Alex Heron
@heronalex.bsky.social
Short-story writer. Very fond of marzipan, chocolate, sherry trifle. Chekhov. The idea of a parrot.
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This is such a great piece ...
new new: "Jeopardy," by Allison Field Bell: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is such a great piece ...
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Well put These ministers must be made to withdraw their erroneous comments by the speaker
@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Well put These ministers must be made to withdraw their erroneous comments by the speaker
Quote with your model of masculinity
December 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Quote with your model of masculinity
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Beautiful writing here ..
Three little 🤏🏻 micros from yours truly are up in the December issue of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! Thank you to Camille and the editorial team! ✨
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Mizuki Yamamoto — Does It Have Pockets
Receipt | Bath House | Molting Season
www.doesithavepockets.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Beautiful writing here ..
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Caught lobbying for cash or bullying in Parliament? You can still return to the House of Lords - for life.
No real consequences. No accountability.
Sign now to kick rule-breakers out for good.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
No real consequences. No accountability.
Sign now to kick rule-breakers out for good.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Ban rule-breaking peers from the House of Lords.
Lords found guilty of serious misconduct – like bullying or lobbying for cash – still get to make our laws.
I just signed a petition to kick rule-breaking peers out of the Lords for good. Want to add...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Caught lobbying for cash or bullying in Parliament? You can still return to the House of Lords - for life.
No real consequences. No accountability.
Sign now to kick rule-breakers out for good.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
No real consequences. No accountability.
Sign now to kick rule-breakers out for good.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
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Delighted to say my short story chapbook 'Removals' is now available to buy from the Nightjar Press website, alongside a new story by Alison Moore. Such a thrill to be part of this brilliant series of stories
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February 5, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Delighted to say my short story chapbook 'Removals' is now available to buy from the Nightjar Press website, alongside a new story by Alison Moore. Such a thrill to be part of this brilliant series of stories
nightjarpress.weebly.com
nightjarpress.weebly.com
Fun story - you wish them well - and now I am looking forward to the film
Read 𝙊𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙, a tale about the power of words in a digital world built to repress and forget.
#flashfiction by 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗞. 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀 in the Fall issue
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#writingcommunity
#flashfiction by 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗞. 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀 in the Fall issue
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#writingcommunity
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fun story - you wish them well - and now I am looking forward to the film
Oh - I am putting this on my xmas list ...
46. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. Starting in the deceptively humdrum environs of a Christian old folks home, soon we’re thrust into a madcap epic of global import, built upon a glorious melange of mythologies. A bonafide surrealist novel that I will treasure.
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Oh - I am putting this on my xmas list ...
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Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation
Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation
What did Shakespeare’s English sound like to Shakespeare? To his audience? And how can we know such a thing as the phonetic character of the language spoken 400 years ago?
www.openculture.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation
This looks great. Is there anything similar in the UK?
Over 2,000 wishes from kids experiencing foster care or crisis are waiting to be granted at onesimplewish.org so we're going to share a bunch here: Darryl is separated from 3 of his siblings in foster care & is wishing for a bike: www.onesimplewish.org/wish/view-wi...
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This looks great. Is there anything similar in the UK?
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I’m so angry and upset. These women do not speak for me.
In dark moments I’m relieved that Alice isn’t here to witness it, for how could I protect her? All a mother wants is to keep their child safe.
Then I feel broken that I even thought that.
Cis women please sign to help
counter this hatred ⬇️
In dark moments I’m relieved that Alice isn’t here to witness it, for how could I protect her? All a mother wants is to keep their child safe.
Then I feel broken that I even thought that.
Cis women please sign to help
counter this hatred ⬇️
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m so angry and upset. These women do not speak for me.
In dark moments I’m relieved that Alice isn’t here to witness it, for how could I protect her? All a mother wants is to keep their child safe.
Then I feel broken that I even thought that.
Cis women please sign to help
counter this hatred ⬇️
In dark moments I’m relieved that Alice isn’t here to witness it, for how could I protect her? All a mother wants is to keep their child safe.
Then I feel broken that I even thought that.
Cis women please sign to help
counter this hatred ⬇️
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"Although they warned me about Gaston's gas gun
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"Although they warned me about Gaston's gas gun
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
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Every word of this
"a quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich."
Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank
How the government keeps you poorer
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank
How the government keeps you poorer
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Every word of this
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Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).
October 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).
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Unexpectedly splendid portrait of a dog - Josephine Bowes
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Unexpectedly splendid portrait of a dog - Josephine Bowes
Delightful ...
I'm absolutely delighted that my piece, 'These days you're kinda okay', has found such a loving home with @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💜 Many thanks to editors, Hema, Lakshmi & Melissa.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction #flashfiction
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#amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction #flashfiction
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These Days You’re Kinda Okay by Laura Besley
Imagine you’re forty-something and you’re kinda okay about who you are these days andalthough you never thought you would be, you are, and decide the reason you’re kinda okaythese days is because you’...
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Delightful ...
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"After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gyms"
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
Send Virgin an email:
goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ...
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
Send Virgin an email:
goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ...
Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law
After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all th...
action.goodlawproject.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gyms"
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
Send Virgin an email:
goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ...
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
Send Virgin an email:
goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ...
Oh, sounds good, thanks for posting!
The wonderful Stav Poleg is running a 1-day class on ekphrastic poetry in Cambridge. I have signed up, but it needs more people to run. Only £40, a bargain!! I will be really disappointed if it doesn't happen ...
www.hillsroad.ac.uk/adult-educat...
www.hillsroad.ac.uk/adult-educat...
Writing Poetry in Response to Art course Summer School course,…
The Writing Poetry in Response to Art Summer School course, Cambridge, is suitable for both beginner writers and those with a little more experience.
www.hillsroad.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh, sounds good, thanks for posting!
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TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action:https://goodlaw.social/66f6a3
July 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action:https://goodlaw.social/66f6a3
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An amazing opportunity for 10 writers to spend up to a month for free at seaside cottage to write.
All details in the link below.
Please share :)
All details in the link below.
Please share :)
RSL Scriptorium Awards - Royal Society of Literature
Ten writer residencies presented to professionally active writers in need of a place to write.The 2025 Prize This year marks the inaugural presentation of the RSL Scriptorium Awards, inviting applicat...
rsliterature.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
An amazing opportunity for 10 writers to spend up to a month for free at seaside cottage to write.
All details in the link below.
Please share :)
All details in the link below.
Please share :)
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June 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is so marvellous ...!!
Day 2 of @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
'Let's Make Sounds Like Water' from @angelareadman.bsky.social. Love how she finds a perfect balance of funny, surreal, and profound.
From the @nffr.bsky.social archives. Check them out.
newflashfiction.com/angela-readm...
'Let's Make Sounds Like Water' from @angelareadman.bsky.social. Love how she finds a perfect balance of funny, surreal, and profound.
From the @nffr.bsky.social archives. Check them out.
newflashfiction.com/angela-readm...
Let’s Make Sounds like Water by Angela Readman
I carry the china to the kitchen and find my mother at six sitting under the table. Cross-legged, she picks at a bowl of pickled onions and cheese, sucking her fingers.
newflashfiction.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is so marvellous ...!!
Oh, love this ...
"70 Sentences that Duolingo believes I will need to know in Spanish"
How can you not a read a piece with that title? Love the way the piece as a whole stays cohesive around that:
www.cheappoplit.com/home/2015/1/...
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
How can you not a read a piece with that title? Love the way the piece as a whole stays cohesive around that:
www.cheappoplit.com/home/2015/1/...
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge
June 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh, love this ...
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Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading.
freebloodybirds.com
freebloodybirds.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading.
freebloodybirds.com
freebloodybirds.com