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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieauthors.social/@Klepsis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Klepsis</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>[Reluctance is] also an electrical engineering term</p></blockquote><p>😋 Since you are the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/epigraphcoffeeclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraphcoffeeclub</span></a> person, I'd thought I'd share that thinking about your wonderful <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/epigraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraph</span></a> posts and answering <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/pennedpossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pennedpossibilities</span></a> 548 inspired me to write a novel opener epigraph that heightens the mystery. I'm rather pleased with it and may start all of the novella and larger works with it. So thank you <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@klepsydra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>klepsydra</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mindly.social/@floofpaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>floofpaldi</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>Reluctance <strong>n</strong>. re·​luc·​tance; <em>ri-ˈlək-tən(t)s</em> <br>.<br><strong>1.</strong> The unwillingness or disinclination to do something. <strong>2.</strong> The quality of being reluctant. <strong>3.</strong> <em>Physics;</em> A force of nature that requires a human. </p></blockquote><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a></p>
Fred Rocha<p>"Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo."</p><p>– Mary Pickford</p><p>Epigraph that opens the book "Radiance" by Catherynne M. Valente.</p><p><a href="https://openingquot.es/quotes/talking-pictures-are-like-lip-rouge-on-the-venus-de-milo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openingquot.es/quotes/talking-</span><span class="invisible">pictures-are-like-lip-rouge-on-the-venus-de-milo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraph</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>
Paracyclops<p>This is a wonderfully pragmatic approach to the language wrangling that writers have to do! Putting it into the mouths of some characters makes it even better.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigrams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraph</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraphs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adriantchaikovsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adriantchaikovsky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cityoflastchances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cityoflastchances</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Paracyclops<p>Here’s a typically sour but perceptive Wrey Gardiner quote. Almost every sentence in that book is an epigraph!<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memoir</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigrams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraph</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Paracyclops<p>This wonderful quote from one of my favourite authors is a devastating rejoinder to all the revenge/power fantasies that tend to pass for excitement in fiction…<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hilarymantel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hilarymantel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bringupthebodies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bringupthebodies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epigraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraph</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historicalfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historicalfiction</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Stephen Heard<p>This new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/wasp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wasp</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/systematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systematics</span></a> paper has both <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/title" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>title</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/epigraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraph</span></a> from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MobyDick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MobyDick</span></a> - "From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee". It's a huge piece of work and clearly the family Pteromalidae has been the authors' great white whale! <a href="https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/94263/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">jhr.pensoft.net/article/94263/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Alias Messier<p>When students read <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TressieMcMillanCottom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TressieMcMillanCottom</span></a> (who I deeply miss from the birdsite), so many good things happen. This morning, I am celebrating a draft that includes an <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/epigraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epigraph</span></a> (yay, epigraphs!) from <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AngelaDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AngelaDavis</span></a>. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/amteaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amteaching</span></a></p>