Ryan Shea
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rshea.bsky.social
Ryan Shea
@rshea.bsky.social
Stories in Sonora Review, ergot., hex, Rejection Letters, and others. More at ryanshea.info.

Edits fiction for cover.pub.
Ready for draft 3
October 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Liked this one.
June 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
After chewing through the standard mouthguard from my dentist in under 8 months, I got a heavy duty model. The manufacturer also sent this cast model of my mouth, which the dentist was going to throw away.
April 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
March 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I have a new story up at @sonorareview.bsky.social today. Would love if you take a couple mins to read and share.

sonorareview.com/2025/02/28/s...
February 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I have a new story going up next Friday.
February 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thinking about sentences.

blips.substack.com/p/craft-essa...
February 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
What's Interesting About Social Media is Your Life
blips.substack.com/p/whats-inte...

I only require an email sub to keep my coworkers from reading these.
January 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
January 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Showing my son only the essential, true histories.
January 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Fear and loathing in the Mall of America or "How long can a world go on under such a subtle God?"
January 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Flying to Minneapolis, one lorazepam down, pray for me.
January 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
January 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Feeling a Blanchot relation that someday I hope I can articulate.
November 21, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Liking this one so far. About halfway through.
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Actually 93% though.
November 22, 2023 at 10:59 PM
Had this going yesterday.
October 18, 2023 at 2:51 AM
A few more.
September 20, 2023 at 5:30 PM
A few from this summer.
September 20, 2023 at 5:28 PM
When starting a new story.
September 16, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Mist so thick the waves sometimes break exactly as they become visible.
September 11, 2023 at 4:56 PM
There is an inflatable swan anchored / buoyed in Provincetown harbor.
September 8, 2023 at 7:20 PM
Prop planes practicing formations above us while we read Cover submissions and I write down goals for the week to absolve myself of low rent anxieties and clear space to write.
August 27, 2023 at 3:47 PM
This is the first picture of Hanna and I that shows up in my photos.
August 14, 2023 at 4:17 PM
Taken shortly after I saw Starlink and had no idea what it was and thought western Massachusetts was about to swarm with Signs-like aliens.
August 13, 2023 at 5:00 PM