#FridayForward Some wonderful thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson #BOTD 1850📚 'You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...' 'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.' #silicasun ⛵️📗🧡

Never had beauty been so forgotten; style was poisoned at the fount of thought by Carlyle [ ] and by Herbert Spencer [ ] ...among novelists only Robert Louis Stevenson loved words..." Rebecca West on Robert Louis Stevenson, born 13 November 1850.

So how is _your_ workplace communicating while Outlook is down?

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So how is _your_ workplace communicating while Outlook is down?

"He hands me the telescope. Says, Look. And I see a speckled smudge suspended there like an ultrasound." @adamfinney.bsky.social's "Between the Skies" www.trampset.org/post/between...

Between the Skies

by Adam Michael Finney...He hands me the telescope. Says, Look. And I see a speckled smudge suspended there like an ultrasound.

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Get some of our best fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, poetry, stage & screen, and experimental narratives from our first 10 annual issues in one print BOOK! Reserve your copy of the Expo Anthology today: tinyurl.com/ExpoAntho10. #ExpoReview #ExpoContributor #ExpoFam

2026 Campaign for Exposition Review Print Anthology

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Poetry: Maybe the Land Thinks of Me by Darci Schummer because I tread carefully

Poetry: Maybe the Land Thinks of Me by Darci Schummer

because I tread carefully

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Occhi Belli by Jorge Escalante Vinces Visit our website (link in bio) to read our Artist Spotlight interview with Jorge and to view more of his artwork. #ArtLover #Painting #Watercolour #Artist #Interview

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Revolutions

History Podcast · Weekly Series · Season 12 premiered October 20, 2024 – a nonfictional account of The Martian Revolution of 2247. Mike Duncan is taking everything he's learned from 12 seasons of his...

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From Shrewsbury Museum on Instagram: "Supported by expert volunteers our curator has been busy cataloguing the Melvill Fungus illustrations, many of which were sketched in his garden in Shrewsbury." #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

#ThursdayTrim - Happy #WorldPostcardDay #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #poetrycommunity #litmags 📖 building on this year's theme of paper bridges from supplies of vintage archives from afar 📚 Wishing all a lovely new month silicasun.wordpress.com 🌳 #silicasun 🍂📙💚

#ThursdayThought Remembering history, mystery defining the extraordinary on #FolkloreThursday 📚for #AgathaChristieWeek📕 'Method! Order! Let's use the little grey cells. Eh, Hastings!' 'Sheppard! Again, the name is SHEPPARD!' Graphic: NYT #bookseries #Reads 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🔍 #silicasun 🪑📙💙

⛵📜 Sailing Through History: The Mayflower and Myles Standish www.instagram.com/p/DE2jUM-upZ... #Mayflower #Philately #HistoryLovers #MylesStandish #BookRecommendations #StampCollecting #BookAndStampWednesday #Philately #Literature #StampCollectors #BookLove #johnandmarc

🧵A stamp from my collection (2026) Theme: Arts and Literature/Gay History Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III was born on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi.. Scott # 3002 - issued 1995 #philately #thisstampinhistory #stampcollecting #stamps

Plate from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827), a delightful series of colour lithographs of mushrooms, divided into those that are edible, poisonous and “suspect” — https://publicdomainreview.org/coll.../atlas-des-champignons

FLASH FROGTOBER👻🐸 “My Wife Wanted a Ghost” by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social is now up! Art by Adam Barmore flash-frog.com/2026/10/26/m...

My Wife Wanted a Ghost by Elizabeth Rosen

My wife wanted a ghost, so I became one. At night, when her fingertips tick deep in dreaming, I pull the blankets slowly, deliberately out from the bottom of the bed and uncover her sleeping body u…

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So happy to have a new lil fiction piece up in @flashfrog.bsky.social today, with art by @jaredvarnado.bsky.social! flash-frog.com/2026/11/09/l...

Late for the UFO by Natalie Wallington

I overslept and made the kids late for the UFO. Only after jolting awake did I remember you kissing my cheek as you left for work, saying Don’t forget! And my reply: I won’t, darling. N…

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Out on the Flint River, old lore runs wyrd. In 1888, Albany boatman Dink Melvin swore a headless white horse stalked the riverbank for years. One Sunday dusk, the specter stepped straight into the water and placed its forefeet on his boat before dissolving. #WyrdWednesday #GeorgiaFolklore #Folklore

#WyrdWednesday In the late 19th century the deserts of Arizona were haunted by the Red Ghost, a fearsome red-haired beast with a skeleton riding on its back, which even trampled a woman to death. Eventually a feral camel was shot which was found to have the decomposed body of a man strapped to it.

#WyrdWednesday The ghastly ballad 'Lenore' 1773 by Gottfried August Burger was to prove highly influential in shaping Gothic Horror & gave Stoker the line 'the dead travel fast'. Death in the disguise of Lenore's amour, William, carries her off to their 'wedding bed' an open grave in which she dies.

#TuesdayTrend Tributes 2 #Science #cosmology #Astronomy the role of #sciencefiction in the #BookerPrize2026 & 2 Carl Sagan for the wonders he inspired us 2 explore when we look at the stars🌃 'We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.' --Pale Blue Dot 📘 silicasun.wordpress.com 📚 #silicasun🕯️📗🧡

Hedy Lamarr was born #OTD in 1914. In the 1940s, in an attempt to help the war effort, she quietly invented what would become the precursor to many wireless technologies we use today including Bluetooth, GPS, cellphone networks & more: frequency hopping. #WomenInSTEM

Happy birthday, Carl.

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The Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes

British author M. John Harrison has won the Booker Prize 2026 for his 13th novel, The End of Everything, a dystopian satire that probes the limits of human understanding

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M. John Harrison's slim novel is the first Booker Prize winner that's "emerged from the bona fide [sci-fi] world," according to the Booker Prize Foundation's chief executive. n.pr/4zITy5m

Apocalyptic sci-fi novel 'The End of Everything' wins this year's Booker Prize

M. John Harrison's slim novel is the first Booker Prize winner that's "emerged from the bona fide [sci-fi] world," according to the Booker Prize Foundation's chief executive.

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Found in Ursula's daybook from the 1990s. If you'd like to read more of her thoughts on interspecies relationships, a good place to start is "Buffalo Gals And Other Animal Presences," first published by Capra Books in 1987.

Morning read today took me back to Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Conversations on Writing” from David Naimon. Finished just before her passing and first published in 2018 (8 years already??), it is a rich conversation and not just for writers. The role of imagination in American life, myth, how conflict…

It's an annual tradition that every year on the 5th of November we put that guy Faulks on top of the Bonfire (of the Vanities). #BonfireNight #GuyFawkes #Bonfire #5thNovember

There are five days left of our winter story sub call 🦝❄️ We're having to decline so many submissions due to complete absence of the theme. Winter doesn't have to be the setting, but it does have to permeate in some way. Check out our Mood Board 😊 trashcatlit.com/winter-mood/

Winter Mood

We are leaning into the white cold and feelings of winter for this general issue. Reading alongside Trash Cat for this call are Gill O’Halloran, June Gemmell and Ian Johnson It’s not es…

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While Halloween has passed, we here at Darker Times believe in horror ALL the time, not just spooky season. But why is the big push for horror so concentrated? @emilyhughes.bsky.social & @jessicaesquire.bsky.social discuss this in Publish Horror Year Round: www.darkertimes.com/horror-year-...

Publish Horror Year Round

Right now, horror is reaching new heights and new readers. So why do we have to act like it only exists for one month a year?

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#SaturdayShare - Wishing #skystorians everyone 📚 a Happy Deepavali / Diwali 🪔 #Deepavali / #Diwali 🪔 of #Light #Love #Joy and #Prosperity 🪔 May the Festival of Lights 🪔 Light Over Darkness 🪔 Shine In Your Lives 🪔 #silicasun 🪔📕💚