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C.D. Rose

@cdrose.bsky.social

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Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now' out Aug 5th. (Also: 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 25d

Submission Open

15th September to 15th of October 2025

Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 13h

Truth!

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 15h

Short story waiting to be written here.

Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1889 Salford-born James Joule died. His work on energy and heat means his name is given to the unit of energy, the joule. In his early years of experimentation, he gave himself and his friends electric shocks and tested a battery on a servant girl until she passed out.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 1d

Not exactly, but Dubravka Ugresic's 'Baba Yaga Lays an Egg' might be of interest.

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georgeszirtes.bsky.social @georgeszirtes.bsky.social · 2d

CELEBRATING LK

In this translation
you will look in vain for a
full-stop, Stops are there,

but hard to find. Keep
searching. Oh look, there is one!
He must have taken

breath. Time can stand still
for the blink of a whale's eye.
Then the whale goes down,

spouting as it dives.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 2d

‘A Mountain to the …’ is an accessible starting point.

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 7d

Sauce?

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 7d

Pleasingly complementary covers.

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 8d

I thought it was a fake oast house - Alan having a vague idea that it was some kind of agricultural heritage, when it’s actually a pointless newbuild.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you Guillermo!

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you Ailsa!

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 8d

Cheers, Stu.

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you Rónán.

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Sharon!

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A Small, Good Thing @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

The second part of the interview with @ailsacox.bsky.social is out today! In this episode, we discuss more famous pieces of short story writing advice. Listen here to find out of they are facts or fiction!

www.spreaker.com/episode/more...

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 10d

Joy Williams, from 'Train.'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 13d

Love that record. (No relation.)

C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 14d

'A poet's death fills other poets with dread.' Harrison was on roaring form here.
www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...

Laureate's block

I'm appalled to see newspapers use my name as 'widely-tipped' for a job I'd never seek. Swans come in Domestic, Mute, and Tame and no swan-upper's going to nick my beak

www.theguardian.com

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 17d

Time for another one?

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 17d

The big closer: medley of Nightingale, Grasshopper Warbler, Nightjar and Tawny Owl.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 17d

I own this very record. Have just put it on and the cats are freaking out.

Cover of the the vinyl LP 'A Tapestry of British Bird Song.'

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 17d

Folk rock's 'Sister Ray.' (And Danny Thompson holds it together.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0M...

Jack Orion

YouTube video by Pentangle - Topic

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 17d

You're just making these up now, aren't you?

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'M-Dash' Devereaux @michelledevereaux.bsky.social · 19d

Big inhale--hold it!--...and SIGH. Autism is not a disease, it is a neurotype. It may have been first documented in the 20th century, but it's probably existed forever. Being weird isn't a crime, and just b/c ppl aren't like you doesn't make them ill or broken. Being treated like trash does.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 18d

We used to call it 'Selnec orange.'