David Cook
@davidcook.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, gamer, crisp eater.
Bought sparklers to wave in the garden to celebrate the new year. None of them light. What a brilliant start to 2026. Happy New Year!
5 days ago
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Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you all have the best day, whatever that looks like for you.
12 days ago
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I wasn't expecting much, but this is a terrific film.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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The Long Walk is 2025βs most brutal film β and a reminder of Stephen Kingβs roots
Too many King adaptations have been cautious, fastidiously reverent affairs, which is why itβs so gratifying to find one that has been allowed some breathing room β and space to be a little lurid, wri...
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-long-walk-review-stephen-king-adaptations-b2825313.html#comments-area
4 months ago
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Had my first mince pie of the year just now. I refuse to feel guilty about that.
4 months ago
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This is so brilliant!
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5 months ago
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Features like this are weird. I used to work in the food hall at M&S, but I wouldn't use that fact to presume a position of authority on what the best sandwiches ever are.
6 months ago
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Kris Wilson
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Finally! Wordle 1,393 1/6
#wordle
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9 months ago
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When you get invested in a TV show, series one ends on a cliffhanger, then you find out it's not getting a series 2.
10 months ago
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Oh my, this week's episode of Severance though...
10 months ago
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Little Miss Canβt Be Wrong
11 months ago
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I actually wrote stories! Two of them! And submitted them! Wonders will never cease. I'm excitedly awaiting the rejections.
11 months ago
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Goodbye Sadie. Your flame burned short, but so bright. The mice and birds round here won't miss you at all, but we will. Sleep well.
12 months ago
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Well, this one's gonna stay with me for ages. The most disturbing, dark, brilliant book I've read in a good while.
12 months ago
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Wrote a story for the first time in, oh, six or seven months. I'm not saying it's good, mind you, but it's great to get back to it.
12 months ago
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Happy New Year, everyone!
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Rachel Deering
about 1 year ago
It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). π π πΌ Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.
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Look at the difference in covers between autobiographies by men and those by women. Look how tedious and serious the men's books are, with their grey and black colour schemes. I'm not afraid to read a book with a bit of fucking orange on the cover. But presumably publishers think most men are. Sigh.
about 1 year ago
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Each year, the Christmas decorations go up in my local Spar and they think, 'sod it, break out the Easter chocolate'. I sigh inwardly each time, curse their ridiculousness, and then buy Mini Eggs.
about 1 year ago
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There's a McDonald's radio ad for Happy Meals, which talks tells you (or your kid most likely) can choose to get a Grinch toy or book with it. It ends with the words "Choice of toy or book is between book or toy." This is a weird sentence. It baffles me. What is its purpose?
about 1 year ago
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alex is writing (or supposed to be!)
about 1 year ago
canβt stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem π₯Ή
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Does anyone here play Two Words? I need more Two Words friends. You can find me there at the name of Dave100.
twowords2.page.link/share
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Two Words with Susie Dent
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about 1 year ago
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Hello new BlueSky followers! I almost never post here (or anywhere else at the moment, really), but it's lovely to have you.
about 1 year ago
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Excited to receive my copy of Hunger, this awesome anthology from
@urbanpigspress.bsky.social
, featuring my story A Clownward Spiral and loads of other amazing tales. Every copy sold raises money for food banks, a fantastic cause - get yours here:
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunger-antho...
over 1 year ago
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Has anyone here seen Robot Dreams? Saw it today. It's just wonderful. Go watch it now!
over 1 year ago
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Late to the party for
#InternationalCatDay
over 1 year ago
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
over 1 year ago
Cat : I am old and tired and need rest Me: you can rest after I give you this antibiotic Cat: I am young and spry and can jump to the top of the armoire
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Currently adapting some old micro fiction into game-making app Downpour.
downpour.games/~Dave/fun-wi...
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"Fun With Calculators - a very short story" by Dave
A Downpour game by Dave
https://downpour.games/~Dave/fun-with-calculators-a-very-short-story
over 1 year ago
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We took Teengoth on a Prison Tour. They gave her 25 years without parole. Oh, well.
almost 2 years ago
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Lovely to feature in the beautiful final edition of
@ellipsiszine.bsky.social
with loads of incredible writers.
almost 2 years ago
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Haus of Decline
almost 2 years ago
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With the Iron Claw in cinemas and Wrestlemania on the horizon, I'm excited that my wrestling-themed story Jobber has gone live at such a timely moment. Thanks Mr Bull for publishing it!
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almost 2 years ago
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Ellipsis Zine
almost 2 years ago
Our swansong zine is now available to preorder (digital editions can be downloaded instantly) Subscriber and preorder issues will be posted out over the coming weeks. Copies from Β£3
www.ellipsiszine.com/fourteen/
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My story Still Life will be in this, alongside work from a host of flash superstars. Should be an amazing swansong for Ellipsis Zine!
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almost 2 years ago
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Chuffed to have this funny story about science, life, love and Labradors up
@bullshitlit.bsky.social
today!
www.bullshitlit.com/post/a-story...
almost 2 years ago
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A story I wrote seven years ago (!) has finally found a home! The Pig That Watched The Apocalypse is now live at The Odd Magazine. A cool way to start the year!
theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity27/odd-sβ¦
about 2 years ago
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Happy New Year, Blueskyers! (Is that what we're called?)
about 2 years ago
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There needs to be a word for the particular sorrow felt in that moment in the days post-Christmas when you realise there's no blue cheese left.
about 2 years ago
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My new story
@urbanpigspress.bsky.social
about evil killer swans on the rampage.
#flashfiction
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about 2 years ago
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Not sure what time of year it even is now.
about 2 years ago
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Chuffed to have Squadron, a story about evil killer swans on the rampage, accepted by
@urbanpigspress.bsky.social
! Keep an eye out for it.
#flashfiction
about 2 years ago
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Stuck on 99 followers. Who's going to be lucky number 100?!
about 2 years ago
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One of the cool things about Ellipsis Zine is that they take reprints. So back from the internet graveyard is this, one of my personal faves, my comic horror story about a maniacal man-eating printer!
#flashfiction
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about 2 years ago
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100% recommended, but I'll never be able to go near any puppet ever again. #books
over 2 years ago
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Excited to have my wrestling-themed story 'Jobber' accepted by BULL for publication later in the year!
over 2 years ago
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Ellipsis Zine
over 2 years ago
'Places I Find My Daughter and Myself' CNF by Stephanie Carty I find my daughter under things. Curled asleep cat-like under the mattress. Humming in the linen box with the lid closed. Sitting cross-legged beneath a nest of coats in my wardrobe...
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This made me chuckle.
over 2 years ago
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Picture of one of my cats to kick things off here.
over 2 years ago
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