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derekheckman.bsky.social
Derek Heckman
@derekheckman.bsky.social
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Fiction writer/schoolmarm. Shopping around a too-long novel about sad midwestern teens. (he/him)
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · Jul 10
Querying got me like
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 6d
Any teachers out there looking to talk about Jane Goodall, this is my preferred text
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 8d
Reaching the point in the book I’m reading where things haven’t really come together, nothing’s really happened, and there’s less of the book unread than I’ve read already—the “uh-oh point” as we all call it
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 8d
Got this email and thought I was being put on blast for a second
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 9d
When I was like eleven I did a psych study where a grad student asked me child development questions and going in I was like “oh what if they find out I’m a genius” and then during it I mixed up right and left
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 9d
“We must be on our phones less!” Frog said, scrolling on his phone
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 9d
It remains my contention that whatever you are handed by a Dunkin employee, despite what your may have ordered or what you wanted, it is exactly what you deserve
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 10d
Been reading a biography of Rose Kennedy and reading about how at her convent school, they had a weekly ceremony where the nuns publicly gave each girl a “very good,” “good,” or “good enough” ranking for their behavior and like damn girl I’m sorry that happened I get it
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 10d
Probably my biggest fear that I don’t feel things as deeply as other people but I think the solution to that is probably just to be online a lot less
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 11d
That’s right
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 11d
In high school (Catholic) we asked our religion teacher if she could bring in an exorcist for us to just like, talk to, and she came back a few days later and said the Church doesn’t release the names of priests who can perform exorcisms, and I think about this all the time
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 11d
Don’t believe in “haunted houses” (ghosts). Do believe in “haunted houses” (house is Bad)
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 11d
Also easily my favorite Damon
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 11d
Going in I’d just like to state for the record that The Departed is my favorite Leo performance
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 11d
Just ate an apple cider and am seeing One Battle After Another later. Lapsed Catholic Boy Fall is off to a powerful start
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 12d
You’re in her dms. I’m singing “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” in front of Ira. We are not the same
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 12d
There are “This is where Viggo broke his toe people” and “The lady who says I’ll have what she’s having is Rob Reiner’s mother” people
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 12d
My most firmly held belief that Meg Ryan should have won an Oscar for When Harry Met Sally
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 13d
Oooooooo!!!!
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 13d
Daredevil should have an enemy that represents American Protestantism
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 13d
Probably the most revealing thing I can admit is that my ideal romantic relationship is Leonard and Virginia Woolf in “The Hours”
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 14d
I’ve heard tell
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 14d
I never take rejections that hard. There are tons of factors as to why someone passes on something. Gotta be the right piece for the right market to the right person at the right time. Also sometimes the thing you write just isn’t that good
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 16d
If you’re concerned about the rapture, may I suggest that possibly it won’t be that bad
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · Aug 9
The apocalypse, but it’s nice????? How can that be! Find out in this piece of flash fiction from ME. Just read it! Come on! https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2020/05/14/revelations-by-derek-heckman/
Revelations ~ by Derek Heckman
1Well, it happened. All the quote-unquote “Good Christians”—all the ones who’d affixed a Jesus fish to their bumpers; all the ones who’d gone to church every Sunday (except the Catholics); a...
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 18d
Me, turning 34:
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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 18d
I share my birthday with actor Jon Bernthal. We talked this morning, as we always do, and he said that for his birthday, you should read my stuff
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