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Derrick
@dmartincampbell.bsky.social
Occult bioswale apologist (non-fascist). Word's greatest non-Slavic short story writer. https://linktr.ee/derrickmartincampbell
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A pinned thread of my published stories that I still like, oldest to newest:
That's my emotional support art nemesis
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Those beautiful Lucian Freud balls -- nine colors if you look -- those impastoed balls!
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy pub day to Patrick and his amazing beautiful, surreal eco-history climate collapse in miniature in in the American middle west
The Great Black Swamp comes out tomorrow. Check out our interview with the author in the meantime. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I stopped reading the first Sentences of stories/novels in 2016, the year of the birth of my first child.

"I've seen where this is going, and I don't like it," I told my laboring wife. "As a parent, I must leave childish things behind. No more First Sentences."

And my laboring wife seemed to agree
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Borges' "The Gospel According to Mark" but instead of triggering the innocent locals by reading The Bible aloud to them, the narrator starts DMing an Old School Revival module about a mega-dungeon full of instant-death poison traps.
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Do you guys think the first Predator and the first Terminator movies were about serial killers?
Do you guys think that the reason there aren't 70s/80s-style serial killers anymore is because whatever was making the serial killers happen has switched up and is doing mass shooters now?
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Do you guys think that the reason there aren't 70s/80s-style serial killers anymore is because whatever was making the serial killers happen has switched up and is doing mass shooters now?
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
When in-laws and coworkers ask how the writing is going
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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It took the ADL like four days to respond to Nick Fuentes breaking into the mainstream last week
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Nothing says “Democratic Leader” quite like “I will not tell you who I voted for in a general election.”
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Second-person is such a huge red flag for me. You can't deal with your own shit so you're LITERALLY telling me I'm the one who did/is doing it? Stop projecting and cowboy up.
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Jason Brashill
November 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Guillermo del Toro, when he's directing a movie, is probably like "Careful now - careful! - we don't want to make this movie too good. I'd actually hate to make a good movie."
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Halloween is the real 4th of July and Christmas is the real Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
My family groans as I stand from writing, connect a cord to my laptop, don respirator and gloves, and descend into the crawlspace where a soon a groan is heard, smoke leaking through the floor:

I am turning on my homemade tense-changing machine, used to change a story from past- to present-tense.
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When theres a pause in the conversation at the bar and your buddies all start to look around perplexed, finally noticing the weird, beautiful, groaning music playing, confused, because they don’t know what you do: that this bar has sacred harp shape note singing on tie jukebox
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Wearing 2-3 little rubber bands on my wrist as part of my extended, informal Lankum cosplay and also to keep egg cartons from opening on the way home from the store
October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Misty atmosphere we planted in the front garden maturing nicely
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Andre Dubus low key describing the gaze of God as a distant light:
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Every public hole fills with garbage.
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Worker at Powells pointed to ”a cool new staff pick for you maybe, kind of an early Vollmann-vibe.” It was my pleasure to assure him I already owned it, was halfway through, and was enjoying every minute of it @johnchrostek.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Come for JD calling autofiction "prose selfie(s)," stay for the reminder that the best writing is born of Writer's Disgust.
"I don’t think of myself as a Writer. I like to write. I love to write. It’s fun. I’m actually a bit disappointed that it’s so fun. I wish I found other, less sedentary, isolated, and self-involved things more fun. But I read a lot as a kid and here we are."

ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with Jon Doughboy
a brief and cautious look inside the dough
ivygrimes.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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nevermind i know what i’m doing
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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the fuck am i doing man
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM