'But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them - their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.' Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing #BookWormSat 🎨 Jeannie Kinsler

Embracing the chill of late autumn as the days grow shorter and the light gets lower. Tisha Mark ©2025, Quietly Darker, oil on gessobord, 8"x8" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/quie... #Scape #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm

red leaves on the sea north wind steals me away 🍂 #DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)

True colors

I won a thing! @blog.readindiefantasy.com is sponsoring a whole month of fun questions, interviews, blog posts, and chances to win free books, so check it out if you haven't already because... ... who doesn't like free stuff!!??

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

#haiku the witch has been in the tea cup again

#SenryuSunday #HaikuFeels #senryu things fall apart I start to notice it’s all plastic

dear dead moth your whole life in my closet how did it taste? #senryu

open the back door a small moth and its shadow follow the light in

how hard i work to write tanka in a fixed form... making it a point to ignore a winking white moon #tanka

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Mon NOV 03, 2025 Weekly #Prompt - AMBIENT ILLUSTRIOUS CURTAIN ENCOURAGE ACROSS RAINBOWS post with hashtag: #inkMine

∴ fouldynge enërgy neat alonge creas'd purposes shāp þese dreames awake ∴ #vss365 #poemspell #origami #wakingdream #superposition #jungiansymboliccontainment 🗣️🗝️ þ "th" as in thin

Sometimes the moon is like ᵐᵒᵒⁿ But today the moon was like 🄼🄾🄾🄽

moon resting on still water i looked for you and found me #dailyhaikuprompt #moon

written in pine sap spelled in sparrow-song forest poetry #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

fairy lights this moon rising out from a picture book #DailyHaikuPrompt (moon rise)

The small spectacles A play in miniature A spider’s quick dance #DailyHaiku #haiku #Monday

Ghost story fiction submission call: www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/... #shortstories #fiction #writers

The beautiful thing about myths and legends is you can bowdlerise them, subvert them, reinvent them, retcon them, hybridise them with other stories, and the older versions are all still there, ready to be told again and to inspire you.

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for November 3, 2025: #ANCIENT #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

I try to lay down these weary thoughts - yet the crows laugh #senryusunday #senryu #poetry

I say we just keep Halloween going this year. We deserve a little treat

Ever wear a glass? Ever use a scissor? Do you wear a pant, trouser, or jean? Have you used a goggle, given thank, or washed a dish in sud? Why are some words exclusively used in the plural? Let's talk about "pluralia tantum," words used exclusively in the plural form.

"Deep Blue" A new lino block print inspired a bit by a couple of older lino blocks, the Serpent and the Wave. I mixed some white into the Prussian Blue to brighten it up Prints: www.kamakru.com/prints?categ... Process: www.patreon.com/posts/142531... #linoprint #blockprint #dragons #art

new old books - the scent of autumn leaves and apple blossom

The postman just delivered my contributor's copy of The Storms Issue 5 & it is GORGEOUS! @eatthestorms.com & @rhonagreene.bsky.social, you've outdone yourselves! And, additional thanks to @dublincityoflit.bsky.social & #FingalArts! eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh... #poetry #prose #VisualArt #art

dark in the meadow between the scarecrow teasels the moonshadows fall

midnight lake~ she ties her hair slowly #haiku

The difficult thing about spontaneously visiting the abandoned upside-down video store under the abandoned video store is that I'm not always wearing the right shoes to walk on the ceiling.

November submissions are OPEN! The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS! We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

My painting, "AAAAAAA with a Side of Eggs," part of the Culinary Critters Collection! Check out the whole collection: www.joyousjoyness.com/collections/... #art #opossum #possum #egg #food #sciart #painting

A foggy morning after a restless night. The crows outside my window #chatter about my undreamed dreams. #whistpr

system playing me skylark song starling chatter but these empty skies perfect blues building whole new worlds we won't love harrowing machines crawl the soil no gulls here but screams 🪶 #ScifaikuSaturday #DailyHaikuPrompt #whistpr #inkMine

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for November 2, 2025: #CHATTER #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

glimpsing the buck a muddy barnyard carried on the wind #haiku #haikusaturday

My new album “DNA CODE MUSIC”, featuring my contemporary music performed by the outstanding string quartet NEOQUARTET is now on Bandcamp. Requiem Records, recording Marcin Kowalczyk marzenamajcher.bandcamp.com/album/dna-co...

Grateful to have a new poem 'Childhood' included in Issue 71 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social alongside a wealth of talent! Huge thank you to EIC @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for selecting my work ❤️ upthestaircase.org/vikki-c.html (ALT TEXT included) Check out the full issue at the link in replies.

*sniff*

In the light the ache is perfect. It is geometrically infinite. In the dark I x-ray myself into transparency. You are beautifully earnest as a manta ray. I give my skull as an aquarium. Look! You are here. You are here. And you are here. #vss365 #ray

So my only published short fiction of this year is a mash-up of folk horror, technohorror and cyberpunk, with a Sherlock-Moriarty kind of vibe. Just in case you're feeling like reading something like this!

Painting created by Margaret Rose c.1965, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of only three surviving works by her & no biographical information is currently known to us

#dailyhaikuprompt #warmbreath warm breath on the back of my neck... last night's ghost visits

Halloween, baseball and heroes, the baddy prez will cancel them all! Our hero trainee Meteor Strike will do her best to save your candy. Join her & the Daughters of Eris today. books2read.com/u/38wjyd

fogged glass this reflection can wait while I dress #DailyHaikuPrompt (foggy) #haiku #senryu

#haikufeels silence keys to the sun room grand piano silence #OneLineOctober

made a thing. music restores my faith in humanity.

Want to read a novella? annorlundaenterprises.com/books/water-...

Here's a cartoon I made about jumping spiders. 🕷️ #Arachtober