arthurmandal.bsky.social
Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 30 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, december, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
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Loved this. Loved the darkness and the humor which wasn’t the aim, but also wasn’t afraid.
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Thanks for this. Really interesting.
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a voice in my head has just whispered 639. I'm not sure i can trust it.
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he wrote so many?
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really liked this micro, Adele.
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I can still hear the muffled thud on the ceiling.
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The first was so good
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Thanks!
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California, Gaza, Tehran...the hubris of these tiny human beings, that they think they can just move millions of other human bodies around the planet with a tweet.
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this is so cool.
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exactly.
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I heard this as well this morning. I was surprised at the interviewer’s patience - Badenoch was like ‘I came on here to propagandize, how dare you interrupt me’.
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In an age of unprecedented property-fetishism, I certainly agree with the first one.
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This film refuses to age. In so many ways, its takes on nihilism, provinicialism and greed are as keen now as they were 20-odd years ago.
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thanks so much Jenny.
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Nightmare's a great site.
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pdf is here chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/670d5db7077653399050d7a7/t/684a03046d126105f87234f7/1749680901355/Walking+in+Circles.pdf
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Will read it later
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2/2
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Haha this is beautiful.
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lol ur mom sounds cool.
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farsi seker ast!
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Really love your stuff. As an arachnaphobe, tho, I did find the spider-mummy traumatizing...
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lol. if i wasn't so distracted i'd think up a conspiracy theory for this distraction.
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i have such mixed feelings for the Guardian - especially their pro-Palestinian takes, after their absolute complicity in what MSM did to Corbyn.
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this could be the first line of a short story, John.
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"I'll check it out" [please stop talking about it]
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"don't be offended by this" [get ready to be offended]
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Why break with a decades-old tradition? especially when somebody is paying you not to.
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yes, you're right, it definitely has that quality. Thanks for sharing it, Stephanie.
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definitely has its own ambience. on a cloudless day that bay is beautiful.
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Yes it is! Thanks for your efforts and energy on this.
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I'm not sure, but i really loved his work "We Were Never Modern"
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In contrast to Islam, where dreams are divine vehicles of communication.
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I find this somehow inspiring.
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Gorgeous photo.
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Weirdness is just the normality of the minority.