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Sometimes I wish cancel culture had been real. Just imagine how great it would be if some of these chuckleheads had lost all respect and ability to reach an audience the first time they started saying evil shit.

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Since we’re having a preview of spring, it’s time for outdoors reading 🩵📚 #writerslife

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Is this spring? 🍃🍃🍃 #writerslife #randomobservations

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More fog #writerslife #randomobservations

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Every morning Grasses poke holes in the sky Secret uprising #scifaikusaturday #secret #haiku

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The 22 Feb 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #SECRET ✍️ 👽 🛸 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Scifaiku #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🚫 tag @AmWriting.bsky.social

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This 👏👏👏

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Trying to distract from The Horrors? @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends ten new short stories by authors who haven't been featured in the Short Fiction Spotlight until now! This month we've got fungal horror (spore-ror?), vampires, and a mysterious djinn 📚 reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

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One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

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The coming plague is an #unbridled horse. Hoofs beat the ground into pulp. Spit bubbles on its lips and flies, the acid sting devouring the known borders and turning bodies into mulch to feed the mushrooms. God plays the trumpet in the sky. #vss365 #microfiction

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Our starter pack of writers from Europe, living in Europe or dreaming of Europe is full - so we're starting another. Want to be in it? Say hi below 👋 go.bsky.app/73irajm

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The line sags between the telegraph poles as it runs down the slope and into the waters of the #reservoir, porcelain insulators just visible above the surface. It goes down to the drowned town. From time to time, a message from there comes through. So, we keep the line up. #vss365 #microfiction

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It looks like the ebook edition of Sue Burke's SEMIOSIS is on sale for $1.99. Check it out! I enjoyed the audiobook edition of this one. It's far-future science fiction on an alien planet with fascinating biology.

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My new story has just been published by @translunartl.bsky.social ☺️ 💙📚 #amwritingfantasy Read "For the Love of Drowning Isles" here: translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/f...

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A.I. is a tool of oppression & erasure. Please stop enriching oligarchs by using it for your Blue Resistance memes. Just draw stick figures & use alt-text.

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The weather calls for a hearty miso and pasta soup 😊 #writerslife

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No message In the sea-washed bottle Only weeds #scifaikusaturday #message #scifi #haiku

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The 15 Feb 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #MESSAGE ✍️ 👽 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Scifaiku #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🚫 tag @AmWriting.bsky.social

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🖊 Calling all poets! Sound the poetry alarm! 🚨 Our online salon in April is nearly booked up, but we have no poets signed up to read yet and we need you. Get in touch soon if you want to read. Book here if you want to come and listen 🎤 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

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It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

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Within the apparent randomness of chaotic #complex systems, hide underlying patterns, interconnectedness, feedback loops, repetition, similarity, fractals, and self-organization. There is structure in chaos, art in mathematical order. Angels dancing on the head of a pin. #vss365 #microfiction

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New Review - a young woman reluctantly had to battle the undead in the excellent dark fantasy novel The Crimson Road by AG Slatter out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/2/...

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A gust of wind blew cold rain into private Morton’s face. “This tarp isn’t much of a safe haven, is it?” he said, squinting up at the colonel. “What worries me more is that the guy leading our army has the tense face of an idiot,” came the response. “It won’t end well.” #vss365 #microfiction

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Goodness, it’s Thursday already! Subs to our anthology & Micro Fiction Competition close this Saturday the 15th Feb at 23:59 GMT. Hurry, Hurry! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

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Some folks call me a parapharmacologist, which is a fancy way of saying I make medicine for monsters. It’s my job to keep Larry Lycanthrope from wolfing out with a solution of #mercury and wolfsbane or to make sure Vicky Vampire has her SPF 5000 when she gets jury duty. #vss365 #amwriting

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Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside– it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible #QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

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A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #QuestPit #YA #H #T

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NETTLE & BONE x CAMP DAMASCUS Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in BLUDEYE BEACH. 🫂Found Family 👧Character driven 💕Slow burn romance 👻Monster menagerie #QuestPit #Q #F #H #A

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BLADE RUNNER x THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER 👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker 🤖Mysterious android boy ❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance 🩸Powerful mega-corporations 🌃A sprawling city 🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold the answer to a murder… and maybe immortality, too. #questpit #Q #YA #SF #MY

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ARCANE x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN 🧑‍🎓cut-throat postgrad academia w/ ⚛️engineering magic 🤌obsessive yearning 🚨unreliable narrator 📻corrupted magic tech 🩺ethical dilemmas 🩻body horror 🏆dangerous magic duels 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🌿strange plants 👤...& the strange man who ❤️s them #questpit #Q #A #F #SF #H

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PW Daily just noted Historical Fantasy as having a moment, which is great because I've been writing it since '09 & there's nothing I love more! Lately the focus has been on ghostly non-fiction but the power dynamics of my SPECTRAL CITY saga & forthcoming RAVENFIELD HALL are very much of this moment.

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New Fiction: "Sleeping with the Fishes in the Belly of a Gull" by @timaeusbloom.bsky.social. shotgunhoney.com/fiction/slee...

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A new run of the Granta Writers’ Workshops are open for application, including our new course on novel writing. Apply today and hone your craft in short fiction, long-form journalism, nature writing, memoir, or novel writing with likeminded writers. workshops.granta.com/courses/

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Really upset with my friend, a respected historian, who when asked could not tell me how a 12th century farmers wife would address the Bishop of Iceland if he came to investigate the rumour going around the fjord that her daughter was a changeling. What do these people even go to university for?

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Mars is out of vogue. Let’s settle on #Mercury, if this is how things are going. In the craters, federations of automated crawlers will fight over licenses to siphon hydrogen from the exosphere. Zipping around the Sun at speed, we’ll have New Year party every 88 days. #vss365 #scifi #microfiction

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Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try the short story "The 6% Squeeze" by Eddie Robson! (@eddierobson.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-6-squeeze/

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The kraken sleeps. Above its lair, duvets of water stack tall from midnight blue to beautiful azure. Dreams #chase the beast across the waves of time. The sea is tranquil. Only a tiny fish beats in the tight embrace of its tentacle, not knowing that it is doomed. #vss365 #microfiction

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