Derrick
@dmartincampbell.bsky.social
World’s greatest non-Slavic short story writer. https://linktr.ee/derrickmartincampbell
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Derrick
@dmartincampbell.bsky.social
· Nov 12
A pinned thread of my published stories that I still like, oldest to newest:
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Came downstairs to get someone a glass of water last night and dreamt the Canada geese were migrating through the living room.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Came downstairs to get someone a glass of water last night and dreamt the Canada geese were migrating through the living room.
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"I figured I’d go to Toledo and people would be like, oh, it was awful, it was horrible, but nobody said that and that was when it dawned on me that this is just a mentality, a very midwest mentality."
Great bed-in talk w/ Patrick on his great Middle Western CNF Science Romance. Downer endings ftw!
Great bed-in talk w/ Patrick on his great Middle Western CNF Science Romance. Downer endings ftw!
"For over a hundred years after the first people tried to settle the swamp, the swamp fought back."
@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
@femmeintheory.bsky.social and I (Kevin) interviewed Patrick Wensink about his new book THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP, where we discuss toxic green algae, Ohio pride, Kurt Cobain, and floating coffins ⚰️🤮✨
Everything's Okay, Nothing's Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"I figured I’d go to Toledo and people would be like, oh, it was awful, it was horrible, but nobody said that and that was when it dawned on me that this is just a mentality, a very midwest mentality."
Great bed-in talk w/ Patrick on his great Middle Western CNF Science Romance. Downer endings ftw!
Great bed-in talk w/ Patrick on his great Middle Western CNF Science Romance. Downer endings ftw!
I don't fault us? The "aging contract killer who wants to do ONE GOOD THING and quit" does nicely capture how guilty I (and many men?) feel all the time after 40+ years of doing evil man-shit. Having a ONE GOOD THING to do would be great, especially if it absolved me of all the bad stuff.
Western media was like, "Alright straight men, how would you like us to tell your story? How do you see yourse-"
"Hired assassin, please."
"...What?"
"Killer for hire."
"uh...okay. Anything else?"
"Hmmm..."
"..."
"Mafia killer?"
"Jesus Christ"
"Sniper?"
"-"
"Vet w/ PTSD. Who kills everyone."
"Hired assassin, please."
"...What?"
"Killer for hire."
"uh...okay. Anything else?"
"Hmmm..."
"..."
"Mafia killer?"
"Jesus Christ"
"Sniper?"
"-"
"Vet w/ PTSD. Who kills everyone."
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I don't fault us? The "aging contract killer who wants to do ONE GOOD THING and quit" does nicely capture how guilty I (and many men?) feel all the time after 40+ years of doing evil man-shit. Having a ONE GOOD THING to do would be great, especially if it absolved me of all the bad stuff.
Western media was like, "Alright straight men, how would you like us to tell your story? How do you see yourse-"
"Hired assassin, please."
"...What?"
"Killer for hire."
"uh...okay. Anything else?"
"Hmmm..."
"..."
"Mafia killer?"
"Jesus Christ"
"Sniper?"
"-"
"Vet w/ PTSD. Who kills everyone."
"Hired assassin, please."
"...What?"
"Killer for hire."
"uh...okay. Anything else?"
"Hmmm..."
"..."
"Mafia killer?"
"Jesus Christ"
"Sniper?"
"-"
"Vet w/ PTSD. Who kills everyone."
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Western media was like, "Alright straight men, how would you like us to tell your story? How do you see yourse-"
"Hired assassin, please."
"...What?"
"Killer for hire."
"uh...okay. Anything else?"
"Hmmm..."
"..."
"Mafia killer?"
"Jesus Christ"
"Sniper?"
"-"
"Vet w/ PTSD. Who kills everyone."
"Hired assassin, please."
"...What?"
"Killer for hire."
"uh...okay. Anything else?"
"Hmmm..."
"..."
"Mafia killer?"
"Jesus Christ"
"Sniper?"
"-"
"Vet w/ PTSD. Who kills everyone."
"They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently..." is a great way to open on the Adam and Eve stuff in Genesis, a reading that (sorry Addison?) the rest of this lovely piece endlessly rewards.
A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
Of the Lovers | Issue 33
By Addison Zeller — "They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently, it is to be supposed, in a slow lateral glide along the surface of the...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently..." is a great way to open on the Adam and Eve stuff in Genesis, a reading that (sorry Addison?) the rest of this lovely piece endlessly rewards.
Shout to the heart-wrenching moment in any movie/show/book where the Lone Wolf says to the Cub, as they are in flight from a pursuing, infinitely swelling wave of final evil: “Whatever you hear from me, don’t look back. Keep going.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Shout to the heart-wrenching moment in any movie/show/book where the Lone Wolf says to the Cub, as they are in flight from a pursuing, infinitely swelling wave of final evil: “Whatever you hear from me, don’t look back. Keep going.”
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Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
Remembering Joe Hill on the 110th anniversary of his murder by the state of Utah.
Paul Robeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish coal miners in 1949.
Paul Robeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish coal miners in 1949.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
Nothing good ever comes of "building" a "world."
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nothing good ever comes of "building" a "world."
Dominant paradigm of "book lover" culture already is "skip the pretentious stuff, Marvel movie, just the PLOT," etc. You guys won, man. Complaining about readers who do snobby close readings and critical analysis (even about books you like!) is...it's like you're bullying us! about books! Triggered?
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Dominant paradigm of "book lover" culture already is "skip the pretentious stuff, Marvel movie, just the PLOT," etc. You guys won, man. Complaining about readers who do snobby close readings and critical analysis (even about books you like!) is...it's like you're bullying us! about books! Triggered?
Nothing makes me more excited to reread Winesburg, OH for the first time in decades than knowing that Kevin will be framing it up in one of his lovely little Pergolas of Context
Was really stoked to write the introduction for this new @maudlinhouse.bsky.social edition of WINESBURG, OHIO w/ AMAZING illustrations by Dmitry Samarov 🔥🔥🔥
The text stays untouched. The experience changes.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
A new visual edition of Winesburg, Ohio designed by Dmitry Samarov, with an intro by Kevin Maloney.
Maudlin Classics, 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Nothing makes me more excited to reread Winesburg, OH for the first time in decades than knowing that Kevin will be framing it up in one of his lovely little Pergolas of Context
When my friends and I were alcoholic 25yos, chain-smoking and drinking steel reserve on our band-house porch, giving each other homosocial haircuts, smoking weed and watching Wim Wenders movies all day, there was no one who's approval we valued more than the morally ambiguous forest-witch Baba Yaga.
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When my friends and I were alcoholic 25yos, chain-smoking and drinking steel reserve on our band-house porch, giving each other homosocial haircuts, smoking weed and watching Wim Wenders movies all day, there was no one who's approval we valued more than the morally ambiguous forest-witch Baba Yaga.
Want to feel old? The age of the crew of the Nostromo in Alien, in 1979, ranged from 23 (Kane) to 26 (Lambert), in the year 2122. In 1979.
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Want to feel old? The age of the crew of the Nostromo in Alien, in 1979, ranged from 23 (Kane) to 26 (Lambert), in the year 2122. In 1979.
“My kids probably both have ADHD,” [proudly], “just like me…”
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“My kids probably both have ADHD,” [proudly], “just like me…”
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
Donald Trump probably married Melania because she is an empath helping him heal his psychic damage
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Donald Trump probably married Melania because she is an empath helping him heal his psychic damage
9yo arrived independently at the conclusion that "Bugs Bunny seems kind of non-binary" this morning.
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
9yo arrived independently at the conclusion that "Bugs Bunny seems kind of non-binary" this morning.
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The US Department of War has awarded tens of millions to Israeli drone maker XTEND for AI‑enabled attack drones, reportedly tested on Palestinian families in Gaza, fueling urgent ethical and humanitarian concerns.
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US pays tens of millions for Israeli-made attack drones tested on civilians in Gaza - Quds News Network
The US Department of War has awarded tens of millions to Israeli drone maker XTEND for AI‑enabled attack drones, reportedly tested on Palestinian families in Gaza, fueling urgent ethical and humanitar...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The US Department of War has awarded tens of millions to Israeli drone maker XTEND for AI‑enabled attack drones, reportedly tested on Palestinian families in Gaza, fueling urgent ethical and humanitarian concerns.
qudsnen.co/us-pays-tens...
qudsnen.co/us-pays-tens...
Ha and speaking of regional magic realism
November 12th, 1970, 450kg of dynamite is placed in the sand on the leeward side of the 45ft deceased sperm whale, the resulting blast is recorded and broadcast on KATU
the explosion launched chunks of whale nearly a fifth of a mile, some large enough to damage vehicles
the explosion launched chunks of whale nearly a fifth of a mile, some large enough to damage vehicles
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Ha and speaking of regional magic realism
Never forget: Liev Schreiber's character in The Daytrippers (1996) was writing a Karen Russell-esque magical realist novel about a man with a dog's head ("a pointer!") who accidentally starts a new religion.
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Never forget: Liev Schreiber's character in The Daytrippers (1996) was writing a Karen Russell-esque magical realist novel about a man with a dog's head ("a pointer!") who accidentally starts a new religion.
[reading a magic realist flash story about a woman whose father is a divorced mer-man who neglects her]: Ha! This is unlikely!
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
[reading a magic realist flash story about a woman whose father is a divorced mer-man who neglects her]: Ha! This is unlikely!
That's my emotional support art nemesis
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
That's my emotional support art nemesis
Those beautiful Lucian Freud balls -- nine colors if you look -- those impastoed balls!
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Those beautiful Lucian Freud balls -- nine colors if you look -- those impastoed balls!
Happy pub day to Patrick and his amazing beautiful, surreal eco-history climate collapse in miniature in in the American middle west
The Great Black Swamp comes out tomorrow. Check out our interview with the author in the meantime. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Happy pub day to Patrick and his amazing beautiful, surreal eco-history climate collapse in miniature in in the American middle west