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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 20h

How fortunate I am to be a reader while you are a writer.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 7d

“The three o’clock bell is big over the harbor, flakes of bronze dropping slow to the water, bell in her mouth, bell in her scabbard.”

~Leni Zumas, ‘Red Clocks’

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Annabel Lee @annabel-lee.bsky.social · 7d

“In those days you fell in and out of love with writers quicker than Byron did…”

Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 2d

“There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession.” — Ernest Becker #sundaysentence

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 21h

“A writer’s best work, “ he said, “comes entirely from himself.”

Max Perkins

#SundaySentence

MAX PERKINS

Editor of Genius / A. Scott Berg

NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY (1978).

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David Abrams @imdavidabrams.bsky.social · 7d

#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!

Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:

We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.

A paperback copy of HOPE IN THE DARK by Rebecca Solnit, with sunlight beaming across the black and white cover.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 20h

Obsession is the only way I know how to relate to anything that moves me.

“Ulysses of Ladykind” from GOBLIN MODE by Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social

#SundaySentence

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 5d

I also want to stop everything and read this right now, another NBA finalist.

Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 7d

I was a weapon in the war. I am one.

THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell

#SundaySentence

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 5d

I do have others but through tiny presses now defunct. 🤷‍♀️

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 6d

October is the month to read folk horror of the quiet kind.

Harrowfield isn't just available to purchase via mybook.to/Harrowfield, it's also on Kindle Unlimited. And if you've read it, I'd love it if you leave a review. ❤

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Book cover of folk horror novel Harrowfield. Cover shows a tree sheltering 2 standing stones.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 6d

So glad my friend introduced me to your books. I am such a fan.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 6d

The story I have within is the saddest I have ever written. As a reader, I love Chthonic Matter. I am proud of this. chthonicmatter.wordpress.com

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Horror and crime mostly. Book comes out in a little over a year. 👻

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 7d

There is something addictive about people who put their lives on display.

8 Books That Love Reality TV as Much as You Do - Electric Literature

Novels about fictionalized reality TV premises, and cultural analysis of the shows we can’t stop watching

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · 7d

1/2 We have a ton of extra inventory & need to make room for new titles! All of our 22-24 quarterly anthologies are $8, Not Ghosts, But Spirits is $18 for paperback and $33 for hardcover, & we have overstock titles listed at $7-$8 on our PayHip store! No code needed—

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 7d

I was a weapon in the war. I am one.

THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell

#SundaySentence

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 9d

Bring back art nouveau you cowards

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 9d

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 12d

I already do. I am such a fan.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 14d

“. . . one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

DARKFEVER by
@karenmariemoning.bsky.social

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 21d

It so good.

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 28d

“As the smoke spiraled out her nostrils, she took the cigarette from between her lips and squeezed the glowing end between her dead fingertips.”
S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes
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Leslie Greentree @lesliegreentree.bsky.social · 28d

The thing about being first-generation college was that no one we knew had any idea what the hell we were supposed to be doing there other than taking some classes and hoping they added up to a grand theory of our lives.
#SundaySentence from the brilliant The Payback by Kashana Cauley.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 21d

Now we were in a different story with a more violent plot and a worse end than we’d thought.

MERCY by Joan Silber.

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Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 28d

He was perceptive only when he sensed that other people might be judging him.

SWALLOWS by Natsuo Kirino

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Sep 10

Lauren Morrow’s debut novel “Little Movements” explores being a Black artist in a space not built with you in mind, and the toll of constantly having to prove your value. (@cherrylousy.bsky.social)

The Unpredictable Choreography of Marriage, Identity, and Ambition - Electric Literature

Lauren Morrow’s “Little Movements” follows a Black choreographer who leaves her life behind to pursue her dreams

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