Jenny Gaitskell

Jenny Gaitskell

@jennygaitskell.bsky.social

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Mostly writing. Small fictions. Old dictionaries. Everyday magic.

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Yes, of course Time flies, and she loves getting lost. Occasionally, she stops to watch. But, Time will not be rushed. That's you spinning by, not her. So, choose your rhythm, should you want to dance. (Or, if you'd rather swim, Time invites you to plunge in.) #whistpr #vss365 #writingprompt

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I am Monique, your host for July 16-July 31. Let's begin. Together we will explore emotions and sensations. Your #vss365 #prompt for Tuesday, July 16 is #rushed Start, but don't stress. Enjoy writing!

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Be beautiful like bougainvillea #bright in all the places where people take offence I saved a man’s life today he was lying down unfairly in the street waving #aloha to the driver whose sleep he would steal the police came, took him away but neither will thank me #vss365 #whistpr

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This was the beautiful illustration Dustin Jacobus did for my solarpunk story 'The Moon Doth Shine As Bright As Day' #whistpr

A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 15, 2024: #BRIGHT

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A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 16, 2024: #PLUNGE

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"The plants have aligned," St. Eggcorn muttered. "Venus Fly-trap is in retrograde." "Told you," Samoth the heron gloated. "Beware the fanged foliage!" the saint shrieked, #plunging into a hole in the oak. "That was...illuminating," Idalia said. "Ye of little be-leaf," the tree rustled. #whistpr

Idalia studied the sign by the #bright of the suns. "Holyoke? We could visit St. Eggcorn." "Naught holy about it," Samoth said. "Just a hole in an oak tree, inhabited by a madman. Byrd City?" "Oh no, last time your family betrothed me to a peacock." "He was a prince," the heron sniffed. #whistpr

rain grey summer day sea and sky crack a gap-toothed smile so bright and so shy I fall in love again #whistpr

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A thousand angers await you.

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FASHION (afghan hound)

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So I just... Can't (Anything) online atm - but for two days out in the world there's been literal rainbows (maybe you need a couple)

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I caught this Acmon blue butterfly at the right angle where the natural light has caused the scales to iridesce across the entire spectrum of colors, but still dominated by the indigo-blue the species is named for 📷🌈🦋

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Drawings by me of lamps from films Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 4 (2017) Blue Hawaii (1961) Dressed to Kill (1980) In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

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A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 15, 2024: #BRIGHT

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I no longer care about being #bright all the time. Even the sun surrenders to dusk. I'd rather know how it feels to float when I flicker. And if I can't have that, then let me be a soft, dark, sidewinding piece of night's puzzle, tasting both light & levity when I snatch them from the sky. #whistpr

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いつもそばにいたから君の優しさは嘘じゃないこと僕は知ってる #短歌 #tanka

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The Spacefunk! anthology kickstarter just hit 64%. But there’s only 7 days left! This is a once in a lifetime anthology—50 black science fiction writers and poets writing the Black Fantastic. It’s an incredible opportunity to support black writers and publishers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

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thriving :)

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seeing a blue heron again and again tired of your riddles #haiku #senryu

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Pirate soul, pillaging not boats, but parts of my heart I never felt I owned until you ripped them from me. Long may you sail. We were never star-crossed, in truth, but skull-crossed. #whistpr

A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 13, 2024: #PIRATE

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Call for Submissions: P76 Issue 9 – poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora / odyssey We are currently calling for submissions on the theme of the poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora /odyssey. rochfordstreetreview.com/2024/07/14/c...

Call for Submissions: P76 Issue 9 – poetries of place/ displacement/ diaspora / odysseyrochfordstreetreview.com As part of the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival Rochford Press, the publisher of Rochford Street Review, will be publishing Issue 9 of the occasional literary magazine P76. We are currently calling for subm...

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A daily word & image by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! #author #writing #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for July 14, 2024: #HAUNTING

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Psst! Some fun new things just landed in my shop! Pass it on! xxyxxy.com/available/ #sculpture #astronaut #art #bsnm

There's a pirate radio station broadcasting in my head. I woke to a punk showtune, brushed my teeth to folk dubstep. A light classical disco mix was followed by thrash rumba. I don't mind the music, but the DJ's such a grumbler. #whistpr (pirate) #writingprompt

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We can do this, people!

Strange Horizons is at $17920 out of the $18000 stretch goal to PAY ARTISTS MORE 51 hours to go! Next stretch is $20k, to add a NOVELETTE www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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tick tick tock every novel has its clock #amwriting #writingcommunity lithub.com/ayesgul-sava...

Ayeşgül Savaş on Creating Your Story’s Clocklithub.com This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In a letter to his friend John Fisher, the landscape painter John Constable writes that “it will be difficult to name a cl…

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I spent MONTHS researching and rewriting this story so y’all gonna have to see it on y’all’s timelines everyday until august

Louisiana is the 1st state to require the 10 Commandments in schools. It's a part of a 4 decade plan to turn the US into a theocracy. Christian Nationalists took the courts, now they are coming for our kids' schools. My latest for Antigravity Magazine antigravitymagazine.com/feature/comm...

Commanding the Roomantigravitymagazine.com “But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest…...

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Tyger, tyger burning bright…one page away from the sketchbook’s end. Ink, gouache, neocolor ii and colored pencils #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidlitillustration #sketchbook #greenrainart

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But let us to the story.

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I brought the prayers you gave me and deposited them at the feet of the monk. #SpecLit #FlashFiction