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Will Musgrove
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.com
Puppy Mabel 🐕 💙
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Still the undisputed champion of spending 45ish minutes looking for a place to submit only to ultimately submit nowhere.
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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As we look toward 2026, we need more book club members. Join up now for a year of book mail and, while we have them, a free t-shirt.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
malarkeybooks.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Sundays are for reading books by @andrewporter01.bsky.social 💙
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Survived another week. About to play Galaga 🍻
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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ICYMI - I've got a flash up in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social this week.

Just in case you want to read about mimes, sax solos, & incontinent goats, among other plagues.

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The Box | matchbook
www.matchbooklitmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I have a new personal, vulnerable essay out with @jmwwjournal.bsky.social today about my wife’s and my decision not to have kids 😃

Thanks to @andrewbertaina.bsky.social for taking a look at a draft early on!
"With each pass around the center of the store we must circle the giant Ferris wheel situated in the store’s heart like a monument, shrieks of glee playing as a soundtrack over this consumerist paradise."

CNF: The Center of the Universe by Cody Shrum

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Creative Nonfiction: The Center of the Universe by Cody Shrum
With each pass around the center of the store we must circle the giant Ferris wheel situated in the store’s heart like a monument, shrieks of glee playing as a soundtrack over this consumerist para…
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Every time I write a line that I think sounds killer I feel like some sort of magical warlock.
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It's getting colder, so today I put on a jacket that I haven't worn since last spring and found a bouncy ball in the pocket, which made my day.
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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New Ghost Parachute! Kudos, @brettpribble.bsky.social!

Author tags in the comments!
November 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Whenever my dog sees someone without a dog, she always assumes they have a secret tiny dog hiding in their pocket, a pocket dog.
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from Dina Guidubaldi
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Thrilled to have a new micro in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social about what happens when you cage a siren!

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Step Right Up and Hear the Siren's Song!
Then the siren lost her voice altogether.
jakethemag.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I already miss the sun.
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If there were a writing-themed pretzel restaurant, I bet it'd be called Plot Twists.
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Read "Brewski" written by @willmusgrove.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Brewski was sort of the building’s mascot. I wasn’t sure if he lived in the upstairs unit or just enjoyed hanging out in parking lots..."

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Brewski — Ghost Parachute
All I wanted to do was sleep off a nasty hangover, but my next-door neighbor had his television blaring. I banged on our shared wall and politely asked him to “turn that shit down” but got zero respon...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Have a new story in the latest issue of Ghost Parachute. This one is about a guy who calls beer brewskis and an old house turned apartment. Be sure to read the other amazing writers in the issue as well. 🍻

ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...
Brewski — Ghost Parachute
All I wanted to do was sleep off a nasty hangover, but my next-door neighbor had his television blaring. I banged on our shared wall and politely asked him to “turn that shit down” but got zero respon...
ghostparachute.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
An old photo of Mabel on a walk 🐕 💙
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I made creeeeppppy shortbread finger cookies for Halloween 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Baking something spoooookkkyyy! 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Had an idea for a last-minute Halloween costume. Is this anything? #SoRandomHouse
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Exited to share that my story "Just Another Halloween" was published by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social today!

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just another halloween — Blood+Honey
by Brett Pribble “If only they hadn’t dressed in garments that only Satan would admire, like when they dress as him, or pimps and prostitutes, or in skimpy police uniforms…If only they weren’t just ...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
For Halloween I dressed up as depressed writer guy 🍻
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM