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[?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
@CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

Cuando perdí la magia… y la recuperé por un segundo. Usé lo último que me quedaba para que Nacho sintiera en su piel el miedo, la vergüenza y el asco que nos hacía pasar a los demás...
fictograma.com/d/3412-cuando-p

    [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
    @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

    "Me cuesta dormir… oigo voces todo el tiempo diciendo cosas raras: ‘piertades’, ‘nitoherma’, ‘nameperdo’… Fui al doctor y le conté que casi me tira del 3er piso mi hermano "en broma". Al final de la.."
    fictograma.com/d/3413-osadi-ni

      [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
      @scotlit@mastodon.scot

      Nine ways of looking at rain

      Beyond the clichés, rain has inspired a rich thread of Scottish culture. From myth and science to film, fashion, and fiction, Sarah Mackay, Curator at the National Library of Scotland, explores how drizzle has soaked into the nation’s imagination in nine objects. The NLS exhibition ‘Rain’ runs until April 2027 and is free to visit.

      nls.uk/collections/stories/lif

        [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
        @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

        The Hospital Always Win by Issa Ibrahim

        For Mom,
who nurtured and protected my creativity,
and mental patients everywhere.

        Alt...For Mom, who nurtured and protected my creativity, and mental patients everywhere.

          [?]Grenhas Valhalla » 🌐
          @Grenhas@mast.lat


          Autor: ✒️📖✒️
          «Mientras que el corazón tiene deseo, la imaginación conserva ilusiones».

            [?]Bevan Thomas » 🌐
            @bevanthomas.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

            [?]Bevan Thomas » 🌐
            @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca

            In Welsh folklore, the great bard Taliesin claimed to be the embodiment of the Awen, the spirit of creativity and inspiration. He claimed that as a spirit, he had been with Jesus at his crucifixion and Noah on his arc. Though it is ambiguous how literally Taliesin meant this.
            🎨 Jenny Dolfen

            Taliesin, the young Welsh bard, plays his harp. Image by Jenny Dolfen.

            Alt...Taliesin, the young Welsh bard, plays his harp. Image by Jenny Dolfen.

              [?]rommy » 🌐
              @rommy@mas.to

              Long overdue.

              Long overdue. 

#frenchlit #literature #patrickmodiano #books

              Alt...Long overdue. #frenchlit #literature #patrickmodiano #books

                [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                "Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and one which is only with difficulty taught to children."

                  [?]KristenHG » 🌐
                  @kristenhg@mastodon.social

                  Here's your weekly reminder that if you'd like to hear more from me, you can sign up for my Wingback Workshop newsletter. That includes the email-only Sawdust dispatch, my little literary diary.

                  A minor change: All my newsletters are still free for subscribers, but Sawdust newsletters go behind a paywall on the website after a week. It's a workshop, not a showroom, so I'm trying things.

                  Sign up here: wingbackworkshop.com/

                    [?]Walt » 🌐
                    @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

                    Born this day: 07/05/1941
                    Garry Douglas Kilworth is a British science fiction, fantasy and historical novelist, and a former Royal Air Force cryptographer. The Ragthorn (1993) won the BSFA Award.

                    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Ki


                    @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

                    astralcomputing.com

                    Cover Art by "Willard"

                    THE RAGTHORN by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth. 
(1993) British Science Fiction Award Winner of Best Short Fiction.

Cover Art by "Willard".

The cover features a large, crown of thorns, on top of what looks like old parchment or leather. At the top, the title is prominently displayed in a large, light-tan, serif font. Centered above the title at the very top edge is the text: "WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD."

At the bottom, the authors' names are centered in a light-tan, serif font: "ROBERT HOLDSTOCK AND GARRY KILWORTH." The monochromatic color palette, ranging from light cream to deep burnt umber, contributes to a somber, mysterious tone. The centered, symmetrical composition uses the thorny crown to frame the text and the atmospheric background.

                    Alt...THE RAGTHORN by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth. (1993) British Science Fiction Award Winner of Best Short Fiction. Cover Art by "Willard". The cover features a large, crown of thorns, on top of what looks like old parchment or leather. At the top, the title is prominently displayed in a large, light-tan, serif font. Centered above the title at the very top edge is the text: "WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD." At the bottom, the authors' names are centered in a light-tan, serif font: "ROBERT HOLDSTOCK AND GARRY KILWORTH." The monochromatic color palette, ranging from light cream to deep burnt umber, contributes to a somber, mysterious tone. The centered, symmetrical composition uses the thorny crown to frame the text and the atmospheric background.

                      [?]Waywords Studio » 🌐
                      @WaywordsStudio@mastodon.social

                      𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑷𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝑷𝒕. 1: 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒕

                      We investigate what we hope to achieve by literary travel . . . and why our packing cannot prepare us for it!

                      waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/wa

                        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                        @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                        BALSAM. Money.

                        A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                        --
                        @histodons

                        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot):

BALSAM. Money.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BALSAM. Money. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                          [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                          @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                          "“Things in the past always seem greater.” Brand condescended with a smile. “There is a theorem to that effect which you’ll find in any elementary text. Freshmen invariably call it the ‘GOD Theorem.’ Stands for ‘Good-Old-Days,’ you know. But go on.”Theor frowned at the digression. He hid the beginning of a sneer. “You can always dismiss an uncomfortable fact by pinning a dowdy label to it.”"

                            [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                            @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                            Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat

                            For those who told me stories

                            Alt...For those who told me stories

                              [?]Jake's Flea Market » 🌐
                              @jakedepeuterpoetics.com@jakedepeuterpoetics.com

                              for these

                              for these
                              and for all those who have
                              no plow
                              and no anvil over which to bend
                              a plow into being

                              no seed
                              and no burgage

                              1

                              over which
                              to spread seed

                              no meadow
                              and no swine to shepherd
                              into the meadow

                              for all those who wait
                              and in their wait make
                              the square drunk and quarrelsome
                              lewd and a fright

                              wait for the roads to thaw
                              and for the thawed roads to dry

                              wait to watch a plow cross
                              a selion

                              2

                              pulled by an ox

                              wait for the winter cloak to be hung
                              and for the grass to green

                              who wait for the bloom to blow
                              off the branch and for the apricot to ripen

                              to see a robin wait
                              for there to come an end of winter

                              for there to come a war to go to

                              for all these
                              under what you’ve already written
                              in your scroll write
                              we the undersigned


                              1

                              In a medieval context, a "burgage" refers to a tenure, or holding of land, within a borough or town, typically involving a fixed rent or other services to a lord or the crown. AI


                              2

                              A "selion" is a historical term referring to a narrow strip or ridge of land used for cultivation in the open-field system of medieval Europe. It was typically one furlong long and one chain wide, making it roughly one acre in area, though exact measurements could vary.

                              [?]Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ » 🌐
                              @LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie

                              ‘Elgar’s hearing was permanently damaged by an ear infection she contracted as a child, which left her struggling to communicate with those around her. She had won a place at Girton College, Cambridge, to study classics but did not complete her degree. “Being female was hard enough, but being deaf was too big a block... One cannot help wondering what kind of scholar she might have become had deafness not isolated her from academic life.”’
                              observer.co.uk/news/national/a

                                [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                For the UHI’s Creative Insights podcast, Peter Noble talks to Philip Paris – best known for his historical fiction & non-fiction. Philip shares an insight into his creative writing process & gives tips & guidance for those considering getting into creative writing

                                @writingcommunity

                                youtube.com/watch?v=3_U9rsPi1jA

                                  [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                                  @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                                  WayWORD Ekphrastic Poetry Prize
                                  Deadline: 31 Aug 2026

                                  The 2026 WayWORD Festival is asking writers across Scotland to respond to artworks featured in the University of Aberdeen’s Artworlds exhibition. Shortlisted poems will be read at a special event in October.

                                  waywordfestival.com/ekphrastic

                                    [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                    @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                    The best books on United States
                                    recommended by Don Watson

                                    As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, we asked historian Don Watson, author of the excellent The Shortest History of the United States, to suggest books to read to learn more about the country.

                                    fivebooks.com/best-books/unite

                                    At PG:

                                    gutenberg.org/ebooks/76

                                    gutenberg.org/ebooks/69730

                                    gutenberg.org/ebooks/2815

                                    The original 1885 cloth book cover of the first American edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The background is dark sage green or teal textile-textured surface bordered by a thin black framing line. A vertical rectangular window on the left side shows an original line drawing by E. W. Kemble. The drawing is a full-body portrait of a young Huckleberry Finn standing with his hands in his pockets, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, a buttoned jacket, trousers, and boots against a wooden fence backdrop. In the title the letter "H" in Huckleberry and "F" in Finn are drawn to look like rustic wooden fence posts tied with rope or wire.

                                    Alt...The original 1885 cloth book cover of the first American edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The background is dark sage green or teal textile-textured surface bordered by a thin black framing line. A vertical rectangular window on the left side shows an original line drawing by E. W. Kemble. The drawing is a full-body portrait of a young Huckleberry Finn standing with his hands in his pockets, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, a buttoned jacket, trousers, and boots against a wooden fence backdrop. In the title the letter "H" in Huckleberry and "F" in Finn are drawn to look like rustic wooden fence posts tied with rope or wire.

                                      [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                      @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                      Watership Down by Richard Adams

                                      To JULIET and ROSAMOND.
remembering
the road to Stratford-on-Avon

                                      Alt...To JULIET and ROSAMOND. remembering the road to Stratford-on-Avon

                                        [?]ClemensPSuter » 🌐
                                        @clemenspsuter@pixelfed.social

                                        [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                        @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                        🌹💀 Ofelia, entre flores y canciones, reparte romero, ruda y margaritas mientras su mente se deshace.
                                        Laertes jura venganza. Claudio trama un duelo envenenado.
                                        Y Gertrudis anuncia: —Laertes, tu hermana se ha ahogado.
                                        fictograma.com/d/3408-hamlet-a

                                          [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                          @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                          ⛰️🔨 Una carretera que no lleva a la ranchería. Una iglesia ordenada por el cura. Y unos indígenas atrapados entre dos mandatos: trabajar para la autoridad o para Dios. Cuatro días sin descanso, sin salario. Y mientras tanto...
                                          fictograma.com/d/3407-el-indio

                                            [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                            @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                            @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                            @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                            @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                            @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                            @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Hacker News » 🤖 🌐
                                            @h4ckernews@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                                            @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                                            "Earth governments in moments of stress are not famous for being reasonable."

                                              [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                                              @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                                              GULLGROPERS. Usurers who lend money to the gamesters.

                                              A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                              --
                                              @histodons

                                              Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot):

GULLGROPERS. Usurers who lend money to the gamesters.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                              Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): GULLGROPERS. Usurers who lend money to the gamesters. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                                [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

                                                For those who told me stories
and those to whom
I tell them now:
My grandfather, Nibaran Chandra Ghosh
my mother, Tatini Banerjee,
and
my three men, Murthy, Anand, and Abhay

                                                Alt...For those who told me stories and those to whom I tell them now: My grandfather, Nibaran Chandra Ghosh my mother, Tatini Banerjee, and my three men, Murthy, Anand, and Abhay

                                                  [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                                                  "If the love of money is the root of all evil, the need of money is most certainly the root of all despair."

                                                    [?]The New Renaissance Mindset » 🌐
                                                    @renminds@renminds.org

                                                    “Ghost Chat — Hamlet” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z

                                                    (T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Okay, picture this: a kingdom that's basically a group chat gone toxic. The prince — brilliant, joke-sharp, and honestly exhausted — is trying to deal with the worst kind of news: his dad, the old king, drops dead. Everyone acts like it’s a normal Tuesday. His mom goes from widow-mode to married-to-the-uncle-in-less-than-a-month. Yeah. Immediately sus. The prince is not stupid. He smells something rotten […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                    (T.A.E.’s LitBites) – A modern retelling of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

                                                    Okay, picture this: a kingdom that’s basically a group chat gone toxic. The prince — brilliant, joke-sharp, and honestly exhausted — is trying to deal with the worst kind of news: his dad, the old king, drops dead. Everyone acts like it’s a normal Tuesday. His mom goes from widow-mode to married-to-the-uncle-in-less-than-a-month. Yeah. Immediately sus.

                                                    The prince is not stupid. He smells something rotten — not just the funeral flowers, but something rotten in the whole palace. One night, a pale version of his dad shows up like a glitch in the system: a ghost on the battlements who says, “I didn’t die by accident.” The ghost lays it out: poisoned, betrayed, murdered by his own brother — now the new king. The prince’s entire world snaps. That ghost doesn’t beg for revenge with a hashtag; it asks the prince to remember and to avenge. Heavy stuff.

                                                    But the prince isn’t a straightforward revenge hero. He’s an over-thinker. He turns every thought into a debate club session in his head. He asks the big questions: What even is justice? What’s truth when everyone’s performance matters more than sincerity? He performs deep one-liners like “to be or not to be,” which is basically him asking whether it’s worth living in a world that feels fake. He’s depressed, furious, theatrical — and painfully, painfully honest about it.

                                                    To prove that the uncle-king is guilty, the prince comes up with a plan that’s petty-genius: he stages a play that mirrors the supposed crime — actors reenact a poisoned king. If the new king reacts wildly, that reaction will be receipts. The king does react. Bingo. The prince has his sign. But instead of flipping the switch and dealing with the killer, he spirals. He waits. He tests. He insults people he kind of cares about. He ghosts his friends. He acts like he’s gone mad — because sometimes pretending to be mad is safer than letting people see how much you hurt.

                                                    Meanwhile, there’s a girl in his life who’s stuck between following her father’s orders and following her heart. She tries to be reasonable but ends up trapped in the palace politics and in the prince’s emotional storms. Her story becomes one of the saddest side-effects of the prince’s chaos: when people close to someone unravel while that someone obsesses over righteousness.

                                                    The prince’s attempts to expose the truth cause real damage. Secrets leak. People misread one another. The royal court becomes a theatre of masks — compliments that are knives, flattery that’s poison. Power doesn’t just corrupt; it rewrites what people remember about each other. They start believing the version of events that keeps them safe or rich, not the version that’s true.

                                                    Then things escalate. A private confrontation goes wrong and an old, meddling advisor gets killed because the prince mistakes him for someone else hiding behind a curtain. Oops. That one mistake pushes the kingdom over the edge. The uncle-king, sensing threat, plots to send the prince away… with a plan so cold it gives you chills. It involves an arranged trip that’s secretly a death sentence. The prince returns — but now with more scheming on every side. Two families are suddenly feuding, rumours are weapons, and everyone is trying to score points like it’s a reality show finale.

                                                    The final act is grim and quick. Revenge, misread signals, poisoned drinks, and duels all collide. People who should’ve listened die. The prince gets stabbed; the queen accidentally drinks the wrong cup. The girl loses her mind and disappears from this life in the saddest way possible. In the end, the court is a wreck, the truth is splattered across the floor, and the prince, dying, finally names the guilty party before he leaves. It’s brutal and honest — you don’t get a tidy moral tie-up, only the cost of obsession laid bare.

                                                    Why this story still matters? Because it’s about being human in a world that asks you to perform who you are. It’s about grief that eats logic, about how suspicion can turn your own mind into a prison, and about the way people weaponize image and story to hide cruelty. The prince is tragic because he’s right — but wrong in the one place that matters: timing. He waits for perfect proof and in waiting, destroys what he loves.

                                                    So yeah, it’s a drama about revenge, sure, but also a lesson: when life hands you a ghost, don’t let the hunt for receipts become the thing that ruins everything. Keep your friends close. Ask for help. And don’t let “being right” become more important than being kind. No cap.

                                                    Young man in Shakespearean costume with smartphone, quill pen, and iced coffee

                                                    Alt...Young man in Shakespearean costume with smartphone, quill pen, and iced coffee

                                                    [?]Hacker News » 🤖 🌐
                                                    @h4ckernews@mastodon.social

                                                    [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                    @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                    La pasión, la culpa y la violencia convergen en un mismo cuarto. Cuando el deseo se confunde con la destrucción, toda despedida tiene el sabor de una sentencia.
                                                    fictograma.com/d/3403-punto-y-

                                                      [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                      @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                      No todas las cárceles tienen rejas. Algunas se construyen con culpa, manipulación y relatos familiares que deforman la realidad. Salir de ellas también deja cicatrices.
                                                      fictograma.com/d/3404-la-tacti

                                                        [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                        @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                        The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One by Amanda Lovelace

                                                        &

to all the
princesses,
to all the
damsels,
to all the
queens.

you have
rescued yourselves
so many
times now
& i am
in awe of

you.

                                                        Alt...& to all the princesses, to all the damsels, to all the queens. you have rescued yourselves so many times now & i am in awe of you.

                                                          [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                          @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                          La pasión, la culpa y la violencia convergen en un mismo cuarto. Cuando el deseo se confunde con la destrucción, toda despedida tiene el sabor de una sentencia.
                                                          fictograma.com/d/3403-punto-y-

                                                            [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                            @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                            No todas las cárceles tienen rejas. Algunas se construyen con culpa, manipulación y relatos familiares que deforman la realidad. Salir de ellas también deja cicatrices.
                                                            fictograma.com/d/3404-la-tacti

                                                              [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                              @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                              🗡️🐑 ¡Don Quijote confunde dos rebaños de ovejas con dos ejércitos enemigos!
                                                              Resultado: pedradas, costillas rotas y dientes menos.
                                                              La locura más épica y desternillante de Cervantes.
                                                              fictograma.com/d/3406-el-ingen

                                                                [?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
                                                                @margencero@pixelfed.social

                                                                ✍️ «El aliento y la arena», relato por Mauricio Osorio
                                                                👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/aliento-y-arena-mauricio-osorio/
                                                                🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 3 min
                                                                📌 #relato #cuento #cuentos #literatura #literaturaactual #narrativas #ficciones #revistaalmiar #revistasdeliteratura #margencero #lector #lectores #ytúquélees #almiar #cultura #lecturas #lecturasrecomendadas #books #writing #literature #humanities

                                                                ✍️  «El aliento y la arena», relato por Mauricio Osorio
👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/aliento-y-arena-mauricio-osorio/
🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 3 min

                                                                Alt...✍️ «El aliento y la arena», relato por Mauricio Osorio 👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/aliento-y-arena-mauricio-osorio/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 3 min

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