Sam Rasnake
@samrasnake.bsky.social
Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
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Sam Rasnake
@samrasnake.bsky.social
· Sep 1
All That Disappears – Harpy Hybrid Review
www.harpyhybridreview.org
I'm pleased to have a new poem at @harpyhybrid.bsky.social - "All That Disappears"
"Rivers, sunsets, mountains, highways find their end –"
Special thanks to the editors.
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"Rivers, sunsets, mountains, highways find their end –"
Special thanks to the editors.
www.harpyhybridreview.org/hybrid_works...
Hello, Dad.
San Antonio, Texas, c. 1951
San Antonio, Texas, c. 1951
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hello, Dad.
San Antonio, Texas, c. 1951
San Antonio, Texas, c. 1951
Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (de)
YouTube video by Patti Smith - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…
9/12: Killer of Sheep / Charles Burnett, dir., 1978
A unique film experience.
📽️🎬
9/12: Killer of Sheep / Charles Burnett, dir., 1978
A unique film experience.
📽️🎬
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus…
9/12: Killer of Sheep / Charles Burnett, dir., 1978
A unique film experience.
📽️🎬
9/12: Killer of Sheep / Charles Burnett, dir., 1978
A unique film experience.
📽️🎬
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Just finished the Norse Mythology puzzle.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Just finished the Norse Mythology puzzle.
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Super-early RFA procedure tomorrow. Technically quite minor; emotionally my body files any medical under “ugh, not again.” 🙄
So…tonight I’m wide awake, fidgety, & will likely click ‘Checkout!’ on a 3AM insomnia book order.
📚What have you read lately that I should add to my must-read list?
So…tonight I’m wide awake, fidgety, & will likely click ‘Checkout!’ on a 3AM insomnia book order.
📚What have you read lately that I should add to my must-read list?
Chansons grises: V. L’heure exquise by Lore Binon & Inge Spinette on Apple Music
Song · 2017 · Duration 2:15
music.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Super-early RFA procedure tomorrow. Technically quite minor; emotionally my body files any medical under “ugh, not again.” 🙄
So…tonight I’m wide awake, fidgety, & will likely click ‘Checkout!’ on a 3AM insomnia book order.
📚What have you read lately that I should add to my must-read list?
So…tonight I’m wide awake, fidgety, & will likely click ‘Checkout!’ on a 3AM insomnia book order.
📚What have you read lately that I should add to my must-read list?
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I love this story so much. The pacing, the characters, the whole thing.
Today from our neurodiversity reprints issue, A CHORUS DIVERGENT: "Possession" by Taylor Jones, a story in which a neurodiverse person and her elite trained rat save the world by making friends with a globe-spanning fungal entity: reckoning.press/possession/
Possession | Reckoning
Khopesh tugs against her harness, ready to go. She’s a good sniffer, food-motivated and eager to work for treats. Like most sniffers, she’s an African giant pouched rat, about as long as my forearm if...
reckoning.press
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I love this story so much. The pacing, the characters, the whole thing.
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Hey friends, become an ANNUAL subscriber & get a spot in an EXCLUSIVE 90-minute flash workshop ($60 value) & my undying gratitude. Details below: ...https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/fragmentary-flash-beauty-from-the?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Fragmentary Flash: Beauty from The Broken
Photo by Riho Kitagawa on Unsplash
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November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey friends, become an ANNUAL subscriber & get a spot in an EXCLUSIVE 90-minute flash workshop ($60 value) & my undying gratitude. Details below: ...https://open.substack.com/pub/artofflashfiction/p/fragmentary-flash-beauty-from-the?r=4e5y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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And finally, the FICTION ranking includes 270 magazines - and this is the top 20:
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And finally, the FICTION ranking includes 270 magazines - and this is the top 20:
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Loving this warm and gooey sense of community @smokelong.bsky.social ❤️
Starting Nov 8! That's this coming Saturday! Promptember is free. Yep. A huge number of write-in and open mic events Nov 8-Dec 14, and this one is on us. Come write with us. Events are planned for various timezones. Do one a week, three, or all if you never sleep. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Ready for Promptember 2025? - SmokeLong Quarterly
Join the SmokeLong community for Promptember, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live write-in events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Participate in o...
www.smokelong.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Loving this warm and gooey sense of community @smokelong.bsky.social ❤️
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“And there is static before the quiet and you allow yourself to think that he was right. You were not the failure. That you are someone different, someone worth retrieval. Someone who listens.”
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
Clone of the Lost Astronaut — Ghost Parachute
There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete. Be specific they say, since this is the final call. “Are yo...
ghostparachute.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“And there is static before the quiet and you allow yourself to think that he was right. You were not the failure. That you are someone different, someone worth retrieval. Someone who listens.”
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
@avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
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i feel like every psychological horror or thriller stars a modern jack torrance look-alike where each male lead is actually auditioning in real time for future roles needing "a young jack nicholson"...
"think young jack nicholson" might actually be a genre type 😑.
"think young jack nicholson" might actually be a genre type 😑.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
i feel like every psychological horror or thriller stars a modern jack torrance look-alike where each male lead is actually auditioning in real time for future roles needing "a young jack nicholson"...
"think young jack nicholson" might actually be a genre type 😑.
"think young jack nicholson" might actually be a genre type 😑.
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I don't have much, but I had a little extra this pay period. And a little bit can go a long way!
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November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I don't have much, but I had a little extra this pay period. And a little bit can go a long way!
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Friends, I'm grateful to have a poem from my forthcoming book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, in this week's New Yorker. 🤍
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Friends, I'm grateful to have a poem from my forthcoming book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, in this week's New Yorker. 🤍
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“No sibling, no mother. Her / paws were dry magic beads. I touched them.”
bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social
bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“No sibling, no mother. Her / paws were dry magic beads. I touched them.”
bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social
bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social
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My new friends.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My new friends.
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Chill Electronica Mix by Rose Knapp on Apple Music
Playlist · 23 Songs
music.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Some people … hate happy endings. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Deer should not jam. The avalanche, stopping in its tracks, a few feet above the cowering in village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically…
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Some people … hate happy endings. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Deer should not jam. The avalanche, stopping in its tracks, a few feet above the cowering in village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically…
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
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Or like it said at the end of a labor song I liked a lot when I was a kid: what I mean is, take it easy, but take it.
- Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Or like it said at the end of a labor song I liked a lot when I was a kid: what I mean is, take it easy, but take it.
- Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus
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This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
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And you tremble no longer,
Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And you tremble no longer,
Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest
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"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
trampset.org/green-b178ab...
Green
by Michaella Thornton
trampset.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
trampset.org/green-b178ab...
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
trampset.org/green-b178ab...
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Fam: our NOVEMBER ISSUE is only FIVE days away!✨ 🎉
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Fam: our NOVEMBER ISSUE is only FIVE days away!✨ 🎉