#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13 Weekly flash fiction writing challenge Gold ribbons against a dark multicolored background
#ThursThreads Week 702 is now LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Mirra Allure. What kind of tale can you tie on? #FlashFiction #Writing #Writingcommunity #AmWriting siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...
Bowled over to see The Irish Times today has a brilliant review of my new @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection of poems, Crowd Voltage! I love its focus on empathy and connection.⚡️🤠⚡️
#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13 Weekly flash fiction writing challenge
#ThursThreads Week 701 blog post is up. Come check out the writers who posted tales. Thanks to everyone who wrote this week, during this challenging time. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #AmWriting siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...
#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13 Weekly flash fiction writing challenge The Septuacentennial week!
#ThursThreads Week 700, the Septuacentennial Week, is LIVE. Come tie on your tale for judge Silver James . What kind of tale can you tie on? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriterSky siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...htt
Vibrant artistic rendering of a spiral galaxy viewed face-on, featuring a bright golden-yellow glowing core surrounded by dense reddish-brown star clusters. Sweeping spiral arms in vivid magenta-pink and purple hues swirl outward, dotted with countless tiny glowing stars, set against a deep cosmic blue background with subtle sapphire nebulae accents.
Drenched in twilight fire, a spiral galaxy breathes, scattering sapphire nebulae and ruby stars like embers across the velvet deep. Galactic heartbeat, one quiet revolution lasts a hundred million years and still feels like falling in love.
A majestic digital space artwork portraying a vast spiral galaxy with luminous swirling arms extending across the cosmos, illuminated by a radiant central star. In the foreground floats a large banded gas giant, accompanied by a prominent ringed planet, a smaller distant world, and a bright comet with a long tail streaking through the star-filled void.
In the grand silence of eternity, a majestic galaxy and its ancient planetary guardians awaken the dreamer within us. They beckon our souls to rise, to chase the infinite, and to claim our destiny among the stars.
The Universe awaits our awakening.
it was a critical meeting. all voices steadfast and demanding. systemically big. a domino effect depending on our position. she was the only to #waver - a change of heart. then it was said - this is why we chose you to lead us #vss365
RISE TO NEUTRALITY They've been challenged by the kind word of a scythe and the grief of the newly born. Today, a god that once wavered in the gaze of Their creation will rise to neutrality and the stomach acid that once replaced Their prolactin tears becomes another victim of a face that turns to watch the moon blink instead.
Sometimes, it's enough to be neutral. As long as we don't dwell in the pessimism!
#emoetry #challenged #vss365 #waver #poetry
Here's a terrific podcast:
An awesome memoirist and UK lawyer discusses the fight for justice following her mother's mysterious death overseas:
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#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13 Weekly flash fiction writing challenge Gold ribbons against a dark multicolored background
Are y'all ready for #ThursThreads tomorrow? @avilak90.bsky.social is our judge and she's waitin' on your tales. Have prompt, got tale? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing siobhanmuir.com/blog
CYCLE OF PUKE AND FIRE A single human brain was not built to handle a million animalistic chapters condensed into a microsecond. Yet here we are, worshiping the cycle of puke and fire while we piss gasoline into its maw. Suits deal toilsome stimuli to a society already buckling under its own weight in stress and we take it into our salivating wounds and claim it's for our health. Our own living rooms become slums while we take up arms against the abstract; this is not self-defense it is self-destruction.
This is about how unhealthy the 24\7 news cycle can be. Especially with social media taken into consideration.
#poetry
Digital artwork inspired by the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), showing a radiant blue-white star at the center of a dark circular core, encircled by glowing concentric rings of gold and icy blue gas. Wisps of luminous cosmic dust spiral outward into a dense star field, with scattered points of light set against a deep navy and black space background.
Beauty of Death: Some stars die slowly, puffing gas into planetary nebulas. Others explode as supernovas, forging neutron stars. This expelled material combines with cosmic remains to form new stars—a continuous cycle of destruction and rebirth. Art inspired by Helix Nebula NGC 7293.
It’s Women’s History Month. Rather than post factoids I’m just gonna post a picture and a name and y’all can google why they’re important. Knowledge for you without a lot of free labor from me. Win win.
Today’s prompt is Lois K Alexander- Lane
"5 stars! Intelligent writing and a great page turner" Dr. Winter is a legend in the medical fraternity When a mummy unwrapping ends with a bewildering death #SherlockHolmes is asked to investigate. Could the Unlucky Mummy really be cursed? One of six new tales inspired by #history shorturl.at/ToS1R
Digital sci-fi artwork of an alien desert landscape at sunset. Jagged mountains and glowing sand dunes frame a bright white sun on the horizon, while a massive ringed planet dominates the starry night sky with deep blue and orange nebulae.
In twilight's embrace, a ringed colossus reigns, weaving sapphire mists through auroral flames in the cosmic deep.
Hello, my crazies!
Follow if you dare
@cybervfx.bsky.social
Only for the rebels 📛
Check out the opening chapters of a superb novel set in 1980s Ireland from author Jennifer McMahon. And don't forget to like and comment on this marvelous story:
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#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13 Weekly flash fiction writing challenge
#ThursThreads Week 695 Winners blog is up. Congrats to EIGHTY-TWO TIME WINNER Silver James and Honorable Mention @davidaludwig.bsky.social. Great thanks to @krvanhorn.bsky.social for judging. Check out the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #Writing siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...
A digital artwork depicting a grand spiral galaxy against the black void of space. The galaxy features a luminous cyan core, surrounded by swirling arms of reddish-brown dust and gas densely populated with stars, illustrating gravitational dynamics and regions of active star formation. Scattered throughout the scene are bright foreground stars with diffraction spikes, distant background galaxies, and faint nebulae, evoking the vast scale of cosmic structures and intergalactic phenomena.
In the cosmic symphony, a grand spiral galaxy unfurls its azure core amid swirling arms of russet interstellar dust, where gravitational eddies birth stellar nurseries and brilliant foreground stars pierce the abyssal veil of space-time.
This week’s Black History month posts will be focused on inventors & inventions. There are so many things we use or consume every day and have no idea that Black genius was behind it. Hope you enjoy the theme.
Today’s prompt is Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
My agent brings the wise, again
'it’s healthier, especially in this current market, not to assign any kind of moral or qualitative value to being traditionally published.' among other nuggets of great advice
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#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13 Weekly flash fiction writing challenge
#ThursThreads Week 694 Winners blog is up. Congrats to 41X Winner @sterlings-son-2.bsky.social and HM @sweetsheil.bsky.social. Great thanks to @drmag00.bsky.social for judging this week. Check out the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingChallenge #WritingCommunity siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...
LAZY DECOHERENCE I let myself drift in the movement of honey, finding the Tao within the lazy decoherence. My grateful fingers touch the paper and they leave with an understanding of the forest. I am more powerful than the Big Rip that may destroy the universe and I am more timid then the rabbit that hides to feed her young. My breath is filled with multitudes of nothing. I exhale afterbirth.
I recently started reading the Tao Te Ching so I suppose this is inspired by it. Trying to find inner peace!
#vss365 #touch #poetry #tao #zen #peace
How are things this morning? Everyone good?
#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13
#ThursThreads Week 693 Winners blog is up. Congrats to 40X WINNER @sterlings-son-2.bsky.social and HMs @krvanhorn.bsky.social @drmagoo.bsky.social @solimond.bsky.social. Great thanks to George Varhalmi for judging. Check out the winning tale. #FlashFiction #Writing siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads...
He was protecting another American citizen, and they murdered him.
Before I jump back into #1947League, I need to share a true story about my mom's recent visit to Ireland. Yes, it connects to #APBA & #baseball @tabletopmania.bsky.social @bloggertubbs.bsky.social
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Happy Eighth Anniversary, #FuriousFiction! It's fitting your prompts for February's challenge include that our story's theme is "Eight"! 🎱 #writesky #writers #writing #flashfiction #shortstory
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