Offer Kuban
@offerkuban.bsky.social
RMT (day job) | #Author (words in Punk Noir Press, so far)
Host: "The Speakeasy" Podcast 🎙
Love books, movies, & shows; good friends, food, & wine| Be kind, we are all connected. 🇨🇦✍️🪐🚀📚
Host: "The Speakeasy" Podcast 🎙
Love books, movies, & shows; good friends, food, & wine| Be kind, we are all connected. 🇨🇦✍️🪐🚀📚
Thrilled to tell you I've just published a new episode of The Speakeasy podcast today. In this one, my guest co-host
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thrilled to tell you I've just published a new episode of The Speakeasy podcast today. In this one, my guest co-host
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
Theme and/or Submissions prompt: My Bloody Valentine.
Challenge: Tell a story in a 100 words!
Okay, sure.
Here’s the newest Flash fiction piece from me that dropped today on Punk Noir Magazine. Thanks for reading!
shorturl.at/hwQTg
Challenge: Tell a story in a 100 words!
Okay, sure.
Here’s the newest Flash fiction piece from me that dropped today on Punk Noir Magazine. Thanks for reading!
shorturl.at/hwQTg
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise — a Bloody Valentine Story by Offer Kuban
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise by Offer Kuban Amy heard Dan shush himself. He’d staggered in, drunk. “Where’ve you been?” Candles illuminated a dinner gone cold, flowers tilting.&nb…
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February 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Theme and/or Submissions prompt: My Bloody Valentine.
Challenge: Tell a story in a 100 words!
Okay, sure.
Here’s the newest Flash fiction piece from me that dropped today on Punk Noir Magazine. Thanks for reading!
shorturl.at/hwQTg
Challenge: Tell a story in a 100 words!
Okay, sure.
Here’s the newest Flash fiction piece from me that dropped today on Punk Noir Magazine. Thanks for reading!
shorturl.at/hwQTg
Reposted by Offer Kuban
Thank you for your kind words! I’m thrilled to have my story, Rice, included in Issue 2 of #BunkerSquirrelMagazine!
www.bunkersquirrel.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
www.bunkersquirrel.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
February 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Thank you for your kind words! I’m thrilled to have my story, Rice, included in Issue 2 of #BunkerSquirrelMagazine!
www.bunkersquirrel.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
www.bunkersquirrel.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
Hope nobody minds me waving this in this air some more!
Huge thanks once again to @ronearl.bsky.social and Shotgun Honey for making this happen. It's amazing to be in the company of such terrific authors here. Cheers!
Huge thanks once again to @ronearl.bsky.social and Shotgun Honey for making this happen. It's amazing to be in the company of such terrific authors here. Cheers!
New Fiction: "Like Icarus, Wings Kissed by the Sun" by @offerkuban.bsky.social
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/like...
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/like...
Like Icarus, Wings Kissed by the Sun by Offer Kuban
Jakob Schultz, up to pee at 3:30 AM, heard pounding on the front door. Struggling into his bathrobe, he headed down the hallway. “Who is it?” The feel of the Walther PPK under the foyer’s console t…
shotgunhoney.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Hope nobody minds me waving this in this air some more!
Huge thanks once again to @ronearl.bsky.social and Shotgun Honey for making this happen. It's amazing to be in the company of such terrific authors here. Cheers!
Huge thanks once again to @ronearl.bsky.social and Shotgun Honey for making this happen. It's amazing to be in the company of such terrific authors here. Cheers!
@deanalisenby.bsky.social What a lovely, cozy story of yours today on Bunker Squirrel Magazine, Deana. Comforting, like warm rice. xo
February 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
@deanalisenby.bsky.social What a lovely, cozy story of yours today on Bunker Squirrel Magazine, Deana. Comforting, like warm rice. xo
@amityvandal.bsky.social Congrats on your terrific Punk Noir Magazine story, Lawrence! Well done.
shorturl.at/1larH
shorturl.at/1larH
Man’s Best Friend — a Bloody Valentine Story by Lawrence Kithcart
Man’s Best Friend by Lawrence Kithcart She said it was allergies, and I let the lie go. I don’t blame her. I drove her to it. To him. I’m cold and distant, don’t see …
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February 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
@amityvandal.bsky.social Congrats on your terrific Punk Noir Magazine story, Lawrence! Well done.
shorturl.at/1larH
shorturl.at/1larH
Reposting for those who may have missed it.
I'm honoured that the lovely folks at Bunker Squirrel were kind enough to include my flash-fiction short in their inaugural issue. Be sure to check out all the wonderful authors featured, and in upcoming issues, too! ❤️✍️📚
I'm honoured that the lovely folks at Bunker Squirrel were kind enough to include my flash-fiction short in their inaugural issue. Be sure to check out all the wonderful authors featured, and in upcoming issues, too! ❤️✍️📚
@offerkuban.bsky.social shared an all too likely scenario with #BunkerSquirrel.com
www.bunkersquirrel.com/last-call.html
Won't you share your stories with us?
#Prompt: #UnlikelyPairs
Due: Jan 20
www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....
www.bunkersquirrel.com/last-call.html
Won't you share your stories with us?
#Prompt: #UnlikelyPairs
Due: Jan 20
www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....
January 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposting for those who may have missed it.
I'm honoured that the lovely folks at Bunker Squirrel were kind enough to include my flash-fiction short in their inaugural issue. Be sure to check out all the wonderful authors featured, and in upcoming issues, too! ❤️✍️📚
I'm honoured that the lovely folks at Bunker Squirrel were kind enough to include my flash-fiction short in their inaugural issue. Be sure to check out all the wonderful authors featured, and in upcoming issues, too! ❤️✍️📚
Reposted by Offer Kuban
Did you know?
#BunkerSquirrel.com is going to #Print!
The first 3 online issues will be printed into a single Full Color #Paperback issue in April. Will you join them?
www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....
#BunkerSquirrel.com is going to #Print!
The first 3 online issues will be printed into a single Full Color #Paperback issue in April. Will you join them?
www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....
January 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Did you know?
#BunkerSquirrel.com is going to #Print!
The first 3 online issues will be printed into a single Full Color #Paperback issue in April. Will you join them?
www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....
#BunkerSquirrel.com is going to #Print!
The first 3 online issues will be printed into a single Full Color #Paperback issue in April. Will you join them?
www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....
With all the new additions to my growing TBR pile, I wonder whether something of a strategic culling of my library might be in order. Gah! I can feel a swoon coming on. 😳
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
January 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
With all the new additions to my growing TBR pile, I wonder whether something of a strategic culling of my library might be in order. Gah! I can feel a swoon coming on. 😳
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
Sometimes it's important/difficult/heart-wrenching to get sibling-honest feedback, isn't it?
Ever so thankful my editors' and readers' feedback has been honest and always makes the writing better!
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #revising
Ever so thankful my editors' and readers' feedback has been honest and always makes the writing better!
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #revising
November 23, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Sometimes it's important/difficult/heart-wrenching to get sibling-honest feedback, isn't it?
Ever so thankful my editors' and readers' feedback has been honest and always makes the writing better!
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #revising
Ever so thankful my editors' and readers' feedback has been honest and always makes the writing better!
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #revising
Reposted by Offer Kuban
PSA Everyone who uses Canva: they have opted you in to training AI, you will need to get into your privacy settings to stop these assholes scraping your stuff.
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
November 19, 2024 at 5:29 PM
PSA Everyone who uses Canva: they have opted you in to training AI, you will need to get into your privacy settings to stop these assholes scraping your stuff.
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
Reposting for the Sunday crowd. Hoping everyone's had/having a great weekend!
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #amwriting
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #amwriting
When my #editor helps me see how much or how little I need to show my readers in a story I'm working.
I'd be up the paddle without a creek if not for mine! How about you? Have someone you turn to for constructive feedback?
Confessions of a #newbiewriter 😎✍️📚
I'd be up the paddle without a creek if not for mine! How about you? Have someone you turn to for constructive feedback?
Confessions of a #newbiewriter 😎✍️📚
November 18, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Reposting for the Sunday crowd. Hoping everyone's had/having a great weekend!
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #amwriting
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #amwriting
When my #editor helps me see how much or how little I need to show my readers in a story I'm working.
I'd be up the paddle without a creek if not for mine! How about you? Have someone you turn to for constructive feedback?
Confessions of a #newbiewriter 😎✍️📚
I'd be up the paddle without a creek if not for mine! How about you? Have someone you turn to for constructive feedback?
Confessions of a #newbiewriter 😎✍️📚
November 16, 2024 at 9:37 PM
When my #editor helps me see how much or how little I need to show my readers in a story I'm working.
I'd be up the paddle without a creek if not for mine! How about you? Have someone you turn to for constructive feedback?
Confessions of a #newbiewriter 😎✍️📚
I'd be up the paddle without a creek if not for mine! How about you? Have someone you turn to for constructive feedback?
Confessions of a #newbiewriter 😎✍️📚
Happy Saturday!
Hope you'll forgive me reposting this (again?), but I'm just so darned chuffed this got pub'd and that some of you lovely folks seem to like it. Thank you. Cheerio! 😎☕🎉
Hope you'll forgive me reposting this (again?), but I'm just so darned chuffed this got pub'd and that some of you lovely folks seem to like it. Thank you. Cheerio! 😎☕🎉
@offerkuban.bsky.social serves us a tale "Once Upon a Highway" in Punk Noir Magazine's Break-up series. Can you guess what this one is all about? punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/o...
Once Upon A Highway – by Offer Kuban
CHP Officer Gus Padilla had learned the hard way about the universe, how it played tricks even as it offered up signs. He’d missed a few of those. When his unit deployed to the graveyard of empires…
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Happy Saturday!
Hope you'll forgive me reposting this (again?), but I'm just so darned chuffed this got pub'd and that some of you lovely folks seem to like it. Thank you. Cheerio! 😎☕🎉
Hope you'll forgive me reposting this (again?), but I'm just so darned chuffed this got pub'd and that some of you lovely folks seem to like it. Thank you. Cheerio! 😎☕🎉
Reposted by Offer Kuban
Hello #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky friends, new and not-so. Trying my hand at Flash fiction in a genre not my own (my WIP is #SFF), and having a blast! This, my 4th pub w/ Punk Noir mag, dropped today. Hope you like it! ✍️📚😎☕
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/o...
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/o...
Once Upon A Highway – by Offer Kuban
CHP Officer Gus Padilla had learned the hard way about the universe, how it played tricks even as it offered up signs. He’d missed a few of those. When his unit deployed to the graveyard of empires…
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Hello #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky friends, new and not-so. Trying my hand at Flash fiction in a genre not my own (my WIP is #SFF), and having a blast! This, my 4th pub w/ Punk Noir mag, dropped today. Hope you like it! ✍️📚😎☕
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/o...
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/o...
@shelleyacook.bsky.social Hey, Shelley! 🌞
November 15, 2024 at 3:47 AM
@shelleyacook.bsky.social Hey, Shelley! 🌞
@lindawilgus.bsky.social Thanks kindly for the Follow, Linda! Cheerio. 🌞
November 9, 2024 at 10:13 PM
@lindawilgus.bsky.social Thanks kindly for the Follow, Linda! Cheerio. 🌞
Re-posting this for all the new folks joining in on the #WritingCommunity here. Hope you'll check it out. Thanks! ✍️📚🎙️😎🎉
I'm co-hosting The Speakeasy Podcast with Offer Kuban. In this episode, we talk to crime writer Stephen J. Golds about his books and his role as editor-in-chief of Punk Noir Magazine. Link to listen: music.amazon.com/podcasts/ba8...
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November 9, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Re-posting this for all the new folks joining in on the #WritingCommunity here. Hope you'll check it out. Thanks! ✍️📚🎙️😎🎉
@tckemperwrites.bsky.social Thanks kindly for the Follow back, TC. Cheerio! 🌞
November 9, 2024 at 4:20 PM
@tckemperwrites.bsky.social Thanks kindly for the Follow back, TC. Cheerio! 🌞
@emmabolden.bsky.social Thanks so much for the Follow back, Emma! 🌞
November 9, 2024 at 4:19 PM
@emmabolden.bsky.social Thanks so much for the Follow back, Emma! 🌞
@cwblackwell.bsky.social Thanks very kindly for the Follow back, C.W.
Cheers!
Cheers!
November 9, 2024 at 1:56 AM
@cwblackwell.bsky.social Thanks very kindly for the Follow back, C.W.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Greetings #WritingCommunity, #BookSky, and #readers friends! Guest co-host Joshua Scott Edwards and I had the pleasure of chatting on the show with our guest, B.S.H. Garcia, about her evolving epic, The Heart of Quinaria.
Check it out, & pick up a copy of their novels. 🧵1/2 (links in comments)
Check it out, & pick up a copy of their novels. 🧵1/2 (links in comments)
November 8, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Greetings #WritingCommunity, #BookSky, and #readers friends! Guest co-host Joshua Scott Edwards and I had the pleasure of chatting on the show with our guest, B.S.H. Garcia, about her evolving epic, The Heart of Quinaria.
Check it out, & pick up a copy of their novels. 🧵1/2 (links in comments)
Check it out, & pick up a copy of their novels. 🧵1/2 (links in comments)
@jennarndt.bsky.social As always, thanks for the repost for the show, Jenn. Your support is 🎉❤️🌞
November 8, 2024 at 4:03 AM
@jennarndt.bsky.social As always, thanks for the repost for the show, Jenn. Your support is 🎉❤️🌞
@joelnedecky.bsky.social Oh, thanks kindly for the re-post of my show, Joel. 🎉🎙️
November 8, 2024 at 2:29 AM
@joelnedecky.bsky.social Oh, thanks kindly for the re-post of my show, Joel. 🎉🎙️