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Paint happy bastard. Caught. Hung up by my buster browns.

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · Feb 1

Got a new story in Punk Noir Magazine. Huge thanks to Stephen Golds for taking this one. Hope you’ll give it a read. It’s short and sweet and I hope it makes you laugh. Who’s a good boy? punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/m...

Man’s Best Friend — a Bloody Valentine Story by Lawrence Kithcart

Man’s Best Friend by Lawrence Kithcart She said it was allergies, and I let the lie go. I don’t blame her. I drove her to it. To him. I’m cold and distant, don’t see …

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 5h

Trump forming an anti Christian crime investigation task force to distract from the fact that he is a pedophile

The guys in true detective season one who did exactly that

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h

Near Flesh by Katherine Dunn, best known for Geek Love, is a wonderful posthumous collection (her first). This feels like a cohesive and high-quality selection to me, not just something cobbled together to put out another book. More thoughts in the alt text.

A blurry hand against a gray backdrop forms the cover design, with Near Flesh in yellow on top along with Katherine Dunn in yellow too. With STORIES and AUTHOR OF GEEK LOVE in black text...

As for further thoughts...there's a wonderful adult sensibility to the stories and a helpful matter-of-fact brutality, for lack of a better word. A story about roosters and chickens and a kind of miscommunication about their fate doesn't shy away from the cause-and-effect. A story about a woman stuck down a well has the lived-in quality of believing Dunn herself was once stuck down a well, with a surprising ending. The story first published in the New Yorker, "The Resident Poet," even seems to poke fun at the New Yorker in how, first of all, in its tale of a student having an affair with a professor, it feels like cliche NYer content. But then the kind of cold-blooded, unsentimental depiction of a weekend trip and the unflinching depiction of both characters elevates it into another realm entirely. Very original.

Another story from the POV of a high school student explores the school's fascination with a new arrival. When the narrator finally gets to see the new student's house and finds it bereft of furniture, there's a practical reason for this, but also it oddly creates the space for the actual colorful story of the new student's life later. If Dunn had filled the house with detail, somehow the later tale told by the student would not have been quite as impactful. Which is another way of saying that Dunn's clarity and concision is matched by a real understanding of *space* and how to use it.

None of these stories have any extraneous scenes or moments. Each exists and succeeds in how Dunn manages to envelop you in the moment and hold you there, across so many different narrators from various socio-economic classes.

Highly recommended. And if you like the short stories of Joy Williams and Ottessa Moshfegh, you will definitely like Dunn's fiction.

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 7h

Happy pub day and happy birthday

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Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social · 7h

A self-indulgent moment on Talking Scared. @natcassidy.bsky.social and @rachelharrison.bsky.social come onboard to grill ME about my debut GOOD BOY.

We talk about the inspirations, the struggles, the characters, and what I’ve learned in 5 years of talking to authors.

All podcast platforms

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M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social · 6d

I'm guest editor for November at Punk Noir Magazine.
Submissions open October 15 and close October 21.
Theme: TIGHTROPE
1000 words max, all fiction genres, no poetry.
Send stories in a Word document, include a third person bio, to
[email protected]
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions/

Submissions

NOVEMBER THEME SUBS OPEN OCTOBER 15! Photo by Thomas Forsberg on Pexels.com Tightrope … what comes to mind? Maybe you’re thinking of a song (Leon Russell, Janelle Monáe, Stevie Ray Vaughan …), a mo…

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 1d

Just a Ferris Bueller meme I made about the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this gets 17 likes

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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: my back just to know your name

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 1d

That nose is a bridge too far

Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a Publix ad on Facebook. It said Real People Real Customer Service and either it was an AI video or they only employ people with quadruple jointed wrists and fingers that can go through canvas.

Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 2d

Happy pub day sir

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 2d

Happy pub day

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 2d

New @kylerseibel.bsky.social story at Little Engines. Always a cause for celebration. www.littleengines.pub/p/the-office...

The Office of Future Plans

A new story from Kyle Seibel

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 3d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 3d

He was Vin Diesel in Saving Private Ryan but he kept running with the little girl

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 3d

Hey all, remember that found footage book @gabino.bsky.social and I put together? Well, we did it again! If you dug FOUND, check out FOUND2. Eighteen more stories of found footage horror! 🖤📼 www.amazon.com/dp/0648731561

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 3d

Me too. But we call him a Libertarian.

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Wandering around a campus bookstore and complaining about the selection

Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 6d

Portal-Potty?

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 6d

Kash Patel always looks like he’s buying condoms and realizing the cashier is his girlfriend’s mom

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 6d

Bloodborne

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 6d

Everything is terrible... so here's a free novelette to escape inside for an hour

Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 6d

Creepy Season is upon us... and to celebrate, we've made recent Nefarious Bat Single The Nine O'Clock Horses free all month

Like urban legends filtered through a surveillance-tech prism? 🐴🤖🦇

It could be for you...

The Nine O'Clock Horses: A Nefarious Bat Single

"Mind how you go, and make sure you're home in time for bed, or the Nine O'Clock Horses will get you. And the sound of horses' hooves on the cobblestones outside... that's how you know they're about. ...

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 7d

He’s who he used to make fun of

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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social · 7d

Al Michaels having an off night tonight

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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 8d

FEVER HOUSE EBOOK IS $1.99 ON ALL PLATFORMS, HEYOOOO!

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