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@windblastedpappy

Happily married short fiction and poetry writer, found-object sculptor, dog lover, windsurfer. Let's eat!

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"Equally puzzling was the sound. Sometimes loud. Sometimes soft, like spring breeze."

Deftly mixing the unreal, surreal, & very real, incredible new #fiction from @windblastedpappy.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

04.11.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"I Love New Writers." A Chat with Jeff Bogle, Editor of Stanchion "Like a record label from the late 90s."

Listen/watch my interview w/ @beckyltuch.bsky.social. We talked all things Stanchion, from what I like in a pitch email to what I hope to find in the writing being submitted & a bit of the history behind my magazine and the community that grew up around it.

litmagnews.substack.com/p/i-love-new...

17.12.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Great interview. Jeff's doing a great solo thing (yes, he published me, but it's still true). Talk about passion projects. Check out his mag, buy it, or his books. He clearly cares.

17.12.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coelacanth by Bex Hainsworth I am on the train home, parallelto fields blurring into saltwater,when I think of the coelacanth. Lazarus fish, thought extinct,buried with the bonesof our Devonian ancestors, the…

Coelacanth citronreview.com/2024/12/31/c...

27.11.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war β€œin 24 hours” with β€œone phone call” to Putin because he has β€œa great relationship” with him, β€œknows just what to say to him,” & β€œit won’t even be that hard.”

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What he said: πŸ’― 🎯

01.11.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 49535 πŸ” 13573 πŸ’¬ 1042 πŸ“Œ 585
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Stuart Watson β€” Does It Have Pockets More Than It Can Hold

Woo-hoo! New fiction up and out at Does It Have Pockets? Thanks to Camille Griep and team for the huge hug. If you read the story -- www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua... -- you'll understand that a huge hug takes up a lot of space and weighs a lot, even if you can't see it. 😜

01.11.2025 22:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a horse standing eating in front of a fence with trees in the background.

a horse standing eating in front of a fence with trees in the background.

β€œOf all the special things we choose to do for our planet, let one of them to be of service to animals”
― Paul Oxton

30.10.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 345 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

It was a decade ago, and not many people read it all -- 2 hours -- but it delivered the goods on the huge con being perpetrated on American consumers by the collusion of health insurance companies and medical care organizations. time.com/198/bitter-p...

24.10.2025 03:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is β€œthe president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

23.10.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 32131 πŸ” 10964 πŸ’¬ 1842 πŸ“Œ 629

this is very satisfying to watch.

23.10.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 7979 πŸ” 2315 πŸ’¬ 513 πŸ“Œ 178

Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva β€” because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going. In 1998, Republicans gladly used Monica Lewinsky's words to attack Bill Clinton.

23.10.2025 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Silver Door | Nathan Woods | Substack An Entrance to Poetry through The Digital. Click to read Silver Door, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Silver Door / thoughtful, well-written defense of substack self-publishing one's poetry. Test your best against the world at no (or little) cost, before investing huge life energy in chasing a print product.
silverdoor.substack.com?r=616l&utm_c...

04.10.2025 22:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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[Fiction] Climate Refuge by Stuart WatsonΒ All the trendy weather people warned about climate refugees. Millions of people, migrating north to escape the heat, the drought, the punishing floods from the towering clouds created...

A little magical realism about the as-yet-unimagined refugees of climate change, in The Wave, online arm of the Kelp Journal. www.kelpjournal.com/post/fiction...

03.10.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shapiro: Today he’s trying to sanction voices on the left. That means tomorrow he could sanction someone because of what they look like, who they love, or how they pray.

We need more speech, not less

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Thank you!

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Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case β€œThis is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providin...

The keys to winning now

1 Large support outcry
2 Truth

He caves to big demonstrations! He's desperate to be liked & gives up easily whith a big swell of support, including former supporters

Truth should always be the best weapon against his lies

Spread Truth

www.propublica.org/article/ayma...

20.09.2025 00:19 πŸ‘ 493 πŸ” 181 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4
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Powerful early influence on my appreciation of what literature can do. "The Jungle" opened my eyes to corporate greed, disdain for its labor force, and contempt for downstream consumers of poisonous product. Valid then. Valid now.

20.09.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Upton Sinclair - BOTD
πŸ’™πŸ“š #LiteratureSky

20.09.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good shift this morning at the local food bank. Amazing people, good cheer, triaging a harvest-season bombardment of apples, pears, plums, grapes and more. Thank you, grower-donors. If you're sick of the greed upstairs, do this. It works.

19.09.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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19.09.2025 11:11 πŸ‘ 826 πŸ” 352 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Canceled my HULU sub last night. Trump is using power of government to violate the First Amendment. But did we expect any less from the insurrectionist/pedophile in Chief? #BoycottDisneyABC

19.09.2025 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue) West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

18.09.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 22834 πŸ” 6812 πŸ’¬ 842 πŸ“Œ 1371
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Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

18.09.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 38414 πŸ” 10106 πŸ’¬ 1816 πŸ“Œ 1106

We canceled our Hulu.

19.09.2025 04:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes, release the Epstein files!!!

16.09.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 35371 πŸ” 12588 πŸ’¬ 1026 πŸ“Œ 598
United Church public sign that says:

WE’D RATHER SEE TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS THAN TWO MEN HOLDING GUNS β€” Pastor Cathlynn Law

United Church public sign that says: WE’D RATHER SEE TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS THAN TWO MEN HOLDING GUNS β€” Pastor Cathlynn Law

Yep πŸ’™

16.09.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lovely. Couldn't agree more, about love of fog. Imprinted from teen years in SoCal, along coast. Now I crave cloudy, rainy days and love trips to coast for a dose of fog. So soothing. Major muffler.

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