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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 6h

"After you parted ways, you to your tour bus, your parents to their station wagon to sign the non-disclosure agreements, what unasked questions would linger between you, the way that ancient regrets linger like trapped smoke in empty dive bars?" John Waddy Bullion mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 19h

Gather round the campfire and let me tell you a scary story about scary stories, at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Big thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for publishing this, and to *you* for reading it. Happy camping! mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“I’m not losing my mind, right? This guy was not in the picture we took.”
“Who the hell is he?” They’re squinting hard in the dark. He just looks like another one of them, to put it plainly. Like he could have been a fourth roommate. But there was no fourth roommate. It was always just the three of them.
“I have absolutely no memory of this dude. I’ve never seen him before in my life.”

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 1d

"Everything is exactly how they remember it: Three 21-year-old shitheads, disheveled with bad haircuts, ratty clothes, ugly macho postures. Except there’s a fourth guy this time, in between them, his arms hung around their shoulders." @iamchrisscott.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d

"I ask my sister if she’s been drinking & she says of course not. I hear her click her tongue, so I know she’s lying. I open the fridge. Something’s rotting in the vegetable drawer, but I don’t want to dig around right now."
- Macy Craig
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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 3d

"Forgetting is a blessing, your dad slurs at you over the mac and cheese. You sit quietly until he leaves the table. You wish you could hear your mom’s voice. You hope she’s trying to remember yours, too." - John Wegner mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 4d

"Anyway, we’re doling out a hundred thousand skull-shattering kicks per second. We're running up walls & punching support beams in half & smashing office equipment to bits. A crowd gathers because of all the righteous moves. They’re pretty impressed." Nick Gregorio mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Epic Workplace Judo/Karate Fight | MrBullBull

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d

"I’m gonna be late to pick up our fur baby, Ammo Man tells me. My wife’ll kill me. His black cap says, DUE TO THE COST OF AMMO WE NO LONGER FIRE A WARNING SHOT. You’d better run, I say. And then: Sorry." @brooksegerton mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Mike McHone @mikemchone.bsky.social · 6d

Some good stuff here

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 6d

"I wanted to create a character who was broken, deeply broken, a character who wanted to disappear from the world and be very quiet so as not to hurt others but who nevertheless brought pain where ever he went." - Jonathan Ames (interviewed by @frank212.bsky.social) mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 5d

In case you missed it. It's made people who know me in real life cry, but I promise ends on a wonderful inspiring note. It's the only thing I've written that my family cares about. It's a great read to start a weekend.

Find how I am "the luckiest person in the world."

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 6d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 6d

Next in @frank212.bsky.social series with @mrbullbull.bsky.social - Frank always gets in depth with his subjects 💗💗

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 6d

Next up in my all of 2025 interview series is with the fantastic Jonathan Ames. Author of books such as YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (made into a film by Lynne Ramsay.) He also wrote the fantastic HAPPY DOLL series
@jonathanames.bsky.social

Click on the link to read

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 6d

The shortlist continued. (3/3)
Links to short fiction from:

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
Daniel Abiva Hunt & Albert Rodriguez in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

All the links and more here:

The Shortlist for October 3, 2025 - Turn & Work

Nonfiction by Katrina Ralbag, and fiction from Kara Crawford, Daniel Abiva Hunt, Amy DeBellis, Brad Barkley, Kelli Short Borges, Trevor J. Houser, Robert Nazar Arjoyan, Wade Harris and Albert Rodrigue...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 6d

"I wanted to create a character who was broken, deeply broken, a character who wanted to disappear from the world and be very quiet so as not to hurt others but who nevertheless brought pain where ever he went." - Jonathan Ames (interviewed by @frank212.bsky.social) mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 6d

You will want to read this for sure.
RIP Dad.
All of this is true. The events took place last January.
And thank you to Bull for publishing this.

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 6d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 6d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 7d

"Our corporate crusader would not allow his lactose intolerance to ruin his lunch. This was the only time he had to himself, the only part of his life that he didn’t necessarily enjoy so much as not suffer through. This was his only freedom." - m.e. gamlem mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 8d

"Socrates, Nietzsche, Freud... Noah knew about the phallic stage while the rest of us were still in the phallic stage." - Daniel Abiva Hunt mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 9d

"This was 1999 and travel agencies were getting killed off by the internet and I was selling my vintage 1972 Pontiac LeMans because my wife, Corrine, fucked an FBI agent in it." - John Jodzio mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 10d

"The doctor told me to be more juvenile with my sexuality. To rub myself up against furniture. Doorknobs. To mimic the actors on the pornos he had me watch, pushing my ass up and spreading myself wide. He was an amputee." - Joshua Vigil mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Johannah @johannah.bsky.social · 11d

I wrote a raw piece about my experience commuting to work… it’s foul, but it’s 100% true. Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving my gritty CNF a home!

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 11d

"The rain doesn’t want you to dawdle at the end of the workday. The rain is your bully. It will piss in your Cheerios. It has one mission—purge the streets." @johannah.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 11d

"The rain doesn’t want you to dawdle at the end of the workday. The rain is your bully. It will piss in your Cheerios. It has one mission—purge the streets." @johannah.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Keith @keithjpowell.com · 12d

I've got a new #flashfiction up in one of my favorite journals. Hope you'll check it out!

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 12d

"He worries about his jeans—sweatpants may have been wiser. He worries about a rush of over-eager blood after the young nurse asks him to remove them. He worries the doctor judges him when he answers, No children." - Keith Powell mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 12d

"He worries about his jeans—sweatpants may have been wiser. He worries about a rush of over-eager blood after the young nurse asks him to remove them. He worries the doctor judges him when he answers, No children." - Keith Powell mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 13d

"It began, as these things often do, with a name—Steve—which struck me, even then, as appallingly flat. A name like an unbuttered toast, slightly burnt." - Albert Rodriguez mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 14d

"Kill me softly with your lipstick mouth, glistening like bloodhoney—haunted by spirits— under the slow burn of this bar light sun."
@davidestringel.bsky.social
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