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A collective of women's voices -2025 social media posts by @delgeo14.bsky.social and @mlmcguinness.bsky.social https://theprideroars.blogspot.com
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"As writers we're frequently told to 'write what you know', and just as frequently we ignore it" Read "Exit Stage Left" by @hilary55.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/exit...

"When she cradles Sheila’s hand, it stings her heart that it is no longer the crepe papery softness Claire expects" Read "It is 2am in the Palliative Care Ward" by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/it-i...

"So what if Patrick Stewart learned to ski in his 80s? She wasn’t a fucking starship captain" Read"Possibility of White" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social in Free Flash Fiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/poss...

"A child sat cross-legged; his hands held up to ward off the brightness of the light. The first person he’d seen in over two years" Read "Breaking the Silence" by @joycebingham.bsky.social in Neither Fish Nor Fowl www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-3/brea...

Check out this interview with @delgeo14.bsky.social in Jim Harrington's "Six Questions for...Raw Lit"

"The balls never came down, never stopped moving as Joshna made her way through her day. Such was her magic." Read "Juggling from High Horse on Cloud nine" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/jugg...

"She cries and cannot bear to think about small rooms, tiny things: mittens, socks, fingers" Read "Throw a six to Start" by @fionamckay.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/throw-a-six-...

"All writers talk of imposter syndrome. Even when you have a few publications behind you, there is still that nagging feeling that you are somehow not worthy" "When Imposter Syndrome Strikes, Be A Sailor" by @joycebingham.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/when...

Check out " A Spy of a Certain Age" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in the Hooghly Review thehooghlyreview.com/a-spy-of-a-c...

"It has now become clear that this was not a situation prevalent only in France, worldwide the culture has been to view women through a lens of their value to men, be it sexual or domestic." "When the Pride Roars" by @delgeo14.bsky.social +@mlmcguinness theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/when...

New CNF in The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social 'The Almost Mother' was first published in 'Loss - Lifespan Volume 9' (February/March 2024) - an anthology by Pure Slush theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Heartbreaking CNF by @delgeo14.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars CW. Baby loss theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

📝Check out my post on @theprideroars.bsky.social today - in a week where events overtook actual writing, I look at what Also Counts As Writing… 🖋️ theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/also...

"When my writing is going well, I would write all day, every day. Life, however, has a way of getting in the way of that." Read "Also Counts as Writing" by @fionamckay.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/02/also...

Read this beautiful issue of Raw Lit! Edited by our own @delgeo14.bsky.social and featuring work by @ninamiller.bsky.social and @amymarques.bsky.social rawlit.weebly.com/issue6.html

"The sounds were like tearing. The ripping apart of long grass, leathery leaves in shades of russet brown, thorny brambles. Curly white fur and snarl." Check out "A Dog Walks into the Woods" by @fionamckay.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

"The sounds were like tearing. The ripping apart of long grass, leathery leaves in shades of russet brown, thorny brambles. Curly white fur and snarl." Check out "A Dog Walks into the Woods" by @fionamckay.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Friends, I have my first post up at @theprideroars.bsky.social about being in the body as a writer, written from the POV of a trauma therapist (that’s me, I’m the therapist). Farts and burps feature. I hope you’ll read it and tell me what you think 🧡🧡🧡 theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/do-y...

"What, then, is the calculus of writing as an activity that occurs with and within our bodies, and modern life requiring us to live outside our bodies?" Read "Do You Know You Have a Body" by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/do-y...

Massive congratulations to our contributor @fionamckay.bsky.social whose Novella-in-Flash "The Lives of the Dead" was one of the winners @bathflashaward.bsky.social

“This morning he complained because I made him an omelette when he wanted scrambled eggs. Yesterday, his freshly squeezed orange juice had bits… he gagged, then shouted, then kicked me.” On The Pride Roars "Victim" by @delgeo14.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/vict...

"Our mother also collected people. We don't know if she went looking for them, or if they were naturally drawn to her" Read "Bric-a-brac and Broken wings" by @hilary55.bsky.social up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/bric...

"He repeats it as if I am deaf to his advances. Winks like there is something wrong with his eye. Runs his hand through his hair as if it makes him dashing." Check out "Jaheira's Biergarten" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in Sci Fi Shorts scifishorts.co/premium/jahe...

I feel this in every fibre of my being!! I basically live in a library and have 700 unread books on my Kindle and I Just Need More Time… @joycebingham.bsky.social @theprideroars.bsky.social

"There is so little time, and so many books to read. Behind me I hear a creak, my Tobe Readpile is tottering. I adjust it, patting the books into a more stable column" Today on The Pride Roars, read "Tobe Readpile" by @joycebingham.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/tobe...

Finnian Burnett picked some stunning pieces for @MkenWrites 's Mondettes. Check out the story by Pride contributor @pleomorphic2.bsky.social if you haven't read it already. Poignant & beautifully told. mondettes.substack.com/p/january-2025

Meet the Pride! theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/the-pride....

Inspired by Sheldon Compton's blogging collective, Poverty house, we created The Pride Roars, a place for women to roar theprideroars.blogspot.com/2024/12/welc...

Read "When She Falls" a Best Microfictions selection from @mlmcguinness.bsky.social milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/03/21/w...

I've just gotten the shock of my life! My story "When She Falls" published in the ever wonderful Milk Candy Review has made it onto this list. Huge thank you (and congratulations) to Cathy Ulrich and to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social for the honour

"Maybe it was when I stopped to look at the stars. Look, I said, pointing to the brightest one, saying nothing of the chain reaction, burning hot as our sun" Read "In Your Orbit" by @fionamckay.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-y...

I have a piece of fiction out on the blog @theprideroars.bsky.social - check it out if you have time! theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-y...

I have a new CNF up in @theprideroars.bsky.social

"Today, I allow myself to be resentful, angry, terribly sad" Read "Today, I Hate People (And I Refuse to Apologise About It—For a Change)" by @delgeo14.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/toda...

Feel like having your heart shatter today?

An honest and emotional picture of a feeling we've all had.

"I've said the wrong thing so many times I stopped speaking, and muted, backed myself into a corner of feigned disinterest until I became invisible." Read "Stone Mother's Lament" by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social on The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/ston...

"Gary cocked his head sideways and gave a toothy grin. Her emotions and her ulcer gnawed at her" Read "Price v. Price" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/pric...

With gratitude to editors everywhere…

@amymarques.bsky.social has an "Open Letter To All Editors & CopyEditors & Anyone Who Works With Names" up at The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-e...

"Soon there’s a swell, and I feel her pent-up rage. She spills out her storms" Read "Air's Thirst for Water" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in Micromance Magazine open.substack.com/pub/microman...

Check out "Your Hand" an emotional micro from @delgeo14.bsky.social in Poverty House www.povertyhouse.net/post/your-ha...

Oooer the first one.

"When e-books arrived, I shunned them. How could I relinquish that book smell?" Read "Coming Full Circle" by @Joycebingham.bsky.social at The Pride Roars

"To be engaged and connected - but not trapped. To be near the exit in the auditorium that is society" Read "Not Just This Year's Resolutions" by @Amymarques.bsky.social on the Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/not-...

"A building can't comprehend what it's like to be razed." I've held on to this for years out of worry about how it would be received. I'm not afraid to share my truth now. 🦁 #cnf #writingcommunity

“To bring a child into the world, you must explode.” This searing essay by my talented friend @sugarpigblog.bsky.social in @theprideroars.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/01/expl...