This was very interesting reading for anyone who feels our public services should not be run by private companies with only their own profits in mind. 💷 weownit.org.uk/why-public-o...

Anyone else been burning their candle at both ends this week? 🕯️😴 There's just ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for September is CANDLELIGHT. You have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

The wizard puts the groceries into the cabinets and magic ice chest and then reads a poem about petrichor.

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 September 20, 2025: #DECORATION #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

leaving earth so many things I shouldn't have cared about air plants the aging astronaut yearning for roots #SciFaikuSaturday (care) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

tell you what though, gin and tonic with frozen raspberries is - hic - really quite nice. Chin chin

Where can I send a previously published short story? (ab 3,000 word from memory). It’s only in print form and I’d love to share it more widely

*must use more often*

I always look forward to a story from @kiklodge.bsky.social - true to form she delivers here!

Glorious @kiklodge.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social “she’s not the one who decides, it’s the powers that be, and she taps the surveillance camera above her asymmetrical bob.”🔥

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 September 18, 2025: #SPARKLE #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Excited to be running Irreal, Surreal and Just Plain Weird #FlashFiction at this year’s WordFest, & to be on the open mic panel with the BRILLIANT @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social & Sue Walker! Loads of workshops, talks & performances to choose from. #Sussex #literaryfestival shorehamwordfest.com

"...and Janine Dankworth, your allotted therapist for today, because it says so on her badge, says she’s not the one who decides, it’s the powers that be,...." I love the way @kiklodge.bsky.social writes! This stellar flash in @mrbullbull.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"Graham Moiselle waits in line like everybody else. He’s not an eejit. He doesn’t usually ask anything from anyone. He’s not looking for trouble. He just wants to be heard. That’s all he wants." @kiklodge.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

‘Crows thickened the sky’ - I’m only on page two and already the way the writer sees the world has me hooked. Lifecycle of a Moth - Rowe Irvin

Even tertiary treatment can't remove PFAS. Swiss water authorities, like many around the world, are calling for a ban on PFAS. They say it's so incredibly hard to remove PFAS from water that the only way to prevent contamination is not to produce PFAS at all. 5/5 www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

In Switzerland, they've introduced tertiary treatment of sewage and are reaping the rewards of cleaner rivers + lakes. 4/5 www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

We'd not blame a butterfly fresh from her chrysalis for #flinching at her reflection, droopy wet-winged and soft. So let us found our change not just on courage but on grace and a conspicuous lack of mirrors. #vss365

"You can be English with roots here that stretch back a thousand years. But you can also be English and look like me" - Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in the House of Commons today

What does it mean to be British? Somehow, in a way I can’t explain in words, I think the below captures it perfectly.

Brilliant messaging by the Green Party about what really matters! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Gorgeously spirited story from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in the latest edition of @neitherfishnorfoul.com - an Issue devoted to stories about cake which are not actually ‘about’ cake at all

I appear to be sleeping through the night with no discernible change in routine 👀👀👀 Wild times …

Sitting here with no bathroom for third week (it’s being refitted, hopefully close to done this week) wondering if we* can squeeze in a kitchen refurb bf Xmas. Someone slap me round the face with a wet fish, quick … *the builders. I’ll just watch

Finally paid off gas bill from when I put heating on for four weeks last winter before I realised how expensive it was. Bloody hell. Old combo boiler gone. New insulation, solar panels and air source heat pump in place. In your face, natural gas. Take your nasty emissions and stuff ‘em 💪

First time seeing this - the line “I wear the sun like a shawl on my neck and arms.” is sublime.

If you have to lie to make your point, your point isn't worth making.

Me, oh yeah, just casually exporting electricity to the grid for the first time (squeeeee). Enjoy my sun generated electricity, lads. Enjoy

This time last year I was about to move out of a house I’d lived in for 18 years & a relationship I’d committed to for 25. All I’d say now is - as long as you are running towards something and not away from yourself it’s likely only going to be better than you could have hoped. If not now, when?

Love this piece of defiant cakey love “Then you licked the smear of jam off my nose as I kissed your softness to my tongue.” @joycebingham.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com 🧡🧡🧡🎂

Another @nomad-sw18.bsky.social masterpiece in @neitherfishnorfoul.com “We creatures of muscle and bone, of wing and sinew, must stick together.” Gorgeous 🧡🧡🧡

Love this piece of weirdness by @troubledcure.bsky.social in @neitherfishnorfoul.com “I was no longer useful in the world, he was not sure I had ever been.” 🧡🧡🧡😽https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-halvorssen-last-night-i-dreamt-my-cat-ate-me

Pflaumenkuchen is a new cake to me, but I feel we all have at least one relative like Aunt Fanny. Scuppered by Mikki Aronoff www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-aron...

This story has a girl with fighting spirit, a cake and a swan. It’s a heady combo, leading to a delicious finale … @nomad-sw18.bsky.social gorgeously riffing off The Soldier’s Daughter by Paula Rego here … www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-beau...

The first story I accepted for this issue. Classic cake, unexpected setting and a delicacy of touch at one with the lightness of a Victoria Sponge. Dare you not to be moved. @joycebingham.bsky.social neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-bingham-extreme-picnicking-for-the-discerning

When is a cake not a cake? But also, totally is a cake? Sweet Mona by Kendra Cardin www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-card...

I’m a sucker for a retelling of a classic story … here’s @lucimcummings.bsky.social Nemesis … www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-cumm...

Another clever genre subversion here with @jaimegill.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-gill... (The India Times swear this is a lemon cake recipe but put more or less every other citrus fruit on it!)

You won’t be expecting this. Deliciously dark. Don’t let the fondant fancies fool you. @troubledcure.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-halv...

Who would you hope to see at the Memory Cafe? @will0703.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-kell...

Here’s a cake you’ll only make once … @idakeogh.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-keog...

When I opened the subs I really didn’t think I would find an original recipe story. Then this delight turned up @quickasaflash.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-ohal...

This was the last piece I accepted - a delightful surprise at the bottom of the in-tray. And now I know what a bergamot cake is too @emilyrinkema.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-rink...

A cake story born in @writershq.bsky.social a while ago, but it only found its true voice last year. Delighted to share this issue with so many wonderful cakes, I mean stories.

Any excuse for cake is fine by me! Just make sure you have some to hand when you read these delectable stories. 🍰

www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-cumm... @lucimcummings.bsky.social - here’s what I planned! So sorry

Here’s a thing I know you’ll enjoy - go on, have a nibble. Issue Five: Cake. But not any old cake … www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issues/issue...

I grew up when Mandy Smith (age 15) ‘dated’ a Rolling Stone & newspapers normalised it. When mainstream culture believed a woman’s main role was to be fuckable by men. Or at least decorative (for men). So yeah, I’m a feminist.

"Among MPs and also within government, there is a growing feeling that Starmer himself is not doing enough to take the fight to Reform and the far right, and has been conceding too much ground in the language of understanding concerns about migration." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Agent 3: Perfect measurements—she’ll need to keep on top of it. A little young.”