microwrites - ISSUE TWO AVAILABLE NOW
@microwrites.bsky.social
small-time writing for big-time thinkers.
Print editions now available, ebook for Issue Two now on sale https://tinyurl.com/Microwrites
Website: microwrites.wordpress.com
Submissions: https://microwrites.wordpress.com/submissions-guidance/
Print editions now available, ebook for Issue Two now on sale https://tinyurl.com/Microwrites
Website: microwrites.wordpress.com
Submissions: https://microwrites.wordpress.com/submissions-guidance/
Hello! Can I ask any microwrites veterans if they are available to proofread our stories for Issue Three, please? Light duties, indoor work with no heavy lifting. lmk in DMs or email, I'm going to go full speed getting this issue out now thank you I love you bye.
April 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Hello! Can I ask any microwrites veterans if they are available to proofread our stories for Issue Three, please? Light duties, indoor work with no heavy lifting. lmk in DMs or email, I'm going to go full speed getting this issue out now thank you I love you bye.
Oh god Bluesky I hate your app so much. I typed so much just then and five seconds on another app to check something and I LOST IT ALL because you rebooted. You absolute piece of SHIT.
April 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Oh god Bluesky I hate your app so much. I typed so much just then and five seconds on another app to check something and I LOST IT ALL because you rebooted. You absolute piece of SHIT.
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On the Ocean once again. Our final seagoing tale is named Fifty Miles off Aberdeen. Regular microwrites readers may recognise @bisonfish.bsky.social's Lord Dangerberry from an earlier story on the blog. Certainly I appreciated the return of the spinner of high-adventure yarns.
March 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On the Ocean once again. Our final seagoing tale is named Fifty Miles off Aberdeen. Regular microwrites readers may recognise @bisonfish.bsky.social's Lord Dangerberry from an earlier story on the blog. Certainly I appreciated the return of the spinner of high-adventure yarns.
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Where was I? Ah yes, the beach! Next story is another microwrites debutante, Jem Tenebris with Any Weather Is Good Beach Weather. Jem is a great example of a writer seeing the zine and wanting in. To that end, please do spread the word! I want as many voices as possible!
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Where was I? Ah yes, the beach! Next story is another microwrites debutante, Jem Tenebris with Any Weather Is Good Beach Weather. Jem is a great example of a writer seeing the zine and wanting in. To that end, please do spread the word! I want as many voices as possible!
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Back to the sea! And here's @danstow.bsky.social's second piece (his first I will come to). Remember I said the ocean section has a playfulness to it? I wasn't kidding. This is a jaunty poem with a strong flavour of Wind in the Willows to it.
March 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Back to the sea! And here's @danstow.bsky.social's second piece (his first I will come to). Remember I said the ocean section has a playfulness to it? I wasn't kidding. This is a jaunty poem with a strong flavour of Wind in the Willows to it.
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Back to the beach, we're going to the beach and we're going to talk about Siren by @howliet.bsky.social.
It's a meta-title because in the Beach section of Issue Two the sea exerts a siren call throughout, pulling the authors to it or into it. Probably the hardest story to illustrate!
It's a meta-title because in the Beach section of Issue Two the sea exerts a siren call throughout, pulling the authors to it or into it. Probably the hardest story to illustrate!
February 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Back to the beach, we're going to the beach and we're going to talk about Siren by @howliet.bsky.social.
It's a meta-title because in the Beach section of Issue Two the sea exerts a siren call throughout, pulling the authors to it or into it. Probably the hardest story to illustrate!
It's a meta-title because in the Beach section of Issue Two the sea exerts a siren call throughout, pulling the authors to it or into it. Probably the hardest story to illustrate!
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Coast? Coast.
Now if you've followed microwrites you may remember that I gave a copy of Municipal Gothic by @raynewman.bsky.social as a prize a while ago so I was THRILLED to receive a story from Ray for inclusion in the zine.
Now if you've followed microwrites you may remember that I gave a copy of Municipal Gothic by @raynewman.bsky.social as a prize a while ago so I was THRILLED to receive a story from Ray for inclusion in the zine.
February 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Coast? Coast.
Now if you've followed microwrites you may remember that I gave a copy of Municipal Gothic by @raynewman.bsky.social as a prize a while ago so I was THRILLED to receive a story from Ray for inclusion in the zine.
Now if you've followed microwrites you may remember that I gave a copy of Municipal Gothic by @raynewman.bsky.social as a prize a while ago so I was THRILLED to receive a story from Ray for inclusion in the zine.
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IT'S OCEAN TIME, BAYBEH. And you KNOW we love the silly so it's silly time here, with @thefirstcaro.bsky.social's The Early Memoirs of Fred the Pirate (An Excerpt). Maybe the longest title of a microwrites story... ever? Maybe! I'm not checking the blog.
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
IT'S OCEAN TIME, BAYBEH. And you KNOW we love the silly so it's silly time here, with @thefirstcaro.bsky.social's The Early Memoirs of Fred the Pirate (An Excerpt). Maybe the longest title of a microwrites story... ever? Maybe! I'm not checking the blog.
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SECOND STORY, also in the "Coast" section, is Sea Watching by microwrites stalwart @ursanews.bsky .social. I did um and ah about which section to place this in, but there was something about its scene-setting that was so powerfully coastal it ended up in the first block.
February 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
SECOND STORY, also in the "Coast" section, is Sea Watching by microwrites stalwart @ursanews.bsky .social. I did um and ah about which section to place this in, but there was something about its scene-setting that was so powerfully coastal it ended up in the first block.
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Issue Two starts off with a story from the coast, it's Returning by the ever-wonderful @plantpotonassis.bsky.social. In just a few paragraphs so much is conveyed, a broad sketch of small details. The open wound of the pandemic festers, almost unspoken, in the narration.
February 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Issue Two starts off with a story from the coast, it's Returning by the ever-wonderful @plantpotonassis.bsky.social. In just a few paragraphs so much is conveyed, a broad sketch of small details. The open wound of the pandemic festers, almost unspoken, in the narration.
Go AI, time to die.
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
April 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Go AI, time to die.
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Denis Healey on "half a loaf" leftism at the 1959 Labour conference.
![Denis Healey speaking at the 1959 Labour Party Conference, following their loss in the general election; "Hugh Gaitskell was absolutely right yesterday when he said that what gets cheers at this conference is not necessarily what gets votes at elections. If it did we would have won Devonport [the seat which Michael Foot had just lost]. There are far too many people who...want to luxuriate complacently in moral righteousness in Opposition. But who is going to pay the price for their complacency?
You can take the view that it is better to give up half the loaf if you cannot get the whole loaf, but the point is it is not we who are giving up the half loaf. In Britain it is the unemployed and the old age pensioners, and outside Britain there are millions of people in Asia and Africa who desperately need a Labour government in this country to help them. If you take the view that it is all right to stay in Opposition as long as your Socialist heart is pure, you will be “all right, Jack”. You will have your TV set, your motor car and your summer holidays on the Continent and still keep your Socialist soul intact. The people who pay the price for your sense of moral satisfaction are the Africans, millions of them, being slowly forced into racial slavery; the Indians and Indonesians dying of starvation.
We are not just a debating society. We are not just a Socialist Sunday School. We are a great movement that wants to help real people living on this earth at this present time. We shall never be able to help them unless we get power. We shall never get power until we are able to close the gap between our active workers and the average voters of this country.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jlwoxbbki2spuyzh3dpmx7zw/bafkreigwoat2oh5mkkhhanw2aqcj2wpezzbz5lewi65uykd666nqutok5u@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Denis Healey on "half a loaf" leftism at the 1959 Labour conference.
Reading the British Library collection of fenland weird stories and my god my god it's so good, fens are so spooky. Just read the short story of Possum and fucking hellllllll it's a new kind of skin-crawling horrible. Why have I not written more fen stories? My parents live on the fens!
March 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reading the British Library collection of fenland weird stories and my god my god it's so good, fens are so spooky. Just read the short story of Possum and fucking hellllllll it's a new kind of skin-crawling horrible. Why have I not written more fen stories? My parents live on the fens!
Might fuck around and just publish a whole book of my own stories.
March 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Might fuck around and just publish a whole book of my own stories.
Short stories.
why does renting a car take SO LONG, even if you've already made a reservation and pre-paid? like, WHY does the rental agent always have to TYPE so much?? WHAT ARE THEY TYPING????
March 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Short stories.
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First of all, THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT BIRD WATCHING.
Second of all, you FUCKING hypocrites:
Second of all, you FUCKING hypocrites:
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
First of all, THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT BIRD WATCHING.
Second of all, you FUCKING hypocrites:
Second of all, you FUCKING hypocrites:
Lulu has sent me a tax return, I assume as an early April Fool.
March 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Lulu has sent me a tax return, I assume as an early April Fool.
What genre is the microwrites zine and I'm asking this as a non-rhetorical question. I'm interested to know what those who have read the two issues think.
March 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
What genre is the microwrites zine and I'm asking this as a non-rhetorical question. I'm interested to know what those who have read the two issues think.
On the Ocean once again. Our final seagoing tale is named Fifty Miles off Aberdeen. Regular microwrites readers may recognise @bisonfish.bsky.social's Lord Dangerberry from an earlier story on the blog. Certainly I appreciated the return of the spinner of high-adventure yarns.
March 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On the Ocean once again. Our final seagoing tale is named Fifty Miles off Aberdeen. Regular microwrites readers may recognise @bisonfish.bsky.social's Lord Dangerberry from an earlier story on the blog. Certainly I appreciated the return of the spinner of high-adventure yarns.
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Keishi Kondo’s NEW RELIGION is now available on @shudder.com… as featured in this article on Shoegaze horror…
What is Shoegaze Horror?
A Ghost Story, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Skinamarink and beyond… a horror cinema of ghosts, memories, and slow-burning dissolution, dislocation, dissociation, depersonalisation & derealisation.
I take a walk through 17 films…
📽️👻
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A Ghost Story, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Skinamarink and beyond… a horror cinema of ghosts, memories, and slow-burning dissolution, dislocation, dissociation, depersonalisation & derealisation.
I take a walk through 17 films…
📽️👻
whitlockandpope.com/2025/02/23/j...
Just what is Shoegaze Horror?
Shoegaze Horror is perhaps as elusive as it is immersive—a cinema of ghosts, memories, and slow-burning dissolution where horror is less about what happens than how it feels, vibrating out through …
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March 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Keishi Kondo’s NEW RELIGION is now available on @shudder.com… as featured in this article on Shoegaze horror…
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It still blows my mind that, years ago, I would actually pay for new ringtones...fast forward to today, and if my phone so much as makes a sound, I want to chuck it out a window.
March 18, 2025 at 6:04 AM
It still blows my mind that, years ago, I would actually pay for new ringtones...fast forward to today, and if my phone so much as makes a sound, I want to chuck it out a window.
Where was I? Ah yes, the beach! Next story is another microwrites debutante, Jem Tenebris with Any Weather Is Good Beach Weather. Jem is a great example of a writer seeing the zine and wanting in. To that end, please do spread the word! I want as many voices as possible!
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Where was I? Ah yes, the beach! Next story is another microwrites debutante, Jem Tenebris with Any Weather Is Good Beach Weather. Jem is a great example of a writer seeing the zine and wanting in. To that end, please do spread the word! I want as many voices as possible!
Not going to ask that bot that tells you you're Switzerland about this account, it'll probably be the first one it decides is Nazi Germany or something.
March 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Not going to ask that bot that tells you you're Switzerland about this account, it'll probably be the first one it decides is Nazi Germany or something.
I finally went and bought the book that haunted my childhood. Specifically the telling of the Croglin Grange (given here as the somehow more sinister Croglin Low Hall) vampire, and the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui.
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I finally went and bought the book that haunted my childhood. Specifically the telling of the Croglin Grange (given here as the somehow more sinister Croglin Low Hall) vampire, and the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui.