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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 12h

Would be tempted to go bullpen game. Good arguments for Freddy too. Feels like a genuinely difficult choice that people will yell/cheer based on its result. But the Brewers follow good process and know what they're doing. Hope we all get rewarded with a W tomorrow.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, this is funny and odd and poignant. Read as soon as it comes across your feed.

Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 21h

"Brandy is a fine girl. She does not, however, make a good wife.

And then she dies. She suffers. She doesn’t go quickly. It cannot be helped."

Everything @clairehopple.bsky.social writes is so surprising and exciting

BIG DEAL - Farewell Transmission

By Claire Hopple Brandy is a fine girl. She does not, however, make a good wife. And then she dies. She suffers. She doesn’t go quickly. It cannot be helped. She’d been married to a drug lord for a n...

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 21h

For sure, and this story is great the first time and somehow even better the second, third, and fourth. Brilliant.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 1d

Read this brilliant story in class today. I love every word.

www.ceasecows.com/2023/05/18/t...

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 2d

Can't see this painting without thinking of DeLillo, Underworld, and baseball.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 3d

How can you not be Romantic about baseball?

Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoy this journey through a Pat Murphy press conference.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 3d

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

The theme is "LUCK".

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry".

POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap.
PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece.
Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under.
Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry".
All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 3d

I'd be real surprised if Priester doesn't get a lot of work tomorrow. Ground ball pitcher against a homer-driven lineup seems like a really good idea, especially at home. But we'll see.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 4d

If he's real hurt, I blame Shaw for making him run.

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Steve C @stevexisxok.bsky.social · 8d

Stoked for October! Let's do this💪

Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 8d

Ready to write? Our October plans are here!

Enjoy a 1-month free trial + daily accountability + 2 events with our fave writer of touching (and occasionally creepy) fables and tales: @benloory.bsky.social

Plus prompts from @kathyfish.bsky.social😲+ more
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Ready to write your best stuff? Preview our plans for October!

1-month free trial, daily accountability, special events with Ben Loory and more.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 9d

anyway go see One Battle After Another in a movie theater, I know we said this about Oppenheimer but I mean it for real with this one, there are cinematographic and audio mixing things that are essential to the experience and you won't get it at home

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 10d

Very difficult to imagine a better show.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 12d

Saw One Battle After Another today. Great film. Nails the spirit of Pynchon. I'm sure it'll get sucked up into the culture wars, but there's plenty of heartfelt complexity there for anyone willing to look.

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Steve C @stevexisxok.bsky.social · 15d

The cat is the best part of this cuz notice how it is NOT HELPING

But brilliant editor Autumn Watts will.

Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 16d

Do you struggle to write because you can't find the time or motivation to get started? Fun fact: Sometimes it's better to suffer together!

Join LMC and our next Guided Writing Studio this Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8pm ET in the Campground Commons: litmatchcollective.com/campground-commons

A two-step illustration of a person lying on their stomach, demonstrating back crunches. A cat is sitting on their back.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, that cover is incredible.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 16d

I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread

The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 15d

It's a good day to revisit League of Denial.

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 15d

Spoke about CTE with my lit and sports class today, before seeing this news. These cases are gutting. And they are the result of years of rampant denialism and systematic efforts to put money and entertainment above human life. As in many other areas, we've normalized convenient indifference.

Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15d

RIP Rudi. 15 years ago, ESPN talks about this all week. NFL pregame shows too. Now none of them give a fuck. Too awash in gambling cash to risk pulling back the curtain. It's just "the price we pay" even though the yipping heads & team owners don't have to pay it. www.huffpost.com/entry/rudi-j...

Bengals' Record-Breaking Rusher Dies At 45

He also ran for more than 1,000 yards in three straight seasons.

www.huffpost.com

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 17d

Pretty sure defiance is my literary love language. I love how this piece turns it triumphant and tragic.

HAD @havehashad.com · 17d

"Everybody in line is bigger than me. Earlier a teenager in a bright yellow shirt walked past and said I looked too small to ride. Ever since then my mom has been saying, “We’re getting you on this fucking ride.”"

🎢 today from Katie Orr!!

https://www.havehashad.com/kqd9q

57 inches by Katie Orr

We’re standing in line for the Pittsburgh Plunge. My mom’s favorite. I’ve never been on it because I’m just a kid. It’s the hottest day all summer and this is the only water ride at Kennywood so the…

www.havehashad.com

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 18d

"I think of my own mother up there, a neutron star bursting into radio waves."

Big love for this gem by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 18d

On the night your space shuttle launches, I walk outside to my backyard and tilt my head heavenward. I imagine seeing the stellar nurseries glowing pink and red, pulsing with newborn stars, as heavy as my love..

Ghost Nebula, Elena Zhang
@ezhang77.bsky.social
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Issue 32 | Elena Zhang – LEON Literary Review

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 18d

One thing that really really surprises me is how much sitting around Hoskins has done. Really thought he'd be getting at least one start a week. Interested to see if anything changes with a division/bye clinch.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 18d

And ICYMI and want to read it, I had this flash fiction out about space and time and other chances

Absolute Magnitude - Exposition Review

by Chloe N. Clark 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say m...

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 19d

I expect nothing less from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, but that seems kind of absurd, because things less than this are still brilliant and shiny and explosive. What I'm saying is this is all those things and more. I'm glad I read it today.

Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 19d

So delighted to have this story (a piece of the novel I'm working on) be the winner of @expositionreview.bsky.social flash contest! 🥺🥺

Absolute Magnitude - Exposition Review

by Chloe N. Clark 1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2025: “Illumination” Fiction In another life, Cassie lives. She wakes up in the hospital, a slow blinking to consciousness, and the doctors say m...

expositionreview.com

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 20d

@kimmagowan.bsky.social is crushing this shit. If you need a little catharsis in your day (and if you don't, please teach me how you live), here's the right dose. Fiction fucking rules.

Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social · 20d

I have a new story in awesome Milk Candy Review! Grateful tahnks to Cathy Ulrich for publishing this one, and also to my @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness mates for reading a first draft.

milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/09/18/s...

Subject: We Are All Appalled ~ by Kim Magowan

We are all appalled. That’s the crucial thing we want to convey here. We, like all members of our parent community, are appalled by what happened on Saturday night, and furthermore, that our childr…

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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 21d

Nominated by @trampset.bsky.social for Best of the Net!

#EpistemucLitFamily

trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 22d

Angela Townsend's "The People Persevere"

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The People Persevere

by Angela Townsend

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