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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Sep 3

“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.”

letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...

Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse

A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 8d

playing records at @wmpg.org this AM, 06:30-08:30, 90.9 FM or WMPG.org #RhizomeRadio

a cup, a Yazz Ahmed LP, a sweatshirt from Pony (Montreal)

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 9d

“….but swallowing was no longer an option. His cheeks expanded and swelled until they touched the walls and filled the room. Someone was trying to open the door, but this was no longer a possibility.”

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Congress Street

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Oystertones @oystertones.bsky.social · 26d

we all need more napps music.apple.com/us/album/ext...

Extended Play Vols. 1-3 by Napps on Apple Music

Album · 2024 · 14 Songs

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Sep 3

“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.”

letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...

Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse

A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.

letmetellthisstory.substack.com

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Sep 3

the stack:

stack of books including Balzac, Goethe,Stuart Murdoch, Elizabeth Hand, The Point Issue 35, Franz Hessel, Bebe Ashley, Edwin Frank, and Michael Pedersen

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Sep 2

playing records at @wmpg.org this AM, 06:30-08:30, 90.9 FM or WMPG.org #RhizomeRadio

turntables at WMPG with LPs by Harold Alexander (Sunshine Man) and the Mr Bongo Comp, With Love Volume 2.

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Aug 26

“This time in the SPECIAL INSTRUCTION spot, he wrote things such as “allergic to rice,” “left-sided cashews only,” “extra glue,” and “no egg whites no hippies no sadness no lost boys.” He filled the cart with $85 worth of lunch specials and appetizers.”

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Congress Street

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Aug 20

“I pause. I give him an address from six years ago. He says, bingo-bango…Please and Thankyou and then a child in the background screams and a bus drives into an apple cart.”

letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...

Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse

A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.

letmetellthisstory.substack.com

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Aug 19

playing records at @wmpg.org this morning, 06:30-08:30, 90.9 on the Maine coast FM, WMPG.org for the stream:

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Aug 7

“Everyone had beards, designer drugs, pants pulled too high, anti-capitalism slogans slapped onto the side of a pair of Vans or a shirt from H&M. These were dire times…”

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Issue Six | Mania Magazine

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 28

“I pause and frown. Am I boring my daughter? Or is she lightly amused? I have no idea. I do know that I have too few years left on this earth to waste any of it listening to bloody Beck.”

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"Thank You, Lorde" by Nathaniel Krenkel

Nathaniel Krenkel

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Belfast:

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Berlin butterfly bush:

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Mildest Men:
@shoegazeliterary.bsky.social
shoegazeliterary.com/issue-one-lo...

ISSUE ONE: LOST IN TRANSLATION

Featuring work by Gregory Santo Arena, Ivars Balkits, Annie Bolger, Guillermo Bowie, Tove Ditlevsen, Bailey Dunn, Amanda Emilio, George Evans, don farrell, Michael Favala Goldman, Melisande Fitzsim…

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Empty Library:

Empty Library memorial, Bebelplatz, Berlin (Micha Ullman)

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 18

“I grab the remote. A minute later, I find Pretty In Pink.
“Every seen it?”
“Is it about Onk’s friend, Billy the Tongue?” Florida asks.
“No. It’s about high school kids and class division.”
“Sounds like frog-dog shit.”
#PrettyInPink

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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel

“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…

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Team Love Records @teamloverecords.bsky.social · Jul 18

Bremen:

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 15

“The movie starts, but I pass out almost immediately. Before Chris Penn’s classic line about The Police. Before the game of chicken on tractors. Before Kevin Bacon dances through a grain processing facility. Before Lithgow’s change of heart.”

thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...

Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel

“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 8

playing records at @wmpg.org this AM: 06:30-08:30. 90.9FM or WMPG.org #RhizomeRadio

headphones with WMPG written on the band

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Team Love Records @teamloverecords.bsky.social · Jul 7

finds from Pleasant Street Books, in Woodstock VT, plus owner Sonny Saul’s very deep listen via his Quartet:

3 Kenneth Patchen texts, and a Sonny Saul Quartet CD

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Mount Rushmore in the background, every face Ted Nugent.”

@shoegazeliterary.bsky.social

shoegazeliterary.com/issue-one-lo...

ISSUE ONE: LOST IN TRANSLATION

Featuring work by Gregory Santo Arena, Ivars Balkits, Annie Bolger, Guillermo Bowie, Tove Ditlevsen, Bailey Dunn, Amanda Emilio, George Evans, don farrell, Michael Favala Goldman, Melisande Fitzsim…

shoegazeliterary.com

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jul 2

story about the perils of a bookclub, up now at 100subtexts: 100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/issu...

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jun 29

excited to share a new story in the premiere issue of @shoegazeliterary.bsky.social

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in translation (lost) | PDF to Flipbook

shoegaze literary is a capsule project that publishes poetry and fiction. the inaugural issue explores themes of listlessness, indulgence, and irreverent longing. www.shoegazeliterary.com. PDF to flip...

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · Jun 24

playing records at @wmpg.org this AM: 06:30-08:30, stream at WMPG.org #RhizomeRadio

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