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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 7h

Louisville. You gotta pronounce it like you have marbles in your mouth.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 17h

it is @emilylauracosta.bsky.social's bday today, and so now you should extra def order Girl on Girl for yourself to celebrate

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 18h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 19h

Really just wanna write the great American beer league hockey novel

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 2d

DO IT. I got a camcorder last summer and it’s been so damn fun.

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa, thanks for the heads up! This is great. Just signed up.

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 5d

My kid went through a phase where we’d buy those, then get home, only for my daughter to refuse anything but the Skye ones. It was a brutal cycle.

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 5d

Friday mood 🕺

IDLES - DANCER (Official Video)

YouTube video by IDLES

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 6d

Very bummed to miss this one (got a work thing) but stoked to see it happening!

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 6d

Very stoked to have a new story in Mealarkey! It's about cupcakes and fatherhood and marriage and bonfires and This is 40, and it's inspired by one of my favorite National songs.

Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not a true kitchen without a few unexpected hiccups but @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025 is finally live, featuring tasty treats by @ttbrader.bsky.social, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, and William Weissinger!

Fall Menu 2025 — Malarkey

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks, Tracie!

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks, bud!

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 6d

Very stoked to have a new story in Mealarkey! It's about cupcakes and fatherhood and marriage and bonfires and This is 40, and it's inspired by one of my favorite National songs.

Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not a true kitchen without a few unexpected hiccups but @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025 is finally live, featuring tasty treats by @ttbrader.bsky.social, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, and William Weissinger!

Fall Menu 2025 — Malarkey

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for having me! 🧁

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 6d

Keep saying I've been swamped with work and life and house stuff and whatnot, but really my daughter's gotten into Kpop Demon Hunters and I've been holed up in my office listening to "Golden" on repeat

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 7d

Love Y2K Quarterly! Both for the lit and the wonderful site.

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 7d

SONGS TO WOODY-CJ anthology call y'all

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 9d

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" is such a good sentence.

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 25d

Sat down to write. Cat had other plans.

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 28d

Sweet! Looking forward to it.

Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 28d

I’d be interested!

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 28d

Congrats, Megan!!

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ralph Wiggum, sobbing, collapsing onto a table, turning a dial to the red NO position which has next to it the Onion headline "Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do IT On Nights And Weekends For the Rest Of Your Life." Seated next to him, a little girl with pigtails is nonplussed

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · Sep 5

Kind of obsessed with that feeling you get when you read a story or essay or poem and you're suddenly inspired to return to a random draft you've been stuck on and dive back into it

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Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · Sep 5

🥹🥹🥹

love love love this one!

HAD @havehashad.com · Sep 5

another "5" list, today from Rachel Beachy, that kinda sneaks up on you and then just knocks you out

"After you wished for a horse for the backyard, I said maybe next year.

You asked if I had fun at Chuck E. Cheese."

https://www.havehashad.com/25jix

Lies I Told the Day You Turned Five by Rachel Beachy

A bird flew into the window and you asked if it was asleep. When I played the video of Dolly Parton singing “Happy Birthday,” you thought she had recorded it just for you. You asked if I put the same…

www.havehashad.com

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Sep 3

Another new story out today!

It's about road trips & Weezer & friends & karaoke & barhopping & storytelling (of course) & nostalgia (of COURSE) and it folds in on itself and gets super meta in a way that you're probably gonna find either fun or really really annoying. Read it and find out which!

Moves by Aaron Burch — Terrazzo Editions

Aaron Burch is the author of an essay collection, A Kind of In-Between, and a novel, Year of the Buffalo, among others. He is currently the editor of Short Story, Long and HAD. He grew up in Tacoma, l...

www.terrazzoeditions.com

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