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Sarah McPherson
@summermoth.bsky.social
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HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her.

Find me here: https://linktr.ee/summer_moth
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Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social · Nov 28
Thank you so much to @bulbculture.bsky.social for putting this piece of mine back out in the world (originally published by Reflex Fiction) ❤️
#FlashFiction
bulbculture.bsky.social Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · Nov 28
The light is on for Sarah McPherson! @summermoth.bsky.social💡

“Primordial” is a beautiful and beguiling flash fiction that’ll bring you face to face with the ancient past.

Check out Sarah’s incredible writing over at the site!
Primordial - Sarah McPherson — Bulb Culture Collective
Bull leads, cow follows.
www.bulbculturecollective.com
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So many open tabs... so many...
levostregc.bsky.social Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3d
Be not ashamid of how manye wyndowes are open on thy computir at one tyme. Thou art buildinge a skyscraper.
January 17, 2026 at 10:10 AM
summermoth.bsky.social
Still time to sign up for the January session next week - come and read some brilliant stories by @devaneemily.bsky.social with us!

#BitesizedBookClub #FlashFiction #Reading
summermoth.bsky.social Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social · 12d
Bite-sized Book Club bookings are open for the first block of 2026 (link in next post)!

The sessions are as follows, 19:15-20:30 (UK time):
Thurs 15 Jan - Stories by Emily Devane
Thurs 12 Feb - Happy/Positive Stories
Thurs 19 Mar - Collaborations

#BitesizedBookClub #FlashFiction #Reading
January 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
Bite-sized Book Club bookings are open for the first block of 2026 (link in next post)!

The sessions are as follows, 19:15-20:30 (UK time):
Thurs 15 Jan - Stories by Emily Devane
Thurs 12 Feb - Happy/Positive Stories
Thurs 19 Mar - Collaborations

#BitesizedBookClub #FlashFiction #Reading
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
December reads 💙📚:
1. Spin of the Triangle by Stephanie Carty (novella-in-flash)
2. The Lives of the Dead by Fiona McKay (novella-in-flash)
3. The Museum of Shadows and Reflections by Claire Dean (short stories)

#books #amreading #novellainflash #shortstories #shortstorycollection #2025reads
Three books, roughly stacked on a red satin throw: 'Spin of the Triangle' by Stephanie Carty, 'The Lives of the Dead' by Fiona McKay, and 'The Museum of Shadows and Reflections' by Claire Dean. 'Spin of the Triangle' has a white spine with black text. 'The Lives of the Dead' has a black spine with white text. 'The Museum of Shadows and Reflections' has a teal and white cover that looks hand-drawn, with white text and an image of a female figure swinning underwater.
January 5, 2026 at 2:08 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
'you just want that storm to break, need to feel that thunder in your bones even if lightning gotta strike you first, you just gotta know — can I beat that devil?'

Lush, mesmerising writing - don't miss this one from @mynachang.bsky.social!
mynachang.bsky.social Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 17d
Happy for my first publication of the year to be in Ghost Parachute! Huge thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social! And thanks to Brett J Barr for the illustration!

(It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜)

Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
Deal Breaker, 1937 — Ghost Parachute
Devil days got that fool magic brewin’ in the hot, you know what I’m talking about, those close Kansas afternoons when the thunderheads build and build, climbing up the sky like they trying to get int...
ghostparachute.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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lunastation.bsky.social
Happy New Year! Happy Year Seventeen!!!

Come join us for our 17th year of championing women-identified authors!!!

Use code: ED8FC for 20% off your first year or month of support on Patreon
www.patreon.com/cw/l...

#ShortStories #WomenWriters #Fantasy #SciFi #Reading
January 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
Last-minuter here, as always!
A circular purple badge with yellow and white stars scattered across it. Text reads: The Welkin Writing Prize, Micro Wizard'.
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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smokelong.bsky.social
Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers!
www.smokelong.com/december-wor...
December Workshop Celebration 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...
www.smokelong.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Wild that out of all things from medieval cosmology, the thing about the ocean being full of monsters turned out to be correct.
December 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
I'll take that! 💜
Screenshot of a post by Merrian-Webster. Text reads: Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go. The Gif has stopped on the word 'joyous'.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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natflashfictionday.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who has subbed so far to our anthology on the theme of BRIDGES! Our editors @sharontelfer.bsky.social & @karjon.bsky.social are busy reading away! You have till 15 Feb to submit your flash. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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ALT: a purple background with snoopy jumping in the air and the words thank you
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December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
'Secrets wisp into ears and out the windows into the fresh air where, weightless and powerless, they can finally dissipate.'

Sharing this quiet, lovely piece from @chelseastickle.bsky.social to end the year ❤️
lostballoon.bsky.social Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · 19d
Our last piece of 2025 is by @chelseastickle.bsky.social! You are going to love “In The Dark.” lost-balloon.com/2025/12/31/i... (photo credit: Flashlight by Katie Tegtmeyer)
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
Homemade chocolate covered Brazil nuts (three ways), and Christmas pudding made and steaming!
Homemade chocolate covered Brazil nuts in a small grey ceramic dish. There are three varieties: white chocolate drizzled with milk chocolate, milk chocolate drizzled with dark chocolate, and dark chocolate drizzled with white chocolate. A Christmas pudding in a foil-covered basin, steaming in a pan on the hob.
December 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
As it is the season … have a wonderful Hookland Bone Horse by the wonderful @mariastrutz.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
Have loved this poem since the first time I saw it 🌅
terriwindling.bsky.social Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · Dec 21
A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books.

The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.
The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper: And so the Shortest Day came and the year died / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away. / They lighted candles in the winter trees; / They hung their homes with evergreen; / They burned beseeching fires all night long / To keep the year alive. / And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake / They shouted, reveling. / Through all the frosty ages you can hear them / Echoing behind us—listen! / All the long echoes, sing the same delight, / This Shortest Day, / As promise wakens in the sleeping land: / They carol, feast, give thanks, / And dearly love their friends, / And hope for peace. / And now so do we, here, now, / This year and every year. / Welcome, Yule!
December 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Folklore walks. Not just across imagined lines on maps of nations, not just across time itself. Folklore instinctively walks towards landmarks. When stories see a ruin, a notable tomb or impressive tree, they travel towards them to tether themselves in the landscape. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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"We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm." notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
Haven't managed as much reading time as I'd like the past few months, so just two completed reads for Sept/Oct/Nov 💙📚:
1. In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit by Debra A Daniel (novella-in-flash)
2. The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (novel)

#books #reading #amreading #booklover #novellainflash #novel #2025reads
The book 'In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit' by Debra A Daniel. The cover illustration is a painting of rabbit sitting in long grass with a hint of yellow flowers, against a purple sky. The book 'The Coin' by Yasmin Zaher. The cover is yellow with black text, and a photograph of a model wearing a white trenchcoat and snakeskin stiletto heeled shoes. Their head is not visible, they have one arm raised, and one leg kicked high in the air.
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
Thank you so much to @bulbculture.bsky.social for putting this piece of mine back out in the world (originally published by Reflex Fiction) ❤️
#FlashFiction
bulbculture.bsky.social Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · Nov 28
The light is on for Sarah McPherson! @summermoth.bsky.social💡

“Primordial” is a beautiful and beguiling flash fiction that’ll bring you face to face with the ancient past.

Check out Sarah’s incredible writing over at the site!
Primordial - Sarah McPherson — Bulb Culture Collective
Bull leads, cow follows.
www.bulbculturecollective.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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gretchenmcculloch.com
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.
October 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social

britishfantasysociety.org/divergent-pa...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
Still time to sign up for next Thursday's session if you want to read and discuss some fab flashes by @timcraig.bsky.social with us!
#BtesizedBookClub #FlashFiction
summermoth.bsky.social Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social · Sep 14
The next block of the #BitesizedBookClub is open for bookings! We'll be meeting on the following Thursdays, 19:15-20:30 (UK time):
25 Sept - Stories by Tim Craig
23 Oct - Fairy Tale/Myth Retellings
27 Nov - Ekphrastic Stories

Link to book: theleadedwindow.blogspot.com/p/bite-sized...

#FlashFiction
Bite-sized Book Club
The Bite-sized Book Club is a monthly online book club dedicated to reading flash fiction. Everyone is welcome, whether you normally read fl...
theleadedwindow.blogspot.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
summermoth.bsky.social
The next block of the #BitesizedBookClub is open for bookings! We'll be meeting on the following Thursdays, 19:15-20:30 (UK time):
25 Sept - Stories by Tim Craig
23 Oct - Fairy Tale/Myth Retellings
27 Nov - Ekphrastic Stories

Link to book: theleadedwindow.blogspot.com/p/bite-sized...

#FlashFiction
Bite-sized Book Club
The Bite-sized Book Club is a monthly online book club dedicated to reading flash fiction. Everyone is welcome, whether you normally read fl...
theleadedwindow.blogspot.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
summermoth.bsky.social
August read (just the one!) 💙📚:
1. It Felt Like Everything by K.S. Dyal (novella-in-flash)

#books #reading #amreading #booklover #novellainflash #2025reads
The book 'It Felt Like Everything' by K.S. Dyal lying on a red satin throw. The cover is grey, with black and grey text, and has a drawing of two people's legs in the top right, one wearing a short black skirt, white socks, and black and white trainers, and the other wearing skinny-fit black trousers, black socks, and white trainers.
September 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM