atrailofleaves

@atrailofleaves@wandering.shop

Time Traveller. Social Historian. Reader and Writer of Speculative Fiction.

Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Small Wonders, Kaleidotrope, Hexagon, Daily Science Fiction, Accessing The Future, Interzone (print & digital), Luna Station Quarterly, Shoreline of Infinity.

North-east England.

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xgranade, to random
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My phone forced an update overnight, and while it's pretty much the same, some of the touch gestures are different enough to break muscle memory. Very distracting...

atrailofleaves,

@xgranade Mine once updated the alarm app overnight, changing the gestures for turning the alarm off and resetting the sounds. It was... unpleasant...at 6am.

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I'm going to have to get on and wrap these presents, because I bought people soap, and I can't stand the scent any longer. How do people use this stuff??

atrailofleaves, to random

At one point during my journey home tonight, the car reported a temperature of minus 7°C.

atrailofleaves, to writing

I have a new story in the November issue of @clarkesworld today. It started as a story about a robot uprising, and ended up as something way more contemplative. In which an artificial being loses a (vital?) part of themself:

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hughes_11_23

atrailofleaves,

@gvwilson I feel quite bad for the vacuum cleaner. It was probably sentient!

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I walked Hadrian's Wall in 2009 with a university friend. I've walked bits of it many times, and stayed in the YHA near this tree, but rarely photographed it. Because everyone else did and its image is everywhere.

So here's two photographs on a murky day on that 2009 trip. Taken on a 2009 digital camera.

#SycamoreGap

Lower down than the previous picture. A tree grows beside a ruined Roman wall.

atrailofleaves, to Bloomscrolling

September meadow flowers on the cliffs over Whitby harbour #BloomScrolling #Coast #NorthYokshire

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From last week's trip to Whitby - Robin Hood's Bay from the cliffs.

atrailofleaves,

Also, cliffs. There were a lot of cliffs, as we walked from Robin Hood's Bay to Whitby along the coast path.

atrailofleaves, to random

Took a trip to the coast.

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    atrailofleaves,

    @idoubtit Is that the story from Gateshead?? Has it broken loose and gone national???

    atrailofleaves,

    @idoubtit I checked and it isn't the same story but a whole other one. Two dramatic school shoe stories in a week!

    atrailofleaves, to random

    New short story!

    In which a taxi driver, helping those in need, receives an unexpected request.

    My flash piece in Issue 2 of @SmallWondersSFF is free to read from today on their website:

    https://smallwondersmag.com/pieces/the-only-way-out/

    #writingcommunity #shortsff #shortfiction

    atrailofleaves, to random

    Out and about in Teesdale. This is the quite remote, but also just beside a busy bridge (because another bridge is shut) Eggleston Abbey. It is not in Eggleston, but is just outside Barnard Castle.

    Abbey ruins, grass, and a cloudy sky.

    atrailofleaves, to random

    Scrolling through my kobo looking for a holiday read, as I am on holiday, and it's wall-to-wall epics. Something SFF, under 350 pages and uncomplicated would be grand right now.

    atrailofleaves,

    @gvwilson Already read!

    atrailofleaves, to random

    I've also started work on a Novella. Because all the cool kids are writing those. #writing #writingcommunity

    atrailofleaves,

    @gvwilson Mostly, the former. I mean, I was looking to write a novella, but this story outline doesn't really work as a short. It needs more room but I don't have enough plot to make it a novel.

    atrailofleaves,

    @gvwilson Oh, yes, if that audiobook comes in at over 10 hours...

    atrailofleaves,

    @gvwilson It may be a thing, but the economic viability given the cost of audiobooks would be a question. Maybe less so if it's a credit on a subscription rather than an individual purchase. Some of the novella ebooks still feel quite expensive for their length (even though they still need to pay for cover/editing/promo in the same way as with a novel).

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