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Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. On Instagram and Threads. 🖤 literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering No AI!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Dec 23

Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18m

And you.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18m

Yup.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18m

Night! 🦇 x

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1h

Perfect! Night night!

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1h

Goodnight.
🖼️ Maggie Vandewalle #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

Black cat with bat wings and stripy tail sat in tree under a full moon and night sky, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1h

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween card
BEWARE! THE TIME IS HERE IN WHICH THE WITCHES DO APPEAR.
A woman with blonde hair in a blue dress peers around a grandfather clock with ALL HALLOWEEN as the numbers on the clock and a pumpkin as the pendulum. Also a black cat leans around the other side of the clock with the shadow of a witch.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2h

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, illustr. Donald Chaffin, 1970.

An illustration from Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl, of the Fox family. It shows a family of foxes, including the father, Mr. Fox, seen from the back with a walking stick; the mother, Mrs. Fox, wearing a dress and apron; and their four children. They are gathered in a room with a door, framed pictures on the wall, and a hanging lantern in their burrow.

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ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social · 4h

Our Pick of the Day is part 2 of Beanzie’s story. It’s John Fante territory, Bukowski, but set in England. There’s booze, there’s women, there’s failure, there’s mushrooms.

www.abctales.com/story/beanzi...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 23h

That’s great.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 23h

Oh wow, love this!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 23h

Oh I’m not sure, will have to look into it.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 23h

Night night x

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good! 🎃

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ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social · 1d

Rich, sharp, complex, sensuous, read this wonderful piece from www.abctales.com/story/veracl... Clark, which is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can.

Vintage illustration of whole orange and half of a cut orange.

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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 2d

I completely missed two poems of mine being published by the incomparable Columbia Journal in the spring.

You can read 'Mary Visits a Magdalene Laundry' and 'Diary of Shem's Wife' here:
www.columbiajournal.org/articles/two...

Two Poems By Bex Hainsworth — Columbia Journal

Nuns rattle keys in locks with cloven hands, clop down corridors, dark as wailing mouths. The long dormitories stink of exorcism, of mould crusting like old blood, of smoke from a bonfire of birth ...

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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 3d

I've been keeping this quiet, but I can now share that my poem 'Arboreal' won First Prize in the Whispering Wisdom Poetry Competition! 💙

Arboreal - by Bex Hainsworth
It was my first time taking the bus to school
and the 662 was late. Half-carried into the aisle,
I was a squat shrub, crowded by a canopy
of strangers. My sapling arms reached up
for the swinging vines of the grab handles,
but I stumbled as the bus rounded a corner.
Sunlight was swallowed by anoraks, blazers.
And then I felt the elderly woman beside me
shift the soft branch of her arm around my waist.
The sequins on her mossy cardigan shimmered,
both of us undergrowth, but her roots were deep
in the floor, her walking stick like a tree stake.
She anchored us, bud and trunk. It was the safety
I’ve been searching for, all my life.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

The writing life.

Nothing happens forever & then last week a new story published, Collateral, I did an interview (appearing soon) and 2 reviews for Saltburn. @renardpress.com

The latest below. Thanks @dlgladwin.bsky.social for this. It’s lovely.