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
somewhere between whirling leaves I've lost my fear happy #SenryuSunday! #haiku #senryu #poetry #poem
'Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told.' Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things #BookwormSat 🎨 Jeanine Donkers, Memento
‘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 📖
Editing the oldest novel. I can hear my past self in every darling. #amwriting
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Rock Star is Coming for the Solar System on September 1st!
Back when I started the my superhero stories, I wanted Meteor Strike to have a big fight with reptilian aliens and their ambitious leader. Drafting this novel led me to characters and scenes I didn…
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Jim Malhaven is a down on his luck reporter who is about to stumble upon the biggest story of his life and a mysterious dame who sets his world on fire and may set him on a new path if he can only survive. Not into itchio? Other buy links & content warnings here: www.helenwhistberry.com/book-links
It's Wednesday my dudettes! The theme for this week is .. #odd 🌾 #Cassiopeian is a #weekly #prompt for #poetry #photography #collage #art and #resistance Feel free to tag me so I don't miss your piece due to occasionally glitchy tags.
fifty percent chance of rain … watercolours ultramarine & Payne’s grey one bead of each #tankathursday #tanka #poetry #water
naming this feeling faraway stars through a dirty window #dailyhaikuprompt #dirt
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
sometimes the grey fish look up to you in wonder moon in the river
heart knocks hey let me out let me fly like a fist a bloody starburst #TankaThursday (knock)
each clocked click, a knock each dawn another, each wave, every cricketsong, just the world trying to synch with your heart ©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 09/03/2026 #tankathursday (knock), #tanka, #5lines, #poetry ⏰🌅🌊🦗🫀
the milestones reached in her life meaningless compared to the moments in between #tanka #TankaThursday #milestone
stealing all the grapes from your super fruit salad sweet as sin #DailyHaikuPrompt (grapes)