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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks, Dan! 😊

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Shashanna! 😊

Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Dan! 😊

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 1d

It's my seven-year wedding anniversary today. Here's a picture of my partner and me around when we first met. 🎉

Two people sitting on a couch. On the right, one wearing a Red Sox hat and drinking from a cup. On the left, one wearing a black sweater.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 1d

🐕 💙

An Irish terrier standing on a rug and looking at the camera.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 2d

Drinking-in-the-woods Will 🍻

Me outside and holding a stein with beer in it.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 3d

Mabel got a literary rejection this morning 🐕 💙

An Irish terrier lying on a rug with ripped-up paper around her.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 3d

Wearing a jacket. Survived another week 🍻

Me sitting at a table outside with a beer.

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 4d

Super proud to have new short fiction in the latest @amsterdamreview.bsky.social

www.amsterdamreview.org/terrarium.html

Terrarium by Suzy Eynon | Amsterdam Review

Terrarium, a short story by Suzy Eynon

www.amsterdamreview.org

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 4d

Mabel won the Nobel prize in being adorable 🐕 💙

An Irish terrier sitting on a gray rug and getting head pets.

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Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social · 5d

I have a new story in awesome @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Many thanks to Jeff Harvey for publishing this micro, and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social fpr the prompt that generated this micro. (And Mike is in this issue too, yay!).

gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-g...

Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...

gooseberry-pie.com

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 5d

If I set out trying to write about something, it always ends up being something else.

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Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing my six-sentence story, "Keepsakes," which was born in a @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social workshop

gooseberry-pie.com/keepsakes/

Keepsakes - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Lena Polishko on Unsplash by Timothy Boudreau Freddy’s green lizard race car with a pink tongue painted on the hood, pulled from under the couch when Grammy Ruth scrambled to find her pearl e...

gooseberry-pie.com

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats! 🥳

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 5d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 5d

Mabel woke up from her morning nap to say she hopes you have a great day 🐕 💙

An Irish terrier wrapped in blankets and looking up at the camera.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 5d

I'm only a couple of chapters but digging it so far

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 6d

Work? That's where I go to read some Kevin Wilson.

Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson sitting atop a keyboard.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 6d

Have mastered reading and petting my dog at the same time.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 6d

Not much writing today. I did put together a bed frame. So that's something.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 6d

If Dr. Frankenstein had a garage sale:

"How much for the broken chair?"

"You mean, how much for Frankenstein's broken chair?"

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 6d

This is the flash story that never ends
It just goes 'round and 'round, my friends
I started writing/revising it
Not knowing what it was
And I'll continue writing/revising it forever just because

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 9d

Mabel's goofy smile 😃 🐕 💙

An Irish terrier standing on a rug and smiling.

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 10d

We've been at this for a little more than 15 years, now, as a niche within a niche, and slow going. Perseverence is the key, but we're still a niche within a niche. Please visit us! And we love every submission.

gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Gone Lawn 61 : corn moon

gonelawn.net

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 10d

I suck at titles. It's always "The [insert some artifact from the story here]"

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