Bill Merklee
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Bill Merklee
@bmerklee.bsky.social
Writer of very short things.

In Best Microfiction 2021. Nom Best Small Fictions 2022 & 2024. Short-listed for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award & Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. But enough about me. How are you?

http://billmerklee.com
Points well taken. But let’s remember that near the end of the cartoon, Franklin joins everyone else in the back of Charlie Brown’s parents’ station wagon for a ride to Charlie Brown’s grandparents’ house.
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Fantastic album.
September 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy Birthday, Tommy!
September 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Bastards of Young…🎸
September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Patel always looks startled, like his mom walked in on him masturbating.
September 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reading Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. Rewatching The Leftovers (again).
August 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A lot of people are fucking stupid.
August 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The bullshit never ends.
August 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Same. Sadly out of print, and expensive when you can find them.
August 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
At the heart of any art is process — what the artist goes through (mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually) to express something that needs to break free of the artist. A.I. doesn’t do that. It merely creates content.
August 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There already.
August 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM