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Avital Gad-Cykman

@avitalgadcykman.bsky.social

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I'm deeply interested in understanding better. Flashes, short stories, poetry in magazines and anthologies, and in my books "Life In, Life Out" (Matter Press) & "Light Reflection Over Blues" (Ravenna Press) and there's more (Novels! A collection!).

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Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Dec 16

#birds
A woodpecker

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Dec 12

The film 12.12: The Day (2023) from South Korea. in the shadow of the coup attempt last week, this film is highly informative, disturbing and interesting. The 1979 coup and the absurd of the occurrences probably sustained democracy and left the president on his own. .
Directed by Kim Sung-su.

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Dec 6

Love @kathyfish.bsky.social

Andrew Careaga (writer) @andrewcareaga.bsky.social · Dec 6

I enjoyed my e-interview with one of my favorite flash fiction writers, @kathyfish.bsky.social, for today’s Friday Five Q&A. I hope you enjoy it too! andrewcareaga.com/2024/12/06/f... #writingcommunity

Friday Five: Q&A with writer/’Art of Flash Fiction’ Substacker Kathy Fish

‘I sort of fell into flash writing before I knew there was such a thing.’

andrewcareaga.com

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Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Dec 5

Marmoset and opossum: 4 bananas
Avital and Pablo: many.

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Dec 4

A massive asteroid is due to make closest-ever approach to Earth tonight. But don't change your plans.
The rock will reach a minimum distance of 1.37 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Earth.
(From Live Science)

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 27

I'm not sure who posted it first-anyway, there are many interesting prompts for writers here:
www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...
#writingcommunity #flashwriters #writing #writingworkshop

EPC DIGITL LIBRARY

www.writing.upenn.edu

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 26

A book that kept you up?
Last night it was Happiness by Aminatta Forna.
Didn't manage to finish it, though. :)
#reading #literaryfiction #novels #writing #reviews

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 26

Needing more...more!

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 26

"Monster" is a wonderful Japanese film from 2023.
I highly recommend watching it without reading about it before.
The story is not linear and far from obvious. #Cinema #goodmovies #culture

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thank you! It adds a lot to the living room.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · Nov 23

Another day, another design for a ballet costume for a vegetable. Today’s special: the radish (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)

A drawing of a ballet costume for a radish featuring a crimson radish head and leafy base (with a gesticulating leaf arm)

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Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 23

I find this poem beautiful, and Ursula K. Le Guin is a queen.

Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · Nov 23

Might as well say I am the shadow / of a leaf of the acacia tree

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 23

I meant this to be so: www.ilanotreview.com/fixations/st...

Stories by Avital Gad-Cykman - Ilanot Review

Catch It In the film within a film, another film appears as fast as a grasshopper whose presence on a palm tree can be questioned, is doubted already, despite the green flash and buzzing wings. The ...

www.ilanotreview.com

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Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 22

Quite right!

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 22

Funny!

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 22

Joking aside, I'm responsible for a part of the design of this handrail, leaving the glasswork to Pablo and the metal work to Carlos.

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Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 20

So good!

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 19

The other is a story collection with the same elements.

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 19

Great to see you too! If I go back, I'll enter the list to enter even before buying flight tickets...

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hey Royo! This is so amazing, I couldn't get into this Kenyon when I was in the USA. It remains a dream.

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James Bennett @jamesbennett.bsky.social · Nov 17

What's the weirdest thing that's happened to you in your writing career? Hands down, mine was when an ex wrote a book about me (a romance, no less) and subbed it to my agent.

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Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 18

Perhaps not the weirdest but the most awkward: I thought that my character was highly unlikable, and loved writing her because of it. To my alarm, readers commented on her opinions as if they were mine, and occasionally, they liked and agreed with her.

Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 18

Have you read Arvind Adiga books?
They're fiction with political and social awareness, speaking about castes, economic differences, corruption and the (im) possibility of change.

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Avital Gad-Cykman @avitalgadcykman.bsky.social · Nov 17

A good one.

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · Nov 16

bird sounds

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