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dennycore.bsky.social
@dennycore.bsky.social
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Dennis Conrad. English/special ed teacher, aspiring weird fiction author

perennially working on a genre-confused psychic spy thriller and distracting myself from it by writing horror shorts

Author website: https://dennisconraddotcom.wordpress.com/
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dennycore.bsky.social @dennycore.bsky.social · 16d
#writingcommunity #WriteSky #horror #weirdfiction

a short story for your Halloween week, based on an extremely specific intrusive thought I had recently

first 2nd-person story I haven't been too embarrassed to show the world, be nice

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GIANT IN THE MIRROR
The morning after your head injury you look in the bathroom mirror and see yourself, but do not see the bathroom behind you. What first occurs to you is that the horizon that you see behind you ins…
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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jesseberney.com
"Trump won a narrow victory, I guess it's time to shut down all our DEI efforts forever," every institution in America, apparently, showing their entire asses
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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rincewind.run
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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attackerman.bsky.social
Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!

Dick?
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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jimmytwohands.bsky.social
I hope the guy who threw his shoe at George bush is having a good day
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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quackles.bsky.social
My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!
A boy standing in front of a house dressed like Hornet from Silksong
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
dennycore.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #WriteSky #horror #weirdfiction

a short story for your Halloween week, based on an extremely specific intrusive thought I had recently

first 2nd-person story I haven't been too embarrassed to show the world, be nice

dennisconraddotcom.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/g...
GIANT IN THE MIRROR
The morning after your head injury you look in the bathroom mirror and see yourself, but do not see the bathroom behind you. What first occurs to you is that the horizon that you see behind you ins…
dennisconraddotcom.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife
Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰 This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem. Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?" There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant. Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence. Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence. The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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bitterkarella.bsky.social
i definitely think they should let Trump keep cooking his brain on AI until he's 100% living in his own mind palace. it'll be like the good ending of Brazil
October 19, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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siobhan-m.bsky.social
mr trump as your comms strategist i can only encourage you to keep depicting yourself as a mad king dumping shit on people
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26d
Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."

AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
dennycore.bsky.social
you ever see a writing prompt and you just wanna grab the person who came up with it by the shoulders and shake them like a rattle and go “that’s the fucking story! You just wrote fucking microfiction!” cause I feel like that’s 99% of writing prompts now
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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jmteo.bsky.social
Humiliating but also super cringe
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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alexblackwood.bsky.social
Steve Cousineau:
Steve Cousineau cartoon The Developmental Divergence of Frogs Inflatable frog: RESIST Actual frog: FLIES? Pepe the frog: RACIST
October 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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aaronhughellis.bsky.social
Variation on a meme: God: In my book I invented the Golden Calf as a cautionary tale Evangelicals: At long last, we have created the Golden Calf from classic novel, The Bible
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz
oh what winning is bad now
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28d
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker reported $1.4 million in gambling winnings from a Las Vegas trip last year, according to tax summaries.

“I like to play cards,” said Pritzker, a billionaire who is touted as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker reports $1.4 million in Las Vegas gambling winnings
“I like to play cards,” said Pritzker, a billionaire who is often touted as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, a prospect he has not ruled out.
wapo.st
October 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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itsabigail.bsky.social
women don’t like the vehicle
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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harmancipants.bsky.social
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
quotes from cybertruck owners
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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dennycore.bsky.social
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the classic psychic brain-fry in action
And she dove in—his memories unwound in a confused tangle, he felt it all unravel, a childhood slipping like smoke through his fingers, impressions of names places all there at once, a bark of laughter, tears, streaking snapshots of Tokyo on fire and blasts of sand and blood and screams on Juno Beach and the black of night in a winter Alaska sky the inhuman sounds ringing out from the grim monolith behind and the redwhiteblue of the flag draping Goodhawk’s coffin, the cold of the pounding rain, a thousand boardrooms and a thousand barracks and a twirling mayhem of the masses looking up at him and shouting and screaming in what might have been excitement and might have been horror—he could no longer distinguish between such specificities—impression of a void-black shape looming, searing agony spiderwebbing through his head, the flashes and burns of synapses being snapped, connections being severed, dancing lights of nothingness as it all came spiraling apart. He couldn’t even feel himself screaming.
October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
AAAHHHHHHHH
October 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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dennycore.bsky.social
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #weirdfiction

the aftermath of an Akira-style psychic freakout, and an attempt at doing the whole run-on sentence thing that I can never stop myself from trying
Down the corridor from the ripped-down reinforced door there’s a long blood-trail that starts on the left-hand wall, a great splatter followed by a long, thick line of red showing where the second guard’s face had been slammed against the concrete with extraordinary force then agonizingly dragged along, face being pushed so hard into the wall that soon the blood-trail becomes mixed in with solid remnants of what had once been that face, bits of flesh and bone and brain and eye-jelly flattened into the mad stretched impression of a visage and after a twelve-foot run of such mess the body lays crumpled against the wall and even the hardened masked forensic team that’s surveying the scene has not yet deigned to turn the corpse back over to see what horrid ruins remain.
October 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM