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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 5h

I knew there was something special about today! My favourite animal just such wonderful creatures.

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 5h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 2d

You pulled the
heart from me
like excalibur
from the #stone.
I hope
you are worthy
of the #power
bestowed,
ensuring it's
not #abused.
Since, I can be
as the Lady of
the Lake,
clothed in
#ribbon & silk,
come to claim
it back.

#emoetry #WildWalkPrompt #vssdaily #whistpr

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 1d

If that's not a logo for anxiety i dont know what is.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 2d

For this year's @molotovlitzine.bsky.social monsters call i had a wacky idea and listening to where it takes me. And its dead fun. Also may involve time travel.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 2d

Oh this sounds spooktacular, cant wait to read.

MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · 2d

Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

The cover wrap for Silent Screams, An Anthology of Quiet Horrors - featuring a striking, surreal illustration by Eric Brenner, depicting a screaming face with far too many eyes. The book blurb states:
The most terrifying horror stories don't churn your stomach. They creep like shadows, chilling with a touch. They build dread through atmosphere and emotion, rather than splatter and gore.

Welcome to Silent Screams, an anthology of quiet horror stories.

Within these pages, you will face strange and twisted scenes, dark and demonic characters, nightmares great and small, written by a host of talented authors from around the world.

These are shattering tales of grief and loss, visitations from strange folk, troubled dreams, and cursed artefacts.

These are whispers to make your skin crawl and your toes curl. Words to catch your breath and smother screams.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 3d

Since it's spooky season, its high time to share one of my favourite videos of all time, a bass clarinet version of danse macabre which hits all the right spooky feels for me, and sounds beautiful
youtu.be/pshc3VbRB1c?...

Danse Macabre for four bass clarinets: Edmund Welles live

YouTube video by Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet

youtu.be

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 4d

I want going to dress up for Halloween this year until I stumbled across...

Spirit of Halloween costume, fiction writer, includes laptop notebooks lukewarm coffee bags under eyes and a natural desire to cause characters pain in English

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Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social · 4d

He presses play, and the Moonlight Sonata begins.

He pours wine. Checks his suit. Lights candles, marks the circle, casts the spell.

Her ghost appears.

A translucent hand to his, he places a ring.

It clatters on the floor. She is gone.

The music stops.

#SciFanSat #vss #sff

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 4d

are you in need of assistance, mermailady?

the knight octopus will fight for your grace.

#monstrosilist #octopus #ttrpg #b&wart #bestiary

black and white drawing of an octopus wearing bespoke armor, wielding a lance. the armor also has crab pincers.

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Radar DeBoard @radardeboard.bsky.social · 6d

It's a true #oasis in every sense of the word

There's just one rule: you can't take the water with you

If you do, the desert will become jealous, and the sand will swallow you whole

For some reason, people never believe it, so the desert is always well fed
#vss365 #vsshorror

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 6d

Cracks knuckles. Prepares to wade in about how I have to shrink font and screen sizes to buy things and use websites, how cookies take up the whole page and the cross to close ads is tiny or hard to find..

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 7d

Totally! Have as many as you need.

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$fracturedlit.bsky.social$

Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social · 8d

New Micro by Jay McKenzie!

"Capuchin monkeys are named after the monks who are named after the drink or something like that, could be the other way around, so when Sam says that Olivia’s voice is like cappuccino, we nod..."
fracturedlit.com/cappuccino/

Cappuccino | Fractured

fracturedlit.com

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 10d

So yesterday I went to the theatre and tried out audio description for the first time, with a jazzy musical about Orpheus and Eurydice. And it was incredible, loved every minute. Meant I coulld enjoy a show without struggling, particularly when it was set in the dark Underworld.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 12d

In case you need to hear it today:

Being exhausted is completely valid.

The world is exhausting and actively trying to wear you down. There is nothing wrong with you if you are feeling it.

The wrong in this aspect is folks of the world trying to make you think this is normal.

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Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social · 14d

Ballerina is a memorial in motion as I hold out my cupped palm.

“Hello, cosmic dancer.”

She whirls past, drawing my handful of stardust into orbit around her. Ballerina pirouettes, and stellar motes reignite as a galactic ring.

“Not to dust. We return to stars.”

#vss #sff

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 14d

Oh thats awesome, congrats!

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16d

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.

This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact!

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a black and white floor mosaic with a depiction of a very striking octopus in the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. The octopus with eight writhing arms is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) laid in a white tesserae background

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Universe @universespace.bsky.social · 16d

Orion’s Belt Star
The three bright stars of Orion’s Belt Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are massive blue supergiants, far larger and hotter than our Sun.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 17d

Had a really fun time at today's Brighton @writershq.bsky.social retreat writing some of my new fairytale stories including Bluebesrd, the Snow Queen, Sinbad the Sailor and Snow Whits.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 19d

Happy birthday!

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 19d

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 19d

Well here we go. Its all official. Sight getting worse. But had a lovely call with my local sight loss charity this week about how they can support me . And my blue badge came in time for the new term at wind band, which was great. Still living life as best I can.

A yellow card reads the holder of this card is severely sight impaired.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 20d

Slowly learning touch typing to support my writing going forward as sight gets worse and fun so far. Although some of the phrases would make great prompts like get the file for like a spy story.

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 22d

Another week passed, and i took another step towards winter. A slow descent, one I never enjoy. The nights shorten and my sight worsens and my struggles grow fangs. I try to remind myself spring will come again, but every step is a mountain .
#FromOneLine

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