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latest story from me today. go on and give it a lil looky dirt.fyi/article/2025...
The Trees of Ketron Island
New short fiction by Kyle Seibel.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
latest story from me today. go on and give it a lil looky dirt.fyi/article/2025...
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What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
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v v excited to return the favor and interview one of my favs @johnwaddy.bsky.social! thanks @xraylitmag.bsky.social for letting me nerd out
now we're gonna put it in reverse - Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social eeMack interviews John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social about his book 'This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers'
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
v v excited to return the favor and interview one of my favs @johnwaddy.bsky.social! thanks @xraylitmag.bsky.social for letting me nerd out
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my thanks to X-R-A-Y and @keersteemack.bsky.social for allowing me to turn this interview into a game of “let’s remember some guys”
now we're gonna put it in reverse - Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social eeMack interviews John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social about his book 'This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers'
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
my thanks to X-R-A-Y and @keersteemack.bsky.social for allowing me to turn this interview into a game of “let’s remember some guys”
now we're gonna put it in reverse - Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social eeMack interviews John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social about his book 'This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers'
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
now we're gonna put it in reverse - Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social eeMack interviews John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social about his book 'This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers'
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
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“[Y]ou have to get up, every day, and engage in creating for its own sake. You can’t control anything about the outcome . . . If nobody else gives a fuck about this but me, is it still worth doing? The answer has to be yes.”
Amen and amen.
Amen and amen.
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“[Y]ou have to get up, every day, and engage in creating for its own sake. You can’t control anything about the outcome . . . If nobody else gives a fuck about this but me, is it still worth doing? The answer has to be yes.”
Amen and amen.
Amen and amen.
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Lucky enough to be interviewed by (and to interview, stay tuned! @johnwaddy.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social
You can read it here if you want to 😊💕
You can read it here if you want to 😊💕
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
xraylitmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Lucky enough to be interviewed by (and to interview, stay tuned! @johnwaddy.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social
You can read it here if you want to 😊💕
You can read it here if you want to 😊💕
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I had the honor of talking with @keersteemack.bsky.social about her marvelous new novel BETTER TO BEG (Sweet Trash Press) in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
xraylitmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I had the honor of talking with @keersteemack.bsky.social about her marvelous new novel BETTER TO BEG (Sweet Trash Press) in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
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The real tragedy here is when the alternate family roots for the Habs
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THE LAST GREAT NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY TEAM by Eric Subpar
I awake on a Saturday. It is my birthday. All my friends are here. My wife is telling me about the preseason. Kevin is still coming. Don’t blow out the candles until Kevin arrives. I won’t, dear. Her ...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The real tragedy here is when the alternate family roots for the Habs
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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
xraylitmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
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I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
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Is it ‘My wife and I’ or ‘Me and my wife’? Anyway, we just robbed a liquor store
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Is it ‘My wife and I’ or ‘Me and my wife’? Anyway, we just robbed a liquor store
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"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
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"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
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November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
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‘Thirteen was the year I discovered spite.’
Such incredible characterisation in just 73 words - wow! Sarah Chin in @xraylitmag.bsky.social 🎂
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Such incredible characterisation in just 73 words - wow! Sarah Chin in @xraylitmag.bsky.social 🎂
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AGES by Sarah Chin
Thirteen was the year I discovered spite. Fourteen, eyeliner. Fifteen, seduction in a slow blink. At sixteen, I mailed seventeen birthday cards to myself, all unsigned. My mother asked who loved me th...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
‘Thirteen was the year I discovered spite.’
Such incredible characterisation in just 73 words - wow! Sarah Chin in @xraylitmag.bsky.social 🎂
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
Such incredible characterisation in just 73 words - wow! Sarah Chin in @xraylitmag.bsky.social 🎂
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
on X-R-A-Y, Jesse Hilson @platelet60.bsky.social reviews Audrey Szasz's novel 'Teleplasm'
it's about a medium named Sloane Epstein who assists her abusive boyfriend on paranormal YouTube investigations
read about this fucked up, batshit, & interesting book !
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it's about a medium named Sloane Epstein who assists her abusive boyfriend on paranormal YouTube investigations
read about this fucked up, batshit, & interesting book !
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YOU THANK THE MARQUIS DE SADE: AUDREY SZASZ'S 'TELEPLASM' by Jesse Hilson
My dictionary of British slang tells me that “Sloane” was the first name of an insufferable female archetype of the upper class in the 1980s. When I saw that the protagonist of Audrey Szasz’s novel Te...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
on X-R-A-Y, Jesse Hilson @platelet60.bsky.social reviews Audrey Szasz's novel 'Teleplasm'
it's about a medium named Sloane Epstein who assists her abusive boyfriend on paranormal YouTube investigations
read about this fucked up, batshit, & interesting book !
xraylitmag.com/you-thank-th...
it's about a medium named Sloane Epstein who assists her abusive boyfriend on paranormal YouTube investigations
read about this fucked up, batshit, & interesting book !
xraylitmag.com/you-thank-th...
we have an amazing 73 word micro by Sarah Chin !
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
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it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
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AGES by Sarah Chin
Thirteen was the year I discovered spite. Fourteen, eyeliner. Fifteen, seduction in a slow blink. At sixteen, I mailed seventeen birthday cards to myself, all unsigned. My mother asked who loved me th...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
we have an amazing 73 word micro by Sarah Chin !
it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
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it's called 'Ages' & u should read it right now
xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
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My conversation with Emmalea Russo is up now at @xraylitmag.bsky.social. This one visits some pertinent areas. Emmalea talks revealingly about the novel Vivienne, and shares her insights on the significance of synchronicity. Check it! xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRAWING LINES: AN INTERVIEW WITH EMMALEA RUSSO by Rebecca Gransden
Since its release in fall 2024 Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne (Arcade Publishing) has had time to percolate with the culture it so sharply interrogates. A slanted satire, the book poetically autopsies onlin...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My conversation with Emmalea Russo is up now at @xraylitmag.bsky.social. This one visits some pertinent areas. Emmalea talks revealingly about the novel Vivienne, and shares her insights on the significance of synchronicity. Check it! xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
we have an interview with Emmalea Russo about her book 'Vivienne' !!
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRAWING LINES: AN INTERVIEW WITH EMMALEA RUSSO by Rebecca Gransden
Since its release in fall 2024 Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne (Arcade Publishing) has had time to percolate with the culture it so sharply interrogates. A slanted satire, the book poetically autopsies onlin...
xraylitmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
we have an interview with Emmalea Russo about her book 'Vivienne' !!
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social !
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
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in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
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BECKETTIAN by Shane Kowalski
Murphy was visiting Malone. It had been a while since they had seen each other. Murphy being busy in the city, while Malone had lingered in the countryside. Murphy remembered those dark country roads,...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social !
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
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Thanks to the great @jackskelley.bsky.social ror including my latest book, Glop, in his write up of cool new reads for @xraylitmag.bsky.social. Check out his list for lots of exciting titles! xraylitmag.com/word-horny-j...
WORD HORNY: JACK SKELLEY RECOMMENDS
writer Nastya Valentine with books reviewed by Jack Skelley Nastya Valentine – Cyberhorny: Navigating a Sexual Dystopia, and The Cyberhorny Dream Diaries: In Defense of e-Subjectivity (cyber-horny.c...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thanks to the great @jackskelley.bsky.social ror including my latest book, Glop, in his write up of cool new reads for @xraylitmag.bsky.social. Check out his list for lots of exciting titles! xraylitmag.com/word-horny-j...
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Matthew Kinlin reviews MIDDEN HILL for an XRAY lit mag Halloween Special
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November 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Matthew Kinlin reviews MIDDEN HILL for an XRAY lit mag Halloween Special
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we have a story by Kaden Griggs !
it's about Hart Crane, imagining his last day on Earth before he decided to jump off a cruise ship into the sea.
some really great sentences & phrases in here, check it out
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it's about Hart Crane, imagining his last day on Earth before he decided to jump off a cruise ship into the sea.
some really great sentences & phrases in here, check it out
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THE BROKEN TOWER by Kaden Griggs
The hulk of the Orizaba lulled hugely in the calm spring water as if the waves were tongues tasting the air in broad gulps like old hounds lapping water from ground puddles. Not much moved. The poet w...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
we have a story by Kaden Griggs !
it's about Hart Crane, imagining his last day on Earth before he decided to jump off a cruise ship into the sea.
some really great sentences & phrases in here, check it out
xraylitmag.com/the-broken-t...
it's about Hart Crane, imagining his last day on Earth before he decided to jump off a cruise ship into the sea.
some really great sentences & phrases in here, check it out
xraylitmag.com/the-broken-t...
Jack Skelley @jackskelley.bsky.social recommends 13 amazing writers, books, & websites that u should check out pronto
this is a great list !! so many cool finds in here
xraylitmag.com/word-horny-j...
this is a great list !! so many cool finds in here
xraylitmag.com/word-horny-j...
WORD HORNY: JACK SKELLEY RECOMMENDS
writer Nastya Valentine with books reviewed by Jack Skelley Nastya Valentine – Cyberhorny: Navigating a Sexual Dystopia, and The Cyberhorny Dream Diaries: In Defense of e-Subjectivity (cyber-horny.c...
xraylitmag.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Jack Skelley @jackskelley.bsky.social recommends 13 amazing writers, books, & websites that u should check out pronto
this is a great list !! so many cool finds in here
xraylitmag.com/word-horny-j...
this is a great list !! so many cool finds in here
xraylitmag.com/word-horny-j...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
we have a story by Erin Kelly Smith !
it's about a woman who get a message from a man on a dating app, & then deletes the app from her phone
the rest of the story is her imagintion going wild with could-be's & what-if's & crazy dreams. read this story !
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it's about a woman who get a message from a man on a dating app, & then deletes the app from her phone
the rest of the story is her imagintion going wild with could-be's & what-if's & crazy dreams. read this story !
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HI by Erin Kelly Smith
She filled out her first dating profile in a frenzied whirl, half-drunk on the yet-undigested news that her ex had brought someone with him to Thanksgiving that year. For a photo, she uploaded the pro...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
we have a story by Erin Kelly Smith !
it's about a woman who get a message from a man on a dating app, & then deletes the app from her phone
the rest of the story is her imagintion going wild with could-be's & what-if's & crazy dreams. read this story !
xraylitmag.com/hi-by-erin-k...
it's about a woman who get a message from a man on a dating app, & then deletes the app from her phone
the rest of the story is her imagintion going wild with could-be's & what-if's & crazy dreams. read this story !
xraylitmag.com/hi-by-erin-k...