Blake Bell
@blakebell.art
Teacher, writer, dog-food-plant-enthusiast
If you ever feel lost just remember Ben Gibbard wrote that Cath “holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If you ever feel lost just remember Ben Gibbard wrote that Cath “holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child.”
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Some of us are feral because we have tiny versions of ourselves whom we love so so much but who will quite literally punch us in the nose in the morning before we’ve had a sip of coffee.
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Some of us are feral because we have tiny versions of ourselves whom we love so so much but who will quite literally punch us in the nose in the morning before we’ve had a sip of coffee.
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A Lovely Samhain to you all. Sharing this nerdy ghost story I wrote about my one dream, my only master.
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Wicked Slip
Short fiction
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October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A Lovely Samhain to you all. Sharing this nerdy ghost story I wrote about my one dream, my only master.
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Ah yes but the ice cream sandwich is fair game
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you are allowed to have ice cream for dinner.
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ah yes but the ice cream sandwich is fair game
Lost track of time to submit to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social but I’ve got a #smallpoemsunday this October morning inspired by my ritual reread of Wuthering Heights 🤓
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Lost track of time to submit to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social but I’ve got a #smallpoemsunday this October morning inspired by my ritual reread of Wuthering Heights 🤓
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Adolph Menzel, Death as an Unwelcome Guest, 1844/1845. Watercolor and gouache. 5.1 x 3.6 in. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Adolph Menzel, Death as an Unwelcome Guest, 1844/1845. Watercolor and gouache. 5.1 x 3.6 in. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
If you, like me, enjoy cryptid lore, give my new flash a gander 🪿
October 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
If you, like me, enjoy cryptid lore, give my new flash a gander 🪿
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ICYMI: "Door in the Woods," flash fiction by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social:
Door in the Woods by Chris Scott
Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…
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October 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
ICYMI: "Door in the Woods," flash fiction by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social:
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"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."
Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins
I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...
hexliterary.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."
Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
The truest thing I’ve read this week
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The truest thing I’ve read this week
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“Love stories are a drug I can’t quit; just one more fix...”
we have a story by Kirsti Mackenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social !!
it's about a woman who keeps seeing psychics to learn about the man of her future, while being reminded of her past. read it !
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we have a story by Kirsti Mackenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social !!
it's about a woman who keeps seeing psychics to learn about the man of her future, while being reminded of her past. read it !
xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
PORTRAIT OF YOU IN FIVE PSYCHICS by Kirsti MacKenzie
First guy says: you’re gonna see a UFO. Like, BOOM. He lays this on me. Right now you’re probably thinking well, if that doesn’t torpedo the whole thing for you. But it didn’t. Okay? It didn’t. I sat ...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“Love stories are a drug I can’t quit; just one more fix...”
we have a story by Kirsti Mackenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social !!
it's about a woman who keeps seeing psychics to learn about the man of her future, while being reminded of her past. read it !
xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
we have a story by Kirsti Mackenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social !!
it's about a woman who keeps seeing psychics to learn about the man of her future, while being reminded of her past. read it !
xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
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New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
Not Your Deer
Flash Fiction
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October 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
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There are 10 days left in our fall 2025 poetry reading period.
🍁 Pumpkin-spice pantoums? Apple-cider sonnets?
🍁 Pumpkin-spice pantoums? Apple-cider sonnets?
Intrepid writers of poetry - send us your daring, dreamy, provocative, beautifully unexpected verse! Our reading period is open to Poetry (only Poetry this time) through October 15th.
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Submit – LEON Literary Review
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October 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
There are 10 days left in our fall 2025 poetry reading period.
🍁 Pumpkin-spice pantoums? Apple-cider sonnets?
🍁 Pumpkin-spice pantoums? Apple-cider sonnets?
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Upcoming submission call!
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Upcoming submission call!
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
Theme "LUCK"
In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.
Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"
guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
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The full moon rises tomorrow, 6th October, at 5pm GMT. It’s a supermoon, named the Hunter or Harvest Moon. This particular full moon falls late this year, being well into October, and this is an excellent time to stop and breathe out for a few minutes. Enjoy the harvest.
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The full moon rises tomorrow, 6th October, at 5pm GMT. It’s a supermoon, named the Hunter or Harvest Moon. This particular full moon falls late this year, being well into October, and this is an excellent time to stop and breathe out for a few minutes. Enjoy the harvest.
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New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
Not Your Deer
Flash Fiction
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
open.substack.com/pub/bbell/p/...
New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
New flash for the spooky season inspired by all the greats, especially Angela Carter.
Reposted by Blake Bell
Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko
YouTube video by Kidzuko
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October 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨
Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...
Can all adults agree to stop saying FULL STOP? 🛑 please stop. Fully.
October 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Can all adults agree to stop saying FULL STOP? 🛑 please stop. Fully.
Finally have an official diagnosis: specific antibody deficiency, also known as, SAD.
October 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Finally have an official diagnosis: specific antibody deficiency, also known as, SAD.
My morning reading from the SHJ
September 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My morning reading from the SHJ
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For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
September 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...