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Sheldon Birnie
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · Nov 12
Fancy some strange stories set in the wilds of western Canada? Look no further, bud malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 9h
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 23h
In some great company here, & would encourage you to buy some of these beauties via @bookshop.org any friggin day over Amazon, bud
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 1d
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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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 1d
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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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 23h
Enjoyed Kyle’s Future Plans, perhaps you will too?
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kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social · 1d
newest from me today in little engines

www.littleengines.pub/p/the-office...
The Office of Future Plans
A new story from Kyle Seibel
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 1d
Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 1d
Back on my bullshit (writing about square dancing)
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 1d
Practice so you’re comfortable, & just have fun (that’s it!)
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 1d
Right on. Have fun! 👻
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 5d
Here’s a little 75 worder about winter, visions, and friends for you thx @paragraphplanet.bsky.social www.paragraphplanet.com
Upon a winter’s day so frigid the core of trees were heard to pop amidst the otherwise deathly quiet we ventured shoreward. In the gloaming, we carried the fire midlake, the flames alighting slowly upon the pyre’s circumference before climbing on high. Many strange visions of things yet to come were revealed. No moon dared trespass to sully our silent study. We left the embers to burn towards the lakebed at dawn. By Sheldon Birnie
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 2d
Desperate fruit flies just trying to survive
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 4d
Uber to the beer league game
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 5d
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 (Not especially original or insightful, but nice and succinct)
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 4d
Boy’s got his cousin and a buddy over to jam. Hell yeah dudes, turn it up loud!
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 4d
Sorry for your loss bud
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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 4d
Fun living in a world where every new email — hell, every interaction online — is a Voight-Kampff test
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 4d
Ran the garden hose in through the window to the basement and cleared out the weeping tile drain pipes, saving a $200 visit from the professionals. Small victories, you guys.
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 5d
Watching Father of the Bride with the family.
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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 5d
It’s Friday afternoon so you know what that means
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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 5d
"Upon a winter's day so frigid" by Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity
Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 5d
Here’s a little 75 worder about winter, visions, and friends for you thx @paragraphplanet.bsky.social www.paragraphplanet.com
Upon a winter’s day so frigid the core of trees were heard to pop amidst the otherwise deathly quiet we ventured shoreward. In the gloaming, we carried the fire midlake, the flames alighting slowly upon the pyre’s circumference before climbing on high. Many strange visions of things yet to come were revealed. No moon dared trespass to sully our silent study. We left the embers to burn towards the lakebed at dawn. By Sheldon Birnie
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 6d
Take a Trip to shore in today’s @paragraphplanet.bsky.social www.paragraphplanet.com
Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
www.paragraphplanet.com
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 6d
It really was! Felt grateful to be in the room that night for sure
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Tim Runtz @timruntz.bsky.social · 7d
Intensely jealous to have missed these shows, but also grateful and reassured that they happened.

"All this to say, things can be low key and fun and important, even as the world at large seems so fucked up."
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 7d
Wrote about John Samson Fellows,
Fred Eaglesmith’s music, community, barbecues, and such open.substack.com/pub/sheldonb...
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John Samson Fellows, Fred Eaglesmith, music, community & more
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks for reading Tim!