Great recent #flashfiction by Thao Vu in @villaineralit.bsky.social: villaineralit.com/2026/02/06/j... #shortstories #litmags #love

"And whenever you come to me, we take off down the same backroads with you in the driver’s seat, and it feels right, this tightening of life." --m.s. RedCherries, from "the end cannot be me" tinyurl.com/bp8ua7ve #poetry #memory

"The most American disease is the dis- ease of self-obsession." --Sadia Hassan, from Anti-Elegy tinyurl.com/9mvm69uj #poetry #poemaday #poetrysky

'Red on the Cuillins' by Pam Carter, painter who was known for her Scottish landscapes #WomensArt

thoughtful, melancholy, serene 🤍🕊️ . . #ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Ocean #Clouds #Oregon

Another small painting from my solo exhibition going on right now at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. One of a group of 4" square paintings. On view through the 21st. lemieuxgalleries.com "Uncertainty" Acrylic on canvas 4" x 4" #art #painting #surrealism #bats #nature #contemporaryart

"What's Done is Done" by ZZ Packer today is an incredible story told with precise and and tempered prose. Read it in our latest issue at the link: kenyonreview.org/piece/whats-...

I've been into old #horror and #scifi anthologies lately. Only one episode survives of the 1968 BBC series "Late Night Horror," which was canceled after six episodes because audiences complained about the graphic content. Here is "The Corpse Can't Play." tinyurl.com/y47dk4fx #vintagehorror

RIP Uncle Floyd. shorturl.at/lPDel

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse artsfuse.org/323260/weekl... #poetry #salem #salemarts

Wrote a book? Cool, now write the next one. Out on sub? Write the next one. Won an award? Write the next one. Didn’t even get nominated? Write the next one. Querying agents? Write the next one. Waiting for pub day? Write the next one. Always be writing the next one.

Be great to see this happen. www.kickstarter.com/projects/slo...

O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. ‘O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart. --from W. H. Auden, "As I Walked Out One Evening" #poetry

Contemplation in Chaos by Ahmad Loukili https://www.artlimit... #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotos #streetphotographers #urban #monochrome #urbanites #people #photography #life #blackwhite #blackandwhitephoto #storyofthestreet #streetphotography #world_bnw #photographysouls…

I am the eternal center of gravity and about me swing the crazy moons— I am the thunder of rising suns, the blaze of the zenith— [...] I shall outlast the sun and the moon and the stars.… -from "Youth," by Frank Horne #poetry #HarlemRenaissance #poetrysky

MIDLVLMAG (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

According to Aesop's fables, a scholarly owl, prideful in his deep but dry study, argues with the melodious Nightingale, who defends natural beauty and true enjoyment, highlighting the difference between mere knowledge and wisdom. Art my own. #WyrdWednesday #Folklore #Birds

'Murmuration' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt

A song that makes me want to cry every time I hear it even though the lyrics are absolute gibberish... "The porpoise is laughing, goodbye, goodbye..." shorturl.at/ydNvV #1960s #psychadelia #songoftheday

#BirdOfTheDay #BlackAndWhite White Throated Sparrow done in colored pencil on drafting film. #Birds #ColoredPencil

Is it comforting or unsettling that Rod Serling was worried about the same things 65 years ago? shorturl.at/z6r0w #twilightzone #literacy #booklovers

"This winter air is keen and cold, And keen and cold this winter sun, But round my chair the children run Like little things of dancing gold." --Oscar Wilde, from "Le Jardin des Tuileries" #winterpoems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrysky shorturl.at/CaeQu

Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary land and seascapes painter whose work captures the wild nature of the Scottish highlands and Western Isles #WomensArt

Love, love, LOVE this new piece of sci-fi/dystopian flash fiction from @hellena.bsky.social in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social! "But the city's edges blur like old code... The wind tastes like static." #scifi #dystopian #cyberpunk shorturl.at/TcY3n

Excited to have my poem "The Hanged Man" featured in Issue 10 of @tinywrenlit.bsky.social, dedicated to short-form takes on #tarot. You can also print and fold the issue into a tiny zine. There's great stuff in here - check it out! #poetry #poetrysky shorturl.at/U4Jlk

black shuck #art #creatureart

🛸🛸 ”One of them turns its head, or the idea of a head, and looks in my direction. Does it see me?” 🛸🛸 an encounter, from @hellena.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/maintenance-...

"...to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward / what’s larger within us, toward how we were born." -from Ada Limón, "Dead Stars" #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrysky shorturl.at/loseM

A reminder to switch ourselves from TRANSMIT to RECEIVE once in a while. #poetry #nature #mindfulness

Can't wait to dive into the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social!! Every issue is chock full of beauty and inspiration ✨ reminding me of all that is good in the world.

Thrilled to have five #poems featured in the December 2025 issue of Borderless Journal: shorturl.at/obQYs #poetrysky #poetrylovers

We are thrilled to announce our 2025 Larry Brown Short Story Contest Results! Judge @andrewporter01.bsky.social Congratulations to all the winners: 1st: Anju Sharma 2nd: MC Schmidt 3rd: Cathy Adams 4th: Lyndsay Hall 5th: Jennifer Popa (@jenpopa.bsky.social)

Have you always dreamed of seeing your 24-word masterpiece on a coaster? Enter Molecule's contest now, and you too can invite your friends and relatives to rest their drinks on your micro-poem or prose. #writingcontests #microlit #microfiction #poetry shorturl.at/qrsfB

Winter from this sidewalk perspective, in the neighborhood where I used to walk my dog, CT. 6”x6” oil

from Saturn by Helen Frankenthaler (Scottish Gallery of Modern Art)

a color study of sorts. interesting. 🤍🕊️ . . #artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painter #art #artist #watercolor #womensartbluesky #abstractartist #blueskyart #oregonartist #oregon

soft snowfall- I refill the birdbath with moonlight #haiku #poetry

Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt

For #MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday, Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526] hvrd.art/o/259669 What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag. #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Don't wait! Molecule is now open to #submissions. Get your tiny masterpieces in now. shorturl.at/yT1BX #litmag #microlit #microfiction #poetry

via Creepy Catalogue #Frankenstein #bookhumor

My very good friend @indigorue.bsky.social has a beautiful 💔 story out today. Go read it!

Great piece of #flashfiction today in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social.

Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt

#poetry #poetrylovers #poetrysky #lovepoem

'Raven' collage by Lisa Morales, textile and mixed media artist #WomensArt

Check out New Verse Review's Halloween issue! www.newversereview.com/issue-2-4--H...

#poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #grief #mourning

#poetry #autumn #october #fall #poetrysky

crane in the marsh- one leg longer than silence #haiku #poetry #birds