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Ben Shahon

@beansbaker5.bsky.social

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Author of SHORT RELIEF, a chapbook (out now!) from https://bsky.app/profile/406press.bsky.social Fiction editor @ bsky.app/profile/publishedbyJAKE.bsky.social Writing at benshahon.com (He/Him/His) Occasional (Frequent) posts about other nerdy shit.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · Mar 7

Release day is today! My new chapbook "Short Relief" is out now from @406press.bsky.social! Huge thanks go out to @fbereaud.bsky.social and @thetwinbill.bsky.social for their work in editing the final version together into a collection I'm especially proud of!
406press.com/product/shor...

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 3d

Well, I guess I'm done considering CBS a credible news source 🫤

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Breaking News: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss, the news site's co-founder, as the editor in chief of CBS News. nyti.ms/4gUnu5D

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 4d

Who's ready to send JAKE some weird shit? General subs open 8/20

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 6d

● EXCITING NEWS ●

The debut novel by your friend and mine, @fbereaud.bsky.social (author of the sublime San Diego Stories from @CowboyJamboree), is now available to pre-order and is on sale for $2 off in the Stanchion shop.

www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 7d

This short story has everything:
✨ transmasc MC
✨ Pills, baby!
✨ ACAB
✨ sex work is work
✨ high speed car chase!
✨ fuckboi representation
And more!

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 7d

Excited for your poem too!

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 7d

I got a stack of edits on an essay I submitted in my inbox this morning. Cannot wait to get home and look them over. Such a delight in the process!

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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 7d

MINI SZN LET’S FLOCKIN GO

sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 8d

It’s publication day!!

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 8d

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase.

Only 99 cents!
ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Outrun the Devil - Ly Faulk's Ko-fi Shop

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transph...

ko-fi.com

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 8d

The only good kind of LLM!

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 8d

Might celebrate by buying a last minute ticket to tomorrow night's Jeff Rosenstock/PUP show!

Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 8d

Jam packing my publishing schedule with dope venues I don't think I can mention I'm in yet (1 fiction, 2 CNF) 🥳

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 9d

Just realized it's been like five years since I first started seriously publishing, and my first of those stories has still never made it online? Not sure what I should do about that, if anything, but it feels weird as a writer whose work is mostly on the web.

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 9d

You didn't think JAKE forgot about BOTN, did you?😉

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 10d

It really makes you feel bad for all those hardworking blaseball teams that don't get the credit they deserve.

(Go Beams)

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 10d

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 13d

Psst. Is your team eliminated from playoff contention like my miserable Halos? Now's a great time to pick up Short Relief, my chapbook released earlier this year by @406press.bsky.social!

Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 14d

It certainly needs editing and/or footnotes, but I think the metaphor scans. Hopefully.

Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 14d

Oh god, I just wrote a personal essay about a magic the gathering card. What am I doing?

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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 14d

HONK 7 DAYS LEFT HONK

sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 14d

I really had a lot of fun reading this. Instant recommend to anyone who likes how this sounds.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 15d

🎸🤘 I’ve got a story coming to my kofi shop on October 1st. @beansbaker5.bsky.social loaned me some kind words to share with you about “Outrun the Devil.”

https://ko-fi.com/lyfaulk

outrun the devil

Ly Faulk's sentences hit you like a punk guitar riff leading into a solo, and the story of Shane trying desperately to make his way home will leave you feeling like a teenager with Blink-182 on the radio. Raunchy, rebellious, and revved up to go, you'll feel like you too can Outrun the Devil.

Ben Shahon, author of Short Relief and A Collection for No One to Read

Coming 10/01/25

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 15d

numbers & stats & all'a that are kinda arbitrary and a dumb way to think about art... but also a few more reads/shares and we can get the newest story on Short Story, Long, from Amber Sparks, up to 3k views; it'd be the second story on SSL to hit that

ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/your-life-...

screenshot of Substack stats:

"You Life in Parties" by Amber Sparks
Total Views: 2941

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Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 15d

🎸🤘 I’ve got a story coming to my kofi shop on October 1st. @beansbaker5.bsky.social loaned me some kind words to share with you about “Outrun the Devil.”

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Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 16d

Honk!

Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social · 16d

Unironically, the guys most likely to bring back actual dysentery 😂

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