #poets #readers #litmags 📚 'I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.' --Henry David Thoreau 📖
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November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
#WednesdayWin 🍁 #HappyThanksgiving 🎃 #writers #poets #readers #litmags 📚 'I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.' --Henry David Thoreau 📖
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Thanks Jas!
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A personal and life changing experience of universal love written as an epic narrative poem based on tales by Ovid, Virgil and others
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A personal and life changing experience of universal love written as an epic narrative poem based on tales by Ovid, Virgil and others
amazon.com/dp/B09KXR6XV2
DIVINE LOVE: TWIN SOULS Heavenly Pleasures vs Demonic Trials
DIVINE LOVE: TWIN SOULS Heavenly Pleasures vs Demonic Trials - Kindle edition by FIELDS, HOPE. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading DIVINE LOVE: TWIN SOULS Heavenly Pleasures vs Demonic Trials.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Thanks Jas!
@prystauk.bsky.social
@wendybayne.bsky.social
@johnldeboer.bsky.social
@silicasun.bsky.social
@adeleroyce.bsky.social
A personal and life changing experience of universal love written as an epic narrative poem based on tales by Ovid, Virgil and others
amazon.com/dp/B09KXR6XV2
@prystauk.bsky.social
@wendybayne.bsky.social
@johnldeboer.bsky.social
@silicasun.bsky.social
@adeleroyce.bsky.social
A personal and life changing experience of universal love written as an epic narrative poem based on tales by Ovid, Virgil and others
amazon.com/dp/B09KXR6XV2
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Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a Japanese storytelling game popular during the Edo period. These gatherings were held on summer nights and to begin 100 candles or lamps were lit. Participants then took turns to tell 100 ghost stories (kaidan). After each story, a candle was...
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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August 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a Japanese storytelling game popular during the Edo period. These gatherings were held on summer nights and to begin 100 candles or lamps were lit. Participants then took turns to tell 100 ghost stories (kaidan). After each story, a candle was...
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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Bronze Age to Elphaba: The centuries-old origins of the witch's hat
www.bbc.com/culture/arti... #FolkloreThursday #Witchcraft
www.bbc.com/culture/arti... #FolkloreThursday #Witchcraft
Bronze Age to Elphaba: The centuries-old origins of the witch's hat
As Wicked: For Good is released, what are the historic meanings of conical headwear, and how has it evolved – from its ancient origins to the empowered Elphaba?
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November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Bronze Age to Elphaba: The centuries-old origins of the witch's hat
www.bbc.com/culture/arti... #FolkloreThursday #Witchcraft
www.bbc.com/culture/arti... #FolkloreThursday #Witchcraft
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A sincere thank you to our readers, our writers, and our dedicated staff of editors.
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Thanksgiving Gratitude, from Brevity and The Brevity Blog
A sincere thank you to the thousands of readers who visit our pages, the dedicated teachers who feature us in the classroom, and all the talented writers who send their essays to Brevity and to the…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A sincere thank you to our readers, our writers, and our dedicated staff of editors.
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#WednesdayWin 🍁 #HappyThanksgiving 🎃 #writers #poets #readers #litmags 📚 'I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.' --Henry David Thoreau 📖
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November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
#WednesdayWin 🍁 #HappyThanksgiving 🎃 #writers #poets #readers #litmags 📚 'I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.' --Henry David Thoreau 📖
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Long ago in Japan a strange thing happened. It was rice planting season and one of the farmers in the village was without a helper. To his surprise and delight, a stranger arrived and offered to help him. He worked very fast and by the end of the day all the...
#MythologyMonday #JapaneseFolklore
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#MythologyMonday #JapaneseFolklore
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April 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Long ago in Japan a strange thing happened. It was rice planting season and one of the farmers in the village was without a helper. To his surprise and delight, a stranger arrived and offered to help him. He worked very fast and by the end of the day all the...
#MythologyMonday #JapaneseFolklore
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#MythologyMonday #JapaneseFolklore
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'Exhibition Extraordinary at the Horticultural Society of London' (later the RHS), George Cruikshank, 1826, City of London archives. Presiding over this mockery of the Society's pomposity sit the chairman, John Elliott, 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
'Exhibition Extraordinary at the Horticultural Society of London' (later the RHS), George Cruikshank, 1826, City of London archives. Presiding over this mockery of the Society's pomposity sit the chairman, John Elliott, 1/2
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Our nominations for Best Small Fictions, just logged:
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Our nominations for Best Small Fictions, just logged:
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Our October issue is here and ready to CREEP. YOU. OUT.
Many thanks to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social for setting the atmosphere with this story & to Kate Voronina for putting such a delightfully horrific face on it. 💚 🖤
Read the full story ➡️ www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58
Many thanks to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social for setting the atmosphere with this story & to Kate Voronina for putting such a delightfully horrific face on it. 💚 🖤
Read the full story ➡️ www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Our October issue is here and ready to CREEP. YOU. OUT.
Many thanks to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social for setting the atmosphere with this story & to Kate Voronina for putting such a delightfully horrific face on it. 💚 🖤
Read the full story ➡️ www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58
Many thanks to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social for setting the atmosphere with this story & to Kate Voronina for putting such a delightfully horrific face on it. 💚 🖤
Read the full story ➡️ www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58
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Tuesday #Flashfiction: The Ants by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social will make your skin crawl (in a great way)!
“You lie in the grass and let ants crawl all over you. You lie so perfectly still that they start to think you’re just another part of the landscape—a rock, a log, a statue.”
“You lie in the grass and let ants crawl all over you. You lie so perfectly still that they start to think you’re just another part of the landscape—a rock, a log, a statue.”
The Ants | Your Impossible Voice
Holly Lyn Walrath — "You lie in the grass and let ants crawl all over you. You lie so perfectly still that they start to think you’re just another part of the landscape—a rock, a log, a statue."
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November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Tuesday #Flashfiction: The Ants by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social will make your skin crawl (in a great way)!
“You lie in the grass and let ants crawl all over you. You lie so perfectly still that they start to think you’re just another part of the landscape—a rock, a log, a statue.”
“You lie in the grass and let ants crawl all over you. You lie so perfectly still that they start to think you’re just another part of the landscape—a rock, a log, a statue.”
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Just what is going on In "Tiered Rejections" is part of the fun as one learns to read the "story," or stories. Stephen Cicirelli seems to have distilled here the elements of fictional drama to their essences, allowing other, stranger patterns to form as the scenarios accrete.
Tiered Rejections | Issue 33
By Stephen Cicirelli — "His brother, a junior and an athlete in high school, was visiting campus. Wanting to show him a good time—and, perhaps, convince him to play soccer there—he bought weed and Ban...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just what is going on In "Tiered Rejections" is part of the fun as one learns to read the "story," or stories. Stephen Cicirelli seems to have distilled here the elements of fictional drama to their essences, allowing other, stranger patterns to form as the scenarios accrete.
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#TuesdayTips - 'August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.'
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#TuesdayTips - 'August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.'
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
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The Greenhouse and The Garden, Eric Ravilious, 1932
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Greenhouse and The Garden, Eric Ravilious, 1932
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"Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely homework." ~ Joyce Carol Oates
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely homework." ~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Mushrooms and our search for meaning, or the rhizomatic link between Lewis Carroll, Sylvia Plath, and AI www.themarginalian.org/2025/06/03/f...
Mushrooms and Our Search for Meaning
This essay was originally published as the cover story in the Summer 2025 issue of Orion Magazine. “Who are you?” the caterpillar barks at Alice from atop the giant mushroom, and Alice, never quite…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Mushrooms and our search for meaning, or the rhizomatic link between Lewis Carroll, Sylvia Plath, and AI www.themarginalian.org/2025/06/03/f...
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Our NOVEMBER ISSUE is hot off the press. ✨
WORDS by @srirachachang.bsky.social, Chloe Alberta, @dianezinna.bsky.social, & Stella Wong.
ART by Danielle Shandiin Emerson.
PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar interviews @jessemechanic.bsky.social.
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WORDS by @srirachachang.bsky.social, Chloe Alberta, @dianezinna.bsky.social, & Stella Wong.
ART by Danielle Shandiin Emerson.
PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar interviews @jessemechanic.bsky.social.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Our NOVEMBER ISSUE is hot off the press. ✨
WORDS by @srirachachang.bsky.social, Chloe Alberta, @dianezinna.bsky.social, & Stella Wong.
ART by Danielle Shandiin Emerson.
PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar interviews @jessemechanic.bsky.social.
buff.ly/PLKRM5J
WORDS by @srirachachang.bsky.social, Chloe Alberta, @dianezinna.bsky.social, & Stella Wong.
ART by Danielle Shandiin Emerson.
PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar interviews @jessemechanic.bsky.social.
buff.ly/PLKRM5J
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Our nonfiction story of the week is Qurbani Eid by Rahad Abir.
Qurbani Eid - The Forge Literary Magazine
Qurbani Eid, a short nonfiction by Rahad Abir
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November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Our nonfiction story of the week is Qurbani Eid by Rahad Abir.
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hergung, f.n: plundering, pillaging, looting, ravaging. (HER-gung / ˈhɛr-gʌŋ)
Image: A wolf sneaking up on some sheep in a bestiary; England (York), 1200-1215; Oxford, St John’s College Library, MS 61, f. 21r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: A wolf sneaking up on some sheep in a bestiary; England (York), 1200-1215; Oxford, St John’s College Library, MS 61, f. 21r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
hergung, f.n: plundering, pillaging, looting, ravaging. (HER-gung / ˈhɛr-gʌŋ)
Image: A wolf sneaking up on some sheep in a bestiary; England (York), 1200-1215; Oxford, St John’s College Library, MS 61, f. 21r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: A wolf sneaking up on some sheep in a bestiary; England (York), 1200-1215; Oxford, St John’s College Library, MS 61, f. 21r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
#WednesdayWins for #WyrdWednesday - November Noir in Black & White - 📚
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#WednesdayWins for #WyrdWednesday - November Noir in Black & White - 📚
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️