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Reminder: submissions close tomorrow (Sunday, March 8) on the theme of Signs of Spring. Details here: thesolitarydaisy.ca/submission-g... #haiku #senryu #haikusubmissions
It's been a-salted. (Story fodder perhaps??)
Looking gorgeous 😍
A writer in pyjamas, hair unbrushed, slightly sweaty...let's not say I don't put in an effort. 😆
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
Apparently this is Brandolini's Law - I am inordinately pleased with it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol...
Book Group The last Thursday of every month was Book Group, when the books would gather together to discuss Brian. “It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly. “Why doesn’t he read us?” whined the Grapes of Wrath. “It makes me so angry!” “I’m sure he only bought me so he can show me off to his friends,” complained Ulysses, in a stream of self-consciousness. “I bet he can’t even remember my name, The Idiot,” muttered a voice from the Russian literature section. “That’s because he avoids you like The Plague,” said another. “C’est vrai!” came a cry. “It is like I do not exist.” “Let’s not give up on him yet.” It was Brave New World. After some Persuasion, they agreed to give him one last chance. “Be quiet!” cried Waiting for Godot with Great Expectations. “Here he comes now!” Brian entered the room, with his phone. He sat down and watched some videos of baby pandas falling over. After an hour or so, he started googling cats dressed as celebrities. On the shelf, the books waited with uncracked spines, their silence speaking volumes. Brian Bilston
In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.
Nice one, Sarah
low sunlight glimmers
-- stitching the clouds together
a skein of Brent geese
#haiku of mine (published in Seashores Issue 10)
Thank you! (I could not see it )
I once asked the bread shop woman to cut me in half - fortunately I was pointing at a baguette and she was kind...
Soup kitchen heart wrencher (but not soupy). From @kiklodge.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Take a read.
Wow. My heart broken and healed in the reading. Thanks.
Yes, that's it!
Brilliant title!
Yay! Jumps for J
Joy?
Submissions for the Mini Bin are now OPEN.
Send us your best micros before 8pm (UK Time) on the 10th March.
Make 'em short, make 'em sharp, make 'em story.
50-175 words, any genre.
trashcatlit.com/microfiction...
Could be? J is a funny one...
The Welkin Genre Prize, 5 Genres, 5 Judges, 5 Winners. An Eco category, a History category (leaving J, B, F to guess). I feel like I'm on Only Connect here!
What is at the heart of our stories??? (I am intrigued and baffled in equal measure).
A opportunity for kidlit writers. Great workshop/feedback prizes for a 50 words or fewer story. Open on the 2nd and 3rd of March only. @nimblewitlit.bsky.social - might be of interest to your followers? viviankirkfield.com/2026/02/07/h...
How lovely! I look forward to reading it.
Brilliant! I'm sure you'll find someone to publish it.
Brilliant news! Congratulations.
Beautiful words. 💔. So hard to lose a friend.
Interesting thread on how AI can't correctly answer what appears to be a simple question.
Thanks so much for this. I had thought that AI might be useful for "simple" queries, but it seems that even at this level it fails.
Yay! More Miss Cathcart, teacher heroine. Thanks Alison!
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You're not really sorry, are you...