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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seems that I've decided to write this in italics??

Handwriting in black biro on lines paper. It slopes to the left. It says
The half
breathe in
Nobody was
bodies working

If you care.

microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In your opinion, what does it mean when someone says they're in favour of a strategy when asked about attacks on civilian boats? How do you interpret this answer? What is your opinion on it?

"I totally support his strategy," Machado told me. "And I've said on Dehalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary."

But attacking a speedboat? Killing 11 citizens? "I'm in favour of the US dismantling this criminal structure."

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

She literally replied with "Garbage plate?" to this post of a complete stranger showing his pals a photo of his food. Then started calling his friends weird when they defended him from her unprompted attack.

Sardines For Dinner skeeting a picture of his spice box - chicken, chips, onion, chillis, dips - saying "I feel so powerful right now"

Central NY 22 - apparently a name - skeeting in reply "Garbage plate?"

A shot from skythread showing the skeet from Sardines with the reply from Central NY 22 in context.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It's no accident that this is the Guardian of the Beach. The energy of this section demanded it. Read the whole zine for £3.50 (or your local equivalent, I've tried to make it as fair as I can) here: tinyurl.com/Microwrites

The Beach section breaks. A woman with flowing hair stands at the base of the page. She is overlaid with scales, strange ridged shapes reminiscent of deep sea creatures and beach drift alike. The text reads

At the Beach

The fizzing borderline where the sea eats and spits out the land calls to us all. Even those who live their entire lives far inland hear it; caught in a shell pressed to an ear, recorded and replayed as a soothing sound to fall asleep to

Pebbles clatter in the current, sands whispers over the burrows of secretive shellfish and human feet tread close then retreat at the shock of cold, or stride unswaying into the surf.

The beach is a place of languid holiday dreams, yes, and of secret meetings with the unknowable at the edge of our landlocked worlds.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Forgot to attach the photo didn't I? What a pointless post without it

The book "Super Ghosts" by Mark Ronson (not that one).

Below the title (in blood-dripping type) a giant face looms at a window. Beneath the window is a bedstead. On the bed is a teddy bear. The whole thing radiates bad vibes.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Fun fact - this story is illustrated by my dad, though after author feedback I digitally amended the species of the character in the boat.

Pen sketch of a mouse in a rowing boat. There is a tiny headland showing in one corner.

Same picture but now rendered in colour on a tablet and the mouse is now a badger thanks to the magic of vectors or something I don't remember what I did.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Look, if you use the tinyurl it now has the ebook. Good, eh? tinyurl.com/Microwrites

Slice of the cover for Microwrites issue two
coach.
beach.
ocean.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Anyway, Fred the Pirate is a delightful creation, a seafaring fool without care or awareness - there's a lightness to all the Ocean stories which might surprise you. IF you were to pick up a copy of the zine tinyurl.com/Microwrites

A photo of a picture in a book. A cartoonish pirate with red headscarf and bushy beard leans out of the crow's nest and points, with a curious skull & bones flag fluttering behind him.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Roger's stories tend to the mythopoeic, and this is no exception. A sailor's tale that blooms into a mist of old gods and spirits... tinyurl.com/Microwrites

The full illustration used for the story Sea Watching by Roger Evans. It shows a man in what could be taken as old time sailor clothing whose head is exploding into mist and cloud.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Thank heaven for etymology (cn slurs). Maybe delete?

tard
NOUN offensive, derogatory a person who has an intellectual disability (often used as a general term of abuse).

ORIGIN 1980s: shortening of retard.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

And so I received this beautiful chap, for the coast. He was the first of what I came to think of as the three "guardians" of the zine.

The zine, opened at the intro page for the "By the Coast" section. There is a block of small text in the top left which is largely unreadable. Dominating the page is a figure in a crumpled, hooded leathery or maybe waxed overcoat. His face is lined and partially hidden. A large shell is visible on his shoulder. He is holding a massive harpoon, which traces a sharp diagonal across most of the page.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Issue Two is titled coast. beach. ocean. But Thom, you may well say, you asked for stories of the sea. Surely they are all ocean? How can you divide them so? And the answer, my curious friend, is "really easily actually"

Back cover of the zine. A bold blue stripe with slightly frayed edged contains the following text:

Coast
Helen Carlyle
Roger Evans
Ray Newman
Thom Willis

Beach
Evie Ephraims
Dan Melis
Misha Anker
Jem Tenebris

Ocean
Caroline Flanagan
Andrew Shilcock

Cover and interludes by James Powell
Story illustrations by Thom Willis & Roy Nudds

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Contributor copies are here! They look absolutely stunning.

Two stacks of Issue Two (coast. beach. ocean) of microwrites, in a cardboard box.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It's not quite the proper version (there's some text missing and I'm sure I've put the images in wrong) but oh my god oh my god you guys I've actually done it. I'm sorry it took so long.

UPS tracking screenshot

Estimated delivery Wednesday, December 11 between 9:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Issue two will be ready to go really soon. In the meantime, here's a picture!

Illustration on a tablet screen, in a drawing application. It shows a grey ocean breaking on a beach contained within a triangle on white space. A tree is breaking the frame of the triangle.

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Booting up Affinity 2 to assemble the zine

Tim Robinson in a car, looking distressed.

Caption "I don't know what any of this shit is, and I'm fucking scared"

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

OH BOY GUESS WHAT THAT'S RIGHT SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR ISSUE THREE microwrites.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/i...

A photo taken from One Canda Square looking towards The City. The Thames is an acid green, one of the buildings is smudged with translucent flame and the horizon is smeared upwards into the sky. In the interface between rising city and falling sky is the word "microwrites"

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

You know what I found? The original plan for microwrites. Safe to say I wandered off model and what even are some of these suggestions. But still, I actually did something which is more than I usually do.

Twitter Writers' Group Work-in-progress sharing group - needs a way of sharing securely while maintaining ability to withdraw AND obviously protect individual copyright (like, I'm sure everyone is lovely but still). A Dropbox? - must be supportive. Criticism is constructive or it doesn't happen - this doesn't mean you have to be fawningly nice. Be truthful or, if you need to, be quiet Place to publish any writing we (ie the author) want to share. free blog platform so blogspot or WordPress (my bias is to WordPress) Writing exercises - these are NOT homework and there is no comeback for not doing them. Join in as. and when you want flash fictions based on a prompt (can be - ANYTHING; phrase, word, picture. Everyone can put in ideas for prompts, picked out of hat), possibly these are all published on the blog? (not sure about having this is a contest but maybe anonymous vote. for a winner? Just cause people like to win) FEEL LIKE THIS AND THE WIP FEEDBACK SHOULD BE THE CORE

"consequences" style continuous narrative. Sayyy 250 words with final sentence passed to next - person who continues story. Then it's read as a whole. Would need a central collector, who couldn't participate. Interesting to see who tries to mimic and continue from the context clues and who just imposes their style & narrative concepts. Either is. valid, just interesting. - poetry, motherfuckers - free writing/morning pages (no one ever needs see this, but it may inspire prompts for the flash) - 10 word story - fanfic, a short extension of ANY existing work -non-fiction exercises such as reviews. - descriptive writing, real technical, detailed stuff eg: - a walk - a person you know -an animal - an environment -a memory - an object -a plan NaNo support, much as I'm agin it Go for a walk, or do a familiar journey without eg headphones or a screen Read out loud

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Natalie Portman: (files for divorce) Moby:

SCP-173, a fucked up sculpture standing in the corner of a dingy room, it's head turned to look at the camera

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Not what you'd call news, but Agatha Christie could really talk about what it means to be a *writer*.

‘Well, I’ll have to tell it you, then. Only I’m not very good at telling things. I mean if I write things, I get them perfectly clear, but if I talk, it always sounds the most frightful muddle; and that’s why I never discuss my plots with anyone. I’ve learnt not to, because if I do, they just look at me blankly and say “– er – yes, but – I don’t see what happened – and surely that can’t possibly make a book.” So damping. And not true, because when I write it, it does!’

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microwrites (rebirth era) @microwrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Tidied up and prettified edition of the zine available NOW, complete with, ahem, the title on the spine. And author names on the cover! www.lulu.com/shop/jess-me...