Nick Black
@fuzzynick.bsky.social
Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' (Ad Hoc Fiction), available now from me or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
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Available now, in time for all your favourite holidays!
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5
Day 47 #4
SHE'S LEAVING YOU - MJ LENDERMAN (2024) 🇺🇸
The best overall song, with OUT any of my fave MJ lyrics, but with the catharsis of "It falls apart, we all got work to do"
It's just so.....Pavementy.
youtu.be/0rFVVzavii0?...
Day 47 #4
SHE'S LEAVING YOU - MJ LENDERMAN (2024) 🇺🇸
The best overall song, with OUT any of my fave MJ lyrics, but with the catharsis of "It falls apart, we all got work to do"
It's just so.....Pavementy.
youtu.be/0rFVVzavii0?...
MJ Lenderman - She's Leaving You
YouTube video by MJ Lenderman
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
#TheTwen2ie5
Day 47 #4
SHE'S LEAVING YOU - MJ LENDERMAN (2024) 🇺🇸
The best overall song, with OUT any of my fave MJ lyrics, but with the catharsis of "It falls apart, we all got work to do"
It's just so.....Pavementy.
youtu.be/0rFVVzavii0?...
Day 47 #4
SHE'S LEAVING YOU - MJ LENDERMAN (2024) 🇺🇸
The best overall song, with OUT any of my fave MJ lyrics, but with the catharsis of "It falls apart, we all got work to do"
It's just so.....Pavementy.
youtu.be/0rFVVzavii0?...
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Not long now till subs to our anthology & microfiction comp open on 1 Dec. The theme for our anthology this year is BRIDGES. There is no theme for the micro comp. More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
an illustration of a bridge over a river
ALT: an illustration of a bridge over a river
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Not long now till subs to our anthology & microfiction comp open on 1 Dec. The theme for our anthology this year is BRIDGES. There is no theme for the micro comp. More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
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#MusicInMusic
Cum On Feel The Noise - Slade
So you think my singing's out of time
Well, it makes me money
youtu.be/sKYYPh8rvQU?...
Cum On Feel The Noise - Slade
So you think my singing's out of time
Well, it makes me money
youtu.be/sKYYPh8rvQU?...
Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize - Top Of The Pops - Tuesday 25 December 1973
YouTube video by mymusicfootage
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
#MusicInMusic
Cum On Feel The Noise - Slade
So you think my singing's out of time
Well, it makes me money
youtu.be/sKYYPh8rvQU?...
Cum On Feel The Noise - Slade
So you think my singing's out of time
Well, it makes me money
youtu.be/sKYYPh8rvQU?...
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Back to reading this after a little break and it's instantly wonderful, all over again.
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Back to reading this after a little break and it's instantly wonderful, all over again.
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
#booksky 📚💙 #AdamNicolson
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Available now, in time for all your favourite holidays!
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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'Driving home...' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
'Driving home...' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt
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‘What might a post-liberal politics look like? Those lacking a general political theory tend to gesture towards a specific place: Hungary.’
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jan-Werner Müller · Caesar wept: Trolling the Libs
All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in power...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
‘What might a post-liberal politics look like? Those lacking a general political theory tend to gesture towards a specific place: Hungary.’
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Based on some of the music you mention in your newsletters, @galleybeggars.bsky.social, think you might like this.
#amplaying #nowplaying Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - 'Forever, I've Been Being Born' (2025)
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Based on some of the music you mention in your newsletters, @galleybeggars.bsky.social, think you might like this.
#amplaying #nowplaying Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - 'Forever, I've Been Being Born' (2025)
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#amplaying #nowplaying Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - 'Forever, I've Been Being Born' (2025)
Available now, in time for all your favourite holidays!
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
Slinky enough to fit any stocking. Positive and Negative enough to light up any shelf.
#booksky 📚💙 #BuyNow #shortstories #flashfiction
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Good morning and on this 'Blue Friday.'
If you are able, please do buy your books from bricks and mortar bookshops or: Bookshop.org.uk
They pay all their taxes and don't waste money on phallic space dreams.
@thebookseller.com
If you are able, please do buy your books from bricks and mortar bookshops or: Bookshop.org.uk
They pay all their taxes and don't waste money on phallic space dreams.
@thebookseller.com
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Good morning and on this 'Blue Friday.'
If you are able, please do buy your books from bricks and mortar bookshops or: Bookshop.org.uk
They pay all their taxes and don't waste money on phallic space dreams.
@thebookseller.com
If you are able, please do buy your books from bricks and mortar bookshops or: Bookshop.org.uk
They pay all their taxes and don't waste money on phallic space dreams.
@thebookseller.com
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I wish I'd been able to pair this image with my story 'WITH HER SOFT HAT ON' (originally in Ellipsis Zine, now in my book, see bio.)
"... the sharp cold and dark of the evening offset the bright lights pouring off of the shops, all of it’s perfect..."
#amwriting www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
"... the sharp cold and dark of the evening offset the bright lights pouring off of the shops, all of it’s perfect..."
#amwriting www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I wish I'd been able to pair this image with my story 'WITH HER SOFT HAT ON' (originally in Ellipsis Zine, now in my book, see bio.)
"... the sharp cold and dark of the evening offset the bright lights pouring off of the shops, all of it’s perfect..."
#amwriting www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
"... the sharp cold and dark of the evening offset the bright lights pouring off of the shops, all of it’s perfect..."
#amwriting www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg...
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Submit before the end of the year y’all.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Submit before the end of the year y’all.
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Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Finished this morning - breathlessly.
Peculiar, thrilling and satisfying, on plot levels, aesthetic levels, emotional levels, spiritual levels. Also a wonderful mid-Seventies novel, London novel, and winter novel, if you're looking to read any of those.
#IrisMurdoch #AWordChild
Peculiar, thrilling and satisfying, on plot levels, aesthetic levels, emotional levels, spiritual levels. Also a wonderful mid-Seventies novel, London novel, and winter novel, if you're looking to read any of those.
#IrisMurdoch #AWordChild
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Finished this morning - breathlessly.
Peculiar, thrilling and satisfying, on plot levels, aesthetic levels, emotional levels, spiritual levels. Also a wonderful mid-Seventies novel, London novel, and winter novel, if you're looking to read any of those.
#IrisMurdoch #AWordChild
Peculiar, thrilling and satisfying, on plot levels, aesthetic levels, emotional levels, spiritual levels. Also a wonderful mid-Seventies novel, London novel, and winter novel, if you're looking to read any of those.
#IrisMurdoch #AWordChild
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Love, love, LOVED #TheBenefactors by the wonderful @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Highly recommend you read it 👏📚📚👏
#books #booksky @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
#books #booksky @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Love, love, LOVED #TheBenefactors by the wonderful @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Highly recommend you read it 👏📚📚👏
#books #booksky @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
#books #booksky @sceptrebooks.bsky.social