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William Bryan Smith
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Novelist/Writer. MFA in creative writing, Bennington College.
Author of Free Range Men (Mint Hill Books) and We Are Smoke (Carmelite Books)

https://www.williambryansmith.com/
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Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year…

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This Year’s Christmas Snake Has Been Cancelled
“Well, Shamokinites, it’s that time of the year again! I know we all look forward to that familiar yuletide experience of sweat, fear, and panic when an eastern massasauga is released into a largely…
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December 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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“My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

#WinterSolstice
December 21, 2024 at 4:26 PM
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Defectors could be your next-door neighbor. The guy who cuts the meat at your local supermarket, or drives the truck that delivers your Amazon packages.”

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Spies in Small Towns
The NROC A highly valued intelligence asset of the CIA is “burned.” Translated from Intelligence-speak, a human who has betrayed their country, either due to ideological differences or financial ga…
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July 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Heaven was a beach and a pinecone.” Du côté de la côte (1958) dir. Agnès Varda
May 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
When revising your work, Patricia Highsmith urged writers to “be as ruthless as if you were throwing excess baggage, even fuel, out of an overloaded airplane.”
April 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I slept in, #5amwritersclub But I also wrote a short blog for my #writer folks. Today is all about creativity and flow.

On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52 www.jenknox.net/p/on-the-sim...
On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52
The notepad doesn't have to be yellow (or even a notepad).
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February 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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On a few hundred ducks & week 38 of 52 #aytl www.jenknox.net/p/on-a-few-h...
On a few hundred ducks & week 38 of 52
We’re all awkward at times. Let’s embrace it.
www.jenknox.net
February 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The days are getting longer… ☀️❄️⛄️🧤🧣
December 22, 2024 at 8:59 PM
“My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

#WinterSolstice
December 21, 2024 at 4:26 PM
“Well, it seems that the real reality—the microreality, that which underlies all our solid, good, common-sense reality—is made up, as we have just witnessed, of a vast empty space filled with oscillating fields!” —Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum
December 21, 2024 at 3:22 AM
My novel, We Are Smoke, is still free for Kindle for the next 24 hours. Get your copy here: We Are Smoke a.co/d/4LJUTzK
December 13, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, until 14 December 2024. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
December 11, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
December 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
December 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
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December 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year…

medium.com/@thatguybehi...
This Year’s Christmas Snake Has Been Cancelled
“Well, Shamokinites, it’s that time of the year again! I know we all look forward to that familiar yuletide experience of sweat, fear, and panic when an eastern massasauga is released into a largely…
medium.com
December 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM
For the arrival of the holiday season, I always like to watch “My Night at Maud’s” which is set primarily on 22 December in Clermont, Fr. I was delighted to learn Le Suffren Bar is still around…

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Discover the history of the Suffren in Clermont-Ferrand
A historic bar-brasserie in the heart of the town center, created in the late 60s, it has successfully adapted to the changing times!
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November 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
November 29, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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How do you write about sex—seriously? Irreverently? Not at all?
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#writerslife #WritingCommunity
November 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM