Jenny Gaitskell

@jennygaitskell.bsky.social

Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic. she/her https://www.jennygaitskell.com/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jennygaitskell

‘To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair.’ ~ Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop. It’s #ReadABookDay on the 6th so we will be recommending favourite books with a quote for this #BookWormSat 📖

🖼️ The Reader, Harold Knight, c.1910.
Woman with brown hair pinned up into a bun, she wears a green down with gold trim, she is holding a book open as she reads it standing. She stands in front of a bookcase filled with books, there are some jars and small pottery vases on the top shelf, there is a chair in a corner. Painting.

Tunneling through jade eyes Vulture Bees steal the dreams from jaguar carrion A jungle begins its Vespertine call and response she closes all the windows and doors before leaving the house Fire remains: We are dogs barking at lanterns we have mistaken for the moon #poem #poetry #poems

Horrible nightmare a house is on fire some house any house but my house I think my fire waking up hanging off the edge soft in my bed I heavy turn on the light arms like hoses Arms are like hoses I think

autumnal hymn in cricket flat peeper time keeping it phat yellow note high brown on the low red, green, and orange taking it slow violet and amber stealing the show