Jenny Gaitskell
@jennygaitskell.bsky.social
Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
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Pinned
wind blown off the sea
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
this desire for a true name
secret form
salt taste of wild ideas
and raggedy flight
🌊🪶
#whistpr (windy)
#inkMine (form)
#DailyHaikuPrompt (imbibe)
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'Pen name' is said in a flat American accent by a harassed writer dressed in sweatpants & coffee-stained t-shirt hunched over a keyboard
'Nom de plume' is said with panache by a mysterious figure wielding a quill *scratch scratch* on a sheaf of parchment while wearing a cloak & possibly a top hat
'Nom de plume' is said with panache by a mysterious figure wielding a quill *scratch scratch* on a sheaf of parchment while wearing a cloak & possibly a top hat
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
'Pen name' is said in a flat American accent by a harassed writer dressed in sweatpants & coffee-stained t-shirt hunched over a keyboard
'Nom de plume' is said with panache by a mysterious figure wielding a quill *scratch scratch* on a sheaf of parchment while wearing a cloak & possibly a top hat
'Nom de plume' is said with panache by a mysterious figure wielding a quill *scratch scratch* on a sheaf of parchment while wearing a cloak & possibly a top hat
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You can read or download my second short story collection, A VOLUME OF SLEEP, here
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like it and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like it and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
A Volume Of Sleep By Jayaprakash : Jayprakash Satyamurthy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
My second chapbook of fiction. Originally published by Dunhams Manor Press with illustrations by Dave Felton. It never caught on. Neither did I really, as to...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
You can read or download my second short story collection, A VOLUME OF SLEEP, here
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like it and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like it and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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There's no #race - not since I learned
trees have shallow roots.
No here or there or then or
now. I have decided my great love
is the world & therefore everywhere.
Whether I lie in bed too long or go
deeper in the woods than the hunter
in the parking lot suggested,
I am with the one I love.
#whistpr
trees have shallow roots.
No here or there or then or
now. I have decided my great love
is the world & therefore everywhere.
Whether I lie in bed too long or go
deeper in the woods than the hunter
in the parking lot suggested,
I am with the one I love.
#whistpr
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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waking at first light
cold little reliquary
pebble leaf and bone
cold little reliquary
pebble leaf and bone
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
waking at first light
cold little reliquary
pebble leaf and bone
cold little reliquary
pebble leaf and bone
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new tea, open sky
I breathe where the kettle sings
both of us rising
#dailyhaikuprompt (new tea)
#5amwritersclub
#writingcommunity
#haiku
I breathe where the kettle sings
both of us rising
#dailyhaikuprompt (new tea)
#5amwritersclub
#writingcommunity
#haiku
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
new tea, open sky
I breathe where the kettle sings
both of us rising
#dailyhaikuprompt (new tea)
#5amwritersclub
#writingcommunity
#haiku
I breathe where the kettle sings
both of us rising
#dailyhaikuprompt (new tea)
#5amwritersclub
#writingcommunity
#haiku
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all the poems
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response
A lot of what we call “the canon” is not “the best” so much as “the survived” - the work that got copied, funded, taught, archived, distributed, translated, reprinted, passed hand to hand.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
all the poems
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response
torn, crumpled, burnt
the songs unwritten
Evanescent as birdsong
sacred as spring's first frog
#tanka in response
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November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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MOONDUST WILL COVER YOU - A LITERARY TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE just got published. Featuring my short horror story Scary Monsters and a few film reviews of classic Bowie films by Nocturnicorn books. 🙏 #poetry #shortfiction #anthology
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
MOONDUST WILL COVER YOU - A LITERARY TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE just got published. Featuring my short horror story Scary Monsters and a few film reviews of classic Bowie films by Nocturnicorn books. 🙏 #poetry #shortfiction #anthology
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A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
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Moult is a reprint of one of my first pro sales. It was in a print anthology, so I'm glad people will be able to read it particularly since it was written in both English and Malay.
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Moult is a reprint of one of my first pro sales. It was in a print anthology, so I'm glad people will be able to read it particularly since it was written in both English and Malay.
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∴ skitterd sideways fate
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
∴ skitterd sideways fate
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
achievable mischief drips
crow-crowned micklewit ∴
#vss365 #haikufeels #senryusunday #leakyfaucet #dukkha
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I invented a moth
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I invented a moth
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
Always fascinated with the common names for things (which are sometimes evocative and sometimes... not)
Wonder what this one would be named if it was real?
#art
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It might seem odd that cats like cardboard boxes, but I don't think it's strange at all. If I could fit inside a cardboard box, I'd stay there all day.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It might seem odd that cats like cardboard boxes, but I don't think it's strange at all. If I could fit inside a cardboard box, I'd stay there all day.
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Thanks FemAsia for giving this a home.
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A Triptych of Epiphanies - FemAsia Magazine
(I)So, today I learnedthat the word ‘tense’ has many rootsand as David Armstrong on Quora puts itthe word travelled to English‘by doing a little violence to the Latin’and that somehow seemed appropria...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thanks FemAsia for giving this a home.
femasiamagazine.com/a-triptych-o...
femasiamagazine.com/a-triptych-o...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
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alien floral
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
alien floral
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We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
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If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
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“Cascade Dreams”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Cascade Dreams”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint print, 12”x 8”
Dream map, trails and neurotransmitter constellations ✨
#sciart #printmaking #intaglio