@billcook1961.bsky.social
Writer, gardener, woodworker, a lover of old trees and forests. Dzanc Best of the Web 2008. Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions. Words in: SmokeLong Quarterly, New Flash Fiction Review, Gone Lawn, Stonecoast Review, The Monarch Review, Déraciné, and more.
This piece was stunning. @dawnwriter.bsky.social
...made the bed shake like an earthquake, and I’d lie sprawled on the bedspread, sheet corners tucked hospital-style, and stare at the stippled ceiling, brain and limbs jangling. Motel on the Edge of Everything citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
...made the bed shake like an earthquake, and I’d lie sprawled on the bedspread, sheet corners tucked hospital-style, and stare at the stippled ceiling, brain and limbs jangling. Motel on the Edge of Everything citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
Motel on the Edge of Everything
by Dawn Miller I remember the motel on the outskirts of town—brown-bricked and unexceptional, the neon sign by the highway missing the “L”. I remember the first-floor room I shared with my parents,…
citronreview.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This piece was stunning. @dawnwriter.bsky.social
...made the bed shake like an earthquake, and I’d lie sprawled on the bedspread, sheet corners tucked hospital-style, and stare at the stippled ceiling, brain and limbs jangling. Motel on the Edge of Everything citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
...made the bed shake like an earthquake, and I’d lie sprawled on the bedspread, sheet corners tucked hospital-style, and stare at the stippled ceiling, brain and limbs jangling. Motel on the Edge of Everything citronreview.com/2025/10/05/m...
"...many of us are moved to surround him, our hands finding his shoulder, the back of his neck, his forehead and elbow, and when we look back Hal is alone, quiet, eyes shut to a pain we won’t let him utter."
New flash in Ghost Parachute!
Big thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for the beta read!
"How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires..."
ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
Big thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for the beta read!
"How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires..."
ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death — Ghost Parachute
How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires, though we were sure that some of us, Gregory and Mars...
ghostparachute.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"...many of us are moved to surround him, our hands finding his shoulder, the back of his neck, his forehead and elbow, and when we look back Hal is alone, quiet, eyes shut to a pain we won’t let him utter."
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"...we should allow our final nightmares to sluice through the holes of our fragile nets and dissipate like a rising, rising fog..."
Love the lovely rush & tumble of @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
Love the lovely rush & tumble of @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
New flash in Ghost Parachute!
Big thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for the beta read!
"How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires..."
ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
Big thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for the beta read!
"How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires..."
ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death — Ghost Parachute
How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires, though we were sure that some of us, Gregory and Mars...
ghostparachute.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"...we should allow our final nightmares to sluice through the holes of our fragile nets and dissipate like a rising, rising fog..."
Love the lovely rush & tumble of @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
Love the lovely rush & tumble of @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute
My favorite two new books. Two amazing talents. @megpokrass.bsky.social and Cooper Renner.
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My favorite two new books. Two amazing talents. @megpokrass.bsky.social and Cooper Renner.
What a beautiful, bittersweet flash by @megpokrass.bsky.social. Love the use of the spaceship.
Read "Mothership" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by @brittsillustration.bsky.social.
"My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime."
tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj
"My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime."
tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj
Mothership — Ghost Parachute
My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime. “Tell me the story again,” she says, her voice dry and shaky, and so ...
tinyurl.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
What a beautiful, bittersweet flash by @megpokrass.bsky.social. Love the use of the spaceship.
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Read "Mothership" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by @brittsillustration.bsky.social.
"My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime."
tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj
"My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime."
tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj
Mothership — Ghost Parachute
My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime. “Tell me the story again,” she says, her voice dry and shaky, and so ...
tinyurl.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Read "Mothership" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by @brittsillustration.bsky.social.
"My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime."
tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj
"My wife reaches for my hand from the hospital bed and asks me to remind her about the greatest thing that happened in my lifetime."
tinyurl.com/ynh8etuj
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No Democratic member of Congress should sit thru the SotU. For maximum impact, as soon as Tr*mp comes out, all Dems rise and silently walk out together. Make it a spectacle. @aoc.bsky.social
If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?
March 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
No Democratic member of Congress should sit thru the SotU. For maximum impact, as soon as Tr*mp comes out, all Dems rise and silently walk out together. Make it a spectacle. @aoc.bsky.social
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I cannot stop thinking about @nopebrigade.bsky.social's tiktok vid about why fascism is winning and how the side of liberty needs a compelling narrative. Bc it can't be "we're not the other guy." What is our rallying cry?
Not everything is fascism! We need a better story of who we are that inspires all of us! Hope this helps!
TikTok video by Nope Brigade | Ph.D. Candidate
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March 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I cannot stop thinking about @nopebrigade.bsky.social's tiktok vid about why fascism is winning and how the side of liberty needs a compelling narrative. Bc it can't be "we're not the other guy." What is our rallying cry?