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Rekha Valliappan
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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
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Bumper Issue V of The Storms @eatthestorms.com is out and I'm in it with my short prose THE BIRTH 📗 super thrilled to be part of multiple launches print edition, audio recording, podcast, Youtube 🎤 enjoy the many #poetry #prose #reading 📖 #writing ✍️ eatthestorms.com/the-storms-a... 📚 #silicasun 📙❤️
The Journal
The Storms          Issue 5 Issue 5 of The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art, is honoured to be supported by Fingal Arts / Fingal C…
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November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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NEW Imaging of the ancient marble quarry of Apollonas, on the Mediterranean island of Naxos. By combining modern tools with established methods, researchers show how Aegean quarry landscapes were important features of interconnected ancient economies.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
3D image of a quarry viewed from above, showing areas from which stone has been extracted and an in-progress sculpture of a monumental humanoid figure.
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The Quasar Review ⭐ is open to submissions for Issue 6. #CallforSubmissions
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: The Quasar Review ⭐
The Quasar Review ⭐ is open to submissions for Issue 6. #CallforSubmissions
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November 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Cats preparing a light snack

Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764; Bestiary; 13th century; England; f.51r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Today is the 75th Anniversary of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe! What a magical world and story filled with wonder, truth and beauty!
October 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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November is #ManateeAwarenessMonth! This beautiful Manatee #SciArt is from Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1882), illustrated by Josef Wolf. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/570882 #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess #SaveTheManatee #SeaCow 🧪 🌎 📖 🌱
Two manatee (large grey sea cows) feeing on seagrass in shallow water.
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe A Gand: chez Louis van Houtte, éditeur, 1845-1880. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27764962) #nature #illustration #art
Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe A Gand: chez Louis van Houtte, éditeur, 1845-1880. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27764962�
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Epulation [EP-yoo-lay-shun]
(n.)
- A lavish banquet, feasting, or the act of feasting, often with a hint of excess or ritual pomp.

Used in a sentence:
“The princess, not especially fond of theatrical excess, nevertheless enjoyed a fine birthday epulation worthy of a Renaissance court.”
Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of a large Renaissance banquet.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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eatthestorms.com
So wonderful to hear you bring this to life in the reading Rekha 🙏💙
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Well done, Rekha 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Bumper Issue V of The Storms @eatthestorms.com is out and I'm in it with my short prose THE BIRTH 📗 super thrilled to be part of multiple launches print edition, audio recording, podcast, Youtube 🎤 enjoy the many #poetry #prose #reading 📖 #writing ✍️ eatthestorms.com/the-storms-a... 📚 #silicasun 📙❤️
The Journal
The Storms          Issue 5 Issue 5 of The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art, is honoured to be supported by Fingal Arts / Fingal C…
eatthestorms.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
silicasun.bsky.social
Bumper Issue V of The Storms @eatthestorms.com is out and I'm in it with my short prose THE BIRTH 📗 super thrilled to be part of multiple launches print edition, audio recording, podcast, Youtube 🎤 enjoy the many #poetry #prose #reading 📖 #writing ✍️ eatthestorms.com/the-storms-a... 📚 #silicasun 📙❤️
The Journal
The Storms          Issue 5 Issue 5 of The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art, is honoured to be supported by Fingal Arts / Fingal C…
eatthestorms.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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minnie stanford peaches, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917
minnie stanford peaches, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Less than 2 days before IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems opens for submissions!

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IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems
IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems ONE ART is pleased to announce IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton! About The Guest EditorJulia Caroline K…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social

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B O D Y | Berlin Variations by Alexander Booth
Alexander Booth is a poet and translator who lives in Berlin. His collection of poems Triptych was published in 2021 and Kantor in 2023.
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May 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová, tr by Tereza Veverka Novická @twistedspoon.bsky.social
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Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová
Drink them up, swallow those clouds, gulp them down with all your might, because all you’ve got to look forward to now are ceilings. As Ema, the fifty year-old protagonist of Zuzana Brabcová’s Ceil…
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July 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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So we enter November, aka Anubis month. This image from a calendar mosaic from Thysdrus (El-Jem, Tunisia) depicts a festival commemorating the death of Osiris, which was celebrated all over the Roman Empire (Sousse Archaeological Museum, © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons) 🏺 #AncientBluesky
Detail from a mosaic depicting three similarly sized men. The first on the right is dressed as Anubis. He is wearing a dog mask and red robe. He holds a caduceus. His hands seem to be a different colour to his mask, suggesting he is a human and not the god. The two men to his right are wearing white robes, possibly linen. Both of their heads are clean shaven and they wear feathers on their head, possibly a symbol of priestly office. According to Clement of Alexandria, scribes wore feathers. Above them the text reads ‘November’
November 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The imbecile without makeup
Albin Grau, Promotional Poster for F.W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' (Prana Film, 1921)
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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#FairytaleTuesday #SuperMoon #MourningMoon #BeaverMoon #WhenBeastsSpoke #WyrdWednesday 'The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill...'Frances Hodgson Burnett,The Secret Garden 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com #silicasun 🍂🐦🍁📗❤️
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The Guardian | StarWatch
#SuperMoon
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Starwatch: look out for the largest supermoon of the year on Wednesday
On 5 November, the moon will be just under 357,000km from Earth, making it appear bigger and brighter
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November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#HappyHalloween 🎃 #writers #poets 📚 'the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel... Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells” Ray Bradbury 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐾 #silicasun 🎃👹📘💚
October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Join us tomorrow night in your living room for the 3nd launch of The Storms, Issue V ⚡️

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The Storms, Issue V. The Zoom launch
Get ready for the fifth installment of The Storms series as we launch Issue V on Zoom - it's gonna be a wild ride!
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November 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue is now available on our website and via Weightless! Selected by our guest editor Emma Burnett, this issue features spec-fic families of all sorts. Go small and go home!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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Flash Fiction Online November 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…
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November 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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In Japanese stories, yūrei drift like pale breath through misted forests, their forms dissolved into morning fog. Spirits love the hour when shapes are half-made and memory blurs into myth. #MythologyMonday
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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"Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 26 October 1922, #VirginiaWoolf's third novel, "Jacob's Room," was first published by the Hogarth Press in 🇬🇧
October 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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hornede, adj: horned. (HORN-eh-duh / ˈhɔr-nɛ-də)
Image: A creature called a demma in the Liber de natura rerum; France (Abbaye de Saint-Amand), 13th century; Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320, f. 58v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript illustration of a goat-like creature with extremely long, sharp horns, surrounded by floating gold circles.
October 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM