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Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' (Ad Hoc Fiction), available now from me or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · Aug 27

My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book of short stories, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg... or £5 from me (UK)/cheap as can elsewhere.

Please PM me for more info. #books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction

Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · Nov 12

"Flashes sparking from the electrodes!... bursting with life." "This is how you do flash fiction." "... A fine collection that will get you thinking and stay with you...Get it! Get it! Get it!" - Amazon reviews for 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...

Positive and Negative: Amazon.co.uk: Black, Nick: 9781915247124: Books

Buy Positive and Negative by Black, Nick (ISBN: 9781915247124) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2h

#nowplaying #amplaying Chicago band the Sharp Pins' 'RADIO DDR', recommended to any fans of Big Star, jangle pop...

One of my most returned-to new records of the year.

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 11h

My wife'n'I went to Portland OR a couple of years ago.

The frogs are going to win this, heart and soul.

#Portland

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d

One follow away from a neat 1000.

To mark the occasion, 1 FREE COPY of my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.adhocfiction.com/2022/06/posi..., stories published across the UK, US & Eire, is up for grabs to the first UK-based follower who asks.

#amwriting #booksky📚💙 #flashfiction #books

Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d

Another copy, out in the world.

(photo courtesy of weather-braving film writer Ellen Cheshire)

Film writer Ellen Cheshire holding a copy of the short story collection 'Positive and Negative' by Nick Black

Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 5h

#amplaying #nowplaying The Autumn Defense - 'Here and Nowhere' (2025)

Very good, melodic warmth from Wilco offshoot.

'Here and Nowhere', 2025 album by the Autumn Defense

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 11h

Something slightly uncanny about reading a new Pynchon in 2025, akin to (but uh rather better than) listening to a new Stones album. He belongs to a more heroic age and yet here's that voice again, as familiar and miraculous as a lover's face

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 10h

Shadow Ticket might not be Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon (we already have those, so that's fine) but it's full of pleasures and really at this point gratitude is the only appropriate response

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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 10h

It's #BookshopDay. A good day - as they all are - to visit your local independent book shop, or order something from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social (where they currently have Our Secrets Are The Same on sale with a little discount)
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Our Secrets Are The Same: Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple Minds

Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple Minds

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 14h

London bluesky: what art exhibitions are on in town over the next month or so? I need to find something to see on the 31st. Preferably something relatively central. #Londonsky (not sure if that's a hashtag but trying it...)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 11h

My wife'n'I went to Portland OR a couple of years ago.

The frogs are going to win this, heart and soul.

#Portland

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 11h

Playing in the library, this surly Saturday morning

'41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s' - Kieran Hebden & William Tyler

#amplaying #nowplaying

Album cover for '41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s' - Kieran Hebden & William Tyler

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 12h

That last line's selling it to me!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 1d

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d

Another copy, out in the world.

(photo courtesy of weather-braving film writer Ellen Cheshire)

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d

I hate doing self-promotion, the 'please consider buying my book' thing, so am just pushing this afloat and letting it drift or not into the shallows of your subconsciousness.

Apologies for disturbing any waterfowl.

#books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting

Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d

“... a brilliant collection. Nick Black’s prose is shining, muscular and glittering with unforgettable images. Each piece takes the reader into the depths of humour, tragedy or menace with skilful sparsity of words and mastery of language” @catherinemenon.bsky.social, author of FRAGILE MONSTERS

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Cover of the short story collection book POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE by Nick Black

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 1d

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 1d

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Still Falls The Rain

YouTube video by Roxy Music - Topic

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 1d

The George Lazenby of Roxy Music albums, maybe, but one of my favourites.

Endlessly fascinating/rewarding/glittering, constantly moving and changing shape as you try to grasp it.

#RoxyMusic

Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 1d

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 1d

Just read this phenomenal story in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

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The Molotov Cocktail

Dead Man from the Ocean Floor by Neil Clark He climbed into my boat tonight, seawater spewing from the bottoms of his trouser legs, a thousand tiny crabs crawling in and out the holes in his bloate…

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Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 1d

I guess Lazenby-as-Bond is one of those things people either like or really, really don't. Like anchovies.