Rekha Valliappan
@silicasun.bsky.social
Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
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Best Small Fictions 2025
Flash, Haibun, Micro, & Hybrid: 110 Pieces by 110 Authors Nominated by Indie Presses Around the World
altcurrentpress.com
#SundayShowcase - The #stories that make up the BEST OF SMALL FICTIONS 2025 to read & enjoy full of micro, #flashfiction #shortstories by 110 noteworthy #litmag #writers worldwide including mine BUS STOP is OUT in print 📚 grateful 🙏 For copies : altcurrentpress.com/2025/11/10/b... 📖 #silicasun 🚏📘💛
#SundaySongBook #nature 🦊 🌙 today is #WinterSoldstice ❄️ longest night shortest day of the year as our beautiful bountiful #earth 🌏 returns to light and life ☀️ from the dark 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐦 #silicasun 🎄📗❤️
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#SundaySongBook #nature 🦊 🌙 today is #WinterSoldstice ❄️ longest night shortest day of the year as our beautiful bountiful #earth 🌏 returns to light and life ☀️ from the dark 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐦 #silicasun 🎄📗❤️
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"In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'"
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
Unsolved Mysteries by Chris Scott
Ten years old, watching Unsolved Mysteries on the floor, dunking Oreos in my Keebler Elf glass of milk. A husband and wife are fighting. Not the real husband, not the real wife. A reenactment. The wif...
hexliterary.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'"
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
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Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Initially Rejected by a Publisher. It Later Became One of the World’s Most Beloved Novels
by Kayla Randall
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/jane...
Pride and Prejudice at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
#books #literature
by Kayla Randall
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/jane...
Pride and Prejudice at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
#books #literature
December 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Initially Rejected by a Publisher. It Later Became One of the World’s Most Beloved Novels
by Kayla Randall
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/jane...
Pride and Prejudice at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
#books #literature
by Kayla Randall
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/jane...
Pride and Prejudice at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
#books #literature
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borovinka apples, painted by william henry prestele
December 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
borovinka apples, painted by william henry prestele
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The “Telephonoscope” — a device imagined in a Punch cartoon from 1879, predicting the advent of video chat more than 100 years before Skype or Zoom. See more here: http://bit.ly/1O1Kyff
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The “Telephonoscope” — a device imagined in a Punch cartoon from 1879, predicting the advent of video chat more than 100 years before Skype or Zoom. See more here: http://bit.ly/1O1Kyff
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Happy #WinterSolstice! Here's Winter depicted on the Mosaic of the Four Seasons from Ain Beida near Timgad, 2nd century AD.
National Museum of Antiquities, Algiers, Algeria.
National Museum of Antiquities, Algiers, Algeria.
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Happy #WinterSolstice! Here's Winter depicted on the Mosaic of the Four Seasons from Ain Beida near Timgad, 2nd century AD.
National Museum of Antiquities, Algiers, Algeria.
National Museum of Antiquities, Algiers, Algeria.
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With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Remembering Jane Austen born #OTD 250 years ago 1775 #novelist 📚 Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Emma...
“The contents of his letter threw her into a flutter of spirits, in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the greatest share.” Pride & Prejudice #JaneAusten 📗 #silicasun 📖
“The contents of his letter threw her into a flutter of spirits, in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the greatest share.” Pride & Prejudice #JaneAusten 📗 #silicasun 📖
December 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Remembering Jane Austen born #OTD 250 years ago 1775 #novelist 📚 Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Emma...
“The contents of his letter threw her into a flutter of spirits, in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the greatest share.” Pride & Prejudice #JaneAusten 📗 #silicasun 📖
“The contents of his letter threw her into a flutter of spirits, in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the greatest share.” Pride & Prejudice #JaneAusten 📗 #silicasun 📖
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#WednesdayWins for #WyrdWednesday - November Noir in Black & White - 📚
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#WednesdayWins for #WyrdWednesday - November Noir in Black & White - 📚
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️
murder is afoot... in the strange case of a dead man who altered his eating habits...
Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Agatha Christie 📗
#silicasun 🐤📖❤️
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Last night I had a dream
that my father, six years
dead now, left me a message
folded into some kind of origami bird.
—Al Ortolani
www.rattle.com/paper-birds-...
that my father, six years
dead now, left me a message
folded into some kind of origami bird.
—Al Ortolani
www.rattle.com/paper-birds-...
Paper Birds Don’t Fly by Al Ortolani - Rattle: Poetry
Last night I had a dream
that my father, six years
dead now, left me a message
folded into some kind of origami bird.
www.rattle.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Last night I had a dream
that my father, six years
dead now, left me a message
folded into some kind of origami bird.
—Al Ortolani
www.rattle.com/paper-birds-...
that my father, six years
dead now, left me a message
folded into some kind of origami bird.
—Al Ortolani
www.rattle.com/paper-birds-...
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In WHEN I WAS THE WIND, “four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery.”
Hannah Lee Jones’s debut collection (@juneroadpress.bsky.social) is featured in our #APAHeritageMonth list: www.juneroadpress.com/when-i-was-t...
Hannah Lee Jones’s debut collection (@juneroadpress.bsky.social) is featured in our #APAHeritageMonth list: www.juneroadpress.com/when-i-was-t...
When I Was the Wind — June Road Press
A poetry collection by Hannah Lee Jones
www.juneroadpress.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In WHEN I WAS THE WIND, “four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery.”
Hannah Lee Jones’s debut collection (@juneroadpress.bsky.social) is featured in our #APAHeritageMonth list: www.juneroadpress.com/when-i-was-t...
Hannah Lee Jones’s debut collection (@juneroadpress.bsky.social) is featured in our #APAHeritageMonth list: www.juneroadpress.com/when-i-was-t...
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Jane Austen mentions Christmas in all of her novels - spent with family & friends, stoking ‘a roaring Christmas fire’ against the snow outside, and making merry with dancing.
Hilary Davidson (@fourredshoes.bsky.social) introduces a fashion-focused Austen Christmas.
yalebooks.co.uk/a-jane-auste...
Hilary Davidson (@fourredshoes.bsky.social) introduces a fashion-focused Austen Christmas.
yalebooks.co.uk/a-jane-auste...
A Jane Austen Christmas - Yale University Press London
Author Hilary Davidson introduces a fashion-focused Jane Austen Christmas ... Jane Austen mentions Christmas in all six of her completed novels. The Jane Austen mentions Christmas in all six of her co...
yalebooks.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Jane Austen mentions Christmas in all of her novels - spent with family & friends, stoking ‘a roaring Christmas fire’ against the snow outside, and making merry with dancing.
Hilary Davidson (@fourredshoes.bsky.social) introduces a fashion-focused Austen Christmas.
yalebooks.co.uk/a-jane-auste...
Hilary Davidson (@fourredshoes.bsky.social) introduces a fashion-focused Austen Christmas.
yalebooks.co.uk/a-jane-auste...
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Durrell Society
'Infinitely beyond all that we had ever thought or dreamed,—the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death.'
— John Ruskin, recalling his earliest glimpse of the Alps
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Mont Blanc (Ruskin)
'Infinitely beyond all that we had ever thought or dreamed,—the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death.'
— John Ruskin, recalling his earliest glimpse of the Alps
****
Mont Blanc (Ruskin)
June 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Durrell Society
'Infinitely beyond all that we had ever thought or dreamed,—the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death.'
— John Ruskin, recalling his earliest glimpse of the Alps
****
Mont Blanc (Ruskin)
'Infinitely beyond all that we had ever thought or dreamed,—the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death.'
— John Ruskin, recalling his earliest glimpse of the Alps
****
Mont Blanc (Ruskin)
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For more than 30 years, Seamus Heaney designed his own Christmas cards for family and friends, featuring artwork by favourite artists or his children alongside lines from works in progress. The cards were printed by his friend Peter Fallon of The Gallery Press.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/seam...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/seam...
Seamus Heaney: The Christmas card maker
Festive cards designed by poet go on display, reflecting Heaney’s investment in friendships
www.irishtimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
For more than 30 years, Seamus Heaney designed his own Christmas cards for family and friends, featuring artwork by favourite artists or his children alongside lines from works in progress. The cards were printed by his friend Peter Fallon of The Gallery Press.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/seam...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/seam...
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If we reach Stretch Goal #1, we can add another issue to 3LBE 2026, and open another submission window. More and more stories! Plus there are a few new rewards. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
kck.st
September 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If we reach Stretch Goal #1, we can add another issue to 3LBE 2026, and open another submission window. More and more stories! Plus there are a few new rewards. kck.st/4mIkEm1
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#TuesdayTrends - Born #OTD John Milton 1608 - Remembering his 417th Birthday - Paradise Lost, Lycidas -
'The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.'
#JohnMilton Paradise Lost
#classics #literature #books #silicasun 📚❤️
'The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.'
#JohnMilton Paradise Lost
#classics #literature #books #silicasun 📚❤️
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#TuesdayTrends - Born #OTD John Milton 1608 - Remembering his 417th Birthday - Paradise Lost, Lycidas -
'The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.'
#JohnMilton Paradise Lost
#classics #literature #books #silicasun 📚❤️
'The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.'
#JohnMilton Paradise Lost
#classics #literature #books #silicasun 📚❤️
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The menhir at Puy Durand in Avrillé (Vendée) is unusual in being wider (4.8m) than it is tall (3.9m) on the broad faces and only 1.9m on the narrow edges. It was originally part of a group of three, two of which were destroyed. #StandingStoneSunday.
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The menhir at Puy Durand in Avrillé (Vendée) is unusual in being wider (4.8m) than it is tall (3.9m) on the broad faces and only 1.9m on the narrow edges. It was originally part of a group of three, two of which were destroyed. #StandingStoneSunday.
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On the 1st day of Christmas my archive gave to me…
An illustrated late 19th century selection of Christmas tales including the quintessential A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. #archive #Christmas #Arundel #Christmas2025 #history #archives #books #bahhumbug #scrooge #Dickens
An illustrated late 19th century selection of Christmas tales including the quintessential A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. #archive #Christmas #Arundel #Christmas2025 #history #archives #books #bahhumbug #scrooge #Dickens
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On the 1st day of Christmas my archive gave to me…
An illustrated late 19th century selection of Christmas tales including the quintessential A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. #archive #Christmas #Arundel #Christmas2025 #history #archives #books #bahhumbug #scrooge #Dickens
An illustrated late 19th century selection of Christmas tales including the quintessential A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. #archive #Christmas #Arundel #Christmas2025 #history #archives #books #bahhumbug #scrooge #Dickens
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Late afternoon, Wednesday 10 December 1823: Mary Anning discovers and begins excavation of a near-complete skeleton of Plesiosaurus. Recognising this as 'the first and only one discovered in Europe', she sent scale drawings to some potential purchasers.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Late afternoon, Wednesday 10 December 1823: Mary Anning discovers and begins excavation of a near-complete skeleton of Plesiosaurus. Recognising this as 'the first and only one discovered in Europe', she sent scale drawings to some potential purchasers.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Now Spinning: Tom Tom Club, Wordy Rappinghood.
Wordy Rappinghood
Tom Tom Club
open.spotify.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Now Spinning: Tom Tom Club, Wordy Rappinghood.
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hremn, m.n: raven. (H’REH-mun / ˈhrɛ-mən)
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
hremn, m.n: raven. (H’REH-mun / ˈhrɛ-mən)
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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St Dunstan pinching the devil
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
St Dunstan pinching the devil
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
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Before Shakespeare became a literary icon, he was a working writer trying to earn a living in a new industry. In "The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare," Daniel Swift explores the dream of making money from creating art. More on our podcast!
London's First Playhouse and Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Before Shakespeare became a literary icon, he was a working writer trying to earn a living in a new industry. In "The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare," Daniel Swift explores the dream of making money from creating art. More on our podcast!
#SundayShowcase - The #stories that make up the BEST OF SMALL FICTIONS 2025 to read & enjoy full of micro, #flashfiction #shortstories by 110 noteworthy #litmag #writers worldwide including mine BUS STOP is OUT in print 📚 grateful 🙏 For copies : altcurrentpress.com/2025/11/10/b... 📖 #silicasun 🚏📘💛
Best Small Fictions 2025
Flash, Haibun, Micro, & Hybrid: 110 Pieces by 110 Authors Nominated by Indie Presses Around the World
altcurrentpress.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
#SundayShowcase - The #stories that make up the BEST OF SMALL FICTIONS 2025 to read & enjoy full of micro, #flashfiction #shortstories by 110 noteworthy #litmag #writers worldwide including mine BUS STOP is OUT in print 📚 grateful 🙏 For copies : altcurrentpress.com/2025/11/10/b... 📖 #silicasun 🚏📘💛
#PhantomFriday #FictionFriday 📗 Charles Dickens 📖 A Christmas Carol 🎅
'The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost;..'
Artwork, Arthur Rackham 🧑🎨
silicasun.wordpress.com 🎅 #silicasun 🎄📚❤️
'The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost;..'
Artwork, Arthur Rackham 🧑🎨
silicasun.wordpress.com 🎅 #silicasun 🎄📚❤️
December 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#PhantomFriday #FictionFriday 📗 Charles Dickens 📖 A Christmas Carol 🎅
'The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost;..'
Artwork, Arthur Rackham 🧑🎨
silicasun.wordpress.com 🎅 #silicasun 🎄📚❤️
'The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost;..'
Artwork, Arthur Rackham 🧑🎨
silicasun.wordpress.com 🎅 #silicasun 🎄📚❤️