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Crime-writing blogger and award-winning mystery writer. https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)

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Dona Drake on the balcony of her Los Angeles home, 1942. Photo by Peter Stackpole for LIFE magazine. Today’s mood.

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The numbers behind "Agua Fantasma," my new flash fiction treasure hunt story -- Fantasma By The Numbers https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/fantasma-by-the-numbers

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The cure for the blues, as a writer, is to write. Show up. Do the work. Submit. Repeat. #WritingCommunity #crimewriting www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/thursda...

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Thing One and Thing Two, surely? Now I want to see these two in the style of Doctor Seuss.

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Fabulous third in Hammers fine Dracula series. Sans dialogue, Lee still owns the screen but the gorgeous Shelley almost steals it. Glorious. 1966. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #hammerhorror #filmsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #horrorsky #monsterfam

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The Story Wall The stories I tell myself about writing stories. #WritingCommunity https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/the-story-wall

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Now I Slay Me https://pulpcovers.com/now-i-slay-me/ Covers, Black Mask, Magazine, Mystery, Painting, Rafael DeSoto

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I don't especially like this movie, but every time it comes around, I watch it. So maybe I like it, after all. Dunno.

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Happy birthday, Uncle Lon. Yipe!

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Death Race 2000 (1975) Directed by Paul Bartel and produced by Roger Corman stars David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone

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The numbers behind "Agua Fantasma," my new flash fiction treasure hunt story -- Fantasma By The Numbers https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/fantasma-by-the-numbers

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#Film89ShotOfTheDay No.2646 Goodfellas (1990) Director: Martin Scorsese Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus

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Ida Lupino directing THE TWILIGHT ZONE in 1963. #BOTD #TVSky

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Hammond: Barbara Meredith, she's the Black Whip! Baxter: She couldn't be! The Black Whip's got to be a man! He's outshot us, outrode us, and outfought us, stopped us at every turn! Zorro's Black Whip, 1944

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Notes on the creation of my first published story, including how long it took to write, and how long it was in submission at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Teddy By The Numbers #WritingCommunity #crimewriting https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/teddy-by-the-numbers

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Another day at the office.

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I didn't know Broderick Crawford came from an entertainment family, or that Broderick was a family name. Few actors look as much like their name as Broderick Crawford.

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Black sci fi film rec of the day A dealer is shot, but wakes up unharmed the next day. He then joins an odd trio to investigate weird happenings in their neighbourhood, and a shady government conspiracy A fun, surreal homage to Blaxploitation movies, with an eerie undercurrent. Love this! #fiimsky

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The numbers behind "Agua Fantasma," my new flash fiction treasure hunt story. How long it took to write, and how long it took to sell -- Fantasma By The Numbers www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/fantasm...

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