Drew Coles
@worldsworstfarmkid.bsky.social
Fiction Editor @reckonreview
A bunch of systems built by techbros can't handle an AB rhyme scheme and tortured metaphor? Color me shocked.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
www.pcgamer.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A bunch of systems built by techbros can't handle an AB rhyme scheme and tortured metaphor? Color me shocked.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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We are so honored that Eileen, Holly, Mary Ann, and Summer trusted us with their incredible work, and SO very proud to nominate them for the Best of the Net this year.
Read their stories here:
reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
Read their stories here:
reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We are so honored that Eileen, Holly, Mary Ann, and Summer trusted us with their incredible work, and SO very proud to nominate them for the Best of the Net this year.
Read their stories here:
reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
Read their stories here:
reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
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Nice to see Brick getting some love. Terrific film
Before Knives Out, there was Brick: Rian Johnson’s alluring, hard-boiled debut
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a teen detective in a world of high school drug rings and two-bit thugs, Johnson’s first film is a fine showcase of his now-trademark thrills, chills and twists
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Nice to see Brick getting some love. Terrific film
What Meagan said.
Meagan here. Every piece that we post at Reckon is our favorite. Every piece is exceptional. This one though. Shoo. This one took the air out of my chest; left me staring at the wall a bit. Please head over to Reckon and read "Working Title No. 6" by Nathan Willis.
@nathanwillis.bsky.social
@nathanwillis.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What Meagan said.
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“Every Midwest city is a battle cry in need of a battle. Every dead kid is a lighthouse without a harbor or water…”
New from Eric Morris!
https://www.havehashad.com/2o4sx
New from Eric Morris!
https://www.havehashad.com/2o4sx
MIDWEST CITIES by Eric Morris
Every Quik Lube Midwest city has its own dead kid, a We Buy Gold & Coins billboard assaulting oncoming traffic, a manmade lake even the locals don’t want to talk about. The dead kid is twenty years…
www.havehashad.com
August 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Every Midwest city is a battle cry in need of a battle. Every dead kid is a lighthouse without a harbor or water…”
New from Eric Morris!
https://www.havehashad.com/2o4sx
New from Eric Morris!
https://www.havehashad.com/2o4sx
Finished this is a single sitting. Immediate reaction was a feeling of instability.
August 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Finished this is a single sitting. Immediate reaction was a feeling of instability.
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Have a new column out today if you’d like to read it.
WRITING THROUGH ADVERSITY IN THE POST-TWITTER AGE AND THE HEALING POWER OF LITTLE STORIES | By Barlow Adams – Reckon Review
reckonreview.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Have a new column out today if you’d like to read it.
Duke Energy's helpful tips for reducing your energy bill during a heat wave.
Use less electricity.
Use less electricity.
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Duke Energy's helpful tips for reducing your energy bill during a heat wave.
Use less electricity.
Use less electricity.
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Here's what I want to see in my query inbox! I want stories with unique characters taking on unique and specific stakes, conflicts that they have created from their past, problems they can't escape, with no easy solutions, and no choice but to involve the ones they love.
June 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Here's what I want to see in my query inbox! I want stories with unique characters taking on unique and specific stakes, conflicts that they have created from their past, problems they can't escape, with no easy solutions, and no choice but to involve the ones they love.
Really pleased that my words appear in the latest @bathflashaward.bsky.social flash anthology. I mean, look at that cover!
June 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Really pleased that my words appear in the latest @bathflashaward.bsky.social flash anthology. I mean, look at that cover!
Story elements that I would love to see the the @reckonreview.bsky.social queue before month's end:
- Gritty but hopeful endings
- Flash that strives for a complete arc
- Pivots, twists, and turns
- Lingering mystery
#booksky #writing #fiction
- Gritty but hopeful endings
- Flash that strives for a complete arc
- Pivots, twists, and turns
- Lingering mystery
#booksky #writing #fiction
April 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Story elements that I would love to see the the @reckonreview.bsky.social queue before month's end:
- Gritty but hopeful endings
- Flash that strives for a complete arc
- Pivots, twists, and turns
- Lingering mystery
#booksky #writing #fiction
- Gritty but hopeful endings
- Flash that strives for a complete arc
- Pivots, twists, and turns
- Lingering mystery
#booksky #writing #fiction
A good time to note that @reckonreview.bsky.social is open for subs until the end of the month.
April 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A good time to note that @reckonreview.bsky.social is open for subs until the end of the month.
March reads.
Drive Your Plow was a bit rocky to get into, but it's definitely a recent fav.
#booksky #amreading
Drive Your Plow was a bit rocky to get into, but it's definitely a recent fav.
#booksky #amreading
April 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
March reads.
Drive Your Plow was a bit rocky to get into, but it's definitely a recent fav.
#booksky #amreading
Drive Your Plow was a bit rocky to get into, but it's definitely a recent fav.
#booksky #amreading
Me in the national security group chat:
March 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Me in the national security group chat:
Sometimes I think everyone would have a better reading experience if applicable books came with a first page warning/message from the author. Something like – "Hey, I really wrote this to sell the movie rights." It would really help set expectations.
March 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Sometimes I think everyone would have a better reading experience if applicable books came with a first page warning/message from the author. Something like – "Hey, I really wrote this to sell the movie rights." It would really help set expectations.
February Read. Only one this month bc moving is hard.
I've been on a coastal crime kick recently, thinking about how regionalism influences this kind of genre/style. West/East/South/Midwest.
#booksky #writing #literature
I've been on a coastal crime kick recently, thinking about how regionalism influences this kind of genre/style. West/East/South/Midwest.
#booksky #writing #literature
March 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
February Read. Only one this month bc moving is hard.
I've been on a coastal crime kick recently, thinking about how regionalism influences this kind of genre/style. West/East/South/Midwest.
#booksky #writing #literature
I've been on a coastal crime kick recently, thinking about how regionalism influences this kind of genre/style. West/East/South/Midwest.
#booksky #writing #literature
January Reading
February 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
January Reading
This would be a great spot for someone looking to peek behind the curtain of a lit mag or wanting to keep connected to the scene. Super flexible on your schedule – plus, you get to tell me what's good!
#reading #litmag ##amwriting
#reading #litmag ##amwriting
Are we, maybe, looking for you?
Questions? Reach out to our Managing Editor, Charlotte Hamrick - features@reckonreview.com
@charhamrick.bsky.social
@meaganlucas.bsky.social
Questions? Reach out to our Managing Editor, Charlotte Hamrick - features@reckonreview.com
@charhamrick.bsky.social
@meaganlucas.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This would be a great spot for someone looking to peek behind the curtain of a lit mag or wanting to keep connected to the scene. Super flexible on your schedule – plus, you get to tell me what's good!
#reading #litmag ##amwriting
#reading #litmag ##amwriting
Please submit!!!
(I'm still rewiring my neural paths to include Bsky in my daily browsing, so yes, I'm late celebrating this here.)
(I'm still rewiring my neural paths to include Bsky in my daily browsing, so yes, I'm late celebrating this here.)
Welcoming Drew Coles as our new Fiction Editor. Drew is an incredible writer who started with us as a contributor and then a reader, there he proved himself essential to our team, with a clear vision, terrific taste, and an even, calming leadership style.
Send him something to read! Submit a story!
Send him something to read! Submit a story!
January 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Please submit!!!
(I'm still rewiring my neural paths to include Bsky in my daily browsing, so yes, I'm late celebrating this here.)
(I'm still rewiring my neural paths to include Bsky in my daily browsing, so yes, I'm late celebrating this here.)