Patricia Bender
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Patricia Bender
@patriciabender.bsky.social
Writer. @writingproject fellow. Poems and stories @beirbuajournal @AmherstWriters @MunLitCentre, Paterson Literary Review, @SwitchMicroMag and others.
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my wife just read this and said "it's good!" and "why didn't you tell me about it"
Please enjoy the whole of @toddedillard.bsky.social's remarkably moving, Pushcart-nominated poem, "What the Husband Keeps," from Issue 20 of Stanchion Magazine.

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January 1, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Thank you to everyone who has subbed so far to our anthology on the theme of BRIDGES! Our editors @sharontelfer.bsky.social & @karjon.bsky.social are busy reading away! You have till 15 Feb to submit your flash. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Ready for the New Year, we have announced the 2026 NIF award shortlist.,Congrats to all the authors. Final results out end Jan. The longlist was also full of excellent novellas. Best wishes for all of them & to everyone who entered. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/news/
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December 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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S.O.S. Ukraine e.V.
Bank details:

IBAN: DE48600501010405560169
BIC: SOLADEST600
Baden-Württembergische Bank

You can also donate via card or PayPal on this webpage: ukraine-sos.eu/spenden

Thank you for supporting Ukraine, friends! Thank you for helping our Defenders!
December 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Am very excited to share that my new historical novella-in-flash ‘Bereft of Reason’ will be published by V.Press in 2026!
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December 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Arrived!!
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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If you missed this morning's @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social and would like to hear my essay 'December Birthdays' you can listen back here
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
December Birthdays, by Jackie Lynam
On the inconvenience of a birthday that falls in late December
www.rte.ie
December 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.
December 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A bipartisan group of US senators released a statement on Russia's Christmas attacks of Ukraine,calling Putin "a ruthless murderer"with no interest in peace

They reiterated that Zelenskyy agreed to a Christmas truce,while Putin declined
Thank you for your support!
foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/rele…
December 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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A bipartisan group of US senators released a statement on Russia's Christmas attacks of Ukraine,calling Putin "a ruthless murderer"with no interest in peace

They reiterated that Zelenskyy agreed to a Christmas truce,while Putin declined
Thank you for your support!
foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/rele…
December 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. n.pr/4qrsEtz
Greetings from Jaffa, Israel, where a salon is a welcoming space for Palestinians and Jews
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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At a time when performative politics has become the norm, we’ve tried to do something different:

To show up — everywhere.
To listen.
And to deliver results.

We hosted events in 50 different cities this year — including yesterday in Timnath.

And we’re just getting started!
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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We will never be able to match the sacrifice of the Ukrainian people.

But we will support their fight for survival for as long as it takes.

Because Ukraine’s security is our security.
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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How embarrassing it is to watch our once-esteemed Department of Justice behave like this.
December 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Just found out that my 'December Birthdays' essay will be broadcast again this Sunday on RTÉ Radio 1 after 9am. Taking part in the live @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social Christmas concert in 2022 was one of the highlights of my writing career ✨
December 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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It was an absolute thrill to have my pamphlet 'Sum of her PARTS' published by @vpresslit.bsky.social 💜 Sarah is wonderful to work with & publishes such quality books. And that cover...! 💜💜 Please do check out the V. Press catalogue.
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
10 Years of publications -- celebrating 2025!
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@laurabesley.bsky.social
& more!
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM