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Iain Rowan
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Writer, rep @LiverpoolLit| Campaign Coordinator CPWF UK (formerly Sea Shepherd UK) | Sunderland. https://iainrowan.com
Down the river and then back with the tides.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
As opposed to what other kinds of settlements, please?
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#SouthernWater don't even realise it's their fault for ten days, (or so they say - does anyone trust them?), deny all liability to an MP, then finally admit to the catastrophic release of *millions* of carcinogenic bio-beads now washing up on beaches in the south-east.
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:
Short Story Submission Opportunities at The Fiction Desk
Information on submitting short stories to the Fiction Desk.
www.thefictiondesk.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Those opening moments of first draft when the elegant, lapidary story in your head becomes the stunted, lumbering mutant on the page.
a green monster with big eyes is standing on a sandy beach .
ALT: a green monster with big eyes is standing on a sandy beach .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Further thoughts on social media stopping being like the pub, and the hollow weirdness of it all.

open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
This is not my beautiful pub...
The strangeness of social media as it stops being a social hub.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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So we were right to be worried about quicksand!
October 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Top trolling, no notes
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Overheard on a train last weekend: "that phallus was twenty-eight thousand pounds."
October 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Favourite short stories that I’ve read in the last couple of weeks.

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October 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.

Real life:
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Any day now.
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Hard to watch Strictly knowing if any of them fall during their dances they get taken out and shot 😞
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
musical fame is fleeting
October 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This is the kind of news I am here for.
October 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
And - along with a bunch of other people - I just had to find another seat on the @lner.co.uk I had to switch to because of the cancellation of my earlier train - as none of the reservation signs are working. Because of course they're not. Nothing does.
Sorry you can’t come to school today, we don’t have any teachers.

What an embarrassment public transport is in the UK. Always an adventure though - maybe you’ll get to where you’re going, maybe you won’t.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
October 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes" crashes in as my number one phrase of 2025.
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Sorry you can’t come to school today, we don’t have any teachers.

What an embarrassment public transport is in the UK. Always an adventure though - maybe you’ll get to where you’re going, maybe you won’t.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM