Daniel Miller
@danielmiller.bsky.social
hex editor, video game player, dad bod haver, glizzy guzzler (the Glizzard of Oz)
40 East / half-past eight / I got no home town, I got no home state anymore
Snocaps - "Over Our Heads" (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
40 East / half-past eight / I got no home town, I got no home state anymore
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did not qualify for unemployment this week, if anyone wants to buy a workshop ticket
new workshops just dropped!
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place!
natraum.com/workshops
workshops — nat raum
natraum.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
did not qualify for unemployment this week, if anyone wants to buy a workshop ticket
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✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
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ICYM the ICYMI
ICYMI 🔮 we're thrilled to unveil the stunning cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's upcoming novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, with art by @jackhillside.bsky.social and design by Silent Q Design! Preorders are available now until February 18th! 🌟
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
ICYM the ICYMI
Afternoon gang, it is IMPERATIVE that you go see what Joe is talking about (hint, it involves an iconic mid-aughts television program, the rapper Xzibit, love, and the endlessly wonderful @martinezfjulian.bsky.social)
i heard you like bombs inside of bombs inside of cars inside of micros
"Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red..."
the weirdest episode of "Pimp My Ride" you've ever watched, new on hex today from Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ! 👇
the weirdest episode of "Pimp My Ride" you've ever watched, new on hex today from Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ! 👇
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Afternoon gang, it is IMPERATIVE that you go see what Joe is talking about (hint, it involves an iconic mid-aughts television program, the rapper Xzibit, love, and the endlessly wonderful @martinezfjulian.bsky.social)
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
eNOUGH with "James Bond." wake me up when we have JAMES BONDAGE
a person tied up with a blue shirt that says clown on the back
ALT: a person tied up with a blue shirt that says clown on the back
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
eNOUGH with "James Bond." wake me up when we have JAMES BONDAGE
Looking at the Cheesecake Factory menu--
There are too many apps.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Looking at the Cheesecake Factory menu--
This is a very good story!!!!!!
"People are always coming up with new ways for whales to die. Been at it long enough, starting with sharpened sticks and then boats were invented which was some bad luck for whales, and then the boats got harpoons..."
New story from @jessdawn.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!!
New story from @jessdawn.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!!
“Whippomorpha” by Jessica Dawn
“If there’s nothing to fight over, most of getting divorced is just waiting. Nothing worth fighting over, Janna decided a while ago. Best to just let it go.”
ashortstorylong.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a very good story!!!!!!
"Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla..."
I don't want to spoil too much of this one, just know that the legend, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, is back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week. Perfect and strange and that ending!
I don't want to spoil too much of this one, just know that the legend, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, is back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week. Perfect and strange and that ending!
Pimp My Ride by Julián Martinez
Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red with pinstripe and flames which hangs on the fuse of an even bigger bomb, the...
hexliterary.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla..."
I don't want to spoil too much of this one, just know that the legend, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, is back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week. Perfect and strange and that ending!
I don't want to spoil too much of this one, just know that the legend, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, is back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week. Perfect and strange and that ending!
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I am wearing my finest velvets. I am rich and plush to thr touch like a great, luxurious teddy bear. If you don't come out you will be missing out on a once in a lifetime tactile experience
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I am wearing my finest velvets. I am rich and plush to thr touch like a great, luxurious teddy bear. If you don't come out you will be missing out on a once in a lifetime tactile experience
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This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”
The bighearted ghost story you didn’t know you needed. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/h... @liveright.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social @keithdonohue.bsky.social #booksky
Happy People Don’t Live Here: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”
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hey how neat
I just read “A New Kind of Dan” by @kylerseibel.bsky.social in Best Small Fictions 2024 (originally in @trampset.bsky.social), and loved it so much. The ending is perfect. Sorry I’m so late to this one, but if you haven’t read it… trampset.org/a-new-kind-o...
A New Kind of Dan
by Kyle Seibel
trampset.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
hey how neat
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fresh horror recs coming this Wednesday! don't miss out bc you missed a social media post; subscribe for free & refer back at your leisure -- these stories are must-reads 🦇⚡
Hark! — K.C. Mead-Brewer
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
fresh horror recs coming this Wednesday! don't miss out bc you missed a social media post; subscribe for free & refer back at your leisure -- these stories are must-reads 🦇⚡
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Men, why try to look cool reading just any book when you can look bad ass as all hell with one of my book covers?
Art by Matthew Revert on both
Art by Matthew Revert on both
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Men, why try to look cool reading just any book when you can look bad ass as all hell with one of my book covers?
Art by Matthew Revert on both
Art by Matthew Revert on both
enough "true crime." use your imagination and give me "fake crime" you cowards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
enough "true crime." use your imagination and give me "fake crime" you cowards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hell yes, @btoastie.bsky.social. Fantastic all around. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hell yes, @btoastie.bsky.social. Fantastic all around. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
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A Cover Reveal! 🌕
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A Cover Reveal! 🌕
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
I have been getting tattooed for ~ 18 years and SecondSkin is the mf truth
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I have been getting tattooed for ~ 18 years and SecondSkin is the mf truth
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Just a head's up: subs to @thedodgemag.bsky.social close on the 15th! I'm reading fiction for Spring and Summer
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just a head's up: subs to @thedodgemag.bsky.social close on the 15th! I'm reading fiction for Spring and Summer
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Lowkey side eye at my 6-year-old who told me yesterday he loves learning how to read because “every book is a new adventure.” Nice try dude. You will be getting a Nintendo Switch for Christmas like all the other kids.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Lowkey side eye at my 6-year-old who told me yesterday he loves learning how to read because “every book is a new adventure.” Nice try dude. You will be getting a Nintendo Switch for Christmas like all the other kids.
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
Being a writer is about seeing a picture like this and dreaming up a protag with a phobia of being buried alive and a toe sucking (recipient) fetish
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Being a writer is about seeing a picture like this and dreaming up a protag with a phobia of being buried alive and a toe sucking (recipient) fetish
real heads know
great lakes heads
50 years today
she was the pride of the American side...
great lakes heads
50 years today
she was the pride of the American side...
The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Live In Reno)
YouTube video by GordonLightfootVEVO
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November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
real heads know
great lakes heads
50 years today
she was the pride of the American side...
great lakes heads
50 years today
she was the pride of the American side...
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we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social !
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
BECKETTIAN by Shane Kowalski
Murphy was visiting Malone. It had been a while since they had seen each other. Murphy being busy in the city, while Malone had lingered in the countryside. Murphy remembered those dark country roads,...
xraylitmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social !
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...