Graham Rice
@riceywrites.bsky.social
Some recent work here: https://freeflashfiction.com/fiction/competition-twenty-four-shortlisted-bubble-man/
Reposted by Graham Rice
Without further ado, here are my favorite stories of 2025, to give you something to read today.
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
PORTRAIT OF YOU IN FIVE PSYCHICS by Kirsti MacKenzie
First guy says: you’re gonna see a UFO. Like, BOOM. He lays this on me. Right now you’re probably thinking well, if that doesn’t torpedo the whole thing for you. But it didn’t. Okay? It didn’t. I sat ...
xraylitmag.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Without further ado, here are my favorite stories of 2025, to give you something to read today.
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
Went to martial arts class for 2 hours (2 hours) and emerged to find:
Visitors to the USA will need to provide 5 years of social media history.
The US Navy have pinched a Venezuelan oil tanker without saying why.
Toffee Crisps can no longer be categorised as chocolate.
Hell in a hand basket.
Visitors to the USA will need to provide 5 years of social media history.
The US Navy have pinched a Venezuelan oil tanker without saying why.
Toffee Crisps can no longer be categorised as chocolate.
Hell in a hand basket.
December 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Went to martial arts class for 2 hours (2 hours) and emerged to find:
Visitors to the USA will need to provide 5 years of social media history.
The US Navy have pinched a Venezuelan oil tanker without saying why.
Toffee Crisps can no longer be categorised as chocolate.
Hell in a hand basket.
Visitors to the USA will need to provide 5 years of social media history.
The US Navy have pinched a Venezuelan oil tanker without saying why.
Toffee Crisps can no longer be categorised as chocolate.
Hell in a hand basket.
Reposted by Graham Rice
European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): Photo taken by Paul Shaw in Cumbria, UK. #EuropeanRobin #RobinRedbreast #RedRobin #robin #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bsky
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): Photo taken by Paul Shaw in Cumbria, UK. #EuropeanRobin #RobinRedbreast #RedRobin #robin #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bsky
This is a lovely thing.
"Some people collect comic books, or vinyl records, or refrigerator magnets. I collect words."
Have you wondered about my weekly "from the quote book" posts?
Here's the explanation.
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-...
Have you wondered about my weekly "from the quote book" posts?
Here's the explanation.
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-...
The Words I Keep In My Nightstand Drawer
Parenting mirth, melancholy and misadventures. Like a mom blog, only better.
sugar-pig.blogspot.com
January 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is a lovely thing.
I wish you all a 2025 with love in it.
January 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I wish you all a 2025 with love in it.
Looking forward to spending a couple of hours with some old friends in a board game cafe today. Any recommendations for some 4 player games that are quick to learn and fun?
#boardgames
#boardgames
November 30, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Looking forward to spending a couple of hours with some old friends in a board game cafe today. Any recommendations for some 4 player games that are quick to learn and fun?
#boardgames
#boardgames
I've had a piece of flash published by @freeflashfiction.bsky.social and it's a piece I'm really proud of
It's called Bubble Man and the subject matter could really put a dent in your happy morning.
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
It's called Bubble Man and the subject matter could really put a dent in your happy morning.
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Competition Twenty-Four Shortlisted: Bubble Man – Free Flash Fiction
There has been too much science in her life of late, and so little magic. Beeping machines and tubes and porters’ wheels and hand gel and sterile surfaces and grown-ups with warm smiles and cold hands...
freeflashfiction.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:01 AM
I've had a piece of flash published by @freeflashfiction.bsky.social and it's a piece I'm really proud of
It's called Bubble Man and the subject matter could really put a dent in your happy morning.
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
It's called Bubble Man and the subject matter could really put a dent in your happy morning.
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Reposted by Graham Rice
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control