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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 1m

Checking the news in 2025

[Alt text: the Poop Smith shovels a large pile of poop into a smaller pile of poop.]

Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 37m

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 2h

I’m gonna keep making art as long as I can. Really angry, spiteful, transgressive, soft, sensitive, thoughtful, strange, curious, and radical art. That’s how I’m getting by right now.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 4h

It’s Friday morning. Wouldn’t you rather be reading?

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 9d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 9d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
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Outrun the Devil - Ly Faulk's Ko-fi Shop

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 6h

I fear you are correct

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 17h

Out in the world, I mean. My life rocks

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t shake the feeling today that everything is the worst

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 3d

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?

tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

2025 workshops

It's Lit: Literary Magazine Submissions. October 29 @ 7PM EST.

THE RANDOMIZER #1. November 6 @ 7pm EST.

No Choice But to Stan: Writing Pop Culture in Poetry. November 15 @ 12pm EST

Writing to Grieve: Poetry as Processing. November 22 @ 12pm EST

THE RANDOMIZER #2. TBD late November.

About your instructor

nat raum is a queer, disabled, and recently unemployed artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this when I was struggling with my gender identity and it may or may not have been written mostly in one shot during a manic episode.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 9d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Outrun the Devil - Ly Faulk's Ko-fi Shop

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

ko-fi.com

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 1d

Out of sugar so I put maple syrup in my coffee. Am I doing an autumn? 🍁

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 1d

WRITING THE OCCULT will be back this November to explore monsters of all shapes and sizes with its look at CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES, running 29th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th... #creatures #crytpids #monsters #writing #occult

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 1d

A rejection! What a terrible unbirthday present.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you just have to keep writing sentences until you figure out where you’re going with this.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this when I was struggling with my gender identity and it may or may not have been written mostly in one shot during a manic episode.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 9d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Outrun the Devil - Ly Faulk's Ko-fi Shop

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

ko-fi.com

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 3d

My poem “Shapeshifters Local” has been published in the Autumn 2025 issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, alongside what looks to be an amazing TOC. Read my poem here: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon

kaleidotrope.net

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kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social · 2d

newest from me today in little engines

www.littleengines.pub/p/the-office...

The Office of Future Plans

A new story from Kyle Seibel

www.littleengines.pub

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 2d

I did NOT cry on the subway yesterday reading "The Things You Bought For the Robot" but it was REALLY HARD NOT TO. Read this story, it's glorious and sad and beautiful.

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

#FlashFiction #FlashLit #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

The Things You Bought for the Robot

Extension Cord.The robot was secondhand. Because its solar unit was too complicated to fix, it was just easier to plug it in and forget about it.Cleaning supplies.It had a job to do, you needed the…

www.flashfictiononline.com

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 2d

Dolly no! Hang on please 🙏

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

😆

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

Update:

A bluish gray loveseat with cupholders and a middle console.

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 3d

Love #FlashFiction? Love #SpeculativeFiction? Join me for this @smokelong.bsky.social #WritingWorkshop and I'll give you the tools to write speculative fiction as metaphor, one of my FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE:

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#Writing #WritingCommunity

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

a man with a mustache is sitting at a desk with a nbc logo on his watch

Alt: Ron from Parks and Recreation is sitting at a desk looking excited

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

Waiting on my first brand new furniture of my adult life to be delivered.

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 3d

Oh did I mention I have a new chapbook coming out? Preorders coming at the end of October.

October 27th - Hippie Speedball by Ly Faulk preorder

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 4d

Are you a fan of grit lit? If so, give this a try!!!

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 9d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Outrun the Devil - Ly Faulk's Ko-fi Shop

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

ko-fi.com

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