Addison Zeller
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
writer / edits for @thedodgemag.bsky.social & bruises for @bruisermag.com
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It's hard to have any kind of belief system that doesn't devolve into absurdity unless its believers have an intuitive understanding of metaphor. Can this be taught? I wonder.
December 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It's hard to have any kind of belief system that doesn't devolve into absurdity unless its believers have an intuitive understanding of metaphor. Can this be taught? I wonder.
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The Mathematicians https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/the-mathematicians-1917
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Mathematicians https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/the-mathematicians-1917
On top of the sheer ugliness and indifference to period we're seeing in the Nolan Odyssey, I have to say I'm not convinced Matt Damon would order the doors to be shut while he massacred you and some handmaidens for your presumption. You want Javier Bardem for that
December 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
On top of the sheer ugliness and indifference to period we're seeing in the Nolan Odyssey, I have to say I'm not convinced Matt Damon would order the doors to be shut while he massacred you and some handmaidens for your presumption. You want Javier Bardem for that
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Congratulations, you stunning writers!
Very kind of the lovely YIV to nominate this piece for Best Small Fictions: yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
December 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Congratulations, you stunning writers!
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at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first.
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first.
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
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Regular people like to dismiss method acting for the same reason they dismiss exacting directors, or writers who take a long time between books: they don't want to admit that, typically, the more time and effort you expend on a craft, the better you get at it
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Regular people like to dismiss method acting for the same reason they dismiss exacting directors, or writers who take a long time between books: they don't want to admit that, typically, the more time and effort you expend on a craft, the better you get at it
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A singular page out of Henri Michaux’s _Ideograms in China_, translated by Gustaf Sobin. “No longer to imitate, but signify nature. By strokes, darts, dashes.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A singular page out of Henri Michaux’s _Ideograms in China_, translated by Gustaf Sobin. “No longer to imitate, but signify nature. By strokes, darts, dashes.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
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...And one more round! Here are our nominations for Best Small Fictions 2025. A huge thank you again to all the incredible writers we've been able to feature this [email protected] @clinforth.bsky.social @saipradhan.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
...And one more round! Here are our nominations for Best Small Fictions 2025. A huge thank you again to all the incredible writers we've been able to feature this [email protected] @clinforth.bsky.social @saipradhan.bsky.social
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The Dodge is so excited to share our nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize! We're so grateful to our amazing community of writers and have been honored to share their work this year.
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Dodge is so excited to share our nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize! We're so grateful to our amazing community of writers and have been honored to share their work this year.
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Hello all! We are currently looking for a volunteer Associate CNF Editor! If you're interested, use the link below to apply:
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December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hello all! We are currently looking for a volunteer Associate CNF Editor! If you're interested, use the link below to apply:
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Thank you so much, Matt, for including "Our Mututal Friend" from @havehashad.com.
I love the craft notes you included with these stories!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
I love the craft notes you included with these stories!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Thank you so much, Matt, for including "Our Mututal Friend" from @havehashad.com.
I love the craft notes you included with these stories!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
I love the craft notes you included with these stories!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
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"In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'"
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
Unsolved Mysteries by Chris Scott
Ten years old, watching Unsolved Mysteries on the floor, dunking Oreos in my Keebler Elf glass of milk. A husband and wife are fighting. Not the real husband, not the real wife. A reenactment. The wif...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'"
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
We’re being destroyed mentally and meant to behave as if everything is okay. This leads to a sense of detachment and dissociation from our cultural realities, which makes everything feel dreamlike
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We’re being destroyed mentally and meant to behave as if everything is okay. This leads to a sense of detachment and dissociation from our cultural realities, which makes everything feel dreamlike
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#3 "Two Dreams" chosen by champion of the unusual @addisonzeller.bsky.social for @thedodgemag.bsky.social. Fiction about climate change usually winds up being about parents feeling guilty just like modern stories about parenting are all at least soft "cli-fi." www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
Two Dreams by Derrick Martin-Campbell — The Dodge
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December 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#3 "Two Dreams" chosen by champion of the unusual @addisonzeller.bsky.social for @thedodgemag.bsky.social. Fiction about climate change usually winds up being about parents feeling guilty just like modern stories about parenting are all at least soft "cli-fi." www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...
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The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Bridging the Void: On “The Fall of Otrar” and the Historical Epic
As Adak Amirkulov excavates the deep past, records are lost and recreated as legends.
mubi.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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Émile Bernard, Funeral of Van Gogh, 1893
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Émile Bernard, Funeral of Van Gogh, 1893
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i have a new piece in @exactingclam.bsky.social for their special dada issue
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
i have a new piece in @exactingclam.bsky.social for their special dada issue
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently
have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
This thing just told me I’m old
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This thing just told me I’m old
The most unrealistic thing about The Shining is that whenever Jack tells someone he’s a writer, they don’t ask “What genre?”
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The most unrealistic thing about The Shining is that whenever Jack tells someone he’s a writer, they don’t ask “What genre?”
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huge thanks to @benlibman.bsky.social for the blurb
review copies available soon -- get in touch if you'd like one
review copies available soon -- get in touch if you'd like one
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
huge thanks to @benlibman.bsky.social for the blurb
review copies available soon -- get in touch if you'd like one
review copies available soon -- get in touch if you'd like one
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(Bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, frantically waving a copy of “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”)
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
(Bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, frantically waving a copy of “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”)