Rekha Valliappan
@silicasun.bsky.social
Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
#FridayFocus #RLSDay Happy 175th Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson 📖 '“You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 📘 #silicasun 💐📗❤️
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 📘 #silicasun 💐📗❤️
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#FridayFocus #RLSDay Happy 175th Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson 📖 '“You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 📘 #silicasun 💐📗❤️
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 📘 #silicasun 💐📗❤️
#FairytaleTuesday #SuperMoon #MourningMoon #BeaverMoon #WhenBeastsSpoke #WyrdWednesday 'The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill...'Frances Hodgson Burnett,The Secret Garden 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com #silicasun 🍂🐦🍁📗❤️
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
#FairytaleTuesday #SuperMoon #MourningMoon #BeaverMoon #WhenBeastsSpoke #WyrdWednesday 'The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill...'Frances Hodgson Burnett,The Secret Garden 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com #silicasun 🍂🐦🍁📗❤️
#HappyHalloween 🎃 #writers #poets 📚 'the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel... Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells” Ray Bradbury 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐾 #silicasun 🎃👹📘💚
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#HappyHalloween 🎃 #writers #poets 📚 'the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel... Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells” Ray Bradbury 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐾 #silicasun 🎃👹📘💚
#WyrdWednesday #masks 🎃 - 'And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out...' --The Masque of the Red Death, 👹 Edgar Allan Poe 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 📙 #silicasun 👺⏰📖❤️
October 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#WyrdWednesday #masks 🎃 - 'And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out...' --The Masque of the Red Death, 👹 Edgar Allan Poe 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 📙 #silicasun 👺⏰📖❤️
#MythologyMonday to Wishing Everyone 📚 #HappyDiwali 🪔 #HappyDeepavali 🪔 #FestivalofLights 🪔🪔🪔 epic Victory of Good over Evil, Knowledge over Ignorance, Light over Darkness, told and retold down the ages time after time in #legend and #myth the #Ramayana 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 📘 #silicasun 🏹📗❤️
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#MythologyMonday to Wishing Everyone 📚 #HappyDiwali 🪔 #HappyDeepavali 🪔 #FestivalofLights 🪔🪔🪔 epic Victory of Good over Evil, Knowledge over Ignorance, Light over Darkness, told and retold down the ages time after time in #legend and #myth the #Ramayana 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 📘 #silicasun 🏹📗❤️
#SaturdayShowcase - Excited to share happy news of publication of my 2 #poems IMMORTAL DAY & ONE STRAND (Pg 83) in October Hill Magazine Fall 2025 Volume 9 Issue 3. Much thanks to #editors Samantha, Hannah, Arvilla Fee #poet! Just click on the link : octoberhillmagazine.com/archives 📚 #silicasun ☀️📖💚
October 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#SaturdayShowcase - Excited to share happy news of publication of my 2 #poems IMMORTAL DAY & ONE STRAND (Pg 83) in October Hill Magazine Fall 2025 Volume 9 Issue 3. Much thanks to #editors Samantha, Hannah, Arvilla Fee #poet! Just click on the link : octoberhillmagazine.com/archives 📚 #silicasun ☀️📖💚
#Gothtober 🐾 Wearing disguises to hide from wandering souls, carving demonic faces on pumpkins to frighten away evil spirits & lighting up carved pumpkins with candles like lanterns similar to will-o'-the-wisps ghost lights are #legends retold thousands years old #31DaysofHalloween 🎃 #silicasun 🎃📙❤️
October 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
#Gothtober 🐾 Wearing disguises to hide from wandering souls, carving demonic faces on pumpkins to frighten away evil spirits & lighting up carved pumpkins with candles like lanterns similar to will-o'-the-wisps ghost lights are #legends retold thousands years old #31DaysofHalloween 🎃 #silicasun 🎃📙❤️
Thank you, Hope, Stuart, you're both right. I for one am not 'indie.' Never have been. I'm traditionally published. Always have been! But we're all #authors just the same. Thanks #writingcommunity 4 your kindness many times over 4 #writerslifts reciprocated likewise in full by me 📚 #silicasun 🍂📙❤️
October 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thank you, Hope, Stuart, you're both right. I for one am not 'indie.' Never have been. I'm traditionally published. Always have been! But we're all #authors just the same. Thanks #writingcommunity 4 your kindness many times over 4 #writerslifts reciprocated likewise in full by me 📚 #silicasun 🍂📙❤️
#WyrdWednesday scarecrows long considered mock humans blowing in cornfields invoking terror by their undead demonic monster look. From ancient Egypt to ancient Greece, England to Kansas, Defoe to Hawthorne scarecrows have perpetuated #horror of menacing entities of death and decay 👻 #silicasun ☠️🎃📙❤️
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#WyrdWednesday scarecrows long considered mock humans blowing in cornfields invoking terror by their undead demonic monster look. From ancient Egypt to ancient Greece, England to Kansas, Defoe to Hawthorne scarecrows have perpetuated #horror of menacing entities of death and decay 👻 #silicasun ☠️🎃📙❤️
#MythologyMonday #autumnequinox 🍁 #HappyNavratri First day of #autumnfall 🍂 Legend has it today marks the start of the nine day battle by the powerful deity in one of her many manifestations over the demon accompanied nightly by vigorous dance moves claps sticks #DandiyaRaas #Garba 💃 #silicasun 🪔📗❤️
September 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
#MythologyMonday #autumnequinox 🍁 #HappyNavratri First day of #autumnfall 🍂 Legend has it today marks the start of the nine day battle by the powerful deity in one of her many manifestations over the demon accompanied nightly by vigorous dance moves claps sticks #DandiyaRaas #Garba 💃 #silicasun 🪔📗❤️
For #WyrdWednesday 🐜
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis 🪳📙
#insects 🐜 #bugs 🐝 #arachnids 🕷️ #horror 🦂 #silicasun 🐛📘❤️
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis 🪳📙
#insects 🐜 #bugs 🐝 #arachnids 🕷️ #horror 🦂 #silicasun 🐛📘❤️
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September 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
For #WyrdWednesday 🐜
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis 🪳📙
#insects 🐜 #bugs 🐝 #arachnids 🕷️ #horror 🦂 #silicasun 🐛📘❤️
silicasun.wordpress.com 📖
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis 🪳📙
#insects 🐜 #bugs 🐝 #arachnids 🕷️ #horror 🦂 #silicasun 🐛📘❤️
silicasun.wordpress.com 📖
#TuesdayTips - 'August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.'
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#TuesdayTips - 'August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.'
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
--Sylvia Plath Journals 📚 #silicasun 🍂📗💚
#autumn
The recent corn moon blood moon lunar spectacular coincided with the potent ancestral rites of passage pitru paksha purnima #fullmoon performed for departed souls where food is offered rice, corn grains in plenty #FairytaleTuesday 💐
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September 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The recent corn moon blood moon lunar spectacular coincided with the potent ancestral rites of passage pitru paksha purnima #fullmoon performed for departed souls where food is offered rice, corn grains in plenty #FairytaleTuesday 💐
silicasun.wordpress.com 🌹📘💙 #silicasun 📚
silicasun.wordpress.com 🌹📘💙 #silicasun 📚
#GrimLitFriday 2 #BookSat 📖 remembering Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley #BOTD “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.” #Frankenstein 📚
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August 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
#GrimLitFriday 2 #BookSat 📖 remembering Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley #BOTD “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.” #Frankenstein 📚
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#SundaySizzle ☀️ Harvest is on & with it Vallamkali at #Onam festival 🌺 launching snake boat canoes made of teak wood 100m long rowed often by 150 men its two ends shaped like cobra hoods marking the annual seasonal food journey for Lord Vishnu and demon King Mahabali #FolkloreSunday 🚣 #silicasun 🛶📘💛
August 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#SundaySizzle ☀️ Harvest is on & with it Vallamkali at #Onam festival 🌺 launching snake boat canoes made of teak wood 100m long rowed often by 150 men its two ends shaped like cobra hoods marking the annual seasonal food journey for Lord Vishnu and demon King Mahabali #FolkloreSunday 🚣 #silicasun 🛶📘💛
#TuesdayTreat - I have a weird new #horror #shortstory out DARK WATERS TO NOWHERE 📖 in Kosmos Obscura - A Cosmic Horror Anthology of twenty-nine dark eldritch tales published by Graveside Press 📚 Pre-order available here : gsp-shop.fourthwall.com/products/kos... 📗
#horrorcommunity #silicasun 🚢📘💙
#horrorcommunity #silicasun 🚢📘💙
July 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#TuesdayTreat - I have a weird new #horror #shortstory out DARK WATERS TO NOWHERE 📖 in Kosmos Obscura - A Cosmic Horror Anthology of twenty-nine dark eldritch tales published by Graveside Press 📚 Pre-order available here : gsp-shop.fourthwall.com/products/kos... 📗
#horrorcommunity #silicasun 🚢📘💙
#horrorcommunity #silicasun 🚢📘💙
#SundaySpecial - Thrilled to have my most recent #shortstory TIP OF A LEAF more a #memoir than #fiction published in the awesome Unlikely Stories Six creators of #books & #litmag big thanks to #editor Jonathon Penton 📖📚 To read, here's link : #silicasun ☀️📗❤️ www.unlikelystories.org/content/tip-...
June 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#SundaySpecial - Thrilled to have my most recent #shortstory TIP OF A LEAF more a #memoir than #fiction published in the awesome Unlikely Stories Six creators of #books & #litmag big thanks to #editor Jonathon Penton 📖📚 To read, here's link : #silicasun ☀️📗❤️ www.unlikelystories.org/content/tip-...
#SaturdaySpecial 🍃 #HappySummerSolstice 🌹 #SummerSolstice ☀️ longest day of the year official start of summer ☀️ may the blessings of the new start of summertime be upon us 💐 stay safe stay cool 😎 silicasun.wordpress.com 🌅 #silicasun 🌇📘💚
June 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#SaturdaySpecial 🍃 #HappySummerSolstice 🌹 #SummerSolstice ☀️ longest day of the year official start of summer ☀️ may the blessings of the new start of summertime be upon us 💐 stay safe stay cool 😎 silicasun.wordpress.com 🌅 #silicasun 🌇📘💚
#WednesdatWonder 4 #folkloreThursday the picking of ripening #strawberries 🍓in #strawberryseason 🍓marking the end of #Spring 🌹start of #Summer ☀️tonight when the #fullmoon 🎑 #strawberrymoon 🍓 in a #strawberry 🍓sky hanging low will peak - a phenomena next seen in 2043 🎑 happy viewing 📷 #silicasun 🌸📘💚
June 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#WednesdatWonder 4 #folkloreThursday the picking of ripening #strawberries 🍓in #strawberryseason 🍓marking the end of #Spring 🌹start of #Summer ☀️tonight when the #fullmoon 🎑 #strawberrymoon 🍓 in a #strawberry 🍓sky hanging low will peak - a phenomena next seen in 2043 🎑 happy viewing 📷 #silicasun 🌸📘💚
#TuesdayTreat - Celebrating #OTD #ThomasHardy Thomas Hardy's 185th birthday with one of his earlier Wessex novels, UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE on #fairytaleTuesday for the beautiful descriptive English countryside of its settings, and so unlike the sad later novels Tess and Jude 💐 #silicasun 🌹📘❤️
June 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
#TuesdayTreat - Celebrating #OTD #ThomasHardy Thomas Hardy's 185th birthday with one of his earlier Wessex novels, UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE on #fairytaleTuesday for the beautiful descriptive English countryside of its settings, and so unlike the sad later novels Tess and Jude 💐 #silicasun 🌹📘❤️
#TuesdayTreat #shoutout 📢 my annual celebration to the wonderful #bee 🐝 on #WorldBeeDay 🐝🐝 they make our gardens beautiful 🌹 #silicasun 🍯📗💛
#bees #naturelovers
#bees #naturelovers
May 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
#TuesdayTreat #shoutout 📢 my annual celebration to the wonderful #bee 🐝 on #WorldBeeDay 🐝🐝 they make our gardens beautiful 🌹 #silicasun 🍯📗💛
#bees #naturelovers
#bees #naturelovers
#MondayMirror 🪞Happy #MayFlowers #springtime #writers #poets #readers 📚 #Wildflowers #naturelovers 💮on our way 2 magical haze of #summer meadows 🍃 #reading #writing in the mix my #author website current 📖 I have new pubs #stories flash #poems & some surprises: silicasun.wordpress.com 📗 #silicasun 💙
May 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#MondayMirror 🪞Happy #MayFlowers #springtime #writers #poets #readers 📚 #Wildflowers #naturelovers 💮on our way 2 magical haze of #summer meadows 🍃 #reading #writing in the mix my #author website current 📖 I have new pubs #stories flash #poems & some surprises: silicasun.wordpress.com 📗 #silicasun 💙
#MondayMagic #MoonMagic #MoonMonday 🌕 #poets #moonlovers ❤️ the silent beauty of the #FullFlowerMoon 🌕🌷 Full Flower Moon 🌕🌸 (Native American sentiment) Watch Tonight 🎑 in its natural setting of wildflowers 🌼 and seasonal rhythms of the earth 💐 #silicasun 🌹📖💚
May 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#MondayMagic #MoonMagic #MoonMonday 🌕 #poets #moonlovers ❤️ the silent beauty of the #FullFlowerMoon 🌕🌷 Full Flower Moon 🌕🌸 (Native American sentiment) Watch Tonight 🎑 in its natural setting of wildflowers 🌼 and seasonal rhythms of the earth 💐 #silicasun 🌹📖💚
#SundaySpecial ❤️ #HappyMothersDay #writers #readers #poets all #motherlove #mothersarespecial #mothersinspire 💐 silicasun.wordpress.com 🌹 #silicasun 🌷📗💙
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#SundayFunday - Ah yes, it's May the 4th to brighten your today's mood! May the Fourth Be With You #writers #readers 📖📚 #Maythe4thBeWithYou ⚔️ #silicasun 🌟📗💙
May 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
#SundayFunday - Ah yes, it's May the 4th to brighten your today's mood! May the Fourth Be With You #writers #readers 📖📚 #Maythe4thBeWithYou ⚔️ #silicasun 🌟📗💙