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Paul Ryan O'Connor

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Crime-writing blogger & award-winning mystery author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place. https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 19d

My #shortstories page is always up to date, with the dozen stories I've sold so far, and the many more to come. Links to online stories and print publications -- all in one place. Please drop by and take a look!

paulryanoconnor.com/stories

Looking through rainy car windshield at night.

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 4h

I thought the teleplay was remarkably close to the book (which I read after seeing the show) -- so much so that they felt interchangeable.

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 6h

That's a fantastic page ... absolutely would have sold the next issue to me and would have had me counting down the days until it went on sale.

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 6h

Always forget this isn't a science fiction story so much as a class conflict story that has science fiction in it.

I've felt a connection to this one ever since seeing the original "Maschinemensch" costume at Forrest J. Ackerman's house when I was a kid, in 1974.

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 10h

I've joined a secret society! (Well, a mysterious one, at least).

#crimewriting #writingcommunity #crimefiction #mystery

Secret Society — Paul O'Connor

I’ve joined the Mystery Writers of America!

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 12h

The ultimate drive-in movie theater film?

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 18h

James Jones - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 18h

Walking Small

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 18h

Colson Whitehead - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

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Thevaultoftheatomicspaceage @atomicspaceage.bsky.social · Oct 7

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · Jul 26

#filmsky #filmnoir #moviesky #ClashByNight

TIME FOR A DRINK🍸

Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe drinking beer in Clash By Night, 1952

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · Jul 15

Bogart, Huston, Holt.

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes a guy's just got to write a dinosaur story.

All the numbers behind my lost world science fantasy romance, "The Sky Falls Up."

Falling Up By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor

The story behind the story of the secret psychic dinosaur civil war raging at the earth’s core!

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday Tilda Swinton 🎂
📷 Paolo Roversi, 2005

“Busy, ambitious, bold, she seems ready to try anything.”
- David Thomson

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 25d

Japanese poster for Pier Paolo Pasolini's MEDEA (1969)

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Set your limits as a writer, or they will be set for you.

Red Lines.

#writingcommunity

Red Lines — Paul O'Connor

Set your limits as a writer, or they will be set for you.

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

I love Point Blank, will watch it every couple years. Get Carter is more like ... once every couple decades. But, yes, as tales of ruthless bastards, they are of a kind.

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Brutal picture.

Mostly it's a vibe. Those locations! Wow.

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

While she gets third billing, there's scarcely any Britt Ekland in this. But in those scarce moments, there's no scarcity of her.

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Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.social · Jul 28

Grace Kelly & James Stewart.

Rear Window (1954) 🎬🖤

Grace Kelly and James Stewart in Rear Window (1954)

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

One of my colleagues, Erin Ulm, made her first sale to The Deadlands, and her story is now live and free to read on line.

She is a brilliant young writer and I am so pleased to see her break in via this prestigious market!

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

The Destruction of All That is Good and Holy, Otherwise Known as Green Beans - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The giant turtles walked out of the sea, clambering onto the dock’s wooden slats. “We will survive on land, we will survive on land,” they chanted in their distinct language, the turtle tongue. “We wi...

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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 12d

Audrey Hepburn by Norman Parkinson (1953)

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