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Mr Short Indeed
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Short stories, for the most part. Some are microfiction.

My blog:
https://lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com
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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.
September 15, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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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
September 14, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree." Emily Bronte
h1twom4n.bsky.social Ash @h1twom4n.bsky.social · Dec 9
Fox in the leaves ~ my favorite stitch from this year I think
September 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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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
September 10, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Lavinia Derwent, who brought us Tammy Troot!

#fiction #literature #books #childrensbooks #childrensliterature #literature
sarah-owl.bsky.social Sarah M @sarah-owl.bsky.social · Nov 14
Reskeet with a favourite book from your childhood
September 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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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
September 14, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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I see my future carved in a stone rhinoceros
by
Eleanor Luke
@eleanor-luke.bsky.social

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writerslift #microfiction

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I see my future carved in a stone rhinoceros - Free Flash Fiction
The tour guide promises she will stick to the shade.  I pull my Lisboa cap snugly over my eyes. George is embarrassed by this cap. But I think it gives me a Kardashian air. I have the butt to match.  ...
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September 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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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
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September 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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#photograph #photography
shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social Mr Short Indeed @shortstoriesindeed.bsky.social · 4d
“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 …“

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#fiction #shortstory #love
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September 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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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.
September 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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“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.
September 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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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
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September 12, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver

5 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11437
Cover of Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
September 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Raymond Carver:
October 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Jeanne Hébuterne, 1898-1920. French artist and model.

#photograph #photography #blackandwhite #monocrome #art #artist #woman

🧵 1/2.
A black-and-white photo of a young woman. She is shown from the chest up, is dressed in black and has long hair.
September 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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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
September 8, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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"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
September 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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“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:
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#fiction #shortstories #writing #literature #writingcommunity
September 9, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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‘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
Katherine Mansfield
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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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
September 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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"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:
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#fiction #shortstories
September 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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As you will see, my fiction is short. Often very short stories indeed.

lonelinessandcontact.wordpress.com

#fiction #microfiction #shortstories #writing #literature
September 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM