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High-impact writing can be risky, helmet or not. I'm your crash test dummy, hurling myself at absurdities, looming social fault lines, and yes, even the Oxford comma.
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“Why do I see only white faces? Where’s everyone else?”
“Glad you finally think of us as white,” Yīnyǐng said. "You didn’t notice that our teachers, street meet vendors and subway conductors are now bots? Now you're here, too? Lining up to opt out. Funny."
#SF #LF #A #2025PIT #nearfuturefiction
“Glad you finally think of us as white,” Yīnyǐng said. "You didn’t notice that our teachers, street meet vendors and subway conductors are now bots? Now you're here, too? Lining up to opt out. Funny."
#SF #LF #A #2025PIT #nearfuturefiction
We were feral children—unattended and free, like naughty baby gangsters
We were scarred children—waiting for the belt, like condemned prisoners
We were selfish children—looking out for #1, like pirates dividing treasure
We are alienated adults—like refugees—no more family reunions are planned
We were scarred children—waiting for the belt, like condemned prisoners
We were selfish children—looking out for #1, like pirates dividing treasure
We are alienated adults—like refugees—no more family reunions are planned
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We were feral children—unattended and free, like naughty baby gangsters
We were scarred children—waiting for the belt, like condemned prisoners
We were selfish children—looking out for #1, like pirates dividing treasure
We are alienated adults—like refugees—no more family reunions are planned
We were scarred children—waiting for the belt, like condemned prisoners
We were selfish children—looking out for #1, like pirates dividing treasure
We are alienated adults—like refugees—no more family reunions are planned
It's as if I blasted out a fart and the stink rendered them mute.
“Did you talk to your therapist about this rape?” Sister #1 asks, finally. Coldly. Clinically.
Sister #2 says zilch.
#3 finally weighs in: "Just be careful; memories are tricky. And EMDR isn't an exact science."
Ah, sisterhood.
“Did you talk to your therapist about this rape?” Sister #1 asks, finally. Coldly. Clinically.
Sister #2 says zilch.
#3 finally weighs in: "Just be careful; memories are tricky. And EMDR isn't an exact science."
Ah, sisterhood.
October 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's as if I blasted out a fart and the stink rendered them mute.
“Did you talk to your therapist about this rape?” Sister #1 asks, finally. Coldly. Clinically.
Sister #2 says zilch.
#3 finally weighs in: "Just be careful; memories are tricky. And EMDR isn't an exact science."
Ah, sisterhood.
“Did you talk to your therapist about this rape?” Sister #1 asks, finally. Coldly. Clinically.
Sister #2 says zilch.
#3 finally weighs in: "Just be careful; memories are tricky. And EMDR isn't an exact science."
Ah, sisterhood.
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"Oh, look. Over there. A dog on a shelf," I said to my friend.
She peered across the arroyo. "You mean that black lab on the balcony? The one barking at us?"
I hate it when words fail me. Though I think my version is snappier, don't you?
#brainfart #neologism #malapropism
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She peered across the arroyo. "You mean that black lab on the balcony? The one barking at us?"
I hate it when words fail me. Though I think my version is snappier, don't you?
#brainfart #neologism #malapropism
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February 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"Oh, look. Over there. A dog on a shelf," I said to my friend.
She peered across the arroyo. "You mean that black lab on the balcony? The one barking at us?"
I hate it when words fail me. Though I think my version is snappier, don't you?
#brainfart #neologism #malapropism
,⚰️
She peered across the arroyo. "You mean that black lab on the balcony? The one barking at us?"
I hate it when words fail me. Though I think my version is snappier, don't you?
#brainfart #neologism #malapropism
,⚰️
Tama Janowitz, Brett Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney were the new media darlings. I wanted that notoriety. Thing is, I wasn’t a coke-snorting, social-climbing club kid. Plus, I actually needed to live first. Decades later, I've lived too much. Ready for my stories?
#emergingwriter #latebloomer
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#emergingwriter #latebloomer
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February 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Tama Janowitz, Brett Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney were the new media darlings. I wanted that notoriety. Thing is, I wasn’t a coke-snorting, social-climbing club kid. Plus, I actually needed to live first. Decades later, I've lived too much. Ready for my stories?
#emergingwriter #latebloomer
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#emergingwriter #latebloomer
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Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.
January 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.
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I urge everyone reading this to keep your spirits high and to make up your Goddamn mind to be a steel-spined, unrelenting, ultra-resilient, super-charged, motherfucker on wheels.
Toss every thought of, "I can't," out on its ass with such a fierceness that those thoughts wither and die on the vine.
Toss every thought of, "I can't," out on its ass with such a fierceness that those thoughts wither and die on the vine.
January 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I urge everyone reading this to keep your spirits high and to make up your Goddamn mind to be a steel-spined, unrelenting, ultra-resilient, super-charged, motherfucker on wheels.
Toss every thought of, "I can't," out on its ass with such a fierceness that those thoughts wither and die on the vine.
Toss every thought of, "I can't," out on its ass with such a fierceness that those thoughts wither and die on the vine.
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Set in October 1962, FIVE WEDNESDAYS is an immersive, prismatic look at a woman tip-toeing into an affair weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book explores whether facing our mortality changes our morality—when it’s love and only love that makes us feel most alive.
#LF #HR #HF #2025Pit
#LF #HR #HF #2025Pit
January 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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🔥 FIX YOU 🔥
🔥 Latina Representation
🔥 Catholic High School
🔥 Enemies to Lovers
🔥 Sapphic Love Triangle
🔥 Slow Burn
🔥 Mental Health Rep
🔥 Passionate Sports Girl
🔥 Serial Killers
🔥 Love Conquers All
🔥 Cooper the Corgi
#2025Pit #YA #agentsguide #litagents
🔥 Latina Representation
🔥 Catholic High School
🔥 Enemies to Lovers
🔥 Sapphic Love Triangle
🔥 Slow Burn
🔥 Mental Health Rep
🔥 Passionate Sports Girl
🔥 Serial Killers
🔥 Love Conquers All
🔥 Cooper the Corgi
#2025Pit #YA #agentsguide #litagents
January 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🔥 FIX YOU 🔥
🔥 Latina Representation
🔥 Catholic High School
🔥 Enemies to Lovers
🔥 Sapphic Love Triangle
🔥 Slow Burn
🔥 Mental Health Rep
🔥 Passionate Sports Girl
🔥 Serial Killers
🔥 Love Conquers All
🔥 Cooper the Corgi
#2025Pit #YA #agentsguide #litagents
🔥 Latina Representation
🔥 Catholic High School
🔥 Enemies to Lovers
🔥 Sapphic Love Triangle
🔥 Slow Burn
🔥 Mental Health Rep
🔥 Passionate Sports Girl
🔥 Serial Killers
🔥 Love Conquers All
🔥 Cooper the Corgi
#2025Pit #YA #agentsguide #litagents
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THE MAD HATTER’S PROJECT follows Mary, a Manhattan Project physicist, across alternate realties. Themes of creativity, power, and the ultimate ambition: to imitate the Divine, emerge—exploring the complex relationship between choice, consequence, the universes we create within us.
#2025Pit #LF #A
#2025Pit #LF #A
January 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Mixing sugar with butter? Good.
Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid.
But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend.
#R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing
Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid.
But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend.
#R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing
January 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Mixing sugar with butter? Good.
Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid.
But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend.
#R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing
Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid.
But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend.
#R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing
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HILL HOUSE x NONE OF THIS IS TRUE
A sentient house can be a bully, but terror is tolerable when an author acquires talent. When it attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their past, & both monsters to survive.
#2025Pit #T #H #A #Spf #LGBTQ
Alt POV
A sentient house can be a bully, but terror is tolerable when an author acquires talent. When it attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their past, & both monsters to survive.
#2025Pit #T #H #A #Spf #LGBTQ
Alt POV
January 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
LEAVING LAS VEGAS + THELMA/LOUISE
They launched their own meet-cute love story during the dot-com bubble over dial-up modems. It devolved into a death story. Then ripened into a rebirth story. “Poison attracts poison,” Isla said. But she wasn’t talking about herself or Finn.
#2025PIT #LF #A #CNF
They launched their own meet-cute love story during the dot-com bubble over dial-up modems. It devolved into a death story. Then ripened into a rebirth story. “Poison attracts poison,” Isla said. But she wasn’t talking about herself or Finn.
#2025PIT #LF #A #CNF
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“Why do I see only white faces? Where’s everyone else?”
“Glad you finally think of us as white,” Yīnyǐng said. "You didn’t notice that our teachers, street meet vendors and subway conductors are now bots? Now you're here, too? Lining up to opt out. Funny."
#SF #LF #A #2025PIT #nearfuturefiction
“Glad you finally think of us as white,” Yīnyǐng said. "You didn’t notice that our teachers, street meet vendors and subway conductors are now bots? Now you're here, too? Lining up to opt out. Funny."
#SF #LF #A #2025PIT #nearfuturefiction
January 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“Why do I see only white faces? Where’s everyone else?”
“Glad you finally think of us as white,” Yīnyǐng said. "You didn’t notice that our teachers, street meet vendors and subway conductors are now bots? Now you're here, too? Lining up to opt out. Funny."
#SF #LF #A #2025PIT #nearfuturefiction
“Glad you finally think of us as white,” Yīnyǐng said. "You didn’t notice that our teachers, street meet vendors and subway conductors are now bots? Now you're here, too? Lining up to opt out. Funny."
#SF #LF #A #2025PIT #nearfuturefiction
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FIVE WEDNESDAYS:
In 1962, two British ex-pats meet on a Seattle commuter ferry and fall in love over a series of Wednesdays. When JFK announces Russian missiles discovered in Cuba, they wrestle with facing the end of the world with their American spouses, or with each other.
#LF #HF #HR #2025Pit
In 1962, two British ex-pats meet on a Seattle commuter ferry and fall in love over a series of Wednesdays. When JFK announces Russian missiles discovered in Cuba, they wrestle with facing the end of the world with their American spouses, or with each other.
#LF #HF #HR #2025Pit
January 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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#2025Pit
We Cut Tongues For Ourselves.
Like if Robert Eggers made a film called THE SELKIE.
Set on a mysterious Scottish island at the peak of the Highland Clearances, a young man’s arrival heralds doom for the locals, their beliefs and for the Gaelic girl who falls in love with him.
#A #HF #LF
We Cut Tongues For Ourselves.
Like if Robert Eggers made a film called THE SELKIE.
Set on a mysterious Scottish island at the peak of the Highland Clearances, a young man’s arrival heralds doom for the locals, their beliefs and for the Gaelic girl who falls in love with him.
#A #HF #LF
January 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫
NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES
🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨👨👧Polyamory
❤️🔥Slow Burn
👨👨👦👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖
#2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV
NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES
🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨👨👧Polyamory
❤️🔥Slow Burn
👨👨👦👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖
#2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV
January 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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My second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is "As You See The World," a tale of obsession, taking risks, fresh starts and ... how you see the world.
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As You See The World — Paul O'Connor
“As You See The World” is my second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, a story of obsession, taking risks, fresh starts, and how you look at life.
www.paulryanoconnor.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is "As You See The World," a tale of obsession, taking risks, fresh starts and ... how you see the world.
www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/as-you-...
www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/as-you-...
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Three days ago, he was sitting in the kitchen with me.
Yesterday, we spoke on the phone.
Today, he’s dead.
KILLING ASHER STEWART is an interwoven multi POV character driven story of betrayal, redemption, & the power of money.
#A #S #2025pit
#amquerying
Yesterday, we spoke on the phone.
Today, he’s dead.
KILLING ASHER STEWART is an interwoven multi POV character driven story of betrayal, redemption, & the power of money.
#A #S #2025pit
#amquerying
January 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Three days ago, he was sitting in the kitchen with me.
Yesterday, we spoke on the phone.
Today, he’s dead.
KILLING ASHER STEWART is an interwoven multi POV character driven story of betrayal, redemption, & the power of money.
#A #S #2025pit
#amquerying
Yesterday, we spoke on the phone.
Today, he’s dead.
KILLING ASHER STEWART is an interwoven multi POV character driven story of betrayal, redemption, & the power of money.
#A #S #2025pit
#amquerying
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A sentient house can be tricky, but night terrors and jump scares are tolerable when a struggling author acquires talent.
When the House attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their dark past, and both monsters to survive
#2025Pit #A #T #H
Alt POV
When the House attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their dark past, and both monsters to survive
#2025Pit #A #T #H
Alt POV
January 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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And here I am!
The sun is dying and there was a living being inside the mysterious artifact from Mercury. The first android CEO of the Sol System has to save his citizens, but his enemies and love life make it nearly impossible. Novel working title: ANCESTORS OF EARTH
#2025pit #SF #A
The sun is dying and there was a living being inside the mysterious artifact from Mercury. The first android CEO of the Sol System has to save his citizens, but his enemies and love life make it nearly impossible. Novel working title: ANCESTORS OF EARTH
#2025pit #SF #A
January 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Lizzy, a high school freshman caught between the unraveling of her family and the trauma she carries, is going to die. After jumping from a third story balcony, Lizzy’s life flashes before her eyes as she relives the chain of events that brought her to the brink.
#LF #2025PIT #CON #A #ownvoices
#LF #2025PIT #CON #A #ownvoices
January 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Lizzy, a high school freshman caught between the unraveling of her family and the trauma she carries, is going to die. After jumping from a third story balcony, Lizzy’s life flashes before her eyes as she relives the chain of events that brought her to the brink.
#LF #2025PIT #CON #A #ownvoices
#LF #2025PIT #CON #A #ownvoices
HUSBAND COME HOME
They launched their own meet-cute love story during the dot-com bubble over dial-up modems. It devolved into a death story. Then ripened into a rebirth story. “Poison attracts poison,” Isla said. But she wasn’t talking about herself or Finn.
#2025PIT #FICTION #INUKSUK
They launched their own meet-cute love story during the dot-com bubble over dial-up modems. It devolved into a death story. Then ripened into a rebirth story. “Poison attracts poison,” Isla said. But she wasn’t talking about herself or Finn.
#2025PIT #FICTION #INUKSUK
January 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM