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"He frowns. I prefer this expression to the smug know-it-all of a second ago, but still I smile a bit as I imagine hammering my fist into his perfect teeth." @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Another new story from me up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Ben for taking a shot on this one.

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"We all had dead people in our lives. We all had mamas or somebody who told us that we'd be with them again one day. I thought maybe that’s what funerals are for. So we can all be together believing the dead were all together somewhere nice." @katearden.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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"The list always started with Acorn; that was one of the rules. For Linda, an acorn perfectly represented nature: clean lines, so compact. Roger liked how they reminded him of aroused nipples, taught and hard. Irresistible." - J. Haase Vetter mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Writers write. 🙌

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"My hope is to wake up every day & write something whether good or bad. Simple everyday 10-dollar words to communicate with everyday people like nurses, butchers, janitors. I’m not of the intellectual crowd, nor do I intend to be a part of it." @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

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"The Great Observationist thinks about the headache that will flatten him but not as much as the dullness. How the only thing worse than the headache/dullness is the fear of never feeling anything again. How withdrawal is an artistic mandate." - John Crawford mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Thank you for having me with this tale of monsters and love. It's called "Back Seat Surprise".

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Amazing work @meproctor.bsky.social

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"Max didn’t care much for the poke in his heart when he looked at the boy or the hitch in his breathing, as if inhaling was a disturbance. There were no innocents in Max’s universe, only wolves & what they fed on." @meproctor.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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"Andrew didn’t know how to have real conversations. He only said the same things over & over: the doughnut thing, lines from retro movies, choruses from heavy metal songs. It was like he was afflicted by lyrics & puns & corporate taglines." - @maboswell.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Much love as always to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for running my piece, “The Most Dangerous Room in the House.” Not sure when SZA became a muse of mine, but here we are.

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"We all know the shower is a place also for thinking, thinking & singing. Time alone, slap-naked, pores wide open mind. It was here my friend Shadow’s wife Wanda first had the obvious thought, the one tied like a chute behind every marriage." mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas... @seanennis.bsky.social

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Two lamentations about a personal, specific confusion I think we’re all feeling right now. How did I get here? How did we all get here?

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"I'd read the pharoah's bodies were emptied of organs & filled with sawdust. Their hearts left untouched. Their mouths slit open through layers of linen because they believed in breath in the afterlife. What did I believe in?" - Sandra Carlson Kahlil mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"I was on the verge of cataclysmic change. Supercharged. I sense things. Horse in a storm." - Lina Marino mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Pleas share with High School/Duel-Enrollment teachers:

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"Well, I’ve never seen a dead person before other than at a wake, but he had to be dead with a chunk of his face missing like that." - Mark Ifanson mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"When Jeppe shouted 'Superman,' I imagined a theologian who could not get out of a phone booth without help, let alone explain himself." - David M. Gilbert mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Thrilled to have a new story in awesome @mrbullbull.bsky.social! Thank you @thedrevlow.bsky.social!

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"Why feel upset? This is all old news. Or new news about old news." I love this stellar storytelling by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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"She thinks of Back to the Future where Marty’s dad is suddenly cool & fashionable because in their new past his teenage father had stood up to the bully. Gretchen wonders what version of herself would now be chopping Brussels sprouts in half." @kimmagowan.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"'The deeds you do may be the only sermon people will hear today.' I repeated those words until Jesus unzipped the sky & turned on the lights." @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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My interview w Willy Vlautin in my ongoing 2025 interview series dropped today! @mrbullbull.bsky.social "I’ve always been balancing on the edge of trying and giving up." Link below👇 mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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"I’ve always been drawn to people who were a little banged up, a little wobbly on their feet. I think, most likely, because I’ve always felt that way. I’ve always been balancing on the edge of trying and giving up." @frank212.bsky.social #willyvlautin mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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I have a new story out! Writing from such a problematic POV was challenging to execute, but I had fun with the absurdity of it!

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Delicious new story live at @rfpress.bsky.social. Best served with a side of hot sauce. www.roifaineantpress.com/post/a-snack...

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"When my therapist said you were a terrible father, you flared up, almost cascaded out of my mouth." @cynthiabernard.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"countless bulbous eyes will judge you eating in front of the television. you’ll drift off spooning baggies of failures, wishing that you’ll wake to warm skin hugging you back." @bdcutkomp.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"Schilling had bled through his sock, Jordan had battled through the flu, Strug had stuck it to the Russians on a bum ankle. If Sam truly aspired to have his moisture-wicking quarter-zip hung in the proverbial rafters he'd have to overcome adversity." - Austin Blaze mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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"It was the Mesopotamian period of divorce; everyone’s parents were doing it." - Guy Biederman mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"People think I killed my octogenarian dad on Father’s Day, but that’s not true. It was the day after. In my dreams." @dgalef.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Which of y'all lit mags / lit presses are going to AWP this year? Trying to put together my game plan ahead of time.

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"In the twilight years, familiar lights grow dim. But are there others that might also flicker on?" @markabdonwrites.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Coming out next, soonish, in my ongoing 2025 interview series with @mrbullbull.bsky.social will be Willy Vlautin. What a fun interview! It was really cool talking w Willy through emails etc. Super cool & laidback guy I'm waiting on 2 other author replies & sending out more sets of questions today

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"Light snow was still falling, making the scene from the window look like a Christmas card as he stood there crying. She had always been just a pillow away, connected and separated by a million good and bad intangibles between them." - William Ogden Haynes mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"Plausible deniability and I were old acquaintances. The only one I was closer with was my dear pal cognitive dissonance. I had been apologising for the people I knew to the people I didn’t know as well, for years." Matthew E. Casper mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"I had a choice: be a normal man with freakish tendencies or a freakish man with normal tendencies. The former, I thought, was harder to forgive." Jeff Karr mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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"Money can buy happiness, he says. The fluorescents shimmer above him and the dusty gas pumps and the truck that smells like old truck and the lake. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise." - Dakota Edwin Collins mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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So happy to have my microfiction featured in @mrbullbull.bsky.social It's my first ever publication, and I'm looking forward to more (including a couple this month)

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"Dad stands vigil at the help, arms crossed, tongs snapping as he rotates the sausages. Or—as he calls them—Hallowieners, because he is Dad, a Midwestern Dad, and the groans from his wife, children, grandchildren, and family cat fuel his laughter." Robin Wilder mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"She stood over him, naked as the moon. Her skin looked hot and fluid under that weak light, like the skin of some Greek snake goddess we’d learned about in school. I couldn’t tell where she ended and the shadows began." - Jon Trobaugh mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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"She stood over him, naked as the moon. Her skin looked hot and fluid under that weak light, like the skin of some Greek snake goddess we’d learned about in school. I couldn’t tell where she ended and the shadows began." - Jon Trobaugh mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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"Death in a bag. Makes no sense. Why would anyone want to have anything to do with death? Why would anyone want to carry death around with them? But it makes sense. It does. It makes an awful lot of sense, if you think about it." - Mika Seifert mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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"Cassie says it’s best to climb a mountain but there aren’t any within three hundred miles, so a hill will have to do." Big love for this gem (and amazing last lines!) by @sfreligh.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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"Each man was missing a limb or two, and sat for hours, smoking and silently staring at the facility’s impeccably manicured lawns. He couldn’t get this image out of his mind. Once he recalled it, he’d be silent for many hours." - Patricia Adelizzi mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"This week, James has another new story. In this one, God is a gigantic pink baby who reaches down from cloudbanks over the Midwest and swirls up tornadoes with his pudgy fingers." - David E. Poston mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"The trash bag is empty but symbolically full of the stuff she’s been shoving into it for years: the wont’s, shouldn’ts, can’ts, couldn’ts and a bunch of you’ll nevers she ties off at the top, starving the bad thoughts of oxygen til they die." @sfreligh.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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