Coming soon... 😊
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Praying for a meteorite 🍪

Triple Obscura #1 Amazon.com: Triple Obscura #1 eBook : Hughes, Rhys, Glikman, Boris, Rolfe, Jason: Kindle Store

The first TRIPLE OBSCURA anthology is FREE in ebook form for the next five days 😊 #booksky

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP1XY2WW

Thanks to two more supporters today, I am now very close to reaching my target to launch Mission Creep Press 😊

Rhys Hughes is Accepting donations to set up Mission Creep Press I'm Rhys Hughes. I write more than a sensible person should. Short stories, novels, poems, plays, essays, things that don't have names yet. I've published many books, but I've never been the kind of w

Putting this out here again because I am only £33 short of my target... With luck, Mission Creep Press will launch in May 😊 #booksky

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A rather extraordinary fantasy, one of the best I have read. Picturesque, atmospheric, tragicomedic. But it's not a page turner: it lacks momentum. This doesn't matter much to me. Some of my favourite novels have little or no momentum, but it does matter to plot-oriented readers #booksky 😊

A Motorbike at Knossos by Rhys Hughes Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (1870-1953) was a writer and political activist. From Public Domain A MOTORBIKE AT KNOSSOS (in memory of Hilaire Belloc)The chief defect of Arthur Gleewas unrestra…

I wrote a poem that is a tribute to Hilaire Belloc and it has been published today in Borderless Journal. For this poem I took my prose story 'Knossos' from my CITY LIFE book and versified it, but the poem ended up being very different from the story 😊 #booksky

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Preparing the entirety of PANDORA'S BLUFF for publication is a huge job... Before the first volume appears, there will be this sampler. Selecting the contents won't be easy, but in the event that anyone reading this has a favourite story of mine, I'll be obliged to know what it is 😊 #booksky

My Big Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales My Big Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales - Kindle edition by Hughes, Rhys. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading My Big Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales.

BIG GLIB BOOK OF FLIPPANT FAIRY TALES, ebook FREE until 12th April.

This is the biggest collection I have offered so far. The paperback edition has 773 pages: the ebook has the digital equivalent #booksky

Here is the link:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNRTRHBJ

A peek at the cover of the first volume in the complete PANDORA'S BLUFF cycle. How many volumes will there be? Seven or so. Each about 800 pages long. That's 5600 pages in total for the entire story cycle #booksky

Impossible to survive that. You would be riddled with shots.

Rhys Hughes is Accepting donations to set up Mission Creep Press I'm Rhys Hughes. I write more than a sensible person should. Short stories, novels, poems, plays, essays, things that don't have names yet. I've published many books, but I've never been the kind of w

I am hoping to raise funds to buy ISBN numbers so I can set up Mission Creep Press. Free ISBNs just aren't taken seriously. If you want to help get the multi-volume PANDORA'S BLUFF into print (plus other projects) please consider donating a small sum :-) Thanks #booksky

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Arms Against a Sea: (and Other Troubles) Arms Against a Sea: (and Other Troubles) - Kindle edition by Hughes, Rhys. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Arms Against a Sea: (and Other Troubles).

ARMS AGAINST A SEA, ebook FREE until April 2nd.

Stories about falling stars, giants, reincarnated cats, lost cities, jungles, sieges, ghosts, detached faces that set off on sea voyages, cavemen, the misunderstandings and misadventures of absurdist life... #booksky

www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZBKFQ6R

Arms Against a Sea: (and Other Troubles) Arms Against a Sea: (and Other Troubles) - Kindle edition by Hughes, Rhys. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Arms Against a Sea: (and Other Troubles).

Arms Against a Sea, FREE until April 2nd.

A collection of twenty dreamlike fables that range the distant tropical shores of the overheated imagination... #booksky

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The books I am currently reading. Too many books at once, you will cry! Yes, it is, I'm well aware of the fact. But I am getting the number down by not adding any new titles for a few more months... I will have plenty to say about all of these in due course. #booksky

Dabbler in Drabbles, Volume One: 100 short stories Amazon.com: Dabbler in Drabbles, Volume One: 100 short stories eBook : Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store

DABBLER IN DRABBLES (Vols 1 & 2) by Rhys Hughes, FREE ebooks until 27th March 2026

Each volume contains many stories of exactly 100-words (drabbles) that span genres: fantasy, adventure, comedy, sci-fi and horror.

Vol 1: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR96RWNF

Vol 2: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXNK5TRW

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Today's poem is about Helen of Troy 😊 #poetry #poems #verse

Happy World Poetry Day!
I am giving Allen Ginsberg a second chance.
Years ago I read a slim selection of his work found the poems to be unmusical, self important and tedious.
But his early work in this massive volume has genuinely surprised me.
It is lyrical and extremely well crafted ☺️ #booksky

This is an "action" shot of me signing a contract for a new book. It's a collection of ghost stories but they aren't conventional ghost stories. It's a digital contract so the act of signing it isn't very photo friendly. I am wiggling the mouse instead of flamboyantly flourishing a pen ☺️ #booksky

One of Rhysop's Fables. More can be found here... 😊 #booksky

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I like the book cover designs of Dave Mitchell. There are lots of talented designers out there and I should talk about them more often. Today I will settle for showing my original sketch for the cover of TRUMPET FACE next to the final cover Dave created. Now that's what I call evolution 😊🎶🎵 #booksky

Vampires with Fairy Wings: Selected Verse, Prose Poems and Meditations Amazon.com: Vampires with Fairy Wings: Selected Verse, Prose Poems and Meditations eBook : Plumjob, Victoria, Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store

Vampires with Fairy Wings by Victoria Plumjob, ebook FREE until 20th March

A few years ago I had the privilege of editing a selection of the works of 1930s writer Victoria Plumjob. The ebook edition of that volume is currently free until the 20th of March. #booksky

www.amazon.com/dp/B08W5BNFVB

I’m a Canoe by Rhys Hughes From Public Domian I’m a canoe.How do you do?I’m the sleekestfastest vesselon the wide ocean blue.Yes, I’m a canoeand I haven’t got a cluehow to arrestmy motion if I’m paddledwith devotionby an ene…

My poem about a canoe, told from the viewpoint of a canoe, has just been published by Borderless Journal. Here it is 😊 #poems #verse #canoes

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Today's poem is about pretzels 🙂 #poems #poetry #verse #pretzels #hairstyles

Finished writing a new story. It's a ghost story called 'Whipping Ghost' and I think it's one of the best ghost stories I have written. I seem to be getting better at creating an uncanny atmosphere, something I was never very good at, partly because I don't actually like frightening people #booksky

The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) Amazon.com: The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) eBook : Hughes, Rhys, Evenson, Brian: Kindle Store

Last day to get THE UNFAIR DINKUM by Rhys Hughes for FREE.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRK16J3F

Welcome to The Living Library. Here people do not check out books, but writers. You check them out, take them home for a few weeks, then bring them back...
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With an Introduction by Brian Evenson.

Today's poem is about a liar 😊 #poem #poetry #verse #pants

The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) eBook : Hughes, Rhys, Evenson, Brian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Two days remaining to get the ebook edition of THE UNFAIR DINKUM for FREE. #booksky

This is the link for readers in the UK 😊

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GRK16J3F

The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) Amazon.com: The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) eBook : Hughes, Rhys, Evenson, Brian: Kindle Store

THE UNFAIR DINKUM by Rhys Hughes - ebook FREE for another three days #booksky

An adventure involving a strange library, a lost civilisation, and a giant mechanical kangaroo 😊

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRK16J3F

With an Introduction by Brian Evenson.

The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) Amazon.com: The Unfair Dinkum (The Knick Knack Trilogy) eBook : Hughes, Rhys, Evenson, Brian: Kindle Store

THE UNFAIR DINKUM by Rhys Hughes - FREE until 14th March 2026.

Do you love libraries and weirdness?

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRK16J3F

Welcome to The Living Library, also known as the Flesh and Blood Lending Facility... #booksky

With an Introduction by Brian Evenson.