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Richard Gibney @ragtaggiggagon.bsky.social · 9d
Santa's Cholesterol is Alarmingly High...
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Get my short fiction collection here on #Kindle:
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December 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Gentile or Jew ... or Christian or Muslim or Buddhist or Hindu or Sikh or Taoist or Zoroastrian or None of the Above or atheist or agnostic or Prefer Not to Say ... or simply confused at a deep and enduring level .... some advice from T.S. Eliot. #poetry
“Death by Water” — *The Waste Land*, IV *Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,* *Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell* *And the profit and loss.* *A current under sea* *Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell* *He passed the stages of his age and youth* *Entering the whirlpool.* *Gentile or Jew* *O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,* *Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.*
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Santa's Cholesterol is Alarmingly High...
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#ThursThreads Week 687 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge @captainvalhalla.bsky.social. What will your 250 words say? invite @raethye.bsky.social @mysoulstears.bsky.social @davidaludwig.bsky.social @drmag00.bsky.social #FlashFiction #WriterSky #WritingPrompt siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...
#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13 Flash fiction writing challenge gold ribbons against a dark multicolored background
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Howya - just figured out how to really switch from X/Twitter and I'm properly here now! (I think)

If we've never met WHAT IS THE CRAIC!

This is my website colmkeeganpoetry.com

And here's an example of the type of poems I write

Nice to meet you 👋
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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News is coming to me via friends on Facebook, and via Fancyclopedia, that John Varley, who wrote Millennium, Steel Beach, and the Gaea trilogy (Titan, Wizard, Demon) has died. He was an excellent writer in the Campbell/Heinlein tradition, and I dug him a lot in my teens and early 20s. RIP.
The cover to Steel Beach, featuring a butterfly on a computer chip schematic.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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🔥 10 Interesting Facts About Gingerbread Man
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🔥 Learn how to create Midjourney images/videos for FREE! Get prompts, art styles & tutorials. Join me:
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#ai #aiart #midjourney #photo #photography #food #cookies #holiday #baking #christmas
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Coming soon…
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A lifelong education
in mental seek and find
leaves a burnout
the shape
of a mammoth's daymare.
Yet I feel myself
ascend
on occasion.
The specifics of trauma
are a cluster
of fogs

but they dissipate
in the love I'm gifted
by the dancing circle

and my gratitude
for self.

#emoetry #vss365 #poetry
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"A crooked horse cannot develop impulsion.
Bisquick’s got that pure walk,
that pure trot, that drop it
like it’s hot pure cantor."

This time last year, we published BISQUICK'S DANCE BREAK by C. Russell Price. Find it in our archives: buff.ly/5lmCoEt
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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🔥 Dog or wolf? What do you think?

If you'd like to create animations like this, I invite you to my Patreon, where you can also ask me questions about creating AI images. You can create such images and animations easily and FOR FREE!
👉 Join me: patreon.com/ai_art_tutor...

#ai #aiart #midjourney
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The latest bumper edition of @eatthestorms.com edited by Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social

Stunning publication!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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My collage, "Wish You Were Here in Paris," from my Surrealist Postcard series is published in The Storms Journal, Issue V. I'm so ecstatic to have received my contributor copy. Many thanks to editor, Damien B. Donnelly, and subeditor, Rhona Greene! purchase: eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
Kristin Fouquet with Collage and Journal
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I'm v happy to say - as you can see from the pics below, that my contributors copy of THE STORMS @eatthestorms.com arrived. Yay!🥳🕺💃🦋Thks Dami & Rhona🙏🤗

📢 If there's enough interest, I'll post my poem, from the issue later today IF THIS POST GETS 50+ likes & 10+ reposts BY 10pm tonight (UK time)
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Today’s joy is a poem, inspired by words on a vending machine, on a lilac page in @eatthestorms.com
HAVE THE BEST SEX YOU’VE EVER HAD That’s what it says on a vending machine in the toilets in a pub with kaleidoscope carpets. I feel momentarily guilty for being tired lately, for not doing the things we did when we first met. Someone comes in so I move to the hand dryer and resist the temptation to ask them what they think about this invitation. I picture us two, decades ago in our rented flat. What we did back then was pretty spectacular and it’s rather nice to think there’s going to be more. I won’t tell you I got my inspiration from a sign in The Ladies.
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Just back from my holibobs and delighted to receive The Storms Issue 5 in through the letterbox!
A superb literary magazine. Get your copy at the link!
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November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Fight

@happimess73.bsky.social
Fight As your presence is ridden roughshod by a world dictating what you should be. Fight to protect your inner vision. Let your primal urges seethe. You are verdant. An ancient recipe. Living in curiosity. Always questioning. You are a wilderness. An antithesis to those ersatz peaches placed in windows. Mouths in a shocking ‘oh’ at your abandonment of the parade. Eulogise the miracle of your ‘flaws’ Your hips. Your mouth. Those ears sticking out. Fight for each freckle. Talk loud. Laugh long. Wander with the intent to get lost. You are a scenery deserving of exquisite verbosity. Hold court with yourself, giving only love. You are fierce in a world full of cowards. Fight. Anne-Marie O'Dwyer-Silbiger
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Twenty years ago, I was telling my parents: "That's not special effects, by the way... that's what Bush actually said." Nowadays, I ask everyone, of most of the footage or video content that's shared with me:
"Is that... Is that... Do you think that's real?"
October 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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UPDATE! 🌹🎉

I realize not many people have access to much right now, so I put the eBook version of Beyond The Mark down to the lowest I could on Amazon, which is $0.99

Hope this helps it become more accessible, I'd rather continue the story than make money, so I hope you enjoy!

#Fantasy #Author
A stylized cover art for the book titled "Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero," featuring a silhouette of a cloaked figure in a dark, magical forest. The figure, shrouded in shadow, is holding a glowing sword with a vibrant red hue. Intricate patterns adorn the figure's cloak, evoking a sense of mystery and fantasy. The background showcases an eerie forest with bare, twisted trees and ethereal lights, creating a mystical and foreboding atmosphere. In the distance, a castle with spires looms against a pale, glowing sky, adding a sense of adventure and danger to the scene. The title is prominently displayed at the top in bold, stylized lettering, with a vivid gradient effect that contrasts with the darker tones of the artwork. The overall composition conveys themes of heroism, darkness, and a journey into the unknown.
June 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A review of Kaliane Bradley's debut novel, The Ministry of Time...
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Book Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Time travel is a complicated business, but its nuances are deftly weaved throughout Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel, The Ministry of Time, set just a few years from now and featuring a civil servant …
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October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Lullaby

Louise Glück

I read this poem often.

(tea stained page, sorry)
My mother's an expert in one thing; sending people she loves into the other world. The little ones, the babies-these she rocks, whispering or singing quietly. I can't say what she did for my father; whatever it was, I'm sure it was right. It's the same thing, really, preparing a person for sleep, for death. The lullabies-they all say 'don't be afraid', that's how they paraphrase the heartbeat of the mother. So the living slowly grow calm; it's only the dying who can't, who refuse. The dying are like tops, like gyroscopes- they spin so rapidly they seem to be still. Then they fly apart: in my mother's arms, my sister was a cloud of atoms, of particles- that's the difference. When a child's asleep, it's still whole. My mother's seen death; she doesn't talk about soul's integrity. She's held an infant, an old man, as by comparison the dark grew solid around them, finally changing to earth. The soul's like all matter: why would it stay intact, faithful to its one form, when it could be free.
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The King is dead... but who will live long now?

A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos...

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October 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

John Jeffire was born in Detroit.  His novel Motown Burning won the 2005 Mount Arrowsmith Novel Competition. In 2022, his novel River Rouge won the American Writing Award for Legacy Fiction.  
 
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM