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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · 1d

I'm an author, and I've been writing for a long time. But I like the idea of being 'new'. Everything I write feels like the first important thing I've ever written when I write it. So in that sense, yes, I'm a new writer, and also in the sense of being completely unheard of!

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 26d

This week, Farage has threatened to abolish ILR status for legal migrants, has said migrants may be eating swans from public parks, & refused to condemn Trump's linking of autism to paracetamol. The UK media needs to stop pretending his insane extremism is politics as usual.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Sep 21

Read my comparative book review of What Cops Know by Connie Fletcher and The Cheese and The Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, here: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/09/a-co...

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A Comparative Reading of Two 'Completely Different' Books

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Sep 14

Read my flash fiction story 'tuutuuk and problem foton-ru' at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/09/tuut...

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tuutuuk and problem foton-ru

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

www.kesterparkauthor.net

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Sep 9

Almost a human :-)

A green alien with large black eyes and a joyful badger dressed in a red-and-yellow jester’s outfit share a warm embrace. The badger laughs with its mouth wide open, while the alien smiles gently. The background is a warm, textured golden hue, giving the scene a whimsical, friendly atmosphere.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Sep 7

There in the drafty, darkened hall,
limbs and jaws and bones withal,
a row of bodies, nude as sin,
knee by hip, and jaw by chin.

Read the rest of my gothic, existential poem, Speak for Thyself!, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/09/i.html

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Speak for Thyself!

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

www.kesterparkauthor.net

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Try this!

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Tchakare Kanyembe - Live at Sacred Fire stage Boom 2008

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 30

I also like rhymes very much!

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A Christmas Tree's Lament

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 26

A poem! I am experimenting with a new form of presentation. All comments are welcome.

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The Spoiling of Beauty

Have you wished
for beauty,
that loveliness kissed
with lips of ruby
your brow?

Let us imagine
it happened,
and all with passion
were maddened
by you.

You could go nowhere
to breathe.
You were the flower
to bees
in the field.

When you were present
you gratified
and acquiescent
you catalysed
their need.

Your charm defrayed
those charges
that were raised
through largess
by want.

Now show your face,
its flaws and boons.
Does it pay
to grace a room?
No, it doesn't.

We could be free
not once but doubly
Let's make a plea
to be ugly
as sin.

We'd walk this land
tall as giants
with faces bland
in defiance
of man.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 24

Congratulations, and good luck!

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 24

I have written an 800-word article entitled The Good, the Bad and the Inefficient. It is a first attempt at a kind of cosmic moral philosophy. You can read it here: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/the-...

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The Good, the Bad and the Inefficient

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

www.kesterparkauthor.net

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yeah, I quit. All is well here, thank you. Plans are being formed! I hope you are well too!

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

She have return.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've also successfully used website blocking apps in the past when I got particularly addicted to certain sites. A third thing I did was buy a little wifi keyboard to go with my tablet, but I haven't used it yet because the ethernet cable solution was so effective.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 10

Sometimes when I can't get it together, pulling out the ethernet cable and switching off the wifi really works.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 9

Don’t toilets glow in the middle of the night?
I know it’s really because they’re white,
but aren’t they such places of solitude?
I mean it—not simply being crude.

Read the rest of my poem, Toilet Sitting at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/toil...

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Toilet Sitting

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a tuxedo and standing on a stage

Alt: jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a tuxedo and standing on a stage in a circle of light bowing proudly and stiffly

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

I used to think the third conditional was dry until I met Alfred de Molina. Now I know differently.

Read my post 'English Grammar and the Phantom Reality Explosion' at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/engl...

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English Grammar and the Phantom Reality Explosion

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

www.kesterparkauthor.net

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Aug 2

Read my funny, weird, touching, scary flash fiction story, The Unbeast Who Was Not, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/the-...

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The Unbeast Who Was Not

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

www.kesterparkauthor.net

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Jul 28

Your examples are interesting. One is the physical reflection of light, which could be argued to occur without an observer. The other is a figurative reflection, which I would argue only occurs if it is observed. There may be potential reflections in existence which are not observed.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Jul 27

I think art is something that reflects life. While I don't think there's anything in life that necessarily doesn't do so, I think this reflectivity ought to be intentional or observed, so I'm open to the idea that there are things in life that, being neither, are not art.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Jul 26

Read my exploration of just two words in Paul Bowles' 1950 novel The Sheltering Sky: Port Moresby. Why did Bowles use the name of the capital of Papua New Guinea as that of his principal character? Visit my blog to see what I think.

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On the Naming of Port Moresby

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Jul 26

Read my exploration of just two words in Paul Bowles' 1950 novel The Sheltering Sky: Port Moresby. Why did Bowles use the name of the capital of Papua New Guinea as that of his principal character? Visit my blog to see what I think.

#WritingCommunity

www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/07/on-n...

On the Naming of Port Moresby

Kester Park's writing website: discover regularly updated contemporary and speculative flash fiction short stories and serials by a published writer.

www.kesterparkauthor.net

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Kester R. Park, Author @kesterparkauthor.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Lucky it's a sunny day," I commented to him. He turned and said to me, "Listen, son. If it rains now, I'll eat ma hat."

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