#filmnoir #Noirvember Day 16: Lesser-known noir everyone should see #NoirvemberChallenge Phantom Lady (1944) Ella Raines goes undercover and inspires Elisha Cook Jr. to perform a manic drum solo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQQ...

Bob Hicok in my inbox on a rainy Sunday? Thanks, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-origin...

Watched this film (Rope, 1948) back-to-back with Gun Crazy (1950) and found myself wishing John Dall had made more films.

Great read today at 50-Word Stories: "Imposters," by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social : fiftywordstories.com/2025/11/14/s...

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Are you a hot sleeper?

This @charlesjensen.bsky.social poem was exactly what I needed on this flop of a Monday:

The Ministry of Fear will forever change your relationship with cake.

Love this one, Shaina Nanavati and @villaineralit.bsky.social ! I'm crazy about these short, tight lines.

"We tiptoed between our dreams and our duty." Another gorgeous piece from Christine H. Chen @csquareh.bsky.social at @centaurlit.bsky.social centaurlit.com/yellow-by-ch...

@70sscifiart.bsky.social knocking it out of the park again this week. Each image screamed, "Yes, Monday is like this."

I gave Richard Widmark some space so I could catch up on horror movies, but it's Noirvember and I'm welcoming him back with open arms.

Overwhelmed and thrilled to have my flash fiction, "Adaptation" appear today in the new issue of Flash Frontier. Much gratitude to the editors! flashfrontier.com/october-2025...

Thanks to @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social for featuring my microfiction in this week's Ekphrastic Challenge (scroll down for "Five Things I’ve Learned About Witches") www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

Don't miss this interview with Rob Renzetti as he discusses the final installment in his spooky trilogy, The Cursed Cloak of the Wretched Wraith, his inspiration for the Horrible Bag series, and the importance of supporting banned books.

Thanks to Tim Sevenhuysen for featuring my Halloween story, "October Thirty-First" at 50-Word Stories today: fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/31/t...

Big thanks to @ricklupert.bsky.social for publishing my Halloween haiku (click to "9 of 25") at @haikuniverse.bsky.social ! haikuniverse.com

Another one I wish I'd written! @horrorsenryu.bsky.social

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

"I knew it was over. But I held onto hope with a vise grip." Yes, that seems familiar...More resonant words from @charlesjensen.bsky.social

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

I love poems that reference cinema and I love prose poems, and today I get both thanks to ‪‪Suzanne Cleary and @swwim.bsky.social swwimmiami.substack.com/p/giant

When you discover last year's ghost costume no longer fits.

Another fantastic poem at @swwim.bsky.social Brava, @wordsbyrb.bsky.social : swwimmiami.substack.com/p/cher-said-...

"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LibrarySky

Halloween came early! Artist Ryan Heshka has a new limited edition giclee print: www.ryanheshka.com/shop/p/daugh...

Two of my favorite things together, and on a Monday! Thank you @70sscifiart.bsky.social for today's Halloween edition of 70s Sci-Fi Art! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/a-very-70s-s...

My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)

The museum project room posed the question. And I answered: printing in bold, confident letters, posting his name on the corkboard wall. Misspelled. With apologies to @charlesjensen.bsky.social

Loved these poems by @haikuhawk.bsky.social

I had to break the news to my rabbit, Digby: "Photographic evidence suggests you are no longer the cutest living creature."

Once again, @70sscifiart.bsky.social rescues Monday. The Karel Thole brain-cube entity (scroll down) reinvigorated my Monday-mind: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/cubes-in-sci...

Another WOW poem at @villaineralit.bsky.social today.

Dr. Evelyn Hooker is rolling in her grave.

Digby Flopwell napping on the cool smooth base of his favorite lamp. He loves Lamp Buddy.

Big thanks to @fiveminutelit.bsky.social and EIC @susannabaird.bsky.social for featuring my flash CNF!

Do you like books? Do you like banter? Of course you do! So be sure to join our live stream on YouTube this Wednesday October 8 at 6PM Central / 4PM Pacific. (the pacific time is a reminder for me, so I don't show up 2 hours late.)

Thrilled to have my prose poem, "Undead" appear in the new issue of Unbroken. Thanks to Ken Chau and the rest of the editorial team for featuring my work: www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47

Big thanks to the fine folks at Feral for featuring my visual erasure poem, "your ideal lifestyle": feralpoetry.net/your-ideal-l...

I've been struggling with a new poem and presto! As if by magic, this appeared in my inbox. @charlesjensen.bsky.social to the rescue. Fantastic. THANKS!

Big thanks to @inkinthirds.bsky.social for publishing my cento, "You Have Never Met Me, Because I Have Dreamt You."

One of those poems that makes you want to read everything the poet has ever written.

Whether you like or dislike what’s said, free speech is at the heart of our democracy. Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation. If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.

Love Jerome Berglund's poem today at @haikuniverse.bsky.social haikuniverse.com

I love a good pantoum, and "Pantoum for the Free Climber's Girlfriend" by @esylviapoet.bsky.social knocked my socks off (and also echoed my own feelings after watching that documentary): www.swwim.org

Thrilled to see two more cheribun appear in MacQueen's Quinterly. Big thanks to editor Clare MacQueen for supporting my work (you can click on "Bio: Tracy Royce" to see the second poem): www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Royce...

Gift wrapping started out fine this year, but things deteriorated rapidly. Happy birthday anyway, @robrenzetti.bsky.social [And yes, that's David Shrigley gift wrap I mangled]

Really loved this!

Foot pillows are the best pillows.

Big thanks to Andy Brown and Scrawl Place for giving my braided haibun a home: scrawlplace.com/2025/09/09/w...