Daniel Addercouth
@ruralunease.bsky.social
Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Massive congrats to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Saltire award for fiction!
Huge congratulations to Sean Lusk for winning the fiction prize at the Saltire Awards last night for his excellent A Woman of Opinion! #SaltireBookAwards #SeanLusk #AWomanOfOpinion #booksellerreccs #bookrecommendations #booksbooksbooks #booksky
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Massive congrats to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Saltire award for fiction!
Love this evocative story by Sarp Sozdinler in the always fantastic @havehashad.com: "I used to work at Mona Lisa’s Discount Tires, this warehouse on the edge of the city where every wall had a different Mona Lisa painted on it"
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World’s Okayest Boss by Sarp Sozdinler
I used to work at Mona Lisa’s Discount Tires, this warehouse on the edge of the city where every wall had a different Mona Lisa painted on it: Mona Lisa in a fedora, Mona Lisa with a black eye, Mona L...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Love this evocative story by Sarp Sozdinler in the always fantastic @havehashad.com: "I used to work at Mona Lisa’s Discount Tires, this warehouse on the edge of the city where every wall had a different Mona Lisa painted on it"
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/wor...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/wor...
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Booking for our next online salon, 28 Jan is open!
Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
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Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Booking for our next online salon, 28 Jan is open!
Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
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Want to read a story about bats predicting extreme weather? Of course you do!
With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
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With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
issues.org/futuretensef...
The Way Out | Future Tense Fiction
Can animal behavior predict extreme weather? Pippa Goldschmidt’s story imagines a future in which analysts anticipate climate catastrophes by monitoring bats.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Want to read a story about bats predicting extreme weather? Of course you do!
With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
issues.org/futuretensef...
With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
issues.org/futuretensef...
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A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
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November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
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Flash fiction peeps! Favorite examples of lyrical flash, fractured/sectional flash, and breathless paragraphs? Hit me!
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Flash fiction peeps! Favorite examples of lyrical flash, fractured/sectional flash, and breathless paragraphs? Hit me!
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“We’re born with a bit of creosote in our blood.”
The Burning of the Clavie is a Scottish New Year fire festival. The “Clavie Crew” carry a flaming barrel of tar through Burghead
Clip from BBC Scotland’s HIDDEN LIVES, with @peteralanross.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday
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The Burning of the Clavie is a Scottish New Year fire festival. The “Clavie Crew” carry a flaming barrel of tar through Burghead
Clip from BBC Scotland’s HIDDEN LIVES, with @peteralanross.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday
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BBC Scotland - Hidden Lives, Series 1, The Clavie, The Burning of the Clavie
At the Clavie fire festival the explosive force of the flames delights the crowd.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“We’re born with a bit of creosote in our blood.”
The Burning of the Clavie is a Scottish New Year fire festival. The “Clavie Crew” carry a flaming barrel of tar through Burghead
Clip from BBC Scotland’s HIDDEN LIVES, with @peteralanross.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
The Burning of the Clavie is a Scottish New Year fire festival. The “Clavie Crew” carry a flaming barrel of tar through Burghead
Clip from BBC Scotland’s HIDDEN LIVES, with @peteralanross.bsky.social
#WyrdWednesday
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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My kid wants a dual cassette player for Christmas so he can make his own mix tapes. I am SO EXCITED.
a teddy bear is jumping over a boombox on the sidewalk .
Alt: A person dressed like a bear dancing on the street with a boombox
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November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My kid wants a dual cassette player for Christmas so he can make his own mix tapes. I am SO EXCITED.
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What an honor! Check out my story, “Vagina First”
Congratulations Emily Rinkema! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/2nd-...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What an honor! Check out my story, “Vagina First”
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Looking forward to reading tonight at the Insurgent Press open mic night @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
October 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Looking forward to reading tonight at the Insurgent Press open mic night @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
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I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
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Buy tickets – Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom
Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...
www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...
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Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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Gone Lawn : About
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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
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If you know, you know....
Congratulations to quiz winners @ruralunease.bsky.social and @mgjanz.bsky.social 🏅
@kiklodge.bsky.social supreme hosting 👏
Congratulations to quiz winners @ruralunease.bsky.social and @mgjanz.bsky.social 🏅
@kiklodge.bsky.social supreme hosting 👏
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If you know, you know....
Congratulations to quiz winners @ruralunease.bsky.social and @mgjanz.bsky.social 🏅
@kiklodge.bsky.social supreme hosting 👏
Congratulations to quiz winners @ruralunease.bsky.social and @mgjanz.bsky.social 🏅
@kiklodge.bsky.social supreme hosting 👏
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🎤 We added a few more places as so many people want to come!
See you all later. We can't wait! 🎤
See you all later. We can't wait! 🎤
One place left for the online salon tonight!
Join 50 writers from across the globe and an amazing line-up of readers, incl @taniahershman.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @sylvialeatham.bsky.social @sjfrideswide.bsky.social @donalconaty.bsky.social and more! All hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social
Join 50 writers from across the globe and an amazing line-up of readers, incl @taniahershman.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @sylvialeatham.bsky.social @sjfrideswide.bsky.social @donalconaty.bsky.social and more! All hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🎤 We added a few more places as so many people want to come!
See you all later. We can't wait! 🎤
See you all later. We can't wait! 🎤
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When a great line comes to you at 3 a.m. and you repeat it over and over to yourself for the next hour and a half before finally falling asleep only to wake with no memory of it.
October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
When a great line comes to you at 3 a.m. and you repeat it over and over to yourself for the next hour and a half before finally falling asleep only to wake with no memory of it.
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Baltimore friends! I’ll be at the Ivy tomorrow in the gorgeous gardens at 5pm with Laura Bogart - it’s going to be magical and spooky. Will I see you? www.eventbrite.com/e/amber-spar...
Amber Sparks with Laura Bogart: HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE
Join us in a secret location of the gardens behind the Ivy bookshop to hear from Amber Sparks, author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE
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October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Baltimore friends! I’ll be at the Ivy tomorrow in the gorgeous gardens at 5pm with Laura Bogart - it’s going to be magical and spooky. Will I see you? www.eventbrite.com/e/amber-spar...
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ICYMI we're open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #translations and looking fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...
October 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ICYMI we're open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #translations and looking fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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Among the rare pleasures of having poor vision: misreading blurry signs as my inmost self desires to. Today: "Our Lady of the Holy Shits."
August 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Among the rare pleasures of having poor vision: misreading blurry signs as my inmost self desires to. Today: "Our Lady of the Holy Shits."
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"Weeds grew out of the asphalt on the rubbish-strewn single street &the smell of diesel that used to permeate the village was gone.Water was almost topping the harbour wall,fishing boats sold off or scrapped."Powerful flash on sea level rise @ruralunease.bsky.social
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Managed Retreat
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October 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"Weeds grew out of the asphalt on the rubbish-strewn single street &the smell of diesel that used to permeate the village was gone.Water was almost topping the harbour wall,fishing boats sold off or scrapped."Powerful flash on sea level rise @ruralunease.bsky.social
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Calling all poets 📣📢💥
Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms - Online Poetry Workshop Series
In this friendly course, we will learn and try different approaches to writing poetry. Join the whole series or choose individual sessions.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Calling all poets 📣📢💥
Writer friends: what are your favourite online poetry magazines?
September 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Writer friends: what are your favourite online poetry magazines?
This is a huge honour and very exciting! Enormous thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the nomination and for all he does to support other writers!
September 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is a huge honour and very exciting! Enormous thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the nomination and for all he does to support other writers!
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‘I point to one dominated by reddish hues. “Is this anger?”
“No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’
Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨
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“No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’
Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...
Acceptance by Daniel Addercouth
The first time I see the painting that I consider my father’s finest work is when I visit him to check how he’s doing, a month after my mother’s death.
“I’ve painted a pentaptych to represent the f...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘I point to one dominated by reddish hues. “Is this anger?”
“No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’
Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...
“No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’
Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...
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I've only got around to reading this now. Well done! Now if you'll excuse me I have something in my eye.
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I've only got around to reading this now. Well done! Now if you'll excuse me I have something in my eye.
I'm a big fan of @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's writing and am always excited to see she has a new story published. This is another banger, great title too!
I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...
13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema
To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …
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September 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'm a big fan of @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's writing and am always excited to see she has a new story published. This is another banger, great title too!