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John Waddy Bullion
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Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs.
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This collection was twenty years in the making, and there were times I could’ve quit, but I never stopped believing in these stories. Thanks @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @vanwinkle.bsky.social for believing in them too—and for making this whole process the smoothest imaginable. a.co/d/8UAd3Ij
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers: Stories
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first reading since 2021 & it's a big one, buddies. see you there?
The 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading returns to AWP at 6 p.m. March 4 at Metro Baltimore, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fifteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26
February 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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I’d like a chance to shoot at an educated man once in my life youtu.be/aiRL2tukEOQ?...
Lonesome Dove- Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit
YouTube video by cgold33
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February 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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i have a new little story over at @bulbregion.bsky.social about a guy who eats a bicycle for love. happy valentines day kids xo
“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.”

Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.

bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
bulbregion.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers: Stories
Stories
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February 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
me when I found out TCU’s baseball team has a dude named “Kyuss”
February 15, 2026 at 4:04 AM
how can you not be romantic about (college) baseball
February 15, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Thank you very much, @asuenglish.bsky.social, for sharing this story today!
⚾ Fiction Friday: "What matters is you promised him a game, and you don’t intend to strike out looking."

From "The Delicate Art of Section Hopping" by ASU alum Jonathan Danielson.

Read the Sidd Finch Fiction Prize-winning story in The Twin Bill: https://ow.ly/hhRc50Yc0Fy #ASUHumanities
The Delicate Art of Section Hopping - The Twin Bill
By Jonathan Danielson
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February 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
who is this. I do not know this guy
February 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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When: Thursday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Where: Golden West Cafe, 1105 W. 36th St.
February 13, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I’ll be distributing a QR code to a SurveyMonkey at the AWP offsite reading to determine what we at WaddyCorp can do to improve your literary event experience
February 11, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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I’ll be reading on Thursday, March 5, for an AWP offsite with authors from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social, and more! Come hang out. I’ve heard Golden West Cafe is cool!
February 11, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I have been waiting for nearly half my lifetime for an article like this, and now it’s here: an account of the explosive beef between San Marcos, TX’s beloved weirdos, Frisbee Dan and the Sun God texashighways.com/travel/the-o...
The Ongoing Rivalry Between Two San Marcos Local Legends
How Frisbee Dan and the Sun God came together (and fell out) in Sewell Park
texashighways.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
3/5, 7:00pm
AWP
BALTIMORE
Come see me and some really talented folks read things to you
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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“Wow that’s based,” typed 45 year old in pajama pants, expressionless
February 7, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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cause im
bad bunny
check it and see
im singing songs in spanish
on your tv
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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My debut novel Burn came out this week from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and I'm so happy to welcome her to the world.

www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/burn.html
BURN
BURN  Stephanie Austin Order Here (ebook & paperback available) “ BURN  is filled with beautiful losers covered in scars of their own making. And yet it also finds hope in the dark places, both...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe
February 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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bro can't believe what he's seeing rn
February 5, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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me yesterday: ❤️🥌😍curling baby ❤️🥌😍
me during the 6th end of USA-Switzerland curling: the curling baby must be defeated
Curling baby for all your Olympic meme needs
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
perhaps it was a bad idea to tell my coworkers about my book pt. 72
February 4, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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folks…i don’t post on here so much…but if you read one thing this week, make it this giant single sentence about life and routine and thought and writing and wonder
got a new(𝘪𝘴𝘩? wrote it in the fall) essay up on @burialmagazine.bsky.social. a loooong single sentence about early mornings & daily coffee & Michigan & the US & teaching & writing & POV & work & watching others work & probably lots of other stuff too...

burialmagazine.neocities.org/nolongerther...
No Longer There, Revisited
burialmagazine.neocities.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM
just found my next tattoo
Expanding my art collection with well-considered investments
February 4, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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BURN by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social is out today from CJ Press! Grab an ebook or paperback and take the ride--it's a novel you won't soon forget: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/burn.html
BURN
BURN  Stephanie Austin Order Here (ebook & paperback available) “ BURN  is filled with beautiful losers covered in scars of their own making. And yet it also finds hope in the dark places, both...
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM