Matthew Hurst
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Writing things at stubsackfiction.substack.com
Read: Desert Star (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel) by Michael Connelly 📚 Bosch and Ballard content. Solid procedural plus some Ageing Bosch character development. Reliably delivers what you want and then some, and this is why the big name writers get to be the big names. #booksky
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Read: Desert Star (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel) by Michael Connelly 📚 Bosch and Ballard content. Solid procedural plus some Ageing Bosch character development. Reliably delivers what you want and then some, and this is why the big name writers get to be the big names. #booksky
Latest edition of the Fuppery Newsletter is live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…#readingcommunityt#booksk#crimeme
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…#readingcommunityt#booksk#crimeme
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Latest edition of the Fuppery Newsletter is live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…#readingcommunityt#booksk#crimeme
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…#readingcommunityt#booksk#crimeme
Latest edition of the Fuppery Newsletter is live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
#readingcommunity #books #crime
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
#readingcommunity #books #crime
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Latest edition of the Fuppery Newsletter is live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
#readingcommunity #books #crime
open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
#readingcommunity #books #crime
Read: The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey 📚Love the seedy, grimey Black Harbor world and this has the usual tapestry of decay, lies and small town secrets. Not quite up there with Hello Transcriber, and there’s gratuitous Oirishness at the end. But better than most. #booksky
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Read: The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey 📚Love the seedy, grimey Black Harbor world and this has the usual tapestry of decay, lies and small town secrets. Not quite up there with Hello Transcriber, and there’s gratuitous Oirishness at the end. But better than most. #booksky
Environment Canada has Very Precise knowledge of snow
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Environment Canada has Very Precise knowledge of snow
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting Greg the geezer
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting Greg the geezer
Episode 2 of the Fuppery Newsletter is now live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters. Get started while there’s hardly any catching up needed.
#readingcommunity #books #crime
#readingcommunity #books #crime
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Episode 2 of the Fuppery Newsletter is now live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters. Get started while there’s hardly any catching up needed.
#readingcommunity #books #crime
#readingcommunity #books #crime
Read: Putin’s People by Catherine Belton 📚TLDR: Putin helped the KGB steal all Russia’s money, oligarchs stole it from the KGB and set up Putin as leader, Putin stole the money from the oligarchs. Putin wins. Authoritative, heavily researched and so so so so detailed. #booksky #bookstodon
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Read: Putin’s People by Catherine Belton 📚TLDR: Putin helped the KGB steal all Russia’s money, oligarchs stole it from the KGB and set up Putin as leader, Putin stole the money from the oligarchs. Putin wins. Authoritative, heavily researched and so so so so detailed. #booksky #bookstodon
Read: You Killed Me First by John Marrs 📚More gloriously fucked up suburban homicide from John Marrs. At one point I feared it might veer into supernatural tropes, but thankfully it was just psychosis. #booksky #bookstodon
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Read: You Killed Me First by John Marrs 📚More gloriously fucked up suburban homicide from John Marrs. At one point I feared it might veer into supernatural tropes, but thankfully it was just psychosis. #booksky #bookstodon
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem’s worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale? My first short story to hit the streets:
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem’s worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale? My first short story to hit the streets:
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem's worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale?
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem's worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale?
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/fuppery…
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/fuppery…
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Waving around the next snippet warming up to my twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.https://open.substack.com/pub/fupperynewsletter/p/dossier-entry-2-the-director
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Waving around the next snippet warming up to my twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.https://open.substack.com/pub/fupperynewsletter/p/dossier-entry-2-the-director
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
October 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
Read: The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak 📚Modern day CIA spy-daughter investigates what her CIA spy-father got up to in the cold war. Top flight blend of character, suspense and world. Audiobook marred by a narrator with only a passing acquaintance with many common English words. #bookstodon
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Read: The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak 📚Modern day CIA spy-daughter investigates what her CIA spy-father got up to in the cold war. Top flight blend of character, suspense and world. Audiobook marred by a narrator with only a passing acquaintance with many common English words. #bookstodon
Little writing prompt left on our front lawn one morning…
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Little writing prompt left on our front lawn one morning…
Read: All That Man Is by David Szalay 📚A highly regarded slice of seedy short stories about men, mostly down at heel and incuriously baffled by their world of fried chicken shops and unreliable acquaintances. Perceptive, atmospheric and humane but I’d like a bit more plot. #booksky #bookstodon
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Read: All That Man Is by David Szalay 📚A highly regarded slice of seedy short stories about men, mostly down at heel and incuriously baffled by their world of fried chicken shops and unreliable acquaintances. Perceptive, atmospheric and humane but I’d like a bit more plot. #booksky #bookstodon
Read: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚Good, but not quite up to the hype. Lit types called it a thriller, but it lacks suspense and there are longeurs about human evolution which aren’t really part of the genre. It’s a thriller if you don’t normally read them, I suppose. #booksky #bookstodon
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Read: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚Good, but not quite up to the hype. Lit types called it a thriller, but it lacks suspense and there are longeurs about human evolution which aren’t really part of the genre. It’s a thriller if you don’t normally read them, I suppose. #booksky #bookstodon
Abandoned: The Spite House by Johnny Compton 📚mysteriously on-the-run father with two daughters gets a ‘stay in this weird house for money’ job. Believable characters, strong idea, and some thematic meat underneath it all. And yet, somehow I couldn’t get into it. #booksky #bookstodon
October 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Abandoned: The Spite House by Johnny Compton 📚mysteriously on-the-run father with two daughters gets a ‘stay in this weird house for money’ job. Believable characters, strong idea, and some thematic meat underneath it all. And yet, somehow I couldn’t get into it. #booksky #bookstodon
Read: Yesterday’s Spy by Tom Bradby 📚Reliable Bradby content - suspenseful, realistic and intriguing world of spy shenanigans to put the Shah of Iran into power in the 1950s. Fast and compulsive reader #booksky #bookstodon
October 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Read: Yesterday’s Spy by Tom Bradby 📚Reliable Bradby content - suspenseful, realistic and intriguing world of spy shenanigans to put the Shah of Iran into power in the 1950s. Fast and compulsive reader #booksky #bookstodon
Read: Bleaker Waters by Gary Kruse - A mix of Jane Harper-like ‘locals hiding a secret’ and Commissioner Ricciardi ‘I see dead victims’ psychological thriller, and set in my native Norfolk, so I know the locations well. Twisty, engaging read. #booksky #bookstodon
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Read: Bleaker Waters by Gary Kruse - A mix of Jane Harper-like ‘locals hiding a secret’ and Commissioner Ricciardi ‘I see dead victims’ psychological thriller, and set in my native Norfolk, so I know the locations well. Twisty, engaging read. #booksky #bookstodon
Read: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski 📚 This is how you write popular science: engaging, clear, authoritative. Stories, weirdness and passion. It’s about how the sea works - the depths and shallows, the currents, the chemistry, the thermodynamics. An all time favourite. #booksky #bookstodon
October 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Read: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski 📚 This is how you write popular science: engaging, clear, authoritative. Stories, weirdness and passion. It’s about how the sea works - the depths and shallows, the currents, the chemistry, the thermodynamics. An all time favourite. #booksky #bookstodon