@jackmmorris.bsky.social
Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
@jackmmorris.bsky.socialThis is a delight
@jackmmorris.bsky.socialIt’s so grim, right? But I guess that mentality explains a lot about why we are getting LLM in first place
@jackmmorris.bsky.socialWow. Parenting truly does hit different when you work in AI
@nffr.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialFor Best Microfiction:
“Body As a Single Family Home” by @karaoakleaf.bsky.social
“Marc” by Nathan Leslie
“Love Spell” by @katwritesstuff.bsky.social
“Ernst Is Coming Home” by @jackmmorris.bsky.social (Winner)
“A Few Words About the Weather” by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social (Winner)
@nickfthilton.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialEngland is a great country, because once we name a village, that name becomes a sacred, immovable thing (however horrifying the image it conjures may be).
@hookland.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialHere on the blurred borders of autumn, fields sing for their due libations of ale and blood. Demand the honouring of our old contracts with them. For harvest needs a balancing and fair payment. Take not corn saints and corn maidens till the tithe is paid. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Equinox
@hookland.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialEven inland, the salt-hag is tide-pulled. Gulls call her to come to shore and see the wave-polished augeries on display. Sea-seasoned winds make promises of things to be summoned at the slack. She walks to her secret cove. Her first glimpse of sea an intoxication. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky
@nffr.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.social"I’d sashay in, like I used to when I was fifteen & ask in my huskiest voice for a waterbed repair kit. I’d make sure to look up at the security camera, give a sassy wave."
@stillsquirrel.bsky.social deftly weaves in Moxley's Rentals, young love & a runaway bride
newflashfiction.com/adam-stuart-...
@pleomorphic2.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialIf you’re looking for a masterclass in last lines, @stillsquirrel.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social gotchu. “The next morning I was sicker from thinking than drinking.” 🧡🔥🧡🔥
@stillsquirrel.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.social@jackmmorris.bsky.social is looking for 'protagonists with some fire in their bellies & characters who do not go gentle into that good night. Folks who don’t accept their fates' for @neitherfishnorfoul.com 🔥
@nffr.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialDon't be fooled by the optimism in that title, @sagreene1.bsky.social is about to take you on a dark and splendid journey...
"To be fair Miss Kozlowski’s lovely smile had been skillfully preserved by whoever did the head."
newflashfiction.com/springtime-i...
@jackmmorris.bsky.socialObviously I get in real life it’s not that simple. (I’d love a story if the woman chose a literal bear. My friend Mina Ma already wrote it, in fact, and it was fabulous). But there’s a nuance in real life and also in stories and I’d love to read more of those ones.
@jackmmorris.bsky.socialFunny to write that but honestly, it’s got to stage where men being horrible to women as a plot device is just stale, for me. And the women just seem to take it. Imagine a woman who just left cos she felt like it. Or was the star of her own show. Imagine that.
@jackmmorris.bsky.social@neitherfishnorfoul.com is still open.
I’d love to see protagonists with some fire in their bellies & characters who do not go gentle into that good night. Folks who don’t accept their fates.
I’d also really love to see some stories where men aren’t stereotypes too. 1/2
@jackmmorris.bsky.socialThis week I had two play rehearsals, one improv class, volunteered on door at a show & did a full day clown workshop. Plus read for @neitherfishnorfoul.com and had existential crisis about my own writing (now resolved). Another improv rehearsal tomorrow.
Life after 50? Not too shabby.
@hookland.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialI've come across a new skipping rhyme in the playground:
I know where the Growling Trees are
Are they near? Are they far?
I know where the Wailing Ghosts are
Are they trapped in soul jar?
Beat them, beat them with an iron bar
Even by school standards, it's a little creepy. – Joanna Vickers #VOH
@ellipsiszine.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialSubmission details: www.ellipsis-zine.com/submit
@catsofyore.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialWho ordered the basket of disappointed kittens? Postcard from my collection, mailed 1904.
@jackmmorris.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialSqueee! The lovely folks at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social agreed to re-publish my story about lions, whirligigs & tomatoes (hint: it is not about any of these things). It was 3rd in an equally lovely Propelling Pencil (now closed) competition in 2023.
@leanahosea.bsky.socialReposted by @jackmmorris.bsky.socialSo, we're allowing conditions for development of antibiotic resistant bugs +, at the same time, not putting enough effort into developing new antibiotics.
As this report puts it, if antibiotics stop working effectively, we 'lose modern medicine as we know it'.
