Tracy Royce
@tracyroyce.bsky.social
Writer, poet, reader, cinephile, art-fiend, hiker, board gamer.
Thankful to EIC @lorettec.bsky.social for featuring my six prose poems in The Mackinaw this week and for nominating "Hard Stick" for Best Small Fictions:
www.themackinaw.net
www.themackinaw.net
The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry
Weekly selections of prose poetry.
www.themackinaw.net
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Thankful to EIC @lorettec.bsky.social for featuring my six prose poems in The Mackinaw this week and for nominating "Hard Stick" for Best Small Fictions:
www.themackinaw.net
www.themackinaw.net
Thanks so much to EIC @petrock.bsky.social for featuring my poem today at dadakuku.bsky.social
A new verse from returning contributor @tracyroyce.bsky.social:
𝗦𝗹𝗮𝗽 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘆 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿
Gimme that glorp!
So what if I mooch
your munch, splooch
half-chewed food?
I’m in the mood
to slop some slorp.
— Tracy Royce
𝗦𝗹𝗮𝗽 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘆 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿
Gimme that glorp!
So what if I mooch
your munch, splooch
half-chewed food?
I’m in the mood
to slop some slorp.
— Tracy Royce
Slap It in My Slopper
Gimme that glorp!So what if I moochyour munch, sploochhalf-chewed food?I’m in the moodto slop some slorp. — Tracy Royce
dadakuku.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Thanks so much to EIC @petrock.bsky.social for featuring my poem today at dadakuku.bsky.social
#FilmNoir #Noirvember #NoirvemberChallenge Loved They Live by Night (1948), including this performance by Marie Bryant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJO...
your red wagon
YouTube video by the quorum
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November 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#FilmNoir #Noirvember #NoirvemberChallenge Loved They Live by Night (1948), including this performance by Marie Bryant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJO...
Lupino is SO great in this movie! Love Jefty's midcentury nightclub / bowling alley.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite musical performance in a #FilmNoir ~ IDA LUPINO has a very unique style playing piano and singing One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) in ROAD HOUSE (1948)
After Ida sings, Celeste Holm says
"She does more without a voice than anybody I've ever heard"
Favorite musical performance in a #FilmNoir ~ IDA LUPINO has a very unique style playing piano and singing One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) in ROAD HOUSE (1948)
After Ida sings, Celeste Holm says
"She does more without a voice than anybody I've ever heard"
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Lupino is SO great in this movie! Love Jefty's midcentury nightclub / bowling alley.
“NIGHT AND THE CITY” (1950) dir. Jules Dassin
Gene Tierney, Richard Widmark, Googie Withers, Herbert Lom
🎬 20th Century-Fox
🎞 #Noirvember
Gene Tierney, Richard Widmark, Googie Withers, Herbert Lom
🎬 20th Century-Fox
🎞 #Noirvember
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Another Floppy Friday with Digby Flopwell
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Another Floppy Friday with Digby Flopwell
Humbled and grateful to have been nominated for Best Small Fictions at The Mackinaw: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Congrats to the other nominees and warm thanks to EIC
@lorettec.bsky.social
www.themackinaw.net
@lorettec.bsky.social
www.themackinaw.net
The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry
Weekly selections of prose poetry.
www.themackinaw.net
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Humbled and grateful to have been nominated for Best Small Fictions at The Mackinaw: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Congrats to the other nominees and warm thanks to EIC
@lorettec.bsky.social
www.themackinaw.net
@lorettec.bsky.social
www.themackinaw.net
So embarrassed I haven't seen this yet.
Day 21: Favorite Film Noir Made Outside USA
#filmnoir
#Noirvember
#NoirvemberChallenge
This tough! I am going to go with one of Akira Kurosawa's gems.
Stray Dog (1949)
#filmnoir
#Noirvember
#NoirvemberChallenge
This tough! I am going to go with one of Akira Kurosawa's gems.
Stray Dog (1949)
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So embarrassed I haven't seen this yet.
This movie is BAM right out of the gate with a dynamite sequence featuring Cloris Leachman. But the bonkers ending defies words. ALSO: Special features on the disk are interesting. Apparently screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides and source material author Mickey Spillane weren't fond of one another.
#filmnoir #Noirvember #moviesky #filmsky
#NoirNeckties #BOTD
Ralph Meeker
as Mickey Spillane‘s Mike Hammer in
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
#NoirNeckties #BOTD
Ralph Meeker
as Mickey Spillane‘s Mike Hammer in
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This movie is BAM right out of the gate with a dynamite sequence featuring Cloris Leachman. But the bonkers ending defies words. ALSO: Special features on the disk are interesting. Apparently screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides and source material author Mickey Spillane weren't fond of one another.
I have smelled these flowers in person and can confirm: They are lovely, and yet, STINK-O-RAMA
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I have smelled these flowers in person and can confirm: They are lovely, and yet, STINK-O-RAMA
Big, big thanks to the folks at
@100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my story, "What She Wore," out today:
100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/
@100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my story, "What She Wore," out today:
100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/
What She Wore - 100Words
Diapers. A bunny onesie and a smile displaying two front teeth. Rain boots. Mud. A vampire cape and fangs. Braces. Itchy gym shorts, a sports bra. Band-Aids, then scabs. Sunscreen and a one-piece swim...
100wordstory.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Big, big thanks to the folks at
@100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my story, "What She Wore," out today:
100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/
@100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my story, "What She Wore," out today:
100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/
#filmnoir #Noirvember
Day 16:
Lesser-known noir
everyone should see
#NoirvemberChallenge
Phantom Lady (1944)
Ella Raines goes undercover and inspires Elisha Cook Jr. to perform a manic drum solo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQQ...
Day 16:
Lesser-known noir
everyone should see
#NoirvemberChallenge
Phantom Lady (1944)
Ella Raines goes undercover and inspires Elisha Cook Jr. to perform a manic drum solo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQQ...
You Like Jive? 1944 Phantom Lady Jazz Drum Solo Robert Siodmak Ella Raines Elisha Cook Jr. Film Noir
YouTube video by BS
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November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#filmnoir #Noirvember
Day 16:
Lesser-known noir
everyone should see
#NoirvemberChallenge
Phantom Lady (1944)
Ella Raines goes undercover and inspires Elisha Cook Jr. to perform a manic drum solo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQQ...
Day 16:
Lesser-known noir
everyone should see
#NoirvemberChallenge
Phantom Lady (1944)
Ella Raines goes undercover and inspires Elisha Cook Jr. to perform a manic drum solo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQQ...
Bob Hicok in my inbox on a rainy Sunday? Thanks, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-origin...
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-origin...
The origin of my dictatorship by Bob Hicok
but loading a kitten into a bazooka takes years of military training I doubt you have
www.onlypoemsdaily.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Bob Hicok in my inbox on a rainy Sunday? Thanks, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-origin...
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-origin...
Watched this film (Rope, 1948) back-to-back with Gun Crazy (1950) and found myself wishing John Dall had made more films.
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Watched this film (Rope, 1948) back-to-back with Gun Crazy (1950) and found myself wishing John Dall had made more films.
Great read today at 50-Word Stories: "Imposters," by
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social : fiftywordstories.com/2025/11/14/s...
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social : fiftywordstories.com/2025/11/14/s...
SARP SOZDINLER: Imposters
You are born with a second shadow. It lags behind, darker than yours. Your mother says it might be your grandfather’s ghost. Some friends suggest light therapy; others, exorcism. More you try…
fiftywordstories.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Great read today at 50-Word Stories: "Imposters," by
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social : fiftywordstories.com/2025/11/14/s...
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social : fiftywordstories.com/2025/11/14/s...
Reposted by Tracy Royce
HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
November 15, 2024 at 8:21 PM
HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
Are you a hot sleeper?
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Are you a hot sleeper?
This @charlesjensen.bsky.social poem was exactly what I needed on this flop of a Monday:
This old poem of mine stays relevant every November www.therupturemag.com/the-collagis...
Letters to the Editor — The Rupture
Charles Jensen
Dear November, I am tired of your rain, y...
www.therupturemag.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This @charlesjensen.bsky.social poem was exactly what I needed on this flop of a Monday:
The Ministry of Fear will forever change your relationship with cake.
Day 9 of the #NoirvemberChallenge 2025 - Favourite Dan Duryea #FilmNoir...
The Ministry of Fear (1944) dir. Fritz Lang 🎬
#Noirvember #filmsky #moviesky
The Ministry of Fear (1944) dir. Fritz Lang 🎬
#Noirvember #filmsky #moviesky
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The Ministry of Fear will forever change your relationship with cake.
Love this one, Shaina Nanavati and @villaineralit.bsky.social ! I'm crazy about these short, tight lines.
Shaina Nanavati whispers that the revolution will not be funded, today at Villain Era!
Keeps the Score by Shaina Nanavati
The body’stally countsays elevenyears.Rememberbut shhhhh.Learn how tofight back,how to maintaina chokehold.We’re on offense,not defense,now.I count the dollarsI earnedwhen I learnedhow to comfortcrying menfor a living.“The revolution willnot be funded,” I whisper into thesavings box thatholds folded20’s.We love war…
villaineralit.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Love this one, Shaina Nanavati and @villaineralit.bsky.social ! I'm crazy about these short, tight lines.
"We tiptoed between our dreams and our duty." Another gorgeous piece from Christine H. Chen @csquareh.bsky.social at @centaurlit.bsky.social
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centaurlit.com/yellow-by-ch...
Yellow by Christine H. Chen | Centaur
centaurlit.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"We tiptoed between our dreams and our duty." Another gorgeous piece from Christine H. Chen @csquareh.bsky.social at @centaurlit.bsky.social
centaurlit.com/yellow-by-ch...
centaurlit.com/yellow-by-ch...
@70sscifiart.bsky.social knocking it out of the park again this week. Each image screamed, "Yes, Monday is like this."
Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about master of disaster Walter Molino! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io
Here's a sneak peek, featuring a few of his best works.
Here's a sneak peek, featuring a few of his best works.
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
@70sscifiart.bsky.social knocking it out of the park again this week. Each image screamed, "Yes, Monday is like this."
I gave Richard Widmark some space so I could catch up on horror movies, but it's Noirvember and I'm welcoming him back with open arms.
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I gave Richard Widmark some space so I could catch up on horror movies, but it's Noirvember and I'm welcoming him back with open arms.
Overwhelmed and thrilled to have my flash fiction, "Adaptation" appear today in the new issue of Flash Frontier. Much gratitude to the editors! flashfrontier.com/october-2025...
October 2025: FISH | NGĀ IKA | Flash Frontier
flashfrontier.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Overwhelmed and thrilled to have my flash fiction, "Adaptation" appear today in the new issue of Flash Frontier. Much gratitude to the editors! flashfrontier.com/october-2025...
Thanks to @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social for featuring my microfiction in this week's Ekphrastic Challenge (scroll down for "Five Things I’ve Learned About Witches")
www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
The Ekphrastic Challenges
Bare in Our Dark Bravery Nudely we frolic. The lake, it beckons. Especially at night, moonshine obscured by cloudcover. Some say skinny-dipping, but not all of us are as skinny as skeletal...
www.ekphrastic.net
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Thanks to @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social for featuring my microfiction in this week's Ekphrastic Challenge (scroll down for "Five Things I’ve Learned About Witches")
www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...