Wrote a short story about a retired orthopedic surgeon who kills the neighborhood troll. It's a story about owls and gardening

Brexit is the anti-gift that just keeps on giving. It's like the opposite of a cornucopia - it steals good things and issues forth an endless stream of shit things https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/01/creative-industries-brexit-barriers-uk-actors-eu-jobs

I have some Black women as main characters in my stories, but I need more

Name the occupation that has the most benefit to society, and the one that has the least What is the most relevant difference between them?

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In the imaginary library that contains not all just all books ever written but also all books that *could* have ever been, there is a multi-volume series, thick imposing tomes. "The Complete Earth History of the Wars of the Ants" The entire story from their emergence in the dawn days when the […]

The fuss and bother of getting #coverart done sucked out all my creativity. I can still respond to prompts during weekly #writingroup but the rest is desicated. I fucking hate this cover art bullshit as much as I detest reviews, marketing, and all the other gatekeepers and barriers erected to […]

#writerscoffeeclub 5/27: "Do you read outside the genre you write?" I *ONLY* read outside the genres in which I write.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is appealing to the public for help after launching a website to report data center concerns as the rapid expansion of AI-driven facilities across the United States increasingly clashes with local communities. The website, brockovichdatacenter.com, lists […]

Hey #readers, here's a free #shortstory for you This will be for you if you like #darkfiction, #macabre #fiction, or #cautionarytales #booktoot #bookstodon #BookMastodon #bookish #books #bookrecommendations #booklovers #bookcommunity #readingcommunity #reading #book #bookblogger #bookblog A […]

Sometimes, a story that starts with owls and ends with murder, is the right and proper way that things should be.

"For years, creatives have been told the same thing: put everything online, post constantly, build a brand, grow an audience. And then we centralized all of culture onto, like… three websites. Three massive platforms where artists uploaded their personalities, faces, voices, writing, humor […]

At some point, murdering private equity barons is going to become fashionable, and is likely to start when the quilting crowd realize they can't get curved needles because the shop was bought with debt, the debt was added to the shop, and staff and stock were ejected by the new owners.

For everyone saying "immigrate to Europe! You'll be safe here" I want to cram this chart in their face... Every one of your fucking countries is 1-2 elections from being fascist yourselves. And no end in sight. Sure, Trump's America is bad. But being an immigrant in a fascist nation is really […]

So TFG has been making thousands of stock trades on things he is about to do.

I'm here to tell you that hardly any of the book influencers and experts have any idea what book will sell, and what makes a good book. You only have to see how many times an eventual best-seller got rejected or ignored by a long list of famous editors, agents, and publishers.

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#pennedpossibilities 1015 — Were any of the scenes in your WIP inspired by your own experiences? Many of the shorts stories about accidents, equipment, or tech in general are direct experience. Many others are from patients or clinicians or researchers who pass along scenarios they have seen […]

#wordweavers 16 May: Would your WIP still work if you changed the gender of your MC? No Making the child psychopath and serial killer a boy, should just be yet another clone of "we need to talk about Kevin" Making it a young girl opens up whole world of sisterhood, and adds a level of societal […]

Here's a totaly free short story for your weekend If you like karma to be deadly, fate to be a bitch, and cheaters to die in a satisfactorily gruesome way, I got one for you. Gary’s Saline Scheme: A Clinical Cautionary Tale | www.PhysiciansWeekly.com https://share.google/WmnjpqLDDo7b8d2P8

#wordweavers 5/15. What type of writing (novels, shorts, poetry, etc) comes more naturally for you? Short stories, by far, and then if a character grabs me by the throat and demands more space, I do a novel "The Book of Joy" was created because Joy insisted. Since she is kinda murdery, I […]

#scribesandmakers 15 what’s going well creatively? Putting up solar panels is going well, despite episodes of "logistic violence" damaging a few. I do fine with writing to prompts during weekly writing group, but the maelstrom of getting cover art done sucked all my normal writing energy up.

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Walked past the Catholic church and there were a bunch of men in dresses .... And they judge me ! Hugz & xXx

Happy Mother's Day ❤️ To the moms holding families together with exhausted smiles, late-night worry, endless patience, and fierce love — today is for you. ❤️ To mothers, grandmothers, stepmoms, foster moms, single moms, and the women who became “mom” when […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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#writerscoffeeclub Day 1: What can we do to support and protect other writers, not only now, but in the future as well? Introduce and welcome them to writing groups Buy and review their work Sabotage corporates and AI Trolls who undermine literature Kick grammar trolls in the shins

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#writerscoffeeclub 1 May Workers' Day: What can we do to support and protect other writers? Show solidarity with everyone that is oppressed or abused, whether or not they are your kind of worker, or your kind of person. Human rights precede and sustain worker's rights.

I have known a few psychopaths. Some by virtue of work or research for books, and some by accident. A few things stand out to me 1. They are very unlike Hollywood or common depictions 2. There is something very fucked with the diagnostic criteria, and it's painfully obvious that if anything […]

Maggie Irons created my cover art

#WritersCoffeeClub 30 How was this month for you in terms of writing? Almost zero, because most of my time and energy was stolen by getting cover art, publishing in D2D and Kobo, pushing out a draft of my sequel to the beta readers, and messing around with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#pennedpossibilities 1k: Changes, growth, habits since July 2023? A lot I joined a weekly online writers group hosted by my county library and Lighthouse, and gave up trying to find an agent, stopped submitting queries to literary mags. I found a medical journal that wanted my stuff. I found a […]

Answer: the men who got them pregnant kill them. Not top five. Not top three. Top.

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Why are there so MANY stupid men around? WHY?

Sorry My Dude, if you are going to quote the Bible at me, you are going to have to explain and justify the slavery, the rape, the murder, and why stabbing pregnant women is ok, but wiccans are not. You are also going to have to explain why mixed fabrics are a sin of the same magnitude as murder […]

Hey #readers, if you want semi-regular FREE #shortstories that have a lot of #karma, many #murders, and a ton of deserved #death, I have you covered Just go to https://www.physiciansweekly.com/author/humphrey-archer and #read as many as you like. No paywall, no registration, just free stories […]

Hey, human Indie #writer here No, I am not going to ask you to buy my #books - even though that would be grand I'm also not going to ask you to review my books - ditto What I AM begging you to do is glance at my stuff, and bump any friend who you think would like this kind of writing. If […]

An educational add-on, because a lot of people are asking about it (which is hilariously meta, I suppose, but here we are) Sealioning (the Wikipedia article is quite good): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning Mansplaining […]

#scribesandmakers 27th Apr 2026. Reticent? With marketing, paying for reviews, begging for reviews, ... and all that stuff, sure. With going to writing seminars and conferences, also yes. With reaching out to marginal groups and getting their lived experience for my characters, writing them […]

Hello #booklovers and adamant #readers. I have two #books recently released that might interest you if you like slightly noire, vaguely gritty, and karma-infused stories with a lot of satisfying murders and death If you prefer short and tight […]

Watching a video on BYD's new car, and it has a clip of Elon a few years ago laughing about a question of whether BYD was competition to Tesla 1. Well that sure aged badly, because BYD now has a bigger market share than Tesla, and arguably has better quality and performance 2. Why does Elon […]

I also saw a short by a young woman who had a list of what a MAN needs to be able to do. It was all very outdoorsy - chop wood, start a fire without lighter fluid, pay his own way, fight a bear, use a bow, defend her, ... I have the same thoughts here, but more, bc she isn't saying "here are […]

I saw a guy react to a YouTube video by a young woman who does bodybuilding. Her video was basically "hey, this is me. If you don't like my physique, that's fine, but don't @ me" His reaction was essentially "ok, you are pretty, but not my type" It got me thinking about this old saw that one […]

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Not to criticisixe #cixinliu and his #threebodyproblem book, but I must say that if I were #writing a #fanfic, I would have written a fifth #wallgazer, made them an #enby or #transwoman, and had them fire up a vast army of hackers and saboteurs to fuck with the Sofons. It wouldn't solve the […]