#SaturdaySpotlight - Thrilled to share with you my new #sciencefiction #scifi #sff #horror #genre #shortstory INTO A DRIFTING DARK which published about ten days ago in fab #litmag #literarymagazine The Piker Press 📚 Read here 📖 www.pikerpress.com/article/1175... 📘 #silicasun 🪰📘💙

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#SundaySocial - #HappyEaster 🐣 #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #authors #creatives #litmags all 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐣 #silicasun 🐰📖❤️

#WednesdayWins - Cornish egg, basilisk egg, sun egg, or cosmic egg #WyrdWednesday is #April1st Feast of Fools #April foolish day 🤡 Reflects the deliverance of medieval mysteries, hoaxes & pranks according to folklore & legend, custom made in great antiquity 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🪺 #silicasun 🥚📗💙

#FridayFun - Let's give credit to some comely black cats 🐱 while we enjoy a calm and peaceful #Friday13th 🐾 remembering many a howling folklore that is native to cats on a #FaustianFriday 🐾 I wish you all a great day whether you're superstitious or not 📖 #HappyFriday13th everyone 📚 #silicasun 🐱📗❤️

#ThursdayTreats - Chuffed to learn I won 3rd 🥉 prize for #prose in CEArts The Polk Street Review 2026 The Ties That Bind with my #shortstory THE EDGE 📖 Congrats all winners #poetry prose #arts 📚 Thanks, Alys, Sarah 💐 Print copies : www.amazon.ca/Polk-Street-... 📗 #silicasun 🌹📘❤️

#MondayMagic - For #MythologyMonday 🐎 celebrating #LunarNewYear 🏮 the tale of the Legendary Flying Fire Horse 🐎 time to pet one, ride one, or get one anytime this year while the auspicious season lasts 🎆 may good luck, prosperity, good fortune be yours 🎈 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐴 #silicasun 🧨📙❤️

#SaturdaySpotlight - Love, from the deepest corners of the heart ❤️ #HappyValentines 🍸🍫 #writers #poets #readers #litmags 📚 ‘I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.’ ~ Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. 📖
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#TuesdayTips - Happy to share with you my new #microfiction release THE BIRTH published late last year in this lovely #book of #poetry and #fiction The Stray Branch Fall/Winter 2025 #36 Vol 33. Print copies are available on Amazon : www.amazon.com/Stray-Branch... 📚 #silicasun 🍈📖❤️

#TuesdayTips - Born #OTD #OnThisDay Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

'flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock together."' --Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 📖

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Great resolution for the #newyear, Hope! Stay inspired everyone! #HappyNewWeek #HappyMonday #silicasun 🛵📘❤️

Snow, a haiku by Rekha Valliappan at Spillwords.com Spillwords.com presents: Snow, a haiku by Rekha Valliappan, who writes poems and prose, as well as short stories.

#FridayFavorite - Out today! My #haiku SNOW ❄️ Thrilled! Thanks, Dagmara, thanks Spillwords 📚 #silicasun ❄️📙💛 spillwords.com/snow/

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Happy New Year #HappyJanuary Hope and everyone 📚 #silicasun ❄️📘💚

The early days of the new year seems a good time to share this delightful news from Stained Glass Qtly Vol 120 No 2 'summer' reading series just out for the #HolidaySeason 🎄 Features 4 of my #poems THE SKY ITSELF, MOON JAR, WHO AM I, THE LARK'S SONG stainedglass.org/stained-glas... 📚 #silicasun 🐦📗❤️

#FolkloreFriday Celebrating night of the first #FullMoon in Gregorian calendar of 2026 🌕 what joy the #WolfMoon magic propagated down the ages in myth art literature folklore 📚 Listening to wild packs howl at the moon tonight on ghostly moonlit trails matching winter's howling winds 🐺 #silicasun 🐾📕❤️

#WednesdayWonder - Happy New Year peeps, friends, followers, supporters 📚 #HappyNewYear everyone 📖 May the #NewYear2026 be Sparkling, Prosperous, Happy and Bright the whole year through for You as well as for Me 🎆 Cheers 🥂
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#TuesdayTreasure How do we thank the beautiful #litmags which housed my #poems #flashfiction #shortstories in 2025? 📚 #ThankYou 🙏 #literarymagazines #writers #editors #readers who published my work 📚 online, in anthos, Best Of 📖 For list : silicasun.wordpress.com 🦓 #silicasun 🐘📗💛

#TuesdayTransformation 🌟 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year #friends #followers #litmags #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity 📚 May the #NewYear be Special and Bright 🎇 silicasun.wordpress.com 🎄 #silicasun ❄️📖❤️

#SundaySongBook #nature 🦊 🌙 today is #WinterSoldstice ❄️ longest night shortest day of the year as our beautiful bountiful #earth 🌏 returns to light and life ☀️ from the dark 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐦 #silicasun 🎄📗❤️

Remembering Jane Austen born #OTD 250 years ago 1775 #novelist 📚 Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Emma...
“The contents of his letter threw her into a flutter of spirits, in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the greatest share.” Pride & Prejudice #JaneAusten 📗 #silicasun 📖

Best Small Fictions 2025 Flash, Haibun, Micro, & Hybrid: 110 Pieces by 110 Authors Nominated by Indie Presses Around the World

#SundayShowcase - The #stories that make up the BEST OF SMALL FICTIONS 2025 to read & enjoy full of micro, #flashfiction #shortstories by 110 noteworthy #litmag #writers worldwide including mine BUS STOP is OUT in print 📚 grateful 🙏 For copies : altcurrentpress.com/2025/11/10/b... 📖 #silicasun 🚏📘💛

#PhantomFriday #FictionFriday 📗 Charles Dickens 📖 A Christmas Carol 🎅
'The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost;..'
Artwork, Arthur Rackham 🧑‍🎨
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#TuesdayTrends - Born #OTD John Milton 1608 - Remembering his 417th Birthday - Paradise Lost, Lycidas -
'The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.'
#JohnMilton Paradise Lost
#classics #literature #books #silicasun 📚❤️

#SaturdatShoutout #OTD Wishing Happy 127th Birthday to C.S. Lewis #author #novelist #poet #stories Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Space Trilogy, Mere Christianity, Four Loves,📚 #BookWormSat 📗
'this is a book about something' --C.S. Lewis 📖
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#WednesdayWin 🍁 #HappyThanksgiving 🎃 #writers #poets #readers #litmags 📚 'I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.' --Henry David Thoreau 📖
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#WednesdayWins for #WyrdWednesday - November Noir in Black & White - 📚
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
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#FridayFocus #RLSDay Happy 175th Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson 📖 '“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...”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 📘 #silicasun 💐📗❤️

The Journal The Storms          Issue 5 Issue 5 of The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art, is honoured to be supported by Fingal Arts / Fingal C…

Bumper Issue V of The Storms @eatthestorms.com is out and I'm in it with my short prose THE BIRTH 📗 super thrilled to be part of multiple launches print edition, audio recording, podcast, Youtube 🎤 enjoy the many #poetry #prose #reading 📖 #writing ✍️ eatthestorms.com/the-storms-a... 📚 #silicasun 📙❤️

#FairytaleTuesday #SuperMoon #MourningMoon #BeaverMoon #WhenBeastsSpoke #WyrdWednesday 'The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill...'Frances Hodgson Burnett,The Secret Garden 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com #silicasun 🍂🐦🍁📗❤️

#HappyHalloween 🎃 #writers #poets 📚 'the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel... Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells” Ray Bradbury 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐾 #silicasun 🎃👹📘💚

#WyrdWednesday #masks 🎃 - 'And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out...' --The Masque of the Red Death, 👹 Edgar Allan Poe 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 📙 #silicasun 👺⏰📖❤️