Marc Criley
@marcc.bsky.social
I write short stories & drabbles, am a member of Codex and SFWA, carry on about Alabama (especially Huntsville), Fossils, metal detecting, some ill-mannered feline co-residents, and genealogy from my perch on #CedarGapMtn.
https://kickin-the-darkness.com/
https://kickin-the-darkness.com/
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A real bargain and a total of *counts carefully* an absolute spaffload of stories. Dark Stars, Wyrms 2 and The Book of Drabbles contain stories by me but I'm afraid it's not possible to have those removed before purchase.
🚨Bundle!🚨
You can grab 15 drabble anthologies for only $12 from the Shacklebound Bookstore!
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You can grab 15 drabble anthologies for only $12 from the Shacklebound Bookstore!
payhip.com/b/QYb3u
Drabble Bundle
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November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A real bargain and a total of *counts carefully* an absolute spaffload of stories. Dark Stars, Wyrms 2 and The Book of Drabbles contain stories by me but I'm afraid it's not possible to have those removed before purchase.
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Deal Alert! Come grab a stack of drabble anthos--including Wyrms 2, Drabbledark 3, and Programmed Hearts that all featured drabbles from yours truly!
🚨Bundle!🚨
You can grab 15 drabble anthologies for only $12 from the Shacklebound Bookstore!
payhip.com/b/QYb3u
You can grab 15 drabble anthologies for only $12 from the Shacklebound Bookstore!
payhip.com/b/QYb3u
Drabble Bundle
payhip.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Deal Alert! Come grab a stack of drabble anthos--including Wyrms 2, Drabbledark 3, and Programmed Hearts that all featured drabbles from yours truly!
Drabble 🦃 drabble 🦃 drabble!
100 word stories (no more, no less) coming out the wazoo!
You can find my name defacing the table of contents of five of these.
Go! Buy! Read! Read faster!
100 word stories (no more, no less) coming out the wazoo!
You can find my name defacing the table of contents of five of these.
Go! Buy! Read! Read faster!
🚨Bundle!🚨
You can grab 15 drabble anthologies for only $12 from the Shacklebound Bookstore!
payhip.com/b/QYb3u
You can grab 15 drabble anthologies for only $12 from the Shacklebound Bookstore!
payhip.com/b/QYb3u
Drabble Bundle
payhip.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Drabble 🦃 drabble 🦃 drabble!
100 word stories (no more, no less) coming out the wazoo!
You can find my name defacing the table of contents of five of these.
Go! Buy! Read! Read faster!
100 word stories (no more, no less) coming out the wazoo!
You can find my name defacing the table of contents of five of these.
Go! Buy! Read! Read faster!
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
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Don’t break the picket line!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Don’t break the picket line!
Anyone who sees this, show me your lock screen
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Anyone who sees this, show me your lock screen
Goon a movie:
Eternal Goonshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Goonshine of the Spotless Mind
Goon a movie:
Goonstruck
Goonstruck
Goon a movie:
Goon In 60 Seconds
Goon In 60 Seconds
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Goon a movie:
Eternal Goonshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Goonshine of the Spotless Mind
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maybe JD Vance has never taken ibuprofen, assuming that pounding in his skull is just the normal consequence of attempting a thought at all
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
maybe JD Vance has never taken ibuprofen, assuming that pounding in his skull is just the normal consequence of attempting a thought at all
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I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
The Submission Grinder
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
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If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Not bad when a drabble first draft comes in at 96 words! #AmWriting
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Not bad when a drabble first draft comes in at 96 words! #AmWriting
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tech company in 2000: kinda good news we have invented a way for you to talk to the whole world from your phone
tech company in 2025: INCREDIBLE NEWS in a revolutionary achievement that will change the world you can now use emojis in filenames!!! Nobel Prize for our CEO when?
tech company in 2025: INCREDIBLE NEWS in a revolutionary achievement that will change the world you can now use emojis in filenames!!! Nobel Prize for our CEO when?
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
tech company in 2000: kinda good news we have invented a way for you to talk to the whole world from your phone
tech company in 2025: INCREDIBLE NEWS in a revolutionary achievement that will change the world you can now use emojis in filenames!!! Nobel Prize for our CEO when?
tech company in 2025: INCREDIBLE NEWS in a revolutionary achievement that will change the world you can now use emojis in filenames!!! Nobel Prize for our CEO when?
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I've got a new flash story in this one. Lots of great weird west stories. Come and get 'em! 😁🙌💙
Out today! Twisted Trails is an anthology of weird west flash fiction stories!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books)
Amazon.com: Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books) eBook : Fomley, Eric: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I've got a new flash story in this one. Lots of great weird west stories. Come and get 'em! 😁🙌💙
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Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole
Faint auroral glow visible high in the sky over north Alabama!
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Faint auroral glow visible high in the sky over north Alabama!
One of the *very* few movies I rewatch.
One of the fascinating aspects of it is that the second time you watch it, you're watching a different movie than what you saw the first time.
One of the fascinating aspects of it is that the second time you watch it, you're watching a different movie than what you saw the first time.
Arrival turns 9 today—Denis Villeneuve’s haunting sci-fi masterpiece that made us rethink language, time & love.
Revisit its creations, themes, and legacy in our feature.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
cinephiliabeyond.org/arrival/
Revisit its creations, themes, and legacy in our feature.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
cinephiliabeyond.org/arrival/
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
One of the *very* few movies I rewatch.
One of the fascinating aspects of it is that the second time you watch it, you're watching a different movie than what you saw the first time.
One of the fascinating aspects of it is that the second time you watch it, you're watching a different movie than what you saw the first time.
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My opinion of modern technology is that everything needs to beep less
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My opinion of modern technology is that everything needs to beep less
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours...
You can go from one end of the solar system to the other, but there's no feeling like being out with the family in "Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain."
futurefire.net/2024.69/fict...
You can go from one end of the solar system to the other, but there's no feeling like being out with the family in "Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain."
futurefire.net/2024.69/fict...
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours...
You can go from one end of the solar system to the other, but there's no feeling like being out with the family in "Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain."
futurefire.net/2024.69/fict...
You can go from one end of the solar system to the other, but there's no feeling like being out with the family in "Sun-Dappled Sheets of Methane Rain."
futurefire.net/2024.69/fict...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The father of a transgender child fled Alabama to protect his daughter, now he's written a book, "And the Dragons Do Come". thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
He fled Alabama to protect his family, and now he warns the world
“The weight of living in Alabama, of living in fight or flight every day, was something I didn’t realize I was carrying until I got out of there."
www.al.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The father of a transgender child fled Alabama to protect his daughter, now he's written a book, "And the Dragons Do Come". thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The father of a transgender child fled Alabama to protect his daughter, now he's written a book, "And the Dragons Do Come". thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
He fled Alabama to protect his family, and now he warns the world
“The weight of living in Alabama, of living in fight or flight every day, was something I didn’t realize I was carrying until I got out of there."
www.al.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The father of a transgender child fled Alabama to protect his daughter, now he's written a book, "And the Dragons Do Come". thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
Read what @johnarchibald.bsky.social says about Sim Butler and how the state he loved went after his family and broke his heart.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
