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Ryan Eric Dull
@ryanericdull.bsky.social
· Nov 10
The Corridor
from NER 41.2 Buy the issue in print or as an ebook lex Greer was ready for a change. His job in Baltimore was directionless and his relationships were stale and more and more he felt himself pulle…
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Hi all! I’m Ryan. Here’s a story I wrote for @newenglandreview.bsky.social about a guy who wants to get through a narrow hallway so badly that it destroys his life. www.nereview.com/the-corridor/
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
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Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
March 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
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If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.
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where does the new york times even find these people
January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
where does the new york times even find these people
Have bots gotten really wild for anyone else over the last few days?
January 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Have bots gotten really wild for anyone else over the last few days?
And to Tiny Tim — who did NOT die; who says that he will never die; who dances in light and in shadow and is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die
January 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
And to Tiny Tim — who did NOT die; who says that he will never die; who dances in light and in shadow and is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die
Not sure I understand the theology at my kid’s daycare
December 10, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Not sure I understand the theology at my kid’s daycare
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The easy read is that she's anti-Catholic because she's English. But the real Mantel-heads know from her memoir that she's anti-Catholic because she was possessed by an evil spirit as a child.
![From Hilary Mantel's memoir, Giving Up the Ghost: "[The spot] is, let us say, some fifty yards away, among coarse grass, weeds and bracken. I can’t see anything, not exactly see: except the faintest movement, a ripple, a disturbance of the air. I can sense a spiral, like flies; but it is not flies. There is nothing to see. There is nothing to smell. There is nothing to hear. But its motion, its insolent shift, makes my stomach heave. . . . It is as high as a child of two. Its depth is a foot, fifteen inches. The air stirs around it, invisibly. I am cold, and rinsed by nausea. I cannot move. I am shaking. . . . I beg it, stay away, stay away. Within the space of a thought it is inside me, and has set up a sick resonance within my bones and in all the cavities of my body."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cs7nz447niud7o7tqsybgsjo/bafkreiezlcaoxj4mu63tlhhfpkvoavhyjzx6hbqpb7imxr6c7lwjfu24pu@jpeg)
November 26, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The easy read is that she's anti-Catholic because she's English. But the real Mantel-heads know from her memoir that she's anti-Catholic because she was possessed by an evil spirit as a child.
Man, nothing better than the first twenty pages of a scifi novel before you know what any of the nouns mean. Teixcalaan is demanding a new ambassador? Oh man, the Councilor for the Miners seems pretty cagey. Oh shit, and Yskandar’s imago-machine is fifteen years out of date??
November 26, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Man, nothing better than the first twenty pages of a scifi novel before you know what any of the nouns mean. Teixcalaan is demanding a new ambassador? Oh man, the Councilor for the Miners seems pretty cagey. Oh shit, and Yskandar’s imago-machine is fifteen years out of date??
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In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it
November 16, 2024 at 7:25 PM
In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it
Extremely cool book! A series of stories in which McPhee travels through a wilderness with one person who’s trying to develop it and another who’s trying to preserve it, and they all have a meandering, combative conversation. He’s such a sympathetic writer - everyone is beautifully drawn.
November 13, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Extremely cool book! A series of stories in which McPhee travels through a wilderness with one person who’s trying to develop it and another who’s trying to preserve it, and they all have a meandering, combative conversation. He’s such a sympathetic writer - everyone is beautifully drawn.
Tried the Jacques Pepin apple tart recipe @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social recommended a while ago. So easy! What a thing!
November 11, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Tried the Jacques Pepin apple tart recipe @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social recommended a while ago. So easy! What a thing!
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“Once upon a time” from five other languages…
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
November 10, 2024 at 5:40 PM
“Once upon a time” from five other languages…
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
5. When animals talked and people kept quiet (Catalan)
4. When snakes wore vests (Iberian Spanish)
3. When potatoes were pale blue (Brusselian)
2. Long long ago, when goat hair was grey (Kazakh)
1. In the old times, when wishing still helped (German)
Hi all! I’m Ryan. Here’s a story I wrote for @newenglandreview.bsky.social about a guy who wants to get through a narrow hallway so badly that it destroys his life. www.nereview.com/the-corridor/
The Corridor
from NER 41.2 Buy the issue in print or as an ebook lex Greer was ready for a change. His job in Baltimore was directionless and his relationships were stale and more and more he felt himself pulle…
www.nereview.com
November 10, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Hi all! I’m Ryan. Here’s a story I wrote for @newenglandreview.bsky.social about a guy who wants to get through a narrow hallway so badly that it destroys his life. www.nereview.com/the-corridor/
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Amet consectetur egg sandwich
October 31, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Amet consectetur egg sandwich
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Maybe the best logo I’ve ever seen
October 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Maybe the best logo I’ve ever seen
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#FrogFriday - An amplexing pair of undescribed treefrogs (genus Dendropsophus) that I observed on a rainy evening in Suriname earlier this year. Note the eggs visible through the female's translucent abdomen. #herps #frogtober #photography
October 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM
#FrogFriday - An amplexing pair of undescribed treefrogs (genus Dendropsophus) that I observed on a rainy evening in Suriname earlier this year. Note the eggs visible through the female's translucent abdomen. #herps #frogtober #photography
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To sleep like a baby…uh I mean a Treefrog! 🐸
Oh, they look so peaceful!
Oh, they look so peaceful!
October 18, 2024 at 1:12 AM
To sleep like a baby…uh I mean a Treefrog! 🐸
Oh, they look so peaceful!
Oh, they look so peaceful!
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Music & food fortnight at BCS! "A Feast from Tile and Stone" by Ryan Eric Dull, BCS #317: "Gastel walked through the floor plan of the Last Pudding with his sous chef, who was chief mason. One felt terribly small, living for so long with a vision and finally settling for an earthbound knockoff."
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Feast from Tile and Stone by Ryan Eric Dull
Two days ago, Gastel had walked through the floor plan of the Last Pudding with his sous chef, who was working architect and chief mason. There was a terrible friction, Gastel knew, any time you dragg...
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January 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Music & food fortnight at BCS! "A Feast from Tile and Stone" by Ryan Eric Dull, BCS #317: "Gastel walked through the floor plan of the Last Pudding with his sous chef, who was chief mason. One felt terribly small, living for so long with a vision and finally settling for an earthbound knockoff."