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John Waddy Bullion
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Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs.
www.johnwaddybullion.com
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This collection was twenty years in the making, and there were times I could’ve quit, but I never stopped believing in these stories. Thanks @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @vanwinkle.bsky.social for believing in them too—and for making this whole process the smoothest imaginable. a.co/d/8UAd3Ij
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers: Stories
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You will be visited by three spirits
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I have a new story which contains the phrase "fuckboy with a heart of gold" in the just-launched Some Words, a literary journal shaped like a message board.

Many thanks to @juscarts.com for taking this piece and for starting up such a beautiful strange thing
Some Words is live with new work by:

John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda

Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Mods are asleep, post ZZ Top poems in @juscarts.com’s new discussion board-themed @somewordslit.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Some Words is live with new work by:

John Waddy Bullion
Never Angeline Nørth
Travis Shosa
James Tadd Adcox
Sara Hovda

Check out all the work here: somewords.boards.net/board/3/work
somewords.boards.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I saw some horrible copy on a Chili's menu tonight:

HUNGRY? Get ready not to be
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash. ​

Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit

#litmag #callforsubmissions
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Have you been sleeping on CJ in November? Best catch up.
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
love a good “how-to”
CJ's SPRING CALL Y'ALL
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Incredible sign in east Fort Worth calling the mayor a communist (lol) and misspelling “comrade”
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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that new new from me at Maudlin

playing chicken with transports, telling comedy in churches, praying in strip clubs, setting bombs in living rooms, we’ve got it all folks
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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v v excited to return the favor and interview one of my favs @johnwaddy.bsky.social! thanks @xraylitmag.bsky.social for letting me nerd out
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
my thanks to X-R-A-Y and @keersteemack.bsky.social for allowing me to turn this interview into a game of “let’s remember some guys”
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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ICYMI earlier this week, CJ put out a new collection from one of our favorite writers. Dig @johnwaddy.bsky.social's THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/this-world-w...
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers: Stories by  John Waddy Bullion   See all formats and editions ​ Praise for John Waddy Bullion and  This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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now we're gonna put it in reverse - Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social eeMack interviews John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social about his book 'This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers'

they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !

xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I remember asking my mom this question in like 1988
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
looks better on the hardwood than the Dallas Mavericks, that's for sure
Well, looky looky what we got here! Book mail is the best type of mail! @johnwaddy.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Well, looky looky what we got here! Book mail is the best type of mail! @johnwaddy.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Lucky enough to be interviewed by (and to interview, stay tuned! @johnwaddy.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social

You can read it here if you want to 😊💕
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'

they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !

xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
xraylitmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
According to a new rule I just made up, if I crack the top 100 “Literary Short Stories” (whatever that means), my wife has to invite me to be a featured speaker at her neighborhood moms book club
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Happy pub day to John! This collection is funny and heartbreaking, you’ll fly through it but it will stick with you long after you’re done.

Do yourself a favour and grab a copy 😊
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM