everwalker

Sings in the shower and isn't sorry. Also blogs about writing SF&F, tweets #Twitterature, and is an unrepentant classicist.

[@DrRachelKnightley (she/her) SEE YOU ON BLUESKY @DrRKnightley]

New courses at some favourite haunts of mine – and I'm sure they'll be yours too! #creativewriting #fiction #memoir #shortstories #spring https://t.co/UgkLKRiiIs

[everwalker @acmacklin]

They built 9-sided temples for the 9-faced god and his 9 wives. 9 towers stood at the corners, from which 9-minute prayers were called 9 times a day.

When worshippers died, the first encounter of their 2-faced deity and his harem was quite a surprise. #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: nonagon #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

After an arduous quest, the knight staggered to the castle in the clouds and knocked. “I’m here to rescue the princess!” he called.
An old man stuck his head out. “She took herself off years ago. This is a retirement home for questing knights now. Fancy a cuppa?”
#Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: nefelibata #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

The boy had moxie, they said. Guts, heart, cajones… He checked the lock on his vault of canopic jars, and wondered how they knew. #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: moxie #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

She was born a millisecond out of time. Everything came late to her - walking, speech, understanding, even death. But every year the last flower of summer and the final leaf of fall came to her. And hers was the last smile many people saw. #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: monachopsis #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

An old stone watchtower stood on the border, an ivy-covered icon of their peace treaty. When the new king first despatched a raiding party, the tower cracked from top to bottom and swallowed them whole in the rubble. #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: mizpah #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

One cannot lay claim to another body’s organs, particularly if those organs are still in use by that body. So when, my love, did this beating heart cease to be mine? #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: mine #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

The first finger-food buffet at the Terran embassy was a disaster. The humans claimed the xenophids were being overly fussy, but their well-informed guests knew where else those fingers had been. #Twtitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: mimp #Twitterature

[Ian Laking @IHLaking]

so this is clearly the coolest thing we’re all going to see this week

[T. R. Darling @QuietPineTrees]

We were gentler in space. Steel and plexiglass held back the vicious vacuum so delicate things could float with us in our bubbles of atmosphere. We built robots with bones as soft as butterfly wings, voices that never exceeded a whisper, and eyes that could see right through us.

[everwalker @acmacklin]

The spiritual frequency of passionate ideology was identified after extensive testing on political prisoners. Dampeners were swiftly introduced to the water filtration system. No government wanted that sort of disruption. #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Inspiring word of the day: metanoia #Twitterature

[everwalker @acmacklin]

Critics described his art as soulful, claiming ‘the essence of the painter can truly be seen in the vivid colours and landscapes’. Over the years he grew thinner, greyer, quieter. #Twitterature