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Michael Walters

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Literary genre fiction. Based in North Yorkshire, UK. Website: https://www.michaelwalters.uk Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelwaltersauthor The Complex: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-complex-9781784631628

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 12h

I’ve found the path in the fog that leads to Halloween.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 14h

Can’t. The vibes are too immaculate.

Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 14h

Starts strong. Like me. Moderation. Elaine Castillo.

Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 14h

Hip machine.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 18h

could we skip to the part where my book has been published and you loved it

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ÄNGSTE ZUR KUNST @mkollmer.bsky.social · 21h

i want to see more hollywood movies that depict european cities as creepy and haunted

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Abertoir Horror Festival @abertoirfest.bsky.social · 20h

One month to go 😱 Keep those eyes peeled: we’ll be announcing more films throughout the week before unveiling the full festival line-up very soon…!

For now, why not remind yourself of what we've already got in store...

abertoir.co.uk/news/boswell...

Boswell, Lowry, The Keep + more at abertoir 2025! - Abertoir

With passes for the 20th edition of the festival going on sale today, we’re unveiling a mammoth slate of programme announcements.

abertoir.co.uk

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HolBolDoArt🏳️‍🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 1d

🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂

So share some of my paintings??

In the pew-lined interior of a dim medieval church lit by rows of candles on tall staffs and pale sunlight coming through a window, a tall humanoid crow figure with flowing black robes and a glowing yellow eye stands beneath an ornately carved semicircular arch in Norman Romanesque style. On the wall surrounding the arch are many colourful murals depicting more humanoid crow figures with halos, carrying various items including swords, spears, harps, and chalices.

A painting set in a cosy shady woodland clearing on a sunny summer's day. In the centre of the frame, two figures sit on a fallen log mostly hidden by vegetation. The figure on the right has wavy blonde hair down past her shoulders, and wears a flowing white floor-length dress with long sleeves, with delicate lacework around the cuffs and neckline. She looks into the distance with a contemplative, sad expression. On her lap rests a small green book, covered by both of her hands.
The figure on the left sits leaning with her head against shoulder of the other figure. She wears a similar dress but simpler, and in a dark slate grey. Her hair is dark and straight, and flows down her tilted face, and she looks off towards a nightingale bird perched on a nearby branch. She raises a hand towards the other figure as if to get her attention.

Both figures are surrounded by various flowers. On the left of the frame are many spires of foxglove flowers in vivid pink and white, interspersed among green stinging nettles. On the right are the purple flowers of monkshood/wolfsbane.

Wrapping around the figures is a clear stream flowing from a distant pond that descends in a series of steps. Around the stream are many small mossy rocks, and shoots of dark green dog's mercury.

Above and behind the figures and flowers are two trees; on the left is a weeping willow with dangling dark green leaves. On the right are the branches of an old ash tree.

A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air.

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 1d

I like to finish my stretching routine with a loud shout of, ‘fuck me that hurt’.

Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 1d

Had this on order. Salem’s Lot 50th anniversary edition. The first book of his Dad ever let me read. I was eight years old, and it was a rainy day in a Tenby caravan park. It’s a beautiful beast!

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 1d

I want to know all the secret places and languages.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 2d

Almost midnight in Kyiv.
Calm.
We have power, water.
Drops of rain gently sing a lullaby
to those who didn’t sleep last night.

Please, don’t take for granted
the quiet treasures you have –
power, water, windows, a roof.

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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 3d

We dreamed how we were perfect, and we were.

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

Part of me is still burning to know what I can do.

Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

Being a day of summer in autumn.

Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

Okay, I’m seven shots of coffee deep, but if it’s poured over ice cream, it doesn’t count, right?

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 2d

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ÄNGSTE ZUR KUNST @mkollmer.bsky.social · 2d

we can make the world wordier

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Jaedith Batler @jesstartas.bsky.social · 2d

Sie trägt den Herbst in sich; jeder Blick ein fallendes Blatt.

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

Having a pizza outside Google HQ imagining what my tech career could have been if I was an utterly different person. Listen, I know how to have fun in the city.

Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

I feel that. That’ll be my final stop before I head back north. If I can find it 😅

Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

Take me to church.

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

Accidentally ended up at Marble Arch. Thought I was going east, but I was heading west. I used to live in this city, believe it or not.

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