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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰

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Recovering lawyer. Author of STRANDED, COME TO DUST, & CLOSING COSTS. A new collection, LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE, out NOW from Bad Hand Books! Represented by Howard Morhaim at http://morhaimliterary.com He/Him

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 29d

Out NOW! COME GET SOME!

Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Sometimes surprising, often upsetting, always beautifully imagined, this is without doubt one of the year's best collections."

@brackenmacleod.bsky.social's LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE is available everywhere.

– @timlebbon.bsky.social, Dead Red and Razor

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Let Not Your Sorrow Die

Let Not Your Sorrow Die [MacLeod, Bracken] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Let Not Your Sorrow Die

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 1h

Cronenberg could remake Videodrome substituting AI for television/home video and nothing about the narrative would change. It'd still be about antisocial indoctrination qua intellectual terrorism.

Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 3h

This reads like an Abbott and Costello skit.

Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 3h

I misquoted him. He'd said, before there was such as a thing as polyhedral dice. I know the OG game came with chits, but I still think he's a mummy pretending to be a old school level 1 fighter.

Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 4h

THAT SHIRT!!!

Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 4h

Just saw a dude on Facebook claim that he's been playing D&D since before there were polyhedral dice (he says he used chits in a wax paper cup). I am assuming that he's either a mummy or a time traveler. Or a time traveling mummy. Definitely not a person who knows how old dice games are though.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 5h

This book is fuckin' great!

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 5h

A cartoon depicting two people (and a heckin' good pupper) facing each other on a sofa between a lamp and a plant. One of them is saying to the other, "What I am seeking in someone else is myself."

Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 5h

100%
Sorry, Hills, but ya guilty as charged!

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 5h

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Probably Guilty.

A selfie of a white femme with a white streak and in black lipstick.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 23h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 6h

If you were near the Palladium, I'm sure I did. 😁 🤘

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 6h

Are you following me? (Seriously though, just described my vibe to a T.)

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 7h

What's that? Free shipping? Come get some!

bookshop.org/p/books/let-...

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 7h

Pornography for fascists.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9h

SO bookshop.org is doing free shipping and you should buy some of my books from bookshop.org <3

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 8h

You found my lost order! (Just kidding! All that stuff is great though!)

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💀spoOOoookika💀 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 8h

FREE ŁINK

haunted Je-ride 🎃 grampy radish @naptime.theolive.garden · 2d

FREE ŁINK

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 1d

NEW EPISODE! @brackenmacleod.bsky.social joins The Bad Signal to talk about his new collection, LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6C6Q...

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 22h

Years ago I refused to sign with a small press because their contract was a fuckin' insult. I told them even if they accepted all the changes I'd want in the contract I still wouldn't work with them because they tried that shit in the first place. I'm surprised it took them this long to implode.

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Book of the Samned @bookofthesamned.bsky.social · 1d

This show is one of my favorite things I get to do, because it allows me to have awesome conversations with great people like @brackenmacleod.bsky.social. This is a great episode for y’all to hop onboard the Bad Signal!

Screams from the Basement 😱 @sftbpod.bsky.social · 1d

@brackenmacleod.bsky.social joins The Bad Signal to discuss his latest collection, Let Not Your Sorrow Die, out now via @badhandbooks.bsky.social! Let Not Your Sorrow Die collects 16 short stories that explore themes of grief, faith, and humanity.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 1d

COUP DE GRÂCE by @sofiaajram.bsky.social is out in paperback! 🖤

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station.

https://tinyurl.com/2xewpf3e

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go! Come get some!

Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 1d

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 1d

My Third Amendment stans!

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Seth Caddy: spooky 👻 ginger 🎃 @gingercaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Important PSA for Portland. 🚨

Do NOT feed the Gestapo.

They don’t get to enjoy our city while attacking it.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem complains that Chicago residents won't let ICE use their toilets. ICE should just use the bathroom that aligns with their biological origin and find a garbage can to piss in.

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