Will Musgrove
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.com
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I have a bad habit of forgetting to sell my poetry collections.
My newest chapbook, Tricks, is available here and comes with a trigger warning: it is highly gay and should not be read by anyone who may not be prone to frequent arousal.
www.cutbankonline.org
My newest chapbook, Tricks, is available here and comes with a trigger warning: it is highly gay and should not be read by anyone who may not be prone to frequent arousal.
www.cutbankonline.org
January 3, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I have a bad habit of forgetting to sell my poetry collections.
My newest chapbook, Tricks, is available here and comes with a trigger warning: it is highly gay and should not be read by anyone who may not be prone to frequent arousal.
www.cutbankonline.org
My newest chapbook, Tricks, is available here and comes with a trigger warning: it is highly gay and should not be read by anyone who may not be prone to frequent arousal.
www.cutbankonline.org
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Happy for my first publication of the year to be in Ghost Parachute! Huge thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social! And thanks to Brett J Barr for the illustration!
(It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜)
Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
(It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜)
Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
Deal Breaker, 1937 — Ghost Parachute
Devil days got that fool magic brewin’ in the hot, you know what I’m talking about, those close Kansas afternoons when the thunderheads build and build, climbing up the sky like they trying to get int...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Happy for my first publication of the year to be in Ghost Parachute! Huge thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social! And thanks to Brett J Barr for the illustration!
(It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜)
Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
(It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜)
Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
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We have dropped the monthly price for book club to $10/month. If you’re already a subscriber there’s nothing you need to do; the new rate should go into effect automatically. If you’re not a subscriber the only thing you need to do is sign up. It’s just $10/month!
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Malarkey Book Club — Malarkey
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January 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
We have dropped the monthly price for book club to $10/month. If you’re already a subscriber there’s nothing you need to do; the new rate should go into effect automatically. If you’re not a subscriber the only thing you need to do is sign up. It’s just $10/month!
malarkeybooks.com/malarkey-boo...
malarkeybooks.com/malarkey-boo...
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Excited to start the new year with a CNF flash in the latest issue of the wonderful Prime Number Magazine. Happy 2026, friends.♥️
www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...
www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...
January 1, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Excited to start the new year with a CNF flash in the latest issue of the wonderful Prime Number Magazine. Happy 2026, friends.♥️
www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...
www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...
My dog's face when I told her I was hungover 🐕 💙
January 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
My dog's face when I told her I was hungover 🐕 💙
As a kid, I thought 2025 would be like Star Trek and I'd be on some starship between Earth and infinite possibilities. Kid Will was off by a bit. Happy new year 🎉
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 AM
As a kid, I thought 2025 would be like Star Trek and I'd be on some starship between Earth and infinite possibilities. Kid Will was off by a bit. Happy new year 🎉
Not a great year. Hell, not even a good year. But a year survived 🍻
January 1, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Not a great year. Hell, not even a good year. But a year survived 🍻
To 2025 and the literary rejections we made along the way 🎉
December 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
To 2025 and the literary rejections we made along the way 🎉
A winter walk 💙🐕
December 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A winter walk 💙🐕
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Quick informal short stories BOGO sale: right now through 12/31 (or until we run out) if you order any of our in-stock story collections (Boxcutters, Sleep Decades, or First Aid for Choking Victims) we’ll throw in an extra story collection.
malarkeybooks.com/store
malarkeybooks.com/store
Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
malarkeybooks.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Quick informal short stories BOGO sale: right now through 12/31 (or until we run out) if you order any of our in-stock story collections (Boxcutters, Sleep Decades, or First Aid for Choking Victims) we’ll throw in an extra story collection.
malarkeybooks.com/store
malarkeybooks.com/store
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It's going to be tough going back to work next week 🍻
December 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It's going to be tough going back to work next week 🍻
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i wrote this piece long ago + @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social was kind enough to give it new life, which somehow suits all this year-end wistfulness.
grateful to anyone who spends time with it 🤍
grateful to anyone who spends time with it 🤍
"It's a Saturday in the middle of July on a white porch with an old friend. Towels along the clothesline. She’s ten years younger, so I’m always asking about her sex life."
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...
Mechanical Pencils | matchbook
www.matchbooklitmag.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
i wrote this piece long ago + @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social was kind enough to give it new life, which somehow suits all this year-end wistfulness.
grateful to anyone who spends time with it 🤍
grateful to anyone who spends time with it 🤍
Baking something🧁
December 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Baking something🧁
So far today I've done some reading and writing. No arithmetic though.
December 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
So far today I've done some reading and writing. No arithmetic though.
Sometimes I pace when read. At one end of my path, a cup of coffee, which I always stop to take a sip of like I'm passing a baton in relay.
December 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sometimes I pace when read. At one end of my path, a cup of coffee, which I always stop to take a sip of like I'm passing a baton in relay.
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I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.
Merry Christmas, friends! Here's Cormac McCarthy on novel writing:
"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.
Eating pretzels, drinking beer.
December 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Eating pretzels, drinking beer.
Welcome to December 26 through December 31, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Welcome to December 26 through December 31, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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15% off everything in our website with code MALARKEY at checkout. You can get one of the last copies of the first edition Hair Shirt, with a bonus @yoadrianididit.bsky.social poem on the French flaps.
malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...
malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...
Hair Shirt, poems by Adrian Sobol — Malarkey
Published April 1, 2025 Get a free sample here HAIR SHIRT, Adrian Sobol’s second full-length poetry collection, continues his particular take on poetry. Filled with trademark black humor and...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
15% off everything in our website with code MALARKEY at checkout. You can get one of the last copies of the first edition Hair Shirt, with a bonus @yoadrianididit.bsky.social poem on the French flaps.
malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...
malarkeybooks.com/store/hairsh...
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all X-R-A-Y subs will be open on...
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
all X-R-A-Y subs will be open on...
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
2025 was the year I upgraded from a stress ball to a stress rock.
December 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
2025 was the year I upgraded from a stress ball to a stress rock.
Christmas morning Mabel 🐕 🎅
December 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Christmas morning Mabel 🐕 🎅
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