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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 7d

Love Maxwell (So Long, See You Tomorrow; They Came Like Swallows). Need to dig into his short stories...

Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 7d

I read Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat a few years ago, back-to-back, after not having read him since high school and Grapes of Wrath? Absolutely loved them both, for all the reasons you said above.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 10d

someone should put together an anthology of horror stories set in Wisconsin Dells (“The Water Park Capital of the World”)

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 14d

Keeping this going for the same reasons - never read this by Nick Farriella but can always get behind some food-and-grief writing

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/som...

Some Food for Funerals by Nick Farriella

The night before your cousin’s funeral you should eat fried chicken; it comes in striped paper buckets covered by sheets of tin foil with tiny holes poked through the center and rubber bands around th...

www.havehashad.com

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 14d

Haven't had to resort to that but will file it away. We're usually home and standing on the porch looking annoyed gets the same effect.

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 14d

Same situation, support your thesis.

Flip side: very few things are as potentially entertaining as walking our kids down and watching everything you described from a safe distance

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 15d

Is the baseball equivalent of this calling the shallow pop-up between 2nd and RF (or SS and LF)? Or just hitting the cutoff man?

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 15d

My younger kids, both off school today, just told me their favorite way to make warm drinks cool was to put ice in them, with an air like I might tell school to excuse them and their brilliance the rest of 4th and 7th grades, or at least the week.

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 16d

One more here for writers' hockeysky (Caps and Ovi chapter)!

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 20d

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 21d

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 21d

Also, there wasn’t someone walking by who could take the picture and let Lyle Lovett be in it?

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 23d

Behold the brilliance that is this scene. This is one of my favorite scenes.

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 23d

Robert Redford waving in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 26d

Terriers

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 26d

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?

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Defector @defector.com · Sep 7

A baseball game this spectacular will do strange things to you. defector.com/affecting-a-...

[Affecting A Maryland Accent] "Whoa! Go O's!" | Defector

BALTIMORE — With two outs in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday night, the Dodgers leading the Orioles 3-0, all I was thinking about was Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The L.A. ace looked poised to wrap a no-hi...

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's not the most crucial part of the novel, but the scene where the neighbors' party music transitions from "Night Moves" to Big Star is such a delight

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · Sep 2

Can't believe I slept on solo Janovitz this long but this song and album were a perfect listen for today

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X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

it's tha 1st of tha month, which means that subs are open for...

short stories
flash
micros
creative nonfiction

until we reach our monthly cap. thank u !

xraylitmag.com/submissions/

XRAY Submissions

XRAY Literary Magazine submissions are open for fiction and creative nonfiction up to 7500 words. Pitch interviews & essays.

xraylitmag.com

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · Aug 30

You don’t even have to write anything

It’s a 30 sec multiple choice survey

ITEP @itep.org · Aug 29

The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...

IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service

IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

www.irs.gov

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Aug 30

The fact that we must differentiate the First from the Second Defenestration of Prague remains an all time flex of that lovely city

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Aug 30

perhaps you were craving a Defenestration of Prague illustration, I can't be sure

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great interview by @housleydave.bsky.social about a book I absolutely loved and now just want to go read again. Check them both out!

Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · Aug 27

Over at @barrelhouse.bsky.social I interviewed @austinross.bsky.social about his truly awesome paranoid thriller of a novel, GLORIA PATRI, the process of writing the book over many years, how much querying agents sucks, January 6, and Patrick Swayze movies. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/an-inte...

These Extremists Don’t Come Out of Nowhere: An Interview with Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri — Barrelhouse

I don’t know that I was able to fully realize what this novel wanted to be until in 2019, I came up with the idea of combining the story of this isolated family with the story of someone falling into ...

www.barrelhousemag.com

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Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · Aug 26

Happy 50th anniversary to BORN TO RUN, all-time classic album and close personal confidante for most of my life. I wrote this once about the bridge to "Backstreets," one of my favorite pieces of music ever.

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's been a long time (20 yrs?) since I read any Vonnegut, but I remember this being up there in my list. Looking forward to it

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm about to do a book club re-read of Cat's Cradle (but it's been so long it may qualify as a 1st time). What did you think?

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Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · Aug 22

Watching my son's baseball practice to the right car stereo tunes wasn't the worst way to end the day

Sun easing down over the baseball diamond

Car stereo playing Right Back to It by Waxahatchee

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