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Rachael Smart

@smartrachael.bsky.social
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Tarot teller Giver of skeletal leaves Likes blood oranges, neologisms, men wearing waders.

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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
6 card spread for you. " We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Scorpio. Hare moon. Flower moon. Fallen moon, phoenix, intoxicating alchemy, enduring love, shadow priestess, witch mother, silent protector, pastel descent, a carnal underworld.
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I have an interview at The Letters Page. ♡
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I wrote The Letters Page a letter and they published it.
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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FRACTAL
a curve or geometrical figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole.
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
I wrote a thing about cacti and marriage. You may want to subscribe. Or not. open.substack.com/pub/rachaels...
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They are spiny beasts that can sometimes rip open your skin and tear your clothes.
The boys went on holiday.
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
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Long Legs, Pointed Toes
I am the chemical element of atomic number 17 these days, a toxic thing, I feel that everywhere I go I radiate a pale minted gas. Thanks for reading Rachael’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive n...
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
A little story. Thank you to Cathy Ulrich. milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/06/20/i...
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It May Stay at Sea for Up to Ten Years ~ by Rachael Smart
The guest house is called The Wandering Albatross.  She tells him that by the age of fifty, a single of these birds may have flown the equivalent of nearly 149 times around the globe. He tells her he ...
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
He wakes to voyeurs. There are so many men. He peels their names off the back of his tongue. Crescent moon marks in the skin of his back, deep bites that leave their lilac. He shrugs off his coat, offers his mouth to the one watching. #mpotd
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
From the yawn of the bed she told him how she hated the word devour due to the long vowel sound which sounded a purse disapproval. I'll bin it, then, he said. And so she became gobbling, gorging, gulping, insatiable, wolfish, ravenous, gormandizing, unquenchable. #mpotd
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
I wish I had!
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
The tote bag was unorthodox. Things she carried in it: petty habits, a hypothesis about the infidelity of men, anya potatoes, a paperback about the blues, one heart: perforated, the beguiling patterns of his mouth down her back, dropped apples, a tease club in the city. #mpotd
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
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The Flash Cabin @theflashcabin.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
COMPETITION TIME ✍️ In the comments, complete the phrase 'My drafting process is like...' Our judge, the magnificent @jmgatford.bsky.social, will pick her favourite simile. The winner will get a place on the May round of Dust Off Those Drafts. DEADLINE: 19th April shorturl.at/BEJX4
Photograph of a pile of colourful notebooks. Over the image is a graphic of a page torn from a spiral notebook. On the page is the text - Dust Off Those Drafts May 1st - 28th. Four weeks of revision & feedback exchange for flash fiction writers.
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
She paints swift, throughout the squall, the brushes fine, her colours impasto. When ships split their pastel spines and the palm kneels down for the sky, she gives leaden inks to her horizon. #mpotd
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
This had me in bits. Congratulations. Heart-hurty.
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Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Review of Fabulae by Scott Manley Hadley on The Triumph of the Now in case you are interested 👇https://triumphofthenow.com/2024/03/28/fabulae-how-it-begins-by-isabella-streffen/
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Fabulae: How It Begins by Isabella Streffen
interesting contemporary poetry about detailed rereadings of books I haven't read
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
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She knows it is all in her head
My first kiss was in a shopping trolley in Nottingham. The trolley was borrowed from Safeway. Dawn and the sky was aubergine and rose print curtains. That strange eclipse between night and day where t...
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
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Haikubes
I tell the bearded man behind the charity shop counter how I used to be a writer.Thanks for reading Rachael’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. He reminds me of a ...
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
💙 oh my
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
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a strong psychological force producing intense desire for something, or circumstance, while already having a significant amount of the desired object.
There are some who like the puzzle of ropes and those who prefer the allure of masks. Some like to wriggle around in wet-look liquorice-toned PVC sucking their fingertips and others want to be cossete...
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Hi. I wrote a thing. You might want to subscribe. rachaelsmart.substack.com/p/no-6-554?u...
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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place. Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting... #FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
The Welkin Mini: for micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2024. 1st prize = £50 gift voucher. 2nd prize = £20 gift voucher. HC = £10 gift voucher.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 28/10/2023
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
I want to: www.bansheelit.com/submit
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Submit — Banshee Press
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Woman passing the coffee shop with a spider man umbrella. Lights on red & back seat of the bus: a man wears a trilby: looking right into me. Bus pulling off - not enough time - he kisses two fingers, offers them out to me.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
26 new days left to craft something small and glittering for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (or, for those of us who write slow, to swap a comma for a semi-colon and back again another few times). CNF/Fiction/translations/previously published, up to 400 words. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Still from GIF of gold briefcase with number 26 in blue, against a gold sequinned backdrop
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
I could sleep with a pylon
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Everyone is wearing Burberry and my shoes look like Cornish pasties from Jonathan James.
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
I have eleven followers. This is like the first day in Year 1 where you have to pretend not to have a phobia of Lego.
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Rachael Smart @smartrachael.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
You will want to wear me like a wolf when you get past my two pound frock and other stories.
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