Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective
@neilwillcox.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
I read Lotus Dew For The Emperor's Tea by @vanessafogg.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com a story of the quest for immortality, children, tradition and the breaking thereof, and of course on how to get a good cup of tea nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-re...
I Read Stories: Lotus Dew For The Emperor's Tea by Vanessa Fogg
Lotus Dew For The Emperor’s Tea by Vanessa Fogg in Lightspeed The First Emperor was immortal and death and old age could not enter hi...
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[Precariously balanced on the top of a step ladder peering in the window of the locked room mystery] Looks like they've closed the blind.
Bram Stoker: Dracula's greatest trick was convincing us he was fictional Me: I don't know, turning into mist is pretty good Count Dracula: Oh, we're going to pretend that it's nothing to memorise every railway timetable in Europe
What if the real sea people are the people we see along the way?
"Different" is the right way to put it! Happy to reveal that at Amazon, we're innovating on recasting w/this one, because Bond is dead & cannot be recast until he is retrieved from hell. To make that a reality, we've got Chalamet's The Candler, a sleepy psychopomp, to find Bond & BRING HIM HOME.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 21h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
[Standing outside the locked room mystery, drinking a frankly awful cup of tea] What do you mean the locksmith is on another job?
I watched Shanghai Knights the sequel to Shanghai Noon in which Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan go to England. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-wa...
I Watch Films: Shanghai Knights
Shanghai Knights It’s 1887 and in the Forbidden City Lord Rathbone (British) (Aiden Gillen) steals the Imperial Seal, killing the keep...
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AYO! Guess what day it is? We're going back to a simpler time. Tell the uncle who wears his flip phone in a belt holster. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity
What did it take to become king in early medieval Europe: not figuratively, but literally? What equipment did you need? blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/...
What King Odo took from St-Denis – Earlier medieval history
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Toni Morrison and Gene Wolfe were both born in 1931 and both died in 2019. Both Catholic converts, too. I haven't figured out what to make of that yet but I'm going to make something of it one of these days
What if the real sea people are the people we see along the way?
Take me down to angel city; the grass is green and the girls are pretty; please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste; oh sweet child of mine
Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective@neilwillcox.bsky.social · 2y agoFor 12 months the secrets of Angel City, greatest and last city on earth, have been behind the paywall of my Patreon. Now they have been unleashed! Link to readable version in next post.
If I gathered all the people who've said good things about this story together then we'd have a pretty nice party, I'd probably run out of chairs and have to stand.
Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective@neilwillcox.bsky.social · 8mo agoAlso proud of The Beekeeper's Daughter, my riff off folk lore and fairy tales and maybe a little Jack Vance in there. I only had the one short story published this year, but it's one I'm satisfied with and I'm happy it found a home in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
I watched Shanghai Knights the sequel to Shanghai Noon in which Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan go to England. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-wa...
I Watch Films: Shanghai Knights
Shanghai Knights It’s 1887 and in the Forbidden City Lord Rathbone (British) (Aiden Gillen) steals the Imperial Seal, killing the keep...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Agh, I have only just spotted that Archita Mittra has asked us all for some help. Many of you will already know she's had a difficult eighteen months, during which the SF community has done what it can to help. Here to do so again - if you can, please do assist, too.
Archita Mittra@architamittra.bsky.social · 2w agoNeither my physical nor mental health is great, but I'm NOT giving up. I urgently need funds for our healthcare, so please circulate/donate if you can, and if you're able to help out in any other way, pls DM. You can donate via Gpay/UPI QR code (if you're in India) or ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/architamittra
Monster Of The Week 333 is ShipWrong, implied by the existence of shipwrights, they mostly float and what more can you ask, lives a long way inland despite the commute, can't stand living by the sea.
New piece in @mcsweeneys.net today about a wine store and its reward program, which is easy and straightforward
Your Local Wine Store’s Super Simple Rewards Card Program
“We want our system to be simple, fun, and fair to everyone. So, to make sure that customers aren’t gaming the rewards by buying our cheaper wines to quickly...
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I write about a cute little retreat I went on in my zine, Heavy Metal Daydreams, a part of scribe and Sigil APA below.
David J. Lynch@dlreach.bsky.social · 4d agoscribe-and-sigil.com/2026/08/01/s... The Sixth mailing of Scribe & Sigil is up! Come check us out and if you want to join, info is on the website. It's easy and fun!
The Oona story in this issue is a special annual, with a full-color comicbook-style cover. The story itself is excerpted from my piece "Terror Above Icehenge." #FreeFiction #SwordandSorcery 1/3
David J. Lynch@dlreach.bsky.social · 4d agoscribe-and-sigil.com/2026/08/01/s... The Sixth mailing of Scribe & Sigil is up! Come check us out and if you want to join, info is on the website. It's easy and fun!
Poets (and scientists) love the moon, but how does the moon feel about it? Delighted to have my weird little micro on the @welkinpress.bsky.social shortlist! 🌒📸
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · last wk.Shortlisted in the History Prize, "First Photograph of the Moon — John William Draper, 1840" by @jmgatford.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
“Written correspondence is integral to fairy interactions.” @cake-girl.bsky.social in @welkinpress.bsky.social with this whimsical wonder 🧚🧁💌
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · last wk.Shortlisted in the Joy Prize, "Detailed instructions on how to attract a fairy visitor to your home" by @cake-girl.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Slumbering alone This tale is seamy! I had forgotten how seamy! Apologies to all readers, I will now step back from the conversation and let other (seamy) voices be heard.
Slumbering alone
This tale is seamy! I had forgotten how seamy! Apologies to all readers, I will now step back from the conversation and let other (seamy) voices be heard.
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Here's my poem, A Selcouth Tree. It's written in Scots in Old English metre alliteration.net/poetry/a-sel...
A Selcouth Tree, a Tolkien fan poem in modern Scots by Colin Mackenzie
Heich abune the unhamelt grun / 'mang the mony mithril brenches / leemin, gowden grew the flooers ...
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War has broken out amongst the cultures that float in the upper atmosphere of the gas giant planet Akenhotep. A weapons embargo has been declared and you and your ship have been sent to enforce it, but shuttles keep trying to slip past.
This week's piece from me, on harbour views at the height of the North Sea herring fishery
Those strange forests of spindly masts
Harbour views at the height of the North Sea herring fishery
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Amazing! Pierce Brosnan and I got selected for @immersiverumours.com Edinburgh Fringe guide! 🤩 www.immersiverumours.com/post/guide-e... "Aitcheson's commitment to the bit means this hour-long show is packed full of laughs regardless of what comes out of Brosnan's mouth" See you in Edinburgh!! ✨
