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Jenny Gaitskell
@jennygaitskell.bsky.social
Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.

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https://www.jennygaitskell.com/

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Pinned
red leaves on the sea
north wind
steals me away

🍂

#DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)
'But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them - their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.'

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

#BookWormSat
🎨 Jeannie Kinsler
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Embracing the chill of late autumn as the days grow shorter and the light gets lower.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Quietly Darker, oil on gessobord, 8"x8"

Original is available:
tishamark.com/product/quie...

#Scape #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
red leaves on the sea
north wind
steals me away

🍂

#DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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True colors
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I won a thing!

@blog.readindiefantasy.com is sponsoring a whole month of fun questions, interviews, blog posts, and chances to win free books, so check it out if you haven't already because...

... who doesn't like free stuff!!??
The winner for yesterday's challenge is @whistberry.bsky.social with Moon-Sitting by EM Harding! Described as "a quiet and emotional science fiction novella with a super intriguing mystery at its heart."

Congrats! You win a copy of Spaces of Silence! #AMoRaR
Daily Challenge 5: Single Trip - Share a standalone book!

The prize for today's challenge is a copy of Spaces of Silence, by @ormakal.bsky.social

Reply or repost with your answer to enter, and remember to include the tag #AMoRaR
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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#haiku
the witch
has been in
the tea cup again
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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#SenryuSunday #HaikuFeels #senryu

things fall apart
I start to notice
it’s all plastic
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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dear dead moth
your whole life in my closet
how did it taste?

#senryu
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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open the back door
a small moth and its shadow
follow the light in
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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how hard
i work to write tanka
in a fixed form...
making it a point to ignore
a winking white moon

#tanka
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Mon NOV 03, 2025

Weekly #Prompt - AMBIENT ILLUSTRIOUS CURTAIN ENCOURAGE ACROSS RAINBOWS

post with hashtag: #inkMine
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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∴ fouldynge enërgy
neat alonge creas'd purposes
shāp þese dreames awake ∴

#vss365 #poemspell #origami #wakingdream #superposition #jungiansymboliccontainment

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þ "th" as in thin
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Sometimes the moon is like

ᵐᵒᵒⁿ

But today the moon was like

🄼🄾🄾🄽
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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moon resting on still water
i looked for you
and found me

#dailyhaikuprompt
#moon
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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written in pine sap
spelled in sparrow-song
forest poetry

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
fairy lights
this moon rising out
from a picture book

#DailyHaikuPrompt (moon rise)
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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The small spectacles
A play in miniature
A spider’s quick dance
#DailyHaiku #haiku #Monday
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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The beautiful thing about myths and legends is you can bowdlerise them, subvert them, reinvent them, retcon them, hybridise them with other stories, and the older versions are all still there, ready to be told again and to inspire you.
November 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 3, 2025: #ANCIENT

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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I try to lay down
these weary thoughts -
yet the crows laugh

#senryusunday
#senryu
#poetry
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I say we just keep Halloween going this year.
We deserve a little treat
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Ever wear a glass? Ever use a scissor? Do you wear a pant, trouser, or jean? Have you used a goggle, given thank, or washed a dish in sud?

Why are some words exclusively used in the plural?

Let's talk about "pluralia tantum," words used exclusively in the plural form.
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM