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Laurel Lindström

@laurellindstrom.bsky.social
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Writer of nonfiction (then) and fiction (now). Looking for readers and hopefully buyers of my book. So original. More here www.laurellindstrom.org Enjoy the read!

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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We’re all feeling pretty yuk but in such grim times it is easy to lose sight of what matters. So what does? This little piece might shift your thinking. laurellindstrom.org/2026/09/02/w... Enjoy.
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What matters?
Fractured pictures crack and crumble happy moments into very sad ones: persistent awareness of a dear friend’s deteriorating illness; news of an old friend’s patchy health; some random stranger’s s…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Isolation is a very crowded space filled with bridges to nowhere. Candles burning in the caverns of your heart.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Another short story for you. Set in the #1960s when children were invisible and women were still waking up. #laurellindstrom. I won’t ask you to subscribe to my site, because what’s the point? But still, I hope you enjoy this piece. laurellindstrom.org/2026/06/18/l...
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Lost Fragments
The concrete and tarmac. A scent of privet and petrol fumes. The shouts of children playing on a large tyre hanging from a tall tree on a frayed rope. The children would swing out over pavement and…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How much do you care? Does it matter to you? Some thoughts on why we don’t always take what happens to us seriously. laurellindstrom.org/2026/07/30/c... #shortstories #laurellindstrom Subscribe at laurellindstrom.org to save yourself some clicks. Enjoy!
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Care Don’t Care Don’t
At various, usually demanding, points in life it’s hard to take things seriously. And yet you recognise that understanding how you reached that point is a serious matter. You see the paradox that i…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How much do you care? Does it matter to you? Some thoughts on why we don’t always take what happens to us seriously. laurellindstrom.org/2026/07/30/c... #shortstories #laurellindstrom Subscribe at laurellindstrom.org to save yourself some clicks. Enjoy!
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Care Don’t Care Don’t
At various, usually demanding, points in life it’s hard to take things seriously. And yet you recognise that understanding how you reached that point is a serious matter. You see the paradox that i…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A little story for your pleasure. Sorry about the swearing, but it’s who he is. I am unagented if anyone thinks this saleable (part of a novel). #laurellindstrom #ashesintheboot #domesticviolence laurellindstrom.org/2026/07/02/w...
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When Brenda met Luke
The day was his he decided, his to do as he liked, without bothering with her, without the strain of thinking up new transgressions, new excuses for her punishments. By the time Brenda was wrestlin…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A little story for your pleasure. Sorry about the swearing, but it’s who he is. I am unagented if anyone thinks this saleable (part of a novel). #laurellindstrom #ashesintheboot #domesticviolence laurellindstrom.org/2026/07/02/w...
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When Brenda met Luke
The day was his he decided, his to do as he liked, without bothering with her, without the strain of thinking up new transgressions, new excuses for her punishments. By the time Brenda was wrestlin…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
To entertain you a very short piece about someone having an operation. Written to see how well authors can baffle OpenAI. This one works pretty well. But as a human you might enjoy it. wp.me/pbzlXw-RC #authorsky #shortstories More at www.laurellindstrom.org where you can subscribe. Please please do!
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Another short story for you. Set in the #1960s when children were invisible and women were still waking up. #laurellindstrom. I won’t ask you to subscribe to my site, because what’s the point? But still, I hope you enjoy this piece. laurellindstrom.org/2026/06/18/l...
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Lost Fragments
The concrete and tarmac. A scent of privet and petrol fumes. The shouts of children playing on a large tyre hanging from a tall tree on a frayed rope. The children would swing out over pavement and…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I short story for your pleasure. Set in the sixties, when everyone know what a B-side was. laurellindstrom.org/2026/06/18/l... Enjoy!
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Lost Fragments
The concrete and tarmac. A scent of privet and petrol fumes. The shouts of children playing on a large tyre hanging from a tall tree on a frayed rope. The children would swing out over pavement and…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A short story by internet sensation #Laurellindstrom, about how we find each other. It will blow your mind (not). About bees, chemistry, attractions. laurellindstrom.org/2026/04/16/t... #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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The Bees in the Chimney – 3
“Do you know what you’re doing?” The beekeeper looked at her with raised eyebrows and tried to ignore how unexpectedly sexy she looked in a beesuit. The tight gathering at the waist; a makeshift be…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I short story for your pleasure. Set in the sixties, when everyone know what a B-side was. laurellindstrom.org/2026/06/18/l... Enjoy!
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Lost Fragments
The concrete and tarmac. A scent of privet and petrol fumes. The shouts of children playing on a large tyre hanging from a tall tree on a frayed rope. The children would swing out over pavement and…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
To entertain you a very short piece about someone having an operation. Written to see how well authors can baffle OpenAI. This one works pretty well. But as a human you might enjoy it. wp.me/pbzlXw-RC #authorsky #shortstories More at www.laurellindstrom.org where you can subscribe. Please please do!
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A short story by internet sensation #Laurellindstrom, about how we find each other. It will blow your mind (not). About bees, chemistry, attractions. laurellindstrom.org/2026/04/16/t... #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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The Bees in the Chimney – 3
“Do you know what you’re doing?” The beekeeper looked at her with raised eyebrows and tried to ignore how unexpectedly sexy she looked in a beesuit. The tight gathering at the waist; a makeshift be…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed. wp.me/pbzlXw-Td #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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How to make your own gin, or a blog from Laurel Lindström: That’s Nice: a very special limited edition gin
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed. wp.me/pbzlXw-Td #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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How to make your own gin, or a blog from Laurel Lindström: That’s Nice: a very special limited edition gin
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A short story by internet sensation #Laurellindstrom, about how we find each other. It will blow your mind (not). About bees, chemistry, attractions. laurellindstrom.org/2026/04/16/t... #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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The Bees in the Chimney – 3
“Do you know what you’re doing?” The beekeeper looked at her with raised eyebrows and tried to ignore how unexpectedly sexy she looked in a beesuit. The tight gathering at the waist; a makeshift be…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom laurellindstrom.org?p=3435
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Shuttered is a short story by Laurel Lindström, about what? You tell me. An AI free zone.
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This isn’t a story but it’s to help your happiness and it should make you smile. Thanks to #Katebush we have a route to finding some sanity. wp.me/pbzlXw-Uo #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Alternative but highly effective therapy
Feeling overwhelmed by the world’s current horrors can lead one to strange behaviours and weird gratitudes. These responses tend to arrive unannounced. They’re part of our desire and inclination to…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is a shortened version of last week’s story, written to keep within a 500 word limit. There a simmer of sexual undercurrent, but it isn’t obvious. Let’s see how #sex improves visibility. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom #beekeeping #beeshttps://laurellindstrom.org/2026/04/27/beecraft/
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is a shortened version of last week’s story, written to keep within a 500 word limit. There a simmer of sexual undercurrent, but it isn’t obvious. Let’s see how #sex improves visibility. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom #beekeeping #bees
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A short story by internet sensation #Laurellindstrom, about how we find each other. It will blow your mind (not). About bees, chemistry, attractions. laurellindstrom.org/2026/04/16/t... #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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The Bees in the Chimney – 3
“Do you know what you’re doing?” The beekeeper looked at her with raised eyebrows and tried to ignore how unexpectedly sexy she looked in a beesuit. The tight gathering at the waist; a makeshift be…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
AI wants to call this A Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping: Discovering the Hive (YUK!) I call it The Bees in the Chimney - 3. tinyurl.com/45hdz6ah If you want to read parts 1 and 2 go here: www.laurellindstrom.org.
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The Bees in the Chimney – 3
“Do you know what you’re doing?” The beekeeper looked at her with raised eyebrows and tried to ignore how unexpectedly sexy she looked in a beesuit. The tight gathering at the waist; a makeshift be…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This isn’t a story but it’s to help your happiness and it should make you smile. Thanks to #Katebush we have a route to finding some sanity. wp.me/pbzlXw-Uo #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Alternative but highly effective therapy
Feeling overwhelmed by the world’s current horrors can lead one to strange behaviours and weird gratitudes. These responses tend to arrive unannounced. They’re part of our desire and inclination to…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This isn’t a story, but it should make you smile. Thanks to #Katebush we have a route to finding some sanity. wp.me/pbzlXw-Uo #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Alternative but highly effective therapy
Feeling overwhelmed by the world’s current horrors can lead one to strange behaviours and weird gratitudes. These responses tend to arrive unannounced. They’re part of our desire and inclination to…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A suggestion for finding some sanity. wp.me/pbzlXw-Uo #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Alternative but highly effective therapy
Feeling overwhelmed by the world’s current horrors can lead one to strange behaviours and weird gratitudes. These responses tend to arrive unannounced. They’re part of our desire and inclination to…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A suggestion for finding some sanity. wp.me/pbzlXw-Uo #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Alternative but highly effective therapy
Feeling overwhelmed by the world’s current horrors can lead one to strange behaviours and weird gratitudes. These responses tend to arrive unannounced. They’re part of our desire and inclination to…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Rediscovering Paris: A Journey Beyond the Familiar is what AI calls my blog. I call it Sing me all your memories (from Oscar Wilde’s poem The Sphinx) wp.me/pbzlXw-SW Why Paris is always worth revisiting and why you should never let your head get old. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Rediscovering Paris: A Journey Beyond the Familiar is what AI calls my blog. Yuk. What I call it: Sing me all your memories (from Oscar Wilde’s poem The Sphinx)
Why Paris is always worth revisiting and why you should never let your head get old.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom laurellindstrom.org?p=3435
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Shuttered is a short story by Laurel Lindström, about what? You tell me. An AI free zone.
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed. wp.me/pbzlXw-Td #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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How to make your own gin, or a blog from Laurel Lindström: That’s Nice: a very special limited edition gin
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Here is another short story by Laurel Lindström. In frfom the Cold is about a lonely man who smokes too much and his dog, Dozey Bitch. laurellindstrom.org?p=3477 #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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In from the cold
There was somewhere in Len’s remote memory the image of a girl. Or maybe she was actually a woman, a being fully grown, an adult? But no, Len preferred the girl image instead. The girl he was think…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Here is another short story by Laurel Lindström. About a lonely man who smokes too much and his dog, Dozey Bitch. laurellindstrom.org?p=3477 #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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In from the cold
There was somewhere in Len’s remote memory the image of a girl. Or maybe she was actually a woman, a being fully grown, an adult? But no, Len preferred the girl image instead. The girl he was think…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom laurellindstrom.org?p=3435
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Shuttered is a short story by Laurel Lindström, about what? You tell me. An AI free zone.
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Glow, a LLL short story about the sea. wp.me/pbzlXw-SF #authorsky #shortstories More at www.laurellindstrom.org where you can subscribe. Please do resist the temptation to steal the stories and please do subscribe. Thanks!
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Glow – a short story by Laurel Lindström
Glow – a short story by Laurel Lindström describes loss of life through drowning at sea and our redemption through a stained glass window.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Glow, a LLL short story about the sea. wp.me/pbzlXw-SF #authorsky #shortstories More at www.laurellindstrom.org where you can subscribe. Please do resist the temptation to steal the stories and please do subscribe. Thanks!
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Glow – a short story by Laurel Lindström
Glow – a short story by Laurel Lindström describes loss of life through drowning at sea and our redemption through a stained glass window.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This in today’s Guardian newspaper: UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach. read it yourself. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach
Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Laurel Lindström describes what it’s like, recovering from total hip replacement surgery. wp.me/pbzlXw-SP As if you’d care. But the writing is lush. #authorsky #shortstories #nhs #hipsurgery
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Life after total hip replacement or Hip op post chirurghiam (what a lovely word)
Laurel Lindström describes what it’s like, recovering from total hip replacement surgery.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If you like simple crossword puzzles, perhaps you will enjoy this: laurellindstrom.org/2026/03/05/a... Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle posted last week on www.laurellindstrom.org. laurellindstrom.org?p=3464 #laurellindstrom#crosswords #crosswordpuzzles
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A Bookish Crossword Puzzle for You
I have no idea how this will work, or if you will enjoy doing it. It’s pretty easy, so I hope you have fun. Let me know. I’ll post the answers next week. I wonder if AI can do this? Enjoy! PUZZLE b…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Rediscovering Paris: A Journey Beyond the Familiar is what AI calls my blog. I call it Sing me all your memories (from Oscar Wilde’s poem The Sphinx) wp.me/pbzlXw-SW Why Paris is always worth revisiting and why you should never let your head get old. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Rediscovering Paris: A Journey Beyond the Familiar is what AI calls my blog. Yuk. What I call it: Sing me all your memories (from Oscar Wilde’s poem The Sphinx)
Why Paris is always worth revisiting and why you should never let your head get old.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Laurel Lindström describes what it’s like, recovering from total hip replacement surgery. wp.me/pbzlXw-SP As if you’d care. But the writing is lush. #authorsky #shortstories #nhs #hipsurgery
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Life after total hip replacement or Hip op post chirurghiam (what a lovely word)
Laurel Lindström describes what it’s like, recovering from total hip replacement surgery.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Laurel Lindström describes what it’s like, recovering from total hip replacement surgery. wp.me/pbzlXw-SP As if you’d care. But the writing is lush. #authorsky #shortstories #nhs #hipsurgery
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Life after total hip replacement or Hip op post chirurghiam (what a lovely word)
Laurel Lindström describes what it’s like, recovering from total hip replacement surgery.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle posted last week on www.laurellindstrom.org. Grid: laurellindstrom.org/2026/03/05/a... Answers: laurellindstrom.org?p=3464 #laurellindstrom#crosswords #crosswordpuzzles
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Laurel Lindström, author
This is Laurel Lindström’s fiction site. Laurel is otherwise known as Laurel Brunner.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Rediscovering Paris: A Journey Beyond the Familiar is what AI calls my blog. I call it Sing me all your memories (from Oscar Wilde’s poem The Sphinx) wp.me/pbzlXw-SW Why Paris is always worth revisiting and why you should never let your head get old. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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Rediscovering Paris: A Journey Beyond the Familiar is what AI calls my blog. Yuk. What I call it: Sing me all your memories (from Oscar Wilde’s poem The Sphinx)
Why Paris is always worth revisiting and why you should never let your head get old.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed. wp.me/pbzlXw-Td #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom
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How to make your own gin, or a blog from Laurel Lindström: That’s Nice: a very special limited edition gin
If you’re up for it this blog by Laurel Lindström tells you how to make your own gin. We called ours That’s Nice: a very special gin indeed.
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
People are enjoying my literary crossword puzzle, perhaps you will too: laurellindstrom.org/2026/03/05/a...
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A Bookish Crossword Puzzle for You
I have no idea how this will work, or if you will enjoy doing it. It’s pretty easy, so I hope you have fun. Let me know. I’ll post the answers next week. I wonder if AI can do this? Enjoy! PUZZLE b…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
If you like simple crossword puzzles, perhaps you will enjoy this: laurellindstrom.org/2026/03/05/a...
laurellindstrom.org
A Bookish Crossword Puzzle for You
I have no idea how this will work, or if you will enjoy doing it. It’s pretty easy, so I hope you have fun. Let me know. I’ll post the answers next week. I wonder if AI can do this? Enjoy! PUZZLE b…
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story. #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom laurellindstrom.org?p=3435
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Shuttered is a short story by Laurel Lindström, about what? You tell me. An AI free zone.
Shuttered effectively describes a writer’s struggle with creativity and process and frustration at the ecosystem that is today’s fiction market. AI was harmed during the making of this story.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Why was this story on the front page of the UK’s Daily Telegraph — but NOT America’s leading newspapers?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
> @benstiller.redhour.com
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Laurel Lindström @laurellindstrom.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Cannot face creative thoughts which turn so very dark in this gloabl awfulness. Made a crossword puzzle instead. I hope you find it distracting. wp.me/pbzlXw-TF #authorsky #shortstories #laurellindstrom laurellindstrom.org?p=3435 The world is too much with us late and soon - thank you Mr Wordsworth
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A Bookish Crossword Puzzle for You
I have no idea how this will work, or if you will enjoy doing it. It’s pretty easy, so I hope you have fun. Let me know. I’ll post the answers next week. I wonder if AI can do this? Enjoy! PUZZLE b…
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