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unstablebooks.bsky.social
Check out my latest episode of Unstable Table Talks ™️ 🎤 my guest? The one & only @alandistro.bsky.social, owner and acquisitions editor of our beloved @shortwavebooks.bsky.social

You don’t want to miss this one!

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Unstable Table Talks ™️ Episode 11 with Alan Lastufka
The owner of Shortwave Books is here! Everybody BE COOL!!
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December 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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uteorgassa.bsky.social
Believe it or not, I am in this! My story in Obsolescence is how this wild writerly journey began.
shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Sep 30
Out today! 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories Vol 1

Featuring stories from nearly 90 authors, this eBook box set contains our previous anthologies and the new anthology Dark Frequencies (stories from our magazine and chapbooks).

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A graphic featuring the cover art of 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories, Vol. 1 below the text: "Out Today! 101 Horror Stories from nearly 90 Authors including Nat Cassidy, Adam Cesare, Hailey Piper, Clay McLeod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Eric LaRocca, Gabino Iglecias, Johnny Compton, Laurel Hightower, Brian Keene, Tanya Pell, Jamie Flanagan, Mae Murray, and many others..."
October 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
The Rally to save the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa city is busting out of the largest meeting room in the public library.
Here is info and a petition. 📜
Qr code for the petition
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Saturday. (Iowa) #IowaCity
#SHSI
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State Historical Research Center in Iowa City to close, collections to be relocated
A rally to protest the impending closure of the State Historical Society of Iowa’s (SHSI) Research Center in Iowa City is scheduled for Saturday, August 23, fr
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August 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
xenolilly.bsky.social
Let Evan Rachel Wood return for the Practical Magic sequel, please. 🙏
July 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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uteorgassa.bsky.social
Look at that, I am a highlighted author!
cateyepress.bsky.social Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · Jul 7
We’re back with more #ModernMummies author highlights. Today, we have @uteorgassa.bsky.social whose short stories have been published by Shortwave Publishing, Haunted Words Press & more. Her Modern Mummies story “Going Home” is an eerie exploration of what happens when you disturb the dead.
Modern Mummies Author Highlight: Ute Orgassa Snippet from the story "Going Home" by Ute Orgassa Preorder Modern Mummies at cateyepress.com/store
July 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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In This Parisian Atelier, Bookbinding Is a Family Art 📜
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In This Parisian Atelier, Bookbinding Is a Family Art
At Atelier Devauchelle, artisans repair damaged books, some of them hundreds of years old.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard
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'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard
Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.
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March 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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U.S. Butterflies Are Disappearing at Drastic Rates, With One in Five Gone Since 2000
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U.S. Butterflies Are Disappearing at Drastic Rates, With One in Five Gone Since 2000
A new study finds the popular, fluttering insects have declined by 22 percent in the last 20 years
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March 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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uteorgassa.bsky.social
I have a new flash story out today. Enjoy!
March 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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carinr.bsky.social
Somehow I'd never realized that the digitization of the Exeter Book includes raking light photographs of drypoint images in the margins!

Overview here: theexeterbook.exeter.ac.uk/drypoint.html and you can click through to the manuscript viewer to zoom in.

#medievalsky #manuscripts #oldenglish
Scratched image of an angel in the margin of a medieval manuscript Scratched image of a robed figure in the margin of a medieval manuscript Scratched decorated initial P in the margin of a medieval manuscript
February 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
St. Louis has the oldest library west of the Mississippi River – and it’s getting a makeover
(Discusses gallery space and Special collections) 📜
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St. Louis has the oldest library west of the Mississippi River – and it’s getting a makeover
Leadership promises a “revitalized and reinvigorated” library.
www.laduenews.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM