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hex editor, video game player, dad bod haver, glizzy guzzler (the Glizzard of Oz)

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · Jan 3

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in which
you may find
2024 writings by
yours truly

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hi - I write stories and help edit hex, a speculative online lit mag.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 1m

"He had this one move, I believe he’d invented it, where he licked his own toes."

An embarrassment of riches today for those of us who like to read good stuff fr fr !!!

HAD @havehashad.com · 27m

sound the alarms, we got new Z.H. Gill!!

"My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform..."

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Okay? by Z.H. Gill

My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform and,…

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 45m

It is very rad that bookshop is doing free shipping, and hell, you can pick up FEAST for 15 bucks if you've been hungry for this odd ass book:
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Feast of the Pale Leviathan

Check out Feast of the Pale Leviathan - <p>A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Ow...

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 10m

"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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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 52m

Wondering which, if any, genitalia will be revealed in the new Simpsons movie

Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 57m

love it!!!

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 1h

Tired of our current dystopia and looking to escape into a different one?! You can get my novel, The Island of Last Things, about two women zookeepers working on Alcatraz Island at the world's last zoo, with free shipping at @bookshop.org today! 🐊 #booksky 💙📚
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The Island of Last Things: A Novel

A Novel

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 1h

Tim just constantly threatening to hire new hitmen any time they do something he doesn't like

Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 1h

"I was avoiding a lot of sadness and exhaustion and was avoiding him because I didn’t have the energy to alleviate his sadness and exhaustion. I wanted to write a song that would prove to him that I was aware of this and promise that, eventually, I could be better."

Love this Karly Hartzman essay

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 1h

this is one of my favorite feelings when we send @hexliterary.bsky.social acceptances

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 1h

sometimes, when I send an acceptance, I get as anxious and impatient to hear back from the author as I do when I submit something

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 1d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins

I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 2h

Wishing you luck and love and a great new chapter, Ross

Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 2h

This does not surprise me! I love the album, need to catch her show sometime

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 2h

finishing up my generative-writing zine for my craft class this weekend for SLC X The Writing Institute where i'll be introducing writers to some freudian, lacanian, and kleinian psychoanalytic theory in order to create psychologically complex, compelling, and cathartic characterization.

red zine cover with text that reads CRAFT ZINE / CREATING PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX CHARACTERS / WITH SASHA RAVITCH depicting two masked figures kissing

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 2h

Merce Lemon Band-Birdseed at the Troubadour (LA) 5/30/25

YouTube video by Spat Cannon

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 2h

Godspeed brother

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kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social · 20h

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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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 3h

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:

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 3h

I don't care for the style, but the gameplay of Hades is great

Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 3h

ah yes, I will spend $30 for "the grinch"

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 1d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 4h

What a gift — for authors, journal editors, publishers... — to be read so thoughtfully and generously!

Something about a Short Story, Long story

I hope you don't mind me repeating myself here, but I always save Short Story, Long work for when I am somewhere waiting. In pedicure chairs, or restaurants queues, or airports. I do that because they deserve - and reward - undivided attention. I enjoy reading them best in liminal spaces, because they ground me, and entertain me, and keep me company, and often fill me with the kind of joy that can only come from good storytelling. Amber Sparks' story is the best (and most recent) example - I wound up reading it in a hospital waiting room, where the reckoning with mortality and time hit a bit harder than it otherwise would have. I looked up from my phone and realized that every last person in the waiting room would have some version of that reckoning - were maybe preparing to go through that reckoning sooner than they knew - and felt the divide between us collapse. If we're lucky, we'll have something interesting to look back on - good, bad, ugly, let it be interesting, and uniquely ours.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 4h

Bookshop.org (the best Amazon alternative) is having an anti-prime sale today. Free shipping on books including mine :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...

The Anti-Prime Sale at bookshop.org. 17 more hours.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 4h

Happy happy birthday Lincoln! Thanks for all you do!

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to my wife and I