Nick Black
@fuzzynick.bsky.social
Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' available now from me https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267521176850 or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
Thanks, @louiestowell.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social!
'LOKIFESTO - A Bad God's Guide to Reading' right next to (and massively augmenting) the 'How to locate Children's fiction stock' poster here at South Friern Library.
'LOKIFESTO - A Bad God's Guide to Reading' right next to (and massively augmenting) the 'How to locate Children's fiction stock' poster here at South Friern Library.
January 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Thanks, @louiestowell.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social!
'LOKIFESTO - A Bad God's Guide to Reading' right next to (and massively augmenting) the 'How to locate Children's fiction stock' poster here at South Friern Library.
'LOKIFESTO - A Bad God's Guide to Reading' right next to (and massively augmenting) the 'How to locate Children's fiction stock' poster here at South Friern Library.
""My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off"
- Ray Bradbury
#amwriting
- Ray Bradbury
#amwriting
January 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
""My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off"
- Ray Bradbury
#amwriting
- Ray Bradbury
#amwriting
January 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
January 11, 2026 at 2:52 PM
That the edition I bought in a charity shop last summer: I rather like the cover, reminds me a little of this album sleeve.
I reread 'A Severed Head' and first read 'A Word Child' last year, loved both (esp 'AWC'). This not meant to be in same league, and isn't!, but it's short. Will stay with it.
I reread 'A Severed Head' and first read 'A Word Child' last year, loved both (esp 'AWC'). This not meant to be in same league, and isn't!, but it's short. Will stay with it.
January 11, 2026 at 9:31 AM
That the edition I bought in a charity shop last summer: I rather like the cover, reminds me a little of this album sleeve.
I reread 'A Severed Head' and first read 'A Word Child' last year, loved both (esp 'AWC'). This not meant to be in same league, and isn't!, but it's short. Will stay with it.
I reread 'A Severed Head' and first read 'A Word Child' last year, loved both (esp 'AWC'). This not meant to be in same league, and isn't!, but it's short. Will stay with it.
#nowplaying "80s synth magic for the 4-track mind. DIY outsider Rick Cuevas was a post-punk refugee on a vision quest for a hit. Tracked at home in 1984, "The Birds" is that 40-year-delayed viral smash, one of eight retro-futurist anthems that make up Cuevas' debut album." @numerogroup.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
#nowplaying "80s synth magic for the 4-track mind. DIY outsider Rick Cuevas was a post-punk refugee on a vision quest for a hit. Tracked at home in 1984, "The Birds" is that 40-year-delayed viral smash, one of eight retro-futurist anthems that make up Cuevas' debut album." @numerogroup.bsky.social
Struggling to settle into any fiction at the moment, hoping this'll stick.
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Struggling to settle into any fiction at the moment, hoping this'll stick.
The Belair Lip Bombs, blasting any January 2 blues away
#amplaying #nowplaying @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social
#amplaying #nowplaying @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The Belair Lip Bombs, blasting any January 2 blues away
#amplaying #nowplaying @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social
#amplaying #nowplaying @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 1:24 PM
#nowplaying #amplaying @thecoral.bsky.social in a library still thick with the stink and smoke of a mincepie-microwaving that went horribly wrong.
December 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#nowplaying #amplaying @thecoral.bsky.social in a library still thick with the stink and smoke of a mincepie-microwaving that went horribly wrong.
This afternoon's viewing
December 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This afternoon's viewing
Glyders - 'Forever'
So far I'm hearing White Denim, John Lennon, Creedence, Quo... If the sound of those influences combined appeals, don't let this one pass you by.
So far I'm hearing White Denim, John Lennon, Creedence, Quo... If the sound of those influences combined appeals, don't let this one pass you by.
December 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Glyders - 'Forever'
So far I'm hearing White Denim, John Lennon, Creedence, Quo... If the sound of those influences combined appeals, don't let this one pass you by.
So far I'm hearing White Denim, John Lennon, Creedence, Quo... If the sound of those influences combined appeals, don't let this one pass you by.
'I AM LOVE' is a Christmas/post-Christmas film.
#LucaGuadagnino #TildaSwinton #amwatching #nowwatching #primevideo
#LucaGuadagnino #TildaSwinton #amwatching #nowwatching #primevideo
December 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
'I AM LOVE' is a Christmas/post-Christmas film.
#LucaGuadagnino #TildaSwinton #amwatching #nowwatching #primevideo
#LucaGuadagnino #TildaSwinton #amwatching #nowwatching #primevideo
My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book of short stories, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE is now available directly from me, via eBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117... or through Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
#books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction
#books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction
December 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book of short stories, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE is now available directly from me, via eBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117... or through Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
#books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction
#books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
December 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Christmas evening.
December 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Christmas evening.
✨Christmas reading.✨
Recently found a 1982 set of the Narnia books in my parents-in-law's flat, presumably the copies my wife read as a kid, closer in date to their original publication than 1982 is to now.
Recently found a 1982 set of the Narnia books in my parents-in-law's flat, presumably the copies my wife read as a kid, closer in date to their original publication than 1982 is to now.
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
✨Christmas reading.✨
Recently found a 1982 set of the Narnia books in my parents-in-law's flat, presumably the copies my wife read as a kid, closer in date to their original publication than 1982 is to now.
Recently found a 1982 set of the Narnia books in my parents-in-law's flat, presumably the copies my wife read as a kid, closer in date to their original publication than 1982 is to now.
Have a bopping Christmas!
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Have a bopping Christmas!
Nice memory of working at Hampstead Waterstones, serving a very pregnant Emma Thompson and asking if she'd thought of any names yet. "We're thinking of Gaia", she said.
Now watching Gaia play the younger adult version of her in 'Dead of Winter' and feeling life passes by in a number of blinks.
Now watching Gaia play the younger adult version of her in 'Dead of Winter' and feeling life passes by in a number of blinks.
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Nice memory of working at Hampstead Waterstones, serving a very pregnant Emma Thompson and asking if she'd thought of any names yet. "We're thinking of Gaia", she said.
Now watching Gaia play the younger adult version of her in 'Dead of Winter' and feeling life passes by in a number of blinks.
Now watching Gaia play the younger adult version of her in 'Dead of Winter' and feeling life passes by in a number of blinks.
