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Writer, poet, editor, loves sport, movies and other stuff. Writes fiction at abctales.com/user/marandina

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marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to have a short story published by the wonderful @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social

Thank you 🙏

darkwinterlitmag @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social · 13d

Oh to be in the arms of Mary. Compelling new fiction Why Does It Always Rain In Graveyards by Paul Marandina now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/why-doe...

Why Does It Always Rain In Graveyards by Paul Marandina

The procession of gravestones is staring at me. That’s how it seems with not a soul about. I scan the horizon, a site littered with trees. [...]

www.darkwinterlit.com

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 33m

Morning! ☕🍂💙

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 1d

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (7th October) was at 7.14am, sunset is at 6.31pm

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 1d

Morning! ☕💙🍂

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d

ABCtales is a brilliant, friendly writing site. Take a look and also give them a follow. There’s a Pick of the Day from writing on the site every day - great poems and stories. @abctales.bsky.social

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 2d

Morning. Happy Mondays! ☕💙🍂

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 3d

Cheers, T. Hope the wind has died down by you! So gusty last couple of days.

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 3d

They do! 😂

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 3d

Inside Fanzone at Villa Park for first time. Very civilised ⚽

#AstonVillavBurnley

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you 💙 Have a lovely Sunday. Cuddles and fun with the Bear! 🐻

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 3d

Morning! Off to Brum for the foootie shortly then on to Northampton to stay with my boy at his flat for a few days and for the first time. Wish me luck ⚽💙☕😀

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d

Resharing an old post for #BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday

‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney.

🖼️ Sydney Smith

An illustration from the children's book The White Cat and the Monk, a retelling of a 9th-century Irish poem "Pangur Bán". The illustration, created by Sydney Smith, depicts a monk sitting in his simple room, holding his white cat, Pangur, on his lap.
‘With my white cat, Pangur’

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Fungi Day! 🍄

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 4d

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d

‘after its feasting it seeks
its rest in a secret place
within an earthen cave—
there the mighty fighter
for three nights’ space
wends into slumber,
occupied by sleep’ ~ The Panther, From The Exeter Book. #BookWormSat #Caturday
🖼️ Wellcome Collection

Panther illustration

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Caturday

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 4d

Morning! 💙☕🌦️

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d

‘The quick-scut, the dew-flirt,
the grass-biter, the goibert,
the home-late, the do-the-dirt.
The starer, the wood-cat,
the purblind, the furze cat…’ ~ The Names of a Hare, trans from Middle English by Heaney. #BookWormSat
🖼️ From Cocharelli Codex, c.1330, Genoa, Italy, Brit. Library, 28841, f. 6v

From a medieval manuscript,
The artwork depicts two hares, a beetle-like insect, and a moth in a field of flowers and other plants

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Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social · 5d

Story: Truth is Written

www.abctales.com/story/sean-m...

Psychosis, subediting, and the stars.

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Friday!💙🐸

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 6d

Morning! ☕🍂💙

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 8d

Morning. Happy October! 💙☕🍂

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 8d

Morning! 💙☕⛅

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations, Drew 🎊

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 9d

And a new story by me, Collateral, over on Revolution John.

Tom Cruise, a Peruvian hairdresser, a New York cabbie, a snake called Otto.

And plenty of murder.

revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...

September 29, 2025: Fiction by Drew Gummerson

Then she said, I’d like to see the Empire State Building. I’ve seen that movie. King Kong. Fay Wray in the hands of the beast. And then she, this little Peruvian woman with perfectly blank features…

revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com

marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 9d

Morning! Happy Mondays 💙☕🌥️