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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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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · Sep 15
I’ve been a fan of @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social’s work/aesthetic/whole dang deal for a long time, so I’m excited as all get-out to reveal the cover of my upcoming short story collection, dropping 11/18/25
the cover of my upcoming book, available 11/18/25 from Cowboy Jamboree Press
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empty submittable queue for the first time in like 5 years
Robert Redford asking “what do we do now?” in the 1972 film The Candidate
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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keersteemack.bsky.social
it occurs to me that i have a book coming out in like six days and i have not yet told you what it's about

my bad

if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕

✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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jonathanin2k.bsky.social
An accidental text led to me getting to say something about True Grit, one of my favorite novels of all time, on @johnwaddy.bsky.social’s awesome Tantalizing Texas podcast.

I show up around minute 41, but you should listen to the whole thing!

open.spotify.com/episode/2Ddo...
Don't Eat the Purple Corn Dogs: A Study of Outsider Art & Culture in Texas!
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November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Is San Marcos the most tantalizing town in Texas? I don’t know, maybe ask George Strait? Or Brockhampton? Or Frisbee Dan? Or the Flapper Bandit? Or Pancake: the Restaurant? Or Glurpo, the underwater clown? Or the stoned newborn from Pizza Classics? open.spotify.com/episode/3eN0...
San Marcos: Mermaid Capitol of Texas!
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November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Nov 18 is my birthday and I’m totally treating myself to a copy of this!
johnwaddy.bsky.social John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 6d
Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from Dina Guidubaldi
There’s a peculiar set of contrasts that exists in tiny college towns, one that John Waddy Bullion deftly captures in his collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers….The characters in this intertwined collection are mischievous, abandoning their prescribed roles and flipping their scripts. Students teach professors a thing or two; some townies do manage to up and leave. Bullion shows us that small-town trappings can also make a person clever, and with the right attitude, mishaps can become boons. Dina Guidubaldi, author of How Gone We Got
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from Dina Guidubaldi
There’s a peculiar set of contrasts that exists in tiny college towns, one that John Waddy Bullion deftly captures in his collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers….The characters in this intertwined collection are mischievous, abandoning their prescribed roles and flipping their scripts. Students teach professors a thing or two; some townies do manage to up and leave. Bullion shows us that small-town trappings can also make a person clever, and with the right attitude, mishaps can become boons. Dina Guidubaldi, author of How Gone We Got
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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It’s November 1st, you know what that means

(James Brown’s “Go Power at Christmas Time” begins blasting)
A lit-up Christmas tree in the front window of a house
November 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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10/31/03: I am about to drink a bunch of Shiners and kiss this girl, who is my coworker. An excellent decision!
Me and the future Rachel Brucks Bullion on 10/31/2003
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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edsbs.bsky.social
Dan Brown was SPITTIN’
Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?”
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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bruisermag.com
It’s disgusting in here. There’s an open container of garlic stuffed olives in the shower. Where do you even get those in a hospital?

ONE PERSON’S HELL by @keersteemack.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/mackenzie_hell
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The classic Blue Bell ice cream fudge bars box, featuring a smiling middle aged man wearing a blue hat with the words “COACH” on the front, with a red coaches jacket and a blue shirt, holding a popsicle a smiling middle aged man wearing a blue hat with the words “COACH” on the front, with a red coaches jacket and a blue shirt, holding a popsicle
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from Cynthia Shearer
Imagine that you can at last know the stories of those random faces you might have passed on the streets of some small American city you drive through --the regulars at a pizza dive, a boy hitchhiking in the rain, the manager of an adult-content emporium. American fiction's strength has always been its penchant for taking us into the borderlands that smudge any sharp distinction between the epic and the comic, and that's exactly what Bullion does here. He is particularly adept at capturing the precarity of boyhood, placing him in the same literary lineage that gave us Barry Hannah and George Saunders. Reading these stories is like coming across the Teacher's Edition, the one that includes the mysterious answers, if you know where to look. - Cynthia Shearer, author of The Wonder Book of the Air and The Celestial Jukebox
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Do you like e-books? If so, good news, because now you can preorder an electronic copy of my debut collection, THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS, and it will magically appear on your device on November 18th a.co/d/hH8Z5Bl
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers: Stories - Kindle edition by Waddy Bullion, John. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers: Stories - Kindle edition by Waddy Bullion, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, not...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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So much is wrong in the world and yet you can still see UTEP play Sam Houston State in college football on a Wednesday night.
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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This is (and I mean this in the best way possible) like if the “Joe Buck welcome to the top of the 47th inning” tweet was stretched into flash fiction. Absolutely masterful
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Pumped to be in hex! What a day!
October 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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red dead redemption subreddit filled with d’angelo tributes. what a career.
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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“Noses arrange neat lines of white powder onto antique mirrors.”

This is so good.
October 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I played every piece ever published on @havehashad.com backwards and here is my report on all the embedded messages I found www.havehashad.com/hadposts/led...
Led Zeppelin by John Waddy Bullion
A stadium reassembles itself from a pile of rubble. A massive luxury jetliner, outfitted with a 30-foot-long couch and a working fireplace, takes off in reverse and hurtles backwards across the At...
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October 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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me whenever I remember that one of my degrees is from the University of North Texas
a mascot with the number 32 on his jersey is eating popcorn
Alt: a mascot (scrappy the eagle) with the number 32 on his jersey is eating popcorn in a movie theater and then there’s a jump scare
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October 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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wrote about doppelgängers again

BILLLLLLLLLLLLY
SHEARS mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
Everybody Knows That Paul McCartney Died in a Car Crash in 1966 | MrBullBull
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October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Can’t wait for this!
johnwaddy.bsky.social John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · Oct 8
Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from @kevingrauke.bsky.social
This collection of loosely connected stories reminds us that, no matter how much we crave connection and a sense of belonging, we often fail to achieve it to any degree of satisfaction-and sometimes not at all. Bullion's young men do their very best, however, to forge identities in a lonely, latchkey landscape of a Missouri college town, where parents are checked out, if not absent, and the love is tough, if present at all. Now, this may sound like rough sledding, but its bite and poignancy are perfectly balanced with what is often riotous humor. Such a potent mixture is a rarity in today's fiction, which is why this collection is a thing to celebrate and share. Kevin Grauke, author of Shadows of Men and Yonderites
October 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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havehashad.com
sound the alarms, we got new Z.H. Gill!!

"My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform..."

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Okay? by Z.H. Gill
My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform and,…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from @kevingrauke.bsky.social
This collection of loosely connected stories reminds us that, no matter how much we crave connection and a sense of belonging, we often fail to achieve it to any degree of satisfaction-and sometimes not at all. Bullion's young men do their very best, however, to forge identities in a lonely, latchkey landscape of a Missouri college town, where parents are checked out, if not absent, and the love is tough, if present at all. Now, this may sound like rough sledding, but its bite and poignancy are perfectly balanced with what is often riotous humor. Such a potent mixture is a rarity in today's fiction, which is why this collection is a thing to celebrate and share. Kevin Grauke, author of Shadows of Men and Yonderites
October 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM