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Barlow Adams

@barlowadams.bsky.social

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Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you to everyone who has gotten my book!! You all are amazing ❤️❤️❤️

And thank you so much to everyone at @sfwp.bsky.social and all of the wonderful people who took the time out of their busy schedules to read and blurb Bitter Over Sweet!!

Wooooohooooo!!!

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 12h

Happy #pubday to @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's collection, BITTER OVER SWEET!

Join the celebration by treating yourself to a copy today! bit.ly/3PuHbEn
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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 3h

Those nails are 🔥.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 4h

out now: a new story called "Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush" about birds, magic, queerness, extinction, and finding your way through climate grief into love of and care for other creatures. thank you to @podcastle.org for giving it a home! 💚

PodCastle 916: Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush - PodCastle

Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush by Ruth Joffre Yesterday, I was a bird. A slender-billed curlew, to be exact. My girlfriend helped me ID the bird. Took photographs of my decurved bill, the fla...

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 4h

Ooof. I have the capitalistic hell we hath wrought.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 9h

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.

Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.

'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 6h

Yes! I was familiarizing myself with her work. Very impressive.

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 7h

Victoria and Taylor? Hell yeah.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 7h

Apart from the experience, it’s also just a really great place to meet people who don’t suck.

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 7h

Like the rapper?

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 7h

I need to attend more readings. I need to attend more readings. I need to attend more readings. I need to attend more readings.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 8h

This is pretty awesome, man.

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 8h

Crushing it, man. Well deserved. Coffin Moon is brilliant. So happy for you.

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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 10h

Two more novels with Random House after CRONE comes out next year. Still can't believe I get to do this.

Pub Marketplace announcement for THE HOLLOWLANDS, a two-book deal with Random House.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 14h

Someone in a Teams meeting just said “It’s the old chicken and the egg question isn’t it? Why did they cross the road?” then realised what they’d said and turned their camera off.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 10h

HEY! I wrote a review for Luisa Muradyan's "I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated" for Zona Motel!!

"Muradyan's is the craft of the hoodwink, the comic’s timing, the magician’s perfected prestidigitation, each poem its own fully realized and complicated world."

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REVIEW: I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated by Luisa Muradyan

Muradyan's is the craft of the hoodwink, the comic’s timing, the magician’s perfected prestidigitation, each poem its own fully realized and complicated world.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 9h

Badass.

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 11h

Agreed.

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so disheartening.

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 1d

If we somehow manage to pull ourselves back from the brink of monstrosity, it will not be because we were good, or just, or even decent.

It will be because the deranged psychos in charge couldn’t keep the economy humming. It will be because compassion was momentarily more profitable than cruelty.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 1d

I do not trust writers who don’t love to read or chefs who don’t love to eat. In both cases, there is a conspiratorial joy missing from the final product that cannot be replicated by any amount of training or talent.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 1d

😏

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 1d

He seems nice.

Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 1d

You’re a real one, John.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

Been reminded over and over again that we're in harsh times and the cost of living is high. For the foreseeable future, I'm setting the price of FEAST ebooks on gumroad as "pay what you want." You can also request your local library order a copy, which is rad as hell. Every reader's a pal to me

FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN (a novel)

A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Owen finds inside is a community of fellow su...

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 1d

Gross.