A. S. Williams
@aswilliams.bsky.social
Flash fiction writer/poet living in Nijmegen NL. Part-time house-sitter for critters. FF judged prizeworthy by Kit de Waal. Raised by Silver Brumbies. Former pen name, Susan Carey. #ovariancancer
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Here we have the need for comfort & solace when faith loosens but longing endures, prayer not confined to religion but a human experience
‘a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands’
A quiet incantation, perfectly captured in the final couplet
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#sonnet
‘a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands’
A quiet incantation, perfectly captured in the final couplet
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#sonnet
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Here we have the need for comfort & solace when faith loosens but longing endures, prayer not confined to religion but a human experience
‘a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands’
A quiet incantation, perfectly captured in the final couplet
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#sonnet
‘a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands’
A quiet incantation, perfectly captured in the final couplet
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#sonnet
So proud. My poetry memoir The Palliative Horse in Dekker in Nijmegen.
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
So proud. My poetry memoir The Palliative Horse in Dekker in Nijmegen.
Celebrating the Launch of ‘The Palliative Horse’ by A.S. Williams
It did boost my spirit to sell all my book copies and have such engaged visitors. The morning after I awoke to a house full of flowers and warm memories. So much so that I remarked to Frank that I felt happy. Waking up in a positive…
It did boost my spirit to sell all my book copies and have such engaged visitors. The morning after I awoke to a house full of flowers and warm memories. So much so that I remarked to Frank that I felt happy. Waking up in a positive…
Celebrating the Launch of ‘The Palliative Horse’ by A.S. Williams
It did boost my spirit to sell all my book copies and have such engaged visitors. The morning after I awoke to a house full of flowers and warm memories. So much so that I remarked to Frank that I felt happy. Waking up in a positive mood is not always easy after a terminal diagnosis so the distraction of writing the book, publishing and celebrating it has done me a world of good. Weekly chemotherapy keeps me on my feet for now, as do enjoyable and nourishing activities.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Celebrating the Launch of ‘The Palliative Horse’ by A.S. Williams
It did boost my spirit to sell all my book copies and have such engaged visitors. The morning after I awoke to a house full of flowers and warm memories. So much so that I remarked to Frank that I felt happy. Waking up in a positive…
It did boost my spirit to sell all my book copies and have such engaged visitors. The morning after I awoke to a house full of flowers and warm memories. So much so that I remarked to Frank that I felt happy. Waking up in a positive…
.@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social How writing helped me gain selfhood again after a serious diagnosis. www.amazon.nl/dp/B0FTMWLWB...
The Palliative Horse: A Journey of Hope : Williams, A. S.: Amazon.nl: Boeken
The Palliative Horse: A Journey of Hope : Williams, A. S.: Amazon.nl: Boeken
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October 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
.@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social How writing helped me gain selfhood again after a serious diagnosis. www.amazon.nl/dp/B0FTMWLWB...
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“K-911. What’s your emergency?”
“THERE’S A SQUIRREL!”
“Please calm down, sir. Where is it?”
“IN THE TREE ACROSS THE STREET!”
“Have you tried barking at it?”
“OF COURSE!! I’M NOT AN IDIOT!!!”
“Okay, put down the phone and try again now, I’ll stay on the line.”
“THERE’S A SQUIRREL!”
“Please calm down, sir. Where is it?”
“IN THE TREE ACROSS THE STREET!”
“Have you tried barking at it?”
“OF COURSE!! I’M NOT AN IDIOT!!!”
“Okay, put down the phone and try again now, I’ll stay on the line.”
September 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“K-911. What’s your emergency?”
“THERE’S A SQUIRREL!”
“Please calm down, sir. Where is it?”
“IN THE TREE ACROSS THE STREET!”
“Have you tried barking at it?”
“OF COURSE!! I’M NOT AN IDIOT!!!”
“Okay, put down the phone and try again now, I’ll stay on the line.”
“THERE’S A SQUIRREL!”
“Please calm down, sir. Where is it?”
“IN THE TREE ACROSS THE STREET!”
“Have you tried barking at it?”
“OF COURSE!! I’M NOT AN IDIOT!!!”
“Okay, put down the phone and try again now, I’ll stay on the line.”
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Deadline to sign up is today! Fun! Cheap! Generative!
Join us for Hopperaerobics: A Ninety-Minute Excursion into the Museum of Narrative, a playful, immersive workshop led by the brilliant Sarah Freligh 🖼️📝
📅 Sunday, July 27th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 PM EDT
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📅 Sunday, July 27th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 PM EDT
🎟️ Tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
July 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Deadline to sign up is today! Fun! Cheap! Generative!
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Today's writing prompt, just in time for the @flashfrog.bsky.social ghost stories submission window, closes July 31:
Have you ever wanted to write a story about a spooky library???
Well, here is you inspiration :)
Well, here is you inspiration :)
July 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Today's writing prompt, just in time for the @flashfrog.bsky.social ghost stories submission window, closes July 31:
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The Soundtrack to the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer: Directed by Andrey A. Tarkovsky -
Nostalghia
youtu.be/TC5WTwwrPmI
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
Nostalghia
youtu.be/TC5WTwwrPmI
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
May 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Soundtrack to the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer: Directed by Andrey A. Tarkovsky -
Nostalghia
youtu.be/TC5WTwwrPmI
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
Nostalghia
youtu.be/TC5WTwwrPmI
Select Melbourne Documentary Film Festival events are on sale now. Full lineup released June 2, 2025!
🎟️ www.mdff.org.au
Did you know that irony is good for the blood?
May 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Did you know that irony is good for the blood?
The Unbearable Beauty of Spring
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The Unbearable Beauty of Spring
meditations on our place in nature
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May 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The Unbearable Beauty of Spring
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Misheard Lyrics | Peter Kay: The Tour That Didn't Tour Tour
YouTube video by Peter Kay
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January 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Molly is OK. Going on 11 now. Had a pancake for breakfast. She is still the Thing of Evil.
March 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Molly is OK. Going on 11 now. Had a pancake for breakfast. She is still the Thing of Evil.
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Happy to receive an acceptance from Flash Flood Journal - this is always such a fun event!
Subs are still open! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
Subs are still open! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
FlashFlood is now open for submissions until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted (2022 & earlier). Debut writer spots. Free to enter. For more details see here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Happy to receive an acceptance from Flash Flood Journal - this is always such a fun event!
Subs are still open! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
Subs are still open! @natflashfictionday.bsky.social
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2025 PRIZE NOW OPEN:
Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2k words!
Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies
Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, and more...
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Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2k words!
Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies
Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, and more...
desperateliterature.com/prize
February 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
2025 PRIZE NOW OPEN:
Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2k words!
Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies
Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, and more...
desperateliterature.com/prize
Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2k words!
Prizes: €2000 & 1000€, residencies
Civitella Ranieri and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social, publication, salons, and more...
desperateliterature.com/prize
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All pieces selected for this year’s anthology will be considered for one of two Editor’s Choice Awards. Karen Jones and Cheryl Markosky will each select one piece to receive a £50 prize!!!
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February 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
All pieces selected for this year’s anthology will be considered for one of two Editor’s Choice Awards. Karen Jones and Cheryl Markosky will each select one piece to receive a £50 prize!!!
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My guest blog on Pens Around the World shares my experience with cancer treatment and creativity, and how that helped me fight off depression.
My guest blog on Pens Around the World shares my experience with cancer treatment and creativity, and how that helped me fight off depression.
Creative Healing: How Writing Helped Me Live with Cancer
This post is by Angela Williams. A Founder Member of Pens Around the World, she left us in 2021 to dedicate more time to her writing Read more about Angela on our Friends of Pens page here. Having…
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February 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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My guest blog on Pens Around the World shares my experience with cancer treatment and creativity, and how that helped me fight off depression.
My guest blog on Pens Around the World shares my experience with cancer treatment and creativity, and how that helped me fight off depression.
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In a pre-Christmas mystery, a police officer in southeastern Massachusetts discovered a clutch of more than 80 Amazon packages nestled beneath a tree — or rather, several trees — in a wooded area early Sunday.
‘Stressed’ Amazon driver ditches 80 packages in the woods, police say
The packages still made it to their destinations on time, after an officer on a 2 a.m. patrol in Massachusetts spotted them and brought them to the police station.
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December 26, 2024 at 9:48 PM
In a pre-Christmas mystery, a police officer in southeastern Massachusetts discovered a clutch of more than 80 Amazon packages nestled beneath a tree — or rather, several trees — in a wooded area early Sunday.
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Excited to have a poem in Quartet Journal! Thanks to editors Linda Blaskey, Jane Miller, & Heather Davis for publishing "Flight".
To read the poem and extraordinary work by other women poets over the age of fifty, visit: www.quartetjournal.com/current-issue
To read the poem and extraordinary work by other women poets over the age of fifty, visit: www.quartetjournal.com/current-issue
Winter Issue 2024 | Quartet Journal
൪uartet is an online poetry journal that highlights the creativity of women fifty and over.
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January 26, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Excited to have a poem in Quartet Journal! Thanks to editors Linda Blaskey, Jane Miller, & Heather Davis for publishing "Flight".
To read the poem and extraordinary work by other women poets over the age of fifty, visit: www.quartetjournal.com/current-issue
To read the poem and extraordinary work by other women poets over the age of fifty, visit: www.quartetjournal.com/current-issue
So thrilled to have my article published in #mslexia. Read about my #ovariancancer journey here. #health #therapy #mentalhealth #animals
December 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM
So thrilled to have my article published in #mslexia. Read about my #ovariancancer journey here. #health #therapy #mentalhealth #animals
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FFF Competition Twenty-Five
FFF Competition Twenty-Five
Open until 10 pm ( UK Time ) Monday 23rd Dec. 2024 Results early 2025
100 to 300 words
1 £150 2 x £60 3 x £50
+published
Judge: Eleanor Luke
@eleanor-luke.bsky.social
#flashfiction #writingcompetitions
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Open until 10 pm ( UK Time ) Monday 23rd Dec. 2024 Results early 2025
100 to 300 words
1 £150 2 x £60 3 x £50
+published
Judge: Eleanor Luke
@eleanor-luke.bsky.social
#flashfiction #writingcompetitions
freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...
December 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
FFF Competition Twenty-Five
Trying to find something profound to say about life and writing. But thought I'd share a photo of my dog instead.
December 1, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Trying to find something profound to say about life and writing. But thought I'd share a photo of my dog instead.