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Juan Martinez
@fulmerford.com
Author, dad, professor, doodler, loafer

https://www.fulmerford.com
the 4yo requested a corn dog with no dog
February 19, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Can vouch for Juan, he was one of my professors in my undergraduate fiction sequence and is fantastic. And short stories are so, so good for getting to explore a lot of different ideas and practice using storytelling structures and tools.
February 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Hi, Chicago friends! Are you a story writer? Or story-writing-curious? I'm teaching an in-person class for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social & would love to see you in here! & pls spread the word if you can!

www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
How to Write Short Stories 2026 with Juan Martinez - StoryStudio Chicago
You'll walk away from this class with at least one fully drafted short-story, as well as ideas for others, plus a better understanding of your strengths and potential as a short-story writer. Class s...
www.storystudiochicago.org
February 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the moon that’s only for billionaires.
February 18, 2026 at 1:46 PM
you wouldn’t know my girlfriend. she doesn’t go here, she was born from an egg laid by her mother & she’s doing a semester abroad in Turkey.
February 18, 2026 at 1:10 AM
On Tuesdays the 4yo also gets a doodle and today she got Ethan Hawke after he transformed into a beautiful moth.
February 17, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is this famous scene from Richard Linklater’s BLUE MOON (2025) starring Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart and the moon as herself.
February 17, 2026 at 1:43 PM
My favorite Frederick Wiseman is THE STORE, w this sales monologue that goes places & then refuses to stop going places. RIP

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The Store Opening Boardroom clip Frederick Wiseman
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February 17, 2026 at 2:48 AM
ok, just bc there’s still be confusion: the one on the the left is a (startlingly, starkly realistic) doodle, the one on the right is a photograph. same subject, different approaches.
February 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Today’s *other* #postitdoodle is me & my ghosts (in the style of and w huge apologies to @linzie.bsky.social )
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Today’s #postitdoodle is the community garden plot of Dr. Moreau.
February 16, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Tonight’s #postitdoodle is a cult novelist and their small but fiercely devoted coterie of readers
February 15, 2026 at 1:08 AM
the 4yo made the cat a blanket
February 14, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I’m not even a big Springsteen fan, but this book is awesome & makes a case for how truly transformative art comes out of a complicated negotiation between a singular idiosyncratic vision + a community of likeminded believers + an engagement w everyone who came before you
February 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
This week’s blue things.
February 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
to clarify: this is me reading *your* poetry
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the strange sea creature that stole your iPhone & is now killing it at Wordle.
February 13, 2026 at 1:34 PM
this is me reading poetry
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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The house is inelegant. The lawyer is incorrigible. All the girl wants is a box of matches.
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
(🐄)
February 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is an interstellar cattle-transport ship.
February 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
IT IS NOT A CRIME TO PARTY IN ZAROFF’S ISLAND
IT’S NOT A CRIME TO PARTY ON THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
the grass people from Sunday’s Benito Bowl (left), the rumita of Italy (right)
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
IT’S NOT A CRIME TO PARTY ON THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM