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Thad DeVassie
@thaddevassie.bsky.social
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writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | THIS SIDE OF UTOPIA out now | 2020 James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025

Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · Aug 21
Is this what we're doing?
Ball of twine with a match in its mouth about to be torched by a match already on fire
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Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.

Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Please register here for zoom link:

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November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Happy Seasonal Confusion Monday (aka Snowvember)
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Not like you need another reason to love @smokelong.bsky.social -- but this is added incentive.
smokelong.bsky.social SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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how to feel lonely in a room full of people
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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// NEW LISTING //

photo/collage
photo of a yellow ranch house on a cold winter day with blue sky and white clouds and a for sale sign in the yard, with added text overlay "sky for sale, clouds included, ranch in foreground"
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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// NEW LISTING //

photo/collage
photo of a yellow ranch house on a cold winter day with blue sky and white clouds and a for sale sign in the yard, with added text overlay "sky for sale, clouds included, ranch in foreground"
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Tuesday morning
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday here's one of my own.
Cheers to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and small poems.
November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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don't go chasing waterfalls unless
they've got something to say
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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don't go chasing waterfalls unless
they've got something to say
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I owe a lot to my friend Tim Suermondt for keeping me going in the dark, lonely years of writing. This is from "Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets"

#smallpoemsunday
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October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Thank you, Francine!
October 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Grateful to have FIVE flash pieces up at Flash Boulevard. Huge thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social

flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/t...
THAD DEVASSIE: Field work for the coming apocalypse
Flash Fiction by Thad DeVassie Several Water Cannons Several water cannons point at the girls who recently graduated from girlhood to something more mysterious, who maneuver like tender filets acro…
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October 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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some recent small-scale landscapes on paper.

what's your favorite?
October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Happy Pub Day to Naming a Dying Thing!
Available now from Yellow Arrow Publishing
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October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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do u like art? do u like helping? If so…
Collage of 4 hand painted tattoo flash around another flash of a banner that reads 4 4 4 4 Raffle 4 ACLU Screenshot of text: Let’s do something good!!! I’m hosting a raffle for four 4”x4” flash minis I painted on Arches. $4/entry. I will take care of shipping, but unfortunately this means I have to keep it US only. 100% of the proceeds will go to the ACLU, and I’m kicking in $50 to start. I will randomize a winner on 10/31 and figure out shipping then! If you’d like to purchase an entry ticket, please venmo me @ danielson1990 with your name, and a note indicating that you’d like an entry ticket(s). If asked, the last 4 of my phone are 7156. FUCK 🧊 (For transparency, raffle randomizer and ACLU donation slip will ofc be posted)
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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// VIOLET NIGHT //
acyrlic on canvas (2020)
Angled roofline bookended by trees and a backdrop of a violet-colored sky and crescent moon. Window of the house illumuniates a room.
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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// VIOLET NIGHT //
acyrlic on canvas (2020)
Angled roofline bookended by trees and a backdrop of a violet-colored sky and crescent moon. Window of the house illumuniates a room.
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"...but her husband seemed so in love with her, always bringing her marigold and holly, and she was afraid to touch that. Afraid it would melt the winter in which they lived."

from "Another Winter" by Francine Witt
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Issue 32 | Francine Witte – LEON Literary Review
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October 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.
October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Some days "progress" is a just base coat or one good line of text.

It's prep for what's to come, when it comes.

Go easy on yourself.
A wood panel painted solid orange on a desk.
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
acrylic on paper
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

It is such a thrill that we get to feature stories like "Truth of Consequences" in @hexliterary.bsky.social. This new @whitneycollins.bsky.social is so exciting and strange and perfect. Don't miss this incredible story.
Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins
I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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BEFORE SUNRISE, LOCARNO BEACH
acrylic on canvas
landscape painting of locarno beach before sunrise with Vancouver's city lights in the background and reflection on water
October 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM