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Robin Zlotnick
@robinzlotnick.bsky.social
870 followers 470 following 410 posts
writer, worrier

Pubs: Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Rejection Letters, The Westchester Review, Identity Theory, etc.

https://robinzlotnick.com/
https://a-sentence.beehiiv.com/
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she’s cute
Banana bread with a flower design from the loaf pan
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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the top one is not about the bottom one but it's also not not about it
Kat Abughazaleh post: Good things are possible and we don't have to settle. followed by Ashley Carter post: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks to return for a new 'Mummy' movie.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Newsletter this week is about embracing the apple crisp. I did just that! Read here: a-sentence.beehiiv.com/p/every-year...
Apple crisp in a pan Portion of apple crisp on a plate
October 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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still of jeff daniels and laura linney from 'The Squid and the Whale'
September 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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BrainDead poster The Riches poster
September 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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i....
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September 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This is the run of 2013 Instagram posts from my family vacation that inspired my story, A Police Station Shouldn’t Have Two Girls, out now in @gonelawn.bsky.social! Obviously the story is fictional but my imagination for details is apparently quite limited!
Instagram posts, the most relevant of which show me and my sister, A&W, lake view, smoked pork and eggs with sweet potatoes, lake view with copy of The Exorcist, cabin wall with view of Sharknado on the TV
September 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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this is like if you had a human on a leash toy, what kind of rob zombie-esque sadistic torture household is this
Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime tea full bear scene with his wife taking the kids to bed while he sits in front of the fire A toy in the corner of the scene, which is a bear on a leash
September 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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September
Lenny Kravitz giant scarf meme
September 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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If you subscribe to my one-sentence newsletter (link in bio and below) you get one sentence every week, and sometimes (one time, last week) it includes the track list to my Taylor Swift parody album “The Life of a Snowgirl”
The Frost of Ophelia Elizabeth Taylor (in fur) Opalite (this one kinda works) Father Figure (It’s a Snowman) Coldest Daughter Rein the Friendsleigh Actually Antarctic Holiday Wi$h Li$t Firewood (Christmas Is) Cancelled! Homey The Life of a Snowgirl (feat. Soft-quilty Comforter)
August 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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WAIT
a post about the new naked gun with a response that says "I'm stuck on how they cast a guy with nearly the same name as the guy in the original"
August 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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rfk can pry my m&m’s from my cold red hands
NYT headline: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s battle against food dyes hits a roadblock: M&M’s
July 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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ICYMI! I have a new story in the June issue of Brilliant Flash Fiction! 🔗 below!
"Numb" by Robin Zlotnick When you spin on the squeaky rusty roundabout with your head dangling off the edge, swirly black plastic choker clinging to your neck, ponytail picking up dust and woodchips, raccoon eyes closed and mouth open, screaming like an opera singer who saw a ghost in the middle of a note, I think you are perfect. Your black polished fingers hold on for dear life, the world dims, pink blush sky bruising purple, and I see my breath, try to keep it steady, as I watch you from the bench. The contraption groans to a stop and you emerge from behind my cloud of mouth air, dizzy and giddy and sad, liquid dripping from your nose and eyes. You wipe your glossy insides on the sleeve of your purple zip hoodie, your eyes just missing mine, Conversed feet rocking back and forth on crunchy dead leaves, and say, “Let’s go.”
July 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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ok i made my nyt ballot
Empty ballot for the NYT best movies of the 21st century except for one write-in vote: barb and star go to vista del mar (2021)
June 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Probably one of the biggest unexpected mind fucks of having a toddler is having to remember that I am also allowed to eat the berries I buy. He’s not entitled to all the berries!! I should enjoy berries if I want berries!!!!!!
A plate with an omelette covered in chili crisp and a nice-sized pile of strawberries and blueberries because I deserve it!!!
June 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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is this twitter yet
The Chicago Hope poster but it says Chicago Pope
May 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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There are more. Most of these were in the bathroom.
Snow in August by Pete Hamill The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
May 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Forget your favorite books. Which books do you forever associate with your childhood because they were on a shelf in your parents’ house for literal years and you looked at the covers every day when you were growing up?
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich The Alienist by Caleb Carr
May 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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how tired am i? my baby has made me read this book to him seven times in a row and every single time this cartoon bear has made me yawn
A blue cartoon teddy bear in a book about toy trains yawns
April 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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it’s been a week
Letterboxd recent activity: The Coffee Table, Beau Is Afraid, Maxxxine, Deep Blue Sea
March 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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we are so back
Screenshot of Merlin Bird ID recording that captured a tufted titmouse, blue jay, northern cardinal, house sparrow, song sparrow, dark-eyed junco, and red-bellied woodpecker
March 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I took a screenshot of this update from the NYT coverage of the Westminster dog show and have not stopped thinking about it since
"Here is the miniature schnauzer, which is the shape of a gumdrop and the pallor of humpback whale. The jumbotron is informing us that Mary Tyler Moore kept one as a pet."
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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help what famous person does this chick in my kid’s book look like
An illustrated yellow chick that has a weirdly human face and looks like a specific actor or something but I can’t for the life of me think of who it is. The chick (and this person) has big round eyes that are close together and a little mouth
February 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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motherhood
Playing cards and bowls and a baby seat and those tall plastic take out soup containers strewn all over a kitchen floor
January 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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hey! what’s happening
Headline: Man is pushed in front of subway train in Manhattan Headline: At Least 10 Killed After Vehicle Drives Into Crowd in New Orleans Headline: 1 Dead After a Cybertruck Explodes Outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas
January 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM