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Seán Padraic Birnie

@seanbirnie.bsky.social

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Writer: I Would Haunt You if I Could. Stories in Fictionable, Cōnfingō, Best British Short Stories, Interzone, Black Static, The Dark, ergot. seanbirnie.com undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could linktr.ee/seanbirnie

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · Jun 11

First post on the new blue app: the wonderful @undertow.bsky.social’s published I Would Haunt You if I Could, my debut collection of short stories, in 2021, and it’s available here, among an absolute treasure trove of other titles: https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could

I Would Haunt You if I Could — Undertow Publications

COVER ART: Jana Heidersdorf I would haunt you … The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed haunt. Sown with seeds of sorrow and grief, and imbued with disquieting bod...

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 30m

I need to wait til payday but looking forward to this! A reminder has been set.

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 15h

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1h

Neil Young, Sleeps with Angels. Or is that a song about one particularly troubled man, rather than a song in some way about masculinity?

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1h

My brother has loved him for years and I really need to do a proper deep dive myself. I think I saw Dead Man's Shoes before I knew about him, actually, and somehow never made the connection.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1h

Boy Don’t Cry, presumably.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1h

nearly missed my stop.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1h

compiling a mixtape about masculinity in my head as we go. The above; Born a Girl by the Manics; True Faith, New Order. What else

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1h

Bonnie Prince Billy, ‘I See a Darkness’ — perfect bus commute to work music, in case you were wondering.

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 22h

Given the shutdown (and not having a paycheck coming in), I've been considering slapping together a small collection and self-publishing it on itch

Unsure if it's wise, but would there be interest in this?

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 21h

Yes!

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 22h

It would appear that the purpose of a second test print is to introduce errors that were not present in the first.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Making v slow progress but I’m getting there with this head-to-tail double short story zine. Currently waiting for the second test to arrive with the patience I am famed for.

A test print of my short story zine ‘Digging & Flume’ on a cutting mat, next to a sealable plastic card bag with a piece of A4 purplish-blue card folded inside it, to protect the zine. The fit is too tight and when I was in the shop I also forgot that the zine is actually longer than A6.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 22h

Brilliant.

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 23h

'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time'
The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain
www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare

Flare!

<p>‘Quitting is a disease,’ says Jordan, a 25-year-old ex-marine construction worker when his teammate Dawn has been vomiting for several hours after

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 23h

There's loads of capital L literature written by people who aren't "straight white (often older) men" and it's weird that people feel the need to pretend otherwise

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, but LinkedIn, mid 2010s, escalating relationship between a recruiter and someone desperate for a job.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone written a horror story set on LinkedIn? Someone should. They could call it LinkedIn Park.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 2d

'They recently started talking on LinkedIn.' LOL

"For the past three months, 28-year-old social worker Holly from Kent has been navigating a “situationship” with a co-worker. Though they knew each other from the office, they initially started speaking via LinkedIn. Now, they see each other sporadically – “I wouldn’t call them dates,” Holly deadpans – but speak often via WhatsApp. “I mainly use AI because I tend to write really long messages,” she says, “so I’ll put them into ChatGPT and say, ‘Please make this softer and more clear’, or, ‘I need to sound harsher here so he understands I’m upset.’” She doesn’t feel that it’s misleading – “I’m not trying to manipulate anyone,” she says."

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Mad to think I lived 38 years and 11 months of my life without such a thing.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

The pure joy of coming downstairs in the morning to be greeted by the most enormous smile a 6-month-old baby can produce — mouth as wide open as humanly possible, eyes bright with happiness. You’d not think he was up all night.

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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 1d

People should buy more pamphlets and broadsides

thedreadfulpoint.com/catalog/

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes I think I read something a while back. Hmm

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Sold. Need to wait til payday but £10 is definitely what the hell territory

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

why the fuck do I know about Bari Weiss. I'm not American, what did I do to deserve that?

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Alternative nightmare just occurred as I added another American media name to list of muted names (Bari Weiss): you have to host a dinner party for all the people you've blocked/muted. I'm not sure which would be worse.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · Feb 10

Nightmare: you must host a dinner party for all the people who have muted you.

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · Feb 10

Nightmare: you must host a dinner party for all the people who have muted you.

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 1d

Just seen it's £9.99 on mac. I have a ps5 but suspect I might find it easier to get into on a laptop. Tempting! The laptop's an M3 Air which has been very capable for everything else I've thrown at it but I wonder if it's still a bad idea.

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