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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 4h

Still a little time to get this in.

Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 8d

If you enjoyed my memoir, could you take a moment and write a review on that one very popular retail website? You know the one.
DM me a pic of your review for a chance to win a signed copy. I'll randomly select a winner at the end of next week.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 4h

You’re good!
Still time.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 8d

If you enjoyed my memoir, could you take a moment and write a review on that one very popular retail website? You know the one.
DM me a pic of your review for a chance to win a signed copy. I'll randomly select a winner at the end of next week.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Finally. October. The 8th month.
We can finally begin the festival of the octopus.

(This joke brought to you by the Etymology and Cephalopod Awareness Council of Ohio)

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 8d

If you enjoyed my memoir, could you take a moment and write a review on that one very popular retail website? You know the one.
DM me a pic of your review for a chance to win a signed copy. I'll randomly select a winner at the end of next week.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 9d

Such care will cost you

a moment. An extra worry.

And will teach you that our world is kind

because tired people,

swaying in dim kitchens,

won’t let it be otherwise.

(2/2)

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 9d

Treat every moth

struggling against your kitchen window

like it is the soul of a dear friend

you never chanced to meet.

Treat its frantic flutters

as your own panicked breath

caged inside your ribs and starving

to find gentleness in the dark.

(1/2)

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 10d

Yet, I never think of them as ghosts.
I think of them as neighbors.
And I appreciate their company. (2/2)

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 10d

Living next to a cemetery, sometimes people ask if I see ghosts.
The short answer is, "no."
But I do have backyard fires and I do put out an extra chair.
Sometimes, I feel like someone has joined me, sitting quietly and feeling the warmth. (1/2)

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 10d

My new novel has the three c's.
Cozy.
Cryptids.
Cosmic-Horror.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Looks like there is a deep Amz Prime deal on my book Something in the Woods Loves You today.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Shall I compare thee to a giant squid?

Thou art more bone-filled and less buoyant.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 14d

Poet powers! Activate!
*strange poet sounds*

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 15d

*taking notes*

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 15d

Hey, if we’re collecting medical recommendations from people without science backgrounds, I’d like to hear Kid Rock’s thoughts on ADHD.
Maybe I should swallow a Lego skeleton fig to scare the microplastics out of my blood or something?

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 15d

Gray tree frog came to visit tonight.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 15d

I took the money I saved from Disney and turned it into a monthly PBS contribution.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 19d

I can know each as a part of me, without pouring all my identity into the one who captures my shifting attention.

The fish. The frogs. The Dragonflies.

I claim them, but I am separate.

I am the pond. (2/2)

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 19d

I am the pond.

My thoughts are the fish swimming beneath the cattail shadows.

My fears are the frogs, floating weightless, their pointed faces parting the lily pads.

My hopes are the dragonflies, warming themselves on a willow branch, mirrored in the still water. (1/2)

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Jenna Scherer @secondhusk.bsky.social · 21d

Thinking about this passage from @jarodkanderson.bsky.social’s “Something in the Woods Loves You” as I continue my job search. When I was younger and journalism was less broken, I used to find a sense of purpose in my work, because it *meant* something to me. I don’t know the last time I felt that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21d

I keep receiving obviously AI-generated emails trying to sell me various services.
Like, you couldn't even be bothered to write an email. Why would I ever want to be your client or trust you to exercise judgement/expertise on my behalf?

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21d

Sure, I'm an emerging writer.
I've been publishing for awhile,
but I do love to emerge from stuff.
Swamps. Leaf litter. Dark woods.
Odd daydreams.
Emerging is kinda my thing.

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