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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Beeeeep! The nearside of the taxi was right in front of Angus, then the car headed down the road." You can read the rest of this short story here: lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/o... #fiction #story #shortstory #writing #nature #loneliness #writingcommunity #writersky #photography

A view over the top of vegetation growing on a forest floor. In the middle ground and further back are tall, thin trees. Photo by Patrick Hinz (available on unsplash.com.).

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2026

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A desperate king did give his daughter as a stopper of some sea serpent’s fearsome appetite.” You can read the rest of this micro story below. #folklore #Scotland #Scottish #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #photography #writing #writingcommunity #writersky #literature

A desperate king did give his daughter as a stopper of some sea serpent’s fearsome appetite. But then someone’s youngest son did sail against the creature’s might and clutch the girl away. And so the king did happily donate the beautiful princess to this hardest of his kingdom’s hard men.

Inspired by the Scottish folk tale of the Maister Stoorworm.

A young woman in a reddish-brown dress is walking along an open-air walkway that forms part of a castle. Image by Lance Reis; available on unsplash.com.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The good fairy was wandless. She had broken it when she’d tried to wave it in a closet …” You can read the rest of this micro story below. #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #writersky #literature #magic #picture

The good fairy was wandless. She had broken it when she’d tried to wave it in a closet as she charitably sought to help a nice young man out, and its replacement wouldn’t be delivered until Tuesday. What was worse, some random elf had giggled and pointed to a sizeable black stain on the backside of her beautiful red satin dress, making her painfully aware that patched-up jeans, an old t-shirt and a plastic knitting needle just wouldn’t have the same magic. So what could she do with herself in the meantime except bake a few loaves of banana bread and read horoscopes to her clients on the phone?

A young golden-haired woman in a red dress holds a wand in both hands. Adapted from a screenshot of a sketch in a German TV show ‘Bananas’.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 30/09/2026

“Ten Thousand Years in Ice” is an early #scifi short story by Robert Duncan Milne (1844–99) where a man frozen in the ancient past is revived in the present. Milne’s documentary style led readers of a Hungarian newspaper to believe it was true #WyrdWednesday #C19 theconversation.com/remembering-...

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Remembering the lost father of American science fiction – and his Scottish roots

Robert Duncan Milne made HG Wells struggle to keep up.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Renoir’s dancers, or men wheeling bins – what were they for, ask those who are perched well above, as the rest of us are sprinkled on the boiling broth of extinction. #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #writersky #literature #art #Renoir

Detail from Renoir’s ‘Dance in the Country’. A young man in a blue suit and a young woman wearing a light-coloured dress, yellow gloves and a red bonnet are dancing together. She is holding a fan in her right hand and her smiling face is turned towards the viewer.

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” -American advocate and writer Helen Keller, born on this day in 1880 A co-founder of the ACLU, she helped blind and deaf people get better treatment and leave asylums. #WriterSky #BookSky #Activist #Advocate #History #BOTD

Helen Keller, undated & uncredited
Source: National Women's History Museum

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Christ, it’s like a tomb in here! God, we can change the station on this radio for a start. “ You can read the rest of this extremely short story below. #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #literature #writing #work #photography

“Christ, it’s like a tomb in here! God, we can change the station on this radio for a start. Get some nice music on. Jesus! It’s like somebody’s died. All that intellectual stuff. And you sitting there with that stupid, miserable look on your face. Happy at your work, eh? Bloody hell! Well, you can deal with this lot.”

Once Jim was out the door, Alec continued in his head to punch his own tears back into his childhood.

Photo of part of a pile of paperwork. Image created by Alexander Grey and available on unsplash.com.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I dreamt about the knife again. The knife? Yeah, again." You can read the rest of this short story here: lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/w... #fiction #story #shortstory #writing #prose #literature #humour #blackcomedy #weird

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He loves the flickering of the dancing below decks. He sees the pounding and the flashing on the faces of full hearts. And for all he will never touch his dancers, he feels them all over. #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #clubbing #dance #music #photography

In this photo we can see some of a crowd of people at a dance-music event. The DJ is in front of them, underneath a spotlight. Photo by AJ on unsplash.com.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

She was talking to herself and feeling young. Younger than autumn. Not wishing to fall, but wanting to swim through a life of loving and scratching of heads. #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #autumn #photography

A photo of a bench next to a tree on the shore of a lake. The tree’s leaves are golden brown. Photo by Aaron Burden and available on unsplash.com.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Autumn Something bright in all! Flowers in the summer, Fires in the fall! —Robert Louis Stevenson 🎨 John Connelly

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‘Julie.’ Julie looked up for a moment then returned her gaze to the school exercise book. ‘Joooolee.’ Julie scanned the empty desks in front of her, raised her eyebrows a little … You can read the rest here: lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/j... #fiction #shortstories #supernatural

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If only we could send this back in time to Emily Brontë – to keep her company in #Brussels. Or would it have made the homesickness worse? #Brontës #EmilyBrontë #literature #photography #Belgium

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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Connection he built it well a train of hearts to explore Somewhere down the line he forgot himself lost his class All that's left old tracks wooded fields alienated by his touch #vss365 #explore #emoetry #alienated #thingstowriteabout #OurPoetryX #wooded #photography #eck #wck 📷 me

Old Tracks
Photograph by Winter Ives.
©️2026, All rights reserved.

A photograph of rusted old rail tracks
running through the countryside.

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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I hope everyone is having a good Friday. I am off to a poetry festival so am very happy. @ianbrownlie.bsky.social I tried to stay away from the darkness and mostly succeeded (mostly). @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Strays #Poetry

A Menagerie of Misfits

They keep their distance
I keep mine.
We meet in narrow places
where need outweighs caution.

Their world is built
from small permissions.
A step closer,
a touch shared
without a bite.
A moment without retreat.

Affection isn’t promised.
It arrives like a blunt fact,
without ceremony,
without apology.

I take what is offered.
I don’t ask for more.
The truth stays simple:
I wasn’t their saviour.

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1455 Literary Arts @1455litarts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There's a reason we started 1455 books: for poems like this one. Caroline Shin, in the Young Poets Anthology 2026. Out now. 1455litarts.org/ypa

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1455 Literary Arts @1455litarts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1455’s first Women Writers Anthology brings together original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid work from women writers across the globe. Today's featured reading is from Lara Tupper! Learn more at 1455litarts.org/wwa #1455womenwritersanthology #writing #reading #books

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Brandon Ellrich @brandonellrich.substack.com · 17/09/2026

A Drabble is exactly 100 words. It takes a bit of creativity. Read mine and try one out yourself! #drabble #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity #blueskywriters ellrichunraveling.substack.com/p/the-portra...

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The Portrait in the Hall

A flash fiction Drabble

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

She’d unscrewed the top of a roundish crystal bottle with fizzing orange inside when down dropped a monkey who kicked the vessel to sparkling crumbs against a tall brick wall. The monkey then flew straight off and into a gathering green fog. #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #photography

A photo of a very worn redbrick wall. By Tim Mossholder and available on unsplash.com.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He left the house. Yes he did, no he didn’t. For his mother’s home was in his legs, in his cells as he kept right on past the bend in the road. Kept right on till the end. #fiction #microfiction #story #shortstories #writing #literature #photograph #photography

Photo of a road with a double yellow line in the middle. Lined by trees, it bends out of sight. There are mountains in the background. Image created by Holden Baxter and available on unsplash.com.

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Tyn Shenton @tynshenton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When the sky started to fall there were lots of screams and lots of tears. One man on the TV told us not to be stupid, how could the sky possibly be falling, they must be lying to us. As the stars tinkled off the roof, Mum was more #sanguine. She sang along to their beat until we fell asleep #vss365

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree." Emily Bronte

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I once dated a girl named Mélange Really? What was she like? Oh, you know a little of this a little of that #vss365 #Mélange #FreeVerse #Dialogue #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets #Wordplay

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How are you? Fantastically and cosmically mentally well. Oh right. Still taking the tablets? Yeah, still swallowing all the pills. [The sound of gentle, caring applause from the shareholders.] #fiction #microfiction #stories #shortstories #literature #dialogue #capitalism

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The desktop is wearing away to fawn. Exposing time as I breathe and work slowly and frantically, without gold watch or compass. Dreaming, scoffing and keeping my mind off it, my fingers are on keys, my pen in the drawer. #fiction #microfiction #shortstories #writing #literature #prose #photography

A photograph of a section of the surface of a wooden desk with bright light reflecting on part of it.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/09/2026

How we could ever have come to this pass? Is all we are asking… “Question & Answer”, by James Findlay Hendry (1912–1986) – born #OTD, 12 Sept With G.S. Fraser & Henry Treece, author, poet & translator J.F. Hendry was a contributor to the “New Apocalypse” poetic movement of the 1930s #poem #poetry

J. F. Hendry
Question and Answer

How we could ever have come to this pass?
Is all we are asking. Each of our
Bursts of anti-aircraft fire
Hangs a torn wound of questions in the air.

How we could ever, like cattle at grass,
Drift with shadowless clouds, unaware,
Into this era of lightnings and war?
There is no shelter, now or ever, from that answer.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“There was once a poor widow who lived in a glen somewhere up north. Now this woman had the most beautiful daughter you could ever imagine. But the tragedy was that the girl’s hands were becoming old before their time …“ lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/t... #fiction #shortstory #love

A colour photo of a young woman with long hair who's wearing a floral-pattern dress. Created by Hale Tat and available at unsplash.com.

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Before the advent of the World Wide Web it was even more difficult to gauge just how many talented and interesting 'ordinary' people there are. And there would seem to be a vast number. #talent #writing #fiction #stories #creativity #art #paint

A shadowy figure on a blue background. Overlaid with various dashes etc. of paint. Created by Jr Korpa and available at unsplash.com.

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JP Behrens @jpbehrens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver 5 Stars www.goodreads.com/book/show/11437

Cover of Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Raymond Carver:

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O.D. Hawrose @odhawrose.eu · 08/09/2026

Old folklore gets wonderfully disturbing when you realise how many rules were basically: Don’t answer it. Don’t follow it. Don’t invite it inside. Don’t tell it your name. Which, naturally, makes me want to know what happens when you do. #horror #horrorsky #readersky #booksky #horrorcommunity

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Davie had quite often walked through the town’s pedestrian precinct but he’d never seen or heard this young woman before, with her loud and gentle acoustic guitar" Link to the rest of the story: lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/h... #fiction #shortstories #literature #loneliness #men

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“I’d like to be much more significant because that would be really lovely. But what’s the significance in that, eh?” You can read the rest of the story here: lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/s... #fiction #shortstories #writing #literature #writingcommunity

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

‘Looking back I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.’ — Katherine Mansfield writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's a short life, I think as I notice a tiny fly climbing over my router, going to who knows where. Suddenly I catch sight of a little girl being pushed past my window in a wheelchair. She’s holding a blue balloon and giggling. #fiction #microfiction #shortstories #writing #literature

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I’d like to be more of a thinker. You know? I would like to think more, but nothing really comes. That’s the thing. I mean my head’s just got things in it to do with – you know – things.” Link to the rest of the story: lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/h... #fiction #shortstories

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Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As you will see, my fiction is short. Often very short stories indeed. lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com #fiction #microfiction #shortstories #writing #literature

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