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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 26/09/2026

As AI swallows the world and art is being stolen, it gets harder to survive as a creative human person. I've started a little Patreon. There are some lovely, human-made (by me) memberships there, for a variety of reasonable prices! Or you can join for free: affecwww.patreon.com/cw/MirandaKeeling 🥰

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 26/09/2026

The news is intense. Every month I decompress by writing a journal, giving space to the ordinary moments to celebrate them. For less than the cost of a coffee, you can read my journal and try out my methods and writing exercises to give yourself a little breather too: www.patreon.com/cw/MirandaKe...

On a post-it in my writing: Miranda's Journal of Everyday Magic issue #8 September against a purple background with red and green grid pattern and pink and white flowers and scarves.

An elderberry book against a brick wall.

Some pages from my new journal - blue biro on lined paper. Surrounded by pens, pencils, tape and scissors.

My journal pages: pink, blue and yellow paint, leaf tape, cutout from magazines, a sketch of my lego cacti, jigsaw piece shapes, words in my handwriting, my hand holding the journal open.

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Basil @thelongestone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

IT'S ARRIVED! The brilliant @mirandakeeling.com new short story! Can't wait to read it

A small book called the Silver-haired Woman

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Ian @ianrendall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@mirandakeeling.com Observed a moment on the bus. Two very young men with fishing gear got on and sat adjacent to an eccentric woman in her 70s with a little dog. Absolutely no Venn diagram crossover anywhere near. Somehow a conversation began about freshwater licences. Then the lady had to alight.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17/09/2026

🎉Yay!! September's story is on its way! Every month I write a new short story, make it into a little book and post it to members of my Short Story Club: www.patreon.com/collection/2... Missing human-made, analogue content in this AI-filled, digital world? Gift yourself a short story in the post 📚✨

Five of my little books with cream covers and black and white illustrations on the cover. A sixth book held open to some text with my left hand. Photographed against a wooden floor.

Me signing one of the books against a green cutting board with a keyboard nearby.

One of the books: The Silver-haired Woman, halfway through being bound with thread.

Two stories in the background: She's Not There and One Fine Looking Rat with stamped envelopes in the foreground.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 20/09/2026

Woman in Leicester Square to her friend: You're such a tourist.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 19/09/2026

Man outside the National Gallery: As a gay man, let me tell it to you straight.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

Your brain is literally melting from doomscrolling awful news and AI slop 😑, when posted through your door is a brand new, real, analogue, 100% human-made short story by me. You exhale as you read 📚 Join my Short Story Club to get yours sent to you this week! Here: www.patreon.com/collection/2... ❤️

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

I met a software engineer tonight who’s lost his work to AI. He’s retraining as a carpenter. ‘People want real things by real people’, he said, hope in his voice. Writing is being hit too. I hope people want real observations of the world. If you’d like to support me: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeling

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 19/09/2026

Woman in a café looking at her phone: Oh my God. Her friend: What? Woman: He just ‘liked’ my message.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

A baby in her pram on the train rummages around for a long time in the depths of her pram seat. Finally, she finds a small piece of broken cracker and with a fabulous smile, she offers it to the man opposite her.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

Me (to a little boy beside me in a cafe who is wearing a yellow coat): Nice coat. Little boy: Thank you. It means when night comes I can hide as a star.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

A little girl wearing a yellow and white stripy dress shouts, ‘Pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket!’ to her bemused Dad, who clearly doesn’t understand the utter joy of suddenly discovering your favourite dress has pockets.

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Your timeline has been blessed by the raven of Friday Fortune, wishing for you the best of weekends.

A very fluffy raven waiting expectantly for a treat. Yami is getting much more comfortable with the camera. (Yami is an unreleasable raven kept under state and federao education permits in the USA).

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

A woman waits to cross the road outside Whipps Cross hospital. She's not at a crossing. Man: You're taking your life in your hands there. Woman: True (laughs) but if it doesn't work out at least I'm close to the hospital .

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18/09/2026

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A new picture!

Ink drawing with pencil colours on yellow paper. In the background, huge banks of yellow clouds with purple shadows drift across a dark blue sky. In the foreground, we have (improbably) two cliff edges facing each other, coming into the picture from left and right. The ledge on the right is a bit higher. On the left ledge sits an abstract, angular person in a stripey top with short blonde hair on top, hair shaved off round the back and sides, and beautiful eyes. Their head is resting in their folded arms which, in turn, are resting on the higher cliff edge on the right. Over on this side, we have what the person is idly watching: a small mansion. Well - either it is small or the person is a giant, either works. A strange creature, a bit lizardlike, a bit devil-like, with two spikes coming out of the flat top of his head, crawls down the front of the mansion and looks at the person. Most of the mansions windows are unlit, but a couple show yellow-lit rooms and we can see a couple of correctly-scaled people (for the mansion) at the windows. The sides of both cliffs are striped and match the person's top - dark green, light green, light yellow, dark yellow and grey

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17/09/2026

Here: www.patreon.com/collection/2... ❤️

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17/09/2026

A sign on a gallery says: Between 4 and 8 this evening, bring your own work and we will try and fit it into our community exhibition. Outside people queue with art. A silver-haired woman holds a wooden sculpture of a woman with long red hair in a green dress and something golden in her wooden hands.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17/09/2026

A man beside me at Havant Station has what a appears to be a large, soft-toy buffalo in his tote bag.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 16/09/2026

A man beside me on the platform (as a train pulls away on the other side): Goodbye 10am train, see you next week.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 15/09/2026

Outside Southampton Station a gull eats a chicken wing and I find myself mildly disturbed by it.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 10/09/2026

If you don't know the beautiful, raw, open, handmade work of the brilliant Helen Colebrook of Journal With Purpose then you are going to love finding out all about it. I only interview fascinating people! Read about Helen's practice here: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeli... FREE if you go for a trial! ❤️

An open journal on a wooden table with coloured pencil near it and a pen and some acrylic paint. The pages are black with a woman's face half just darkness and flowers - her hair becoming plants.

Four open notebooks containing: handwriting and images mostly in collage of glass jars with labels, photos of night skies, mushrooms, trees, flowers, a drawing of pens in a jar and a woman with wild hair like a crown.

An open journal containing mostly writing in black pan and on the right in large red letters 'you are strong and soft, both at the same time' and an image of a girl with a brown bob - her skirt is a house and under her are two very small houses.

Helen Colebrook in her working space with boxes of journal materials behind her.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 14/09/2026

A man stands on Exeter Street in Plymouth. In one hand he holds a box of white roses with their heads up, and in the other hand a teddybear, head down.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 14/09/2026

Four Russian teenagers walk through Plymouth near The Hoe. One of them says something and the others all disagree resoundingly with a chorus of 'Net's.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 12/09/2026

In Plymouth, a grey-haired man looks out at the horizon between the sea and sky. He opens his mouth and sings a yawn, 'Ahhhhh'.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 11/09/2026

As my dog stops to sniff a fence post, I notice my surroundings. People's lights are on in their houses but curtains and blinds are still drawn, giving us a tantalising glimpse into their worlds. A man finishes jogging across the road and stops to stretch his calves. Sounds seem louder in the dark.

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Helen Simmons (She/Her) @littlehen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A family leave their home for the school run, mum hurrying along uniformed reception child. Dad is following with toddler sister who’s wearing bright pink crocs and eating from a plastic bowl of wheatabix as she walks along. @mirandakeeling.com

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 10/09/2026

Little girl in Leigh-on-Sea pointing to a puddle and then at the sea: Little sea, big sea. Her mum: Yes, the little sea is a puddle. Can you say 'puddle'? Little girl (determinedly shaking her head): Little sea.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 09/09/2026

🎉Oh my Goodness! I had the chance to interview the ✨brilliant✨ Helen Colebrook of Journal With Purpose about her journalling practice, and her tips and techniques for coping with the stress of a 24-hour-news cycle. Here: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeli... Free to read if you go for a trial ❤️

An open journal, on the left side: some abstract collage including round marble-like images and brown paper with handwriting in black and on the opposite side a woman in a white shirt with red roses coloured in by hand and some classic tile patterns in yellow and blue and some images of the sea and a field and the words in a typed font: we are fearless, independent and original.

An open journal containing: black pen handwriting on the left and illustrations by hand of pink flowers on the right, a stripe of nature-themed tape down the right, in the centre what look like fairy houses under mushroom - might be collage.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 10/09/2026

Helen from Journal With Purpose about her journalling practice, and her tips and techniques for coping with the stress of a 24-hour-news cycle. Here: www.patreon.com/MirandaKeeli... or link to Patreon in bio. Free to read if you go for a trial ❤️

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 10/09/2026

On a tiny beech at Leigh-on-Sea, twin boys try, and mostly fail, to pick up sand with matching, lobster-shaped shovels.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 09/09/2026

I earn a little from my books but not my podcast or from sharing my work online. Surviving as a creative is increasingly hard. Only if you can, support me here: patreon.com/MirandaKeeling ✍️ 🙏 ❤️

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Avalon Dawn. Another colourful sunrise photo from this morning's beautiful morning on Glastonbury Tor.

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

The inventor of Velcro has died. RIP.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 09/09/2026

Woman in a café: My to-do list is totally overwhelming (pause) what day is it? Her friend: Wednesday. Woman: Okay good (writes something down) I've just written 'Wednesday early morning'. At least I can cross that out.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 07/09/2026

Once I dared to start it, I couldn’t put it down 😁 Great characters and story. Thank you very much @alanbaxter.bsky.social

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 05/09/2026

I sneezed on the train. A man said ‘Bless you.’ I sneezed again. He said ‘Bless you again.’ I’ve just sneezed for a third time and now we are avoiding making eye contact 🤣

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 05/09/2026

A man sings Wonderwall badly to the woman he’s with on the platform at Lewis Station and she enjoys it immensely.

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Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah, that'll be the Lewes grape man. My auntie Pat saw him once and never fully recovered. Turns out the grapes are his only friends since the incident at the tombola. The cowboy hats are unrelated, they always are. Give him a wide berth and never mention Tuesday

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 05/09/2026

Two women in cowboy hats stand on the platform at Lewes Station next to a man in a brown stripy shirt who is hugging a punnet of grapes to himself as if it is an old friend.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 05/09/2026

Four tipsy men laugh together on the train as if being the longest, loudest laugher is very important.

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