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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 15h

Many thanks for reading and sharing, Dan.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 15h

Ernaux is absolutely amazing.

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 16h

"We’ll stand at the side of the windy highway, the Golden Gate Bridge hulking ahead of us."

I love this phenomenal storytelling by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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The Untranslatable German Word for a Gate Slamming Shut — Ghost Parachute

My only friend, Little Hansel, smells like closet. That’s what my mother said the one time she met the four-year-old. I was babysitting him for my weed dealers, a pair of comfy old dykes. My mother sn...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

I love it, Emily!

Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

Get on this, UK-based readers!

Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

Another copy, out in the world.

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

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you, Nick!!

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

A stunner, Cheryl.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

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I Dreamt of Dust - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Stephen Tafra on Unsplash by Cheryl Pappas Meet me there, at the road where there are two diners across the street from each other, where the fields behind them lie open to the sky, begging f...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

"Meet me at the diner under the storm about to rage." A dazzler from @cherylpappas.bsky.social, giving Rumi, in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social !

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

Read @tcboudreau.bsky.social's latest in today's @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! gooseberry-pie.com/keepsakes/

Keepsakes - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Lena Polishko on Unsplash by Timothy Boudreau Freddy’s green lizard race car with a pink tongue painted on the hood, pulled from under the couch when Grammy Ruth scrambled to find her pearl e...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

William S. Burroughs vibes.

Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

OH! Transgressive work from @brettpribble.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! gooseberry-pie.com/forgiving-je...

Forgiving Jesus - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Vitaliy Shevchenko on Unsplash by Brett Pribble At night, Jesus visits my bedroom, not a Middle Eastern Jesus speaking a foreign language, a white Jesus speaking perfect English. He apologize...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

A bittersweet gem from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 17h

"I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies, because the fact was I wanted none of this to be real—me in my black dress and lace spider-web tights that, it had occurred to me walking to Grace Cathedral, my stepmother would look at askance and call 'inappropriate.'”

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

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What’s Your Poison? - Patricia Q. Bidar — Bulb Culture Collective

It’s Halloween and California is on fire.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

This time of year, the veil between worlds is thinnest. We glide between. Connected. Unconnected. Stable. Unstable. Masked. Passing.

The busboy bangs his cart into our table; I emit a cry.

Thank you, @bulbculture.bsky.social

What’s Your Poison? - Patricia Q. Bidar — Bulb Culture Collective

It’s Halloween and California is on fire.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

Wow!

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 1d

It's cool and sexy to read books and hate fascism.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!!

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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 1d

Patty Q with a new piece at Ghost Parachute!

@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social

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The Untranslatable German Word for a Gate Slamming Shut — Ghost Parachute

My only friend, Little Hansel, smells like closet. That’s what my mother said the one time she met the four-year-old. I was babysitting him for my weed dealers, a pair of comfy old dykes. My mother sn...

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

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What’s Your Poison? - Patricia Q. Bidar — Bulb Culture Collective

It’s Halloween and California is on fire.

www.bulbculturecollective.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

This time of year, the veil between worlds is thinnest. We glide between. Connected. Unconnected. Stable. Unstable. Masked. Passing.

The busboy bangs his cart into our table; I emit a cry.

Thank you, @bulbculture.bsky.social

What’s Your Poison? - Patricia Q. Bidar — Bulb Culture Collective

It’s Halloween and California is on fire.

www.bulbculturecollective.com

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

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Issue 32 | Francine Witte – LEON Literary Review

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

"It had happened summers ago, gingham and swat flies, and a three-month business trip that kept her husband away and away. A night sweet with buzz and water lapping from a nearby stream. "

A wintry stunner from @francinewitte.bsky.social.

Issue 32 | Francine Witte – LEON Literary Review

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 1d

A little gem of advice from Dana Isokawa. www.pw.org/agents_edito...

Dana Isokawa of the Margins

When I edit a piece, whether it is an essay, article, or poem, I latch on to a writer’s transitions and section breaks. In these leaps, I often detect the joints in a writer’s logic, hear their voice,...

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