This gorgeous beast turned up today and everything about it is eminently satisfying. Written by @cultauthor.bsky.social about @hookland.bsky.social. Published by Twisted Trunk

I have a new flash in the gorgeous @crowkeys.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛ Loved playing around with the imperative voice for this one. @keychild.bsky.social has been a delight to deal with, too. Send them something bejewelled and dark and bewitching. 🖤 crowcrosskeys.com/2026/07/11/h...

It is commiserations and congratulations time as FFF announce with a drumroll please.. As chosen by Judge Emma Phillips @emmapwrites.bsky.social The FFF Competition Thirty-Four Shortlist! #flashfiction #writingcompetitions freeflashfiction.com/competition-...

Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵

PSSSSST! Five days left to submit. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

We may walk morning streets and meet old gods and their hare-headed messengers in gallery windows. Find shops shut for the days of obscure, misremembered saints. Everywhere a sense of the pagan breaking through. Everywhere the tingling possibility of magic. – #DAKilroy, 1982

Seen a few posts on how to support @countbinface.bsky.social and you can 'Buy me a coffee' via the link on the Count Binface website.... countbinface.com/help-binface

Even with a watch of angels, Weychester Cathedral remains haunted. Spirts tread stone floors, disruptively turn pages of liturgical books. They loudly tut the absence of Sarum Rite, attempt to plague the Dean with visions. Whisper old bitterness into worshippers' ears. – #CJosiffe, 1982 #Ghosts

As Children of The Hum, transmission towers had an entirely different meaning for us. What was being transmitted was the electric ley of the land, the voices and visions that The Hum contained. We tuned into the transmission, but it wasn't about power. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave, ex-Pylon Person

The wraith ways of England let us walk beside ghosts. We match our steps to temporal shades, navigate a haunted hodology. Our exploration of these corpse roads is an act of communion with our past, a loosening of own spirits within time. – Dr. M. Benn

Always worth thinking on the anniversary of the NHS - at what age would you and/or your loved ones have died without it? Me - 18 months old.

Another top thread from Tom. Definitely read the Alt text - you’ll be pleased you did, Matthew

That’s so unfair. It’s all incompetence.

I'm sure there are more, and I invite slushies to add their peeves, but really as a reader/editor, all I want to see is your stories. Actual stories where things happen, even if they're small, which adhere to the rules, are clean, and have zero cheats/guilt. /end #writingcommunity #booksky #stories

First the @bylinetimes.bsky.social came for him And he said nothing Then the @theguardian.com came for him, and he said nothing Then Murdoch's News UK came for him, and he realised he was fucked.

Benign interest without wanting to read it or see it (family). which is handy in many ways as I think I’d censor myself way more than I do if there was even a chance …

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

Haven't seen Zippy from Rainbow in a while I wonder what he's up t ... oh god no!!!

Cautiously optimistic about this. He won’t stop being green in outlook, I hope, if Chancellor www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Goodnight from Susie Metcalf, writing lipstick curses on the mirrors of The Lacuna club after having spotted her ex on the dance floor. Goodnight from Jodie Wade, watching swan-cloaked ghosts climb path to Pewet Point and knowing a storm must come. Goodnight from Hookland.

“And before you say it, yes, we’ve tried nets over the windows, which is how we lost two dogs and a toddler back in 2015. ‘Mystery disappearance’ my arse. We all knew what did it. We told them. But they don’t believe you, do they?” precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/08/21/f...

My inbox is open and awaiting submissions, so if you have work that’s dying to be in the world please send it my way. I am accepting submissions of poetry, flash, word & image, film poems and reviews. Email me at [email protected]. Sabine #InkSweatandTears #Submissions

New exercise plan is to run every day but always in regular clothes while constantly checking over my shoulder and muttering "not again not again why won't you stay dead"

Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

"The Tube was obviously not the work of one man; but if the entire concept of an underground railway has a progenitor, it’s this guy."

I would kill or die for Larry

The ghost that throbs beyond the glass. The ghost you know is there even when you cannot see it. Haunting of such disruptive power that there is no ordinary anymore, no pretending it's all in the mind. These are the cases that interest me. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

I know it is a silly thing, but as a child I found the font in our church threatening. I didn't take the carved hands as a symbolic welcoming into faith. They made me think of being drowned, being held down in the water. They terrified me. – Jane Walton #VOH #FontsonFriday

Oye oye! We have two slots that have come up if any writer or poet fancies reading in our open-mic next Tuesday at 7pm CET. Give me a wave! @saloneurope.bsky.social

We ride green-walled roads with the passenger of folklore. Stories told in turn, crossroad and crest of hill. Here is ragged roamer's ghost, here Old Mother Kemp's talking hedge. Tales tied to the landscape, transmissions through time held in place. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #FolkloreThursday

Lads, look where past me decided to sit! I’m SO pleased with self

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

Goodnight from Ann Fry, unable to sleep for playground tales of Ashcourt’s sewers being crawled by monsters. Goodnight from Superintendent Vosper, knowing exactly which DI he will put on the murder of a man whose body was discovered in Master of Moss costume. Goodnight from Hookland,

If we could all manifest a win for my daughter’s boat tomorrow at Henley at approximately 11.50 that would be lovely, please and thank you. This time last year she couldn’t row bc of a bulging disc so even qualifying for this is a magnificent comeback

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best cattle I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital info about all the cattle in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

Last day to enter @flash500.bsky.social

This map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK also serves nicely as a guide to the future tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society AND a guide to some of the country's best forgotten lo-fi indie bands from the 1990s.

Ha. Good point. As a shortsighted asthmatic with dyspraxia lurking in the gene pool I got to play once everyone else had been picked. Fun times. Still won’t play team sports in case I let the side down & they hate me.

I’m going to see David Sedaris live tomorrow and I am SO excited.

Why aren't we doing the simple, obvious things to provide shelter for cycles/motorbikes/cars, and also generate power?

I'm backing the #BeTickAware campaign run by Lyme Disease UK. It's peak tick season, so there's a higher risk of bites while outdoors. Bite prevention and safe removal is important to reduce the risk of Lyme disease. Learn how to protect yourself, your family and pets at lymediseaseuk.com

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

Best efforts at being productive stymied by laptop needing to charge. Oh and also needing to binge-watch all available episodes of I Kissed a Girl since breakfast. (Thoroughly addictive and also totally bemusing). And now I have to collect son at 4pm so how can I start a new thing?

If I have learnt one thing from many years of talking to the cunning folk of Hookland it is of the importance of knowing from which direction evil travels. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme talk, 1936 #FolkloreAgainstFascism

You come to realise no field is truly empty. Pylons march its edge, the ghost soil cracks and sighs stories. We think too much of fields as tamed spaces. The truth is they are crowded by spirits, full of feral whispers. – #DAKilroy