Justin Stone
rusticus-est.bsky.social
Justin Stone
@rusticus-est.bsky.social
Stories: Eclectica Magazine, storySouth, Quip Literary Review. Rookie Night Radio Show. Creekbed. motel, glimpse. Burnpile.
September 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Pynchon’s Against the Day — a true story

“. . . and this is what you were saved for? this mean, nervous, scheming servitude to an enfeebled conscience?”
May 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Monday Walk-In Music
February 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Long Live the Ki
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Carpe Diem, Martin Mull, 2007
January 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A lovely request: repost from a now defunct site:

I introduced my mom to Gene Clark’s music. Before moving, she would visit his grave (in his mid-Missouri hometown one hour from ours) to clean up and share care.
December 29, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I love the novel. Endlessly inventive, inquisitive, and discursive. Consciousness and the dream and the drifting word. Jesse Ball’s a master and The Repeat Room left me shaken, unsettled, the world new and newly familiar.
December 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Going into 2024 like . . .
December 25, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Jesse Ball being there
The Repeat Room
December 25, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Chrinsmas reading — King Macabeth’s Art the of the Deal
December 22, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Rickey would love it if you wired me twenty grand for this pin.
December 21, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I said I would not but moving forward I will roll the red die
November 30, 2024 at 10:42 PM
@achyguts.bsky.social I was reading another great postcard to my kids (not interested), thinking about what a terrible correspondent I’ve been, and then you appear. Thank you! Take me to Ireland…
November 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Made me an Orange Julius Caesar more to come
November 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
C.D. Wright slips a novel in every poem
November 21, 2024 at 12:50 AM
November 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM
November 16, 2024 at 4:55 PM