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NOVEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is C.C. O’HANLON!!! THEME/S: JOURNEYS
Burning House Press are excited to welcome C.C. O’HANLON as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today C.C. will take over editorship of Burning House Pre…
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Welcome November guest editor - C.C. O’HANLON!!! @ccohanlon.bsky.social
JOURNEYS
Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media.
Sendx
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JOURNEYS
Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media.
Sendx
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I visited Kostrzyn nad Odrą, the former German Küstrin, and its vanished old town. For @thearsonista.bsky.social I wrote about its most famous inhabitant Hans Hermann von Katte and the ghosts of empire. Many thanks to @ccohanlon.bsky.social for publishing it. burninghousepress.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I visited Kostrzyn nad Odrą, the former German Küstrin, and its vanished old town. For @thearsonista.bsky.social I wrote about its most famous inhabitant Hans Hermann von Katte and the ghosts of empire. Many thanks to @ccohanlon.bsky.social for publishing it. burninghousepress.com/2025/11/27/t...
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"My journey to the death of Katte is...a Prussian pilgrimage but also one across the layers of the recent history of Europe and its leftovers."
@marcelkrueger.bsky.social on Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Kattea, a tragic footnote in early 18th century Prussian history.
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@marcelkrueger.bsky.social on Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Kattea, a tragic footnote in early 18th century Prussian history.
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There Is Nothing To Forgive by Marcel Krueger
Memorial to Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Katte. All photos by Marcel Krueger. The border is the maddest line on the map, the most fluid, unnatural and dangerous.Tomasz Różycki, from Trial by Fire On…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"My journey to the death of Katte is...a Prussian pilgrimage but also one across the layers of the recent history of Europe and its leftovers."
@marcelkrueger.bsky.social on Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Kattea, a tragic footnote in early 18th century Prussian history.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
@marcelkrueger.bsky.social on Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Kattea, a tragic footnote in early 18th century Prussian history.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
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"The music seemed timeless. Soon I was floating out on the floor, feeling the syncopated horns and strings, galvanising my thinning muscles. I was still the old modernist, making moves I didn’t know I still had in me."
A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
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A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
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Tangerine Coast by A.J. Lees
The North Shore, Blackpool. All photos by Stefan Svennson. Every year, in the last week of June, the mills, engine rooms, and coal mines in Oldham closed down, and an exodus followed. My great-gran…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"The music seemed timeless. Soon I was floating out on the floor, feeling the syncopated horns and strings, galvanising my thinning muscles. I was still the old modernist, making moves I didn’t know I still had in me."
A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
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My last days as guest editor @thearsonista.bsky.social, marked by a flurry of publication.
My sincere thanks to @miggyangel.bsky.social for the opportunity and to all the November contributors for your inspiring works.
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My sincere thanks to @miggyangel.bsky.social for the opportunity and to all the November contributors for your inspiring works.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My last days as guest editor @thearsonista.bsky.social, marked by a flurry of publication.
My sincere thanks to @miggyangel.bsky.social for the opportunity and to all the November contributors for your inspiring works.
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My sincere thanks to @miggyangel.bsky.social for the opportunity and to all the November contributors for your inspiring works.
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"I wandered down a path without any sense (nor care) of where I was going. No purpose, no intention, no destination — a random walk in the dark."
anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
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anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
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this by anna f.
Photos/artwork by anna f. All this started on a lonely bench at Frustration Station. There I was, sitting, with a crushing sense of defeat, of failure, and a nagging urge to engage in some kind of …
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November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"I wandered down a path without any sense (nor care) of where I was going. No purpose, no intention, no destination — a random walk in the dark."
anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
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anna f., aka @kimcarsons4.bsky.social, on her new, 2D adventures in mixed media.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
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"I didn’t sleep. Instead, I spent much of the 12-hour journey videoing out the conveniently placed window in my sleeping compartment."
Nick Stewart on the night train from London to the Scottish Highlands, in 2020.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
Nick Stewart on the night train from London to the Scottish Highlands, in 2020.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
Night Train by Nick Stewart
Video, audio, and piano by Nick Stewart In March 2020, I needed a break and booked the Caledonian Sleeper Train from London to the Scottish highlands. But, on the third and last day, walking on a w…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"I didn’t sleep. Instead, I spent much of the 12-hour journey videoing out the conveniently placed window in my sleeping compartment."
Nick Stewart on the night train from London to the Scottish Highlands, in 2020.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
Nick Stewart on the night train from London to the Scottish Highlands, in 2020.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
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"The strangest thing about traveling for a long time is the return. Your descent back into your old life and old patterns feels like a direct confrontation with your past self."
New Orleans artist and tattoist @lake.bsky.social on her random impulse to go to sea.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
New Orleans artist and tattoist @lake.bsky.social on her random impulse to go to sea.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
Glittering Metals by Lake Sleep
Sailing in the Caribbean Sea changed me, it’s true. I hold the memories delicately in my fingers wherever I go. . . . March 29, 2024, in New Orleans, Louisiana: things at the tattoo shop hadn’t pan…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"The strangest thing about traveling for a long time is the return. Your descent back into your old life and old patterns feels like a direct confrontation with your past self."
New Orleans artist and tattoist @lake.bsky.social on her random impulse to go to sea.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
New Orleans artist and tattoist @lake.bsky.social on her random impulse to go to sea.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
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"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flâneur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of life’s great pleasures."
@sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes.
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@sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes.
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Mizmaze by Sylvia Warren
The first time I walked a city without direction was in Florence. Before that trip each day was regimented by parents—a designated set of sites to visit, walking through the streets was a chore bet…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flâneur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of life’s great pleasures."
@sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
@sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
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A short poem I wrote has just been published in Burning House Press. Thanks to guest editor c.c. o'hanlon.
I watch the kettle while it boils
I open my notebook
on the kitchen table
by a window
with green curtains
and lo and behold I find a candle
meant for emergency
but at 23 who waits for that
you see a candle
you light it..."
A memoir/poem by @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
@thearsonista.bsky.social
I open my notebook
on the kitchen table
by a window
with green curtains
and lo and behold I find a candle
meant for emergency
but at 23 who waits for that
you see a candle
you light it..."
A memoir/poem by @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
@thearsonista.bsky.social
Late September 1978 by Kelly Rebar
Photo by Kelly Rebar Every year I’m taken therethe air the light the sightof leavesdrifting pastwithout a care I’m drivingin the Rockiesin my old Plymouth Valianta shade of bronzeyou don’t much see…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A short poem I wrote has just been published in Burning House Press. Thanks to guest editor c.c. o'hanlon.
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Stoked to be published by @ccohanlon.bsky.social in Burning House Press this month, writing about my trial monitoring years in Turkey. @thearsonista.bsky.social
"By now you will be an international advocate. You will monitor 200 trials, hoping it will all get better. But fascism doesn’t need much sleep. When it’s too late you’ll see that you were not creative enough. You weren’t armed to the porcelained teeth or in league with deep state."
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Stoked to be published by @ccohanlon.bsky.social in Burning House Press this month, writing about my trial monitoring years in Turkey. @thearsonista.bsky.social
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Thanks to CC O’Hanlon for publishing my words on working in Turkey and the incredible resistance that goes on there. Read the great pieces around ‘journeys’ at @thearsonista.bsky.social
Thanks to CC O’Hanlon for publishing my words on working in Turkey and the incredible resistance that goes on there. Read the great pieces around ‘journeys’ at @thearsonista.bsky.social
Journey To The Centre Of Dictatorship by Line Stockford
Photo by Caroline Stockford Once you see past the cellophaned shop-window of tourism and into the infected stomach-wound of political history you begin a journey to the centre of dictatorship. And …
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November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Thanks to CC O’Hanlon for publishing my words on working in Turkey and the incredible resistance that goes on there. Read the great pieces around ‘journeys’ at @thearsonista.bsky.social
Thanks to CC O’Hanlon for publishing my words on working in Turkey and the incredible resistance that goes on there. Read the great pieces around ‘journeys’ at @thearsonista.bsky.social
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I watch the kettle while it boils
I open my notebook
on the kitchen table
by a window
with green curtains
and lo and behold I find a candle
meant for emergency
but at 23 who waits for that
you see a candle
you light it..."
A memoir/poem by @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
@thearsonista.bsky.social
I open my notebook
on the kitchen table
by a window
with green curtains
and lo and behold I find a candle
meant for emergency
but at 23 who waits for that
you see a candle
you light it..."
A memoir/poem by @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
@thearsonista.bsky.social
Late September 1978 by Kelly Rebar
Photo by Kelly Rebar Every year I’m taken therethe air the light the sightof leavesdrifting pastwithout a care I’m drivingin the Rockiesin my old Plymouth Valianta shade of bronzeyou don’t much see…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I watch the kettle while it boils
I open my notebook
on the kitchen table
by a window
with green curtains
and lo and behold I find a candle
meant for emergency
but at 23 who waits for that
you see a candle
you light it..."
A memoir/poem by @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
@thearsonista.bsky.social
I open my notebook
on the kitchen table
by a window
with green curtains
and lo and behold I find a candle
meant for emergency
but at 23 who waits for that
you see a candle
you light it..."
A memoir/poem by @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social
@thearsonista.bsky.social
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"Once you see past the cellophaned shop-window of tourism and into the infected stomach-wound of political history you begin a journey to the centre of dictatorship..."
Jagged reflections by @linecaro.bsky.social's, via @thearsonista.bsky.social, on being an observer at Turkish writers' trials.
Jagged reflections by @linecaro.bsky.social's, via @thearsonista.bsky.social, on being an observer at Turkish writers' trials.
Journey To The Centre Of Dictatorship by Line Stockford
Photo by Caroline Stockford Once you see past the cellophaned shop-window of tourism and into the infected stomach-wound of political history you begin a journey to the centre of dictatorship. And …
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November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Once you see past the cellophaned shop-window of tourism and into the infected stomach-wound of political history you begin a journey to the centre of dictatorship..."
Jagged reflections by @linecaro.bsky.social's, via @thearsonista.bsky.social, on being an observer at Turkish writers' trials.
Jagged reflections by @linecaro.bsky.social's, via @thearsonista.bsky.social, on being an observer at Turkish writers' trials.
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Just posted @thearsonista.bsky.social: three poems by German-born but Norwegian-based Alexis Karlsen, whose work "spans three languages and reflects the life experience of a disillusioned underdog drifter."
Three Poems by Alexis Karlsen
Ferdaminni [XI/24 – X/25] The dust on the roadRotting leaves on a cold autumn morningThe faint scent of hasty intimacy hours earlierThe dogs are nervous tonightThere’s blood on the wind…
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November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just posted @thearsonista.bsky.social: three poems by German-born but Norwegian-based Alexis Karlsen, whose work "spans three languages and reflects the life experience of a disillusioned underdog drifter."
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"The cost of the coast is the loss
of honest sand, which was host
to myriad lives we’ve failed
to understand. Now there are
daily sweeps of machines
to scrape the bought sand smooth."
The Long Game, a poem by another American, Kyla Houbolt, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
of honest sand, which was host
to myriad lives we’ve failed
to understand. Now there are
daily sweeps of machines
to scrape the bought sand smooth."
The Long Game, a poem by another American, Kyla Houbolt, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
The Long Game by Kyla Houbolt
Cutting locust tree saplingsto feed to the sheep whoblatt impatiently. A locust grovehas started and it must be stopped.Locust has thorns and is goodfor little except feeding goatsand sheep. Althou…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"The cost of the coast is the loss
of honest sand, which was host
to myriad lives we’ve failed
to understand. Now there are
daily sweeps of machines
to scrape the bought sand smooth."
The Long Game, a poem by another American, Kyla Houbolt, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
of honest sand, which was host
to myriad lives we’ve failed
to understand. Now there are
daily sweeps of machines
to scrape the bought sand smooth."
The Long Game, a poem by another American, Kyla Houbolt, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
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A rare glimpse into a poet's observations, via this November edition of @thearsonista.bsky.social:
Kerala Notes by American-born Kim Dorman @kimdorman.bsky.social, who lives in India and whose haunting Kerala Journal was published four years ago by @corbelstonepress.bsky.social.
Kerala Notes by American-born Kim Dorman @kimdorman.bsky.social, who lives in India and whose haunting Kerala Journal was published four years ago by @corbelstonepress.bsky.social.
Kerala Notes by Kim Dorman
Photos by Kim Dorman Through a grimy windowopen fieldssmall houses by trackspeople standingor sittingin doorwayswatching the train . . . 6.30 p.m. muezzin’s call to prayer . . . The battered, ruste…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A rare glimpse into a poet's observations, via this November edition of @thearsonista.bsky.social:
Kerala Notes by American-born Kim Dorman @kimdorman.bsky.social, who lives in India and whose haunting Kerala Journal was published four years ago by @corbelstonepress.bsky.social.
Kerala Notes by American-born Kim Dorman @kimdorman.bsky.social, who lives in India and whose haunting Kerala Journal was published four years ago by @corbelstonepress.bsky.social.
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Autumn is co-director (with artist Richard Skelton) of the multi-media publishing house @corbelstonepress.bsky.social, which has published three other writers — Gaspar Orozco, @kimdorman.bsky.social and me — contributing to @thearsonista.bsky.social's November issue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Autumn is co-director (with artist Richard Skelton) of the multi-media publishing house @corbelstonepress.bsky.social, which has published three other writers — Gaspar Orozco, @kimdorman.bsky.social and me — contributing to @thearsonista.bsky.social's November issue.
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It's a privilege to publish new work by the brilliant Autumn Richardson in @thearsonista.bsky.social : six poems assembled under the title, Boreal.
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Boreal by Autumn Richardson
i.carnelian willows flint veins of the riverhoof-worn rock and a drifting scent of ungulates (scars in stone fossil trails)magnetic north pilgrimageI bow to the illuminations within woundsthe work …
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November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's a privilege to publish new work by the brilliant Autumn Richardson in @thearsonista.bsky.social : six poems assembled under the title, Boreal.
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Will be reading pomes at Danny Clarke’s book launch Bethnal Green 2nd Dec @hesterglock.bsky.social
>>>if you’re in London come down say yo hear a poem launch a book get yr portrait took 📸 s’gonna be good 🥳❤️📕<<<
>>>if you’re in London come down say yo hear a poem launch a book get yr portrait took 📸 s’gonna be good 🥳❤️📕<<<
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Will be reading pomes at Danny Clarke’s book launch Bethnal Green 2nd Dec @hesterglock.bsky.social
>>>if you’re in London come down say yo hear a poem launch a book get yr portrait took 📸 s’gonna be good 🥳❤️📕<<<
>>>if you’re in London come down say yo hear a poem launch a book get yr portrait took 📸 s’gonna be good 🥳❤️📕<<<
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My wife died some years ago and so with much gratitude to @ccohanlon.bluesky.social for the invitation to publish this piece through Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social on her anniversary:
Mòran taing
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Mòran taing
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November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My wife died some years ago and so with much gratitude to @ccohanlon.bluesky.social for the invitation to publish this piece through Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social on her anniversary:
Mòran taing
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Mòran taing
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"...the ever-increasing pace and price of work/life leaves little time to simply connect with the land, with ourselves and each other."
– William Parsons, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book on pilgrimage, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
– William Parsons, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book on pilgrimage, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
On Pilgrimage by William Parsons
Photo by William Parsons The Paradox of Connectivity Modern life is increasingly connected: central heating to phone, fridge to supermarket, watch to heartbeat. Without touching a button we can cha…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"...the ever-increasing pace and price of work/life leaves little time to simply connect with the land, with ourselves and each other."
– William Parsons, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book on pilgrimage, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
– William Parsons, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book on pilgrimage, via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
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"I think of those landscapes now that we’re not there,
the spaces where we used to be.
Your presence as it shifts into abstraction
and distant thought now
the space between you and me and the lines that I draw."
– @brianmchenry.bsky.social
Words and drawings via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
the spaces where we used to be.
Your presence as it shifts into abstraction
and distant thought now
the space between you and me and the lines that I draw."
– @brianmchenry.bsky.social
Words and drawings via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
Everything Is Far Away by Brian McHenry
Drawings by Brian McHenry I have a favourite road. There is a moment in the film version of Gavin Maxwell’s Ring of Bright Water when the main character, Graham, gets off the MacBraynes’ bus and fo…
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November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"I think of those landscapes now that we’re not there,
the spaces where we used to be.
Your presence as it shifts into abstraction
and distant thought now
the space between you and me and the lines that I draw."
– @brianmchenry.bsky.social
Words and drawings via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
the spaces where we used to be.
Your presence as it shifts into abstraction
and distant thought now
the space between you and me and the lines that I draw."
– @brianmchenry.bsky.social
Words and drawings via @thearsonista.bsky.social.
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"For some people, travel writers are escape artists sharing their secrets on how to break loose from sameness. Others live to wander, to find stillness in motion, and perhaps by chance to find missing parts of the story that made them who they are."
– Paul Tritschler, via @thearsonista.bsky.social
– Paul Tritschler, via @thearsonista.bsky.social
Walking In Circles by Paul Tritschler
Photo by Paul Tritschler Midway through the event, a woman seated in the front row of the audience asked the panel of four authors, all of whom had made an appearance for the purpose of promoting t…
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November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"For some people, travel writers are escape artists sharing their secrets on how to break loose from sameness. Others live to wander, to find stillness in motion, and perhaps by chance to find missing parts of the story that made them who they are."
– Paul Tritschler, via @thearsonista.bsky.social
– Paul Tritschler, via @thearsonista.bsky.social
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First time for
@thearsonista.bsky.social
First time for my creative writing, ever!
Tá athas an domhain orm
Over the moon!
@thearsonista.bsky.social
First time for my creative writing, ever!
Tá athas an domhain orm
Over the moon!
A writer to watch: my dear friend, @liznangel3.bsky.social. Her extraordinary Original Sin, excerpted from a work-in-progress, is a poignant prose poem of remembrance and loss.
This is her first for @thearsonista.bsky.social.
This is her first for @thearsonista.bsky.social.
Original Sin by Liz Cullinane
Sculpture by Liz Cullinane Watercress abundant, pooled, fed by a freshwater stream that leaks a channel, a winding furrow carving an arc across the sands. Joining the Atlantic salt waters. Di…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
First time for
@thearsonista.bsky.social
First time for my creative writing, ever!
Tá athas an domhain orm
Over the moon!
@thearsonista.bsky.social
First time for my creative writing, ever!
Tá athas an domhain orm
Over the moon!