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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 43m

"Where’s the writers? The friends? The music? The beach bonfire? The laughter? But there is no party. I’m it. I’m the party." @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social · 12h

ICYMI! Thrilled to be in these digital pages today.

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 1d

"If you’re not rich or famous or powerful, then you’re just you, the guy nobody wants to hear whine." - @brettbbl.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 1d

"If you’re not rich or famous or powerful, then you’re just you, the guy nobody wants to hear whine." - @brettbbl.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d

"As I climb, I remember all the times I’ve gotten ear infections from lake water that looked just like the green, muddy water below. I look down again & see the sign that says, NO SWIMMING. I keep climbing. Damion keeps shouting." - Adam Forrester mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 2d

The Shortlist for Oct 10:

Look busy at work reading great writing.

Links to nonfiction from:
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

& fiction from:
Ashton Russell in @turnandwork.com
Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com
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The Shortlist for October 10 - Turn & Work

Nonfiction by Christopher Stevenson, and fiction from Ashton Russell, Alice Ashe, Chris Scott, Erin Somers, Michael Czyzniejewski, Karen Crawford, Jen Shepherd, and JS Apsley.

www.turnandwork.com

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 2d

Issue # 7 of my monthly column, MOANS FROM THE CONDIMENT FRIDGE, with @mrbullbull.bsky.social dropped today.

This issue is titled ALL OF MY FEVER DREAMS ARE UPSIDE DOWN. It's about the absurd & getting asthma in 1980.

You can click the link below, 👇👇

mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d

"I trusted without knowing how to trust. I laughed without understanding why we laugh. It’s why later in life I could inflict pain without care. It’s why I hide behind a poker face whenever I walk into a room full of people." @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2d

"You will not notice any customers, or how they flinch to not see you—you, a woman covered in soot; you, stinking of char; they, who for all these years you could greet only with mumbling, with a lump in your throat." - Arik M mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 4d

"After you parted ways, you to your tour bus, your parents to their station wagon to sign the non-disclosure agreements, what unasked questions would linger between you, the way that ancient regrets linger like trapped smoke in empty dive bars?" John Waddy Bullion mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 4d

Gather round the campfire and let me tell you a scary story about scary stories, at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Big thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for publishing this, and to *you* for reading it. Happy camping! mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“I’m not losing my mind, right? This guy was not in the picture we took.”
“Who the hell is he?” They’re squinting hard in the dark. He just looks like another one of them, to put it plainly. Like he could have been a fourth roommate. But there was no fourth roommate. It was always just the three of them.
“I have absolutely no memory of this dude. I’ve never seen him before in my life.”

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d

"Everything is exactly how they remember it: Three 21-year-old shitheads, disheveled with bad haircuts, ratty clothes, ugly macho postures. Except there’s a fourth guy this time, in between them, his arms hung around their shoulders." @iamchrisscott.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d

"I ask my sister if she’s been drinking & she says of course not. I hear her click her tongue, so I know she’s lying. I open the fridge. Something’s rotting in the vegetable drawer, but I don’t want to dig around right now."
- Macy Craig
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 7d

"Forgetting is a blessing, your dad slurs at you over the mac and cheese. You sit quietly until he leaves the table. You wish you could hear your mom’s voice. You hope she’s trying to remember yours, too." - John Wegner mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 8d

"Anyway, we’re doling out a hundred thousand skull-shattering kicks per second. We're running up walls & punching support beams in half & smashing office equipment to bits. A crowd gathers because of all the righteous moves. They’re pretty impressed." Nick Gregorio mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Epic Workplace Judo/Karate Fight | MrBullBull

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 8d

"I’m gonna be late to pick up our fur baby, Ammo Man tells me. My wife’ll kill me. His black cap says, DUE TO THE COST OF AMMO WE NO LONGER FIRE A WARNING SHOT. You’d better run, I say. And then: Sorry." @brooksegerton mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Mike McHone @mikemchone.bsky.social · 9d

Some good stuff here

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 10d

"I wanted to create a character who was broken, deeply broken, a character who wanted to disappear from the world and be very quiet so as not to hurt others but who nevertheless brought pain where ever he went." - Jonathan Ames (interviewed by @frank212.bsky.social) mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 9d

In case you missed it. It's made people who know me in real life cry, but I promise ends on a wonderful inspiring note. It's the only thing I've written that my family cares about. It's a great read to start a weekend.

Find how I am "the luckiest person in the world."

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 10d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 9d

Next in @frank212.bsky.social series with @mrbullbull.bsky.social - Frank always gets in depth with his subjects 💗💗

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 9d

Next up in my all of 2025 interview series is with the fantastic Jonathan Ames. Author of books such as YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (made into a film by Lynne Ramsay.) He also wrote the fantastic HAPPY DOLL series
@jonathanames.bsky.social

Click on the link to read

mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 9d

The shortlist continued. (3/3)
Links to short fiction from:

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
Daniel Abiva Hunt & Albert Rodriguez in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

All the links and more here:

The Shortlist for October 3, 2025 - Turn & Work

Nonfiction by Katrina Ralbag, and fiction from Kara Crawford, Daniel Abiva Hunt, Amy DeBellis, Brad Barkley, Kelli Short Borges, Trevor J. Houser, Robert Nazar Arjoyan, Wade Harris and Albert Rodrigue...

www.turnandwork.com

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 10d

"I wanted to create a character who was broken, deeply broken, a character who wanted to disappear from the world and be very quiet so as not to hurt others but who nevertheless brought pain where ever he went." - Jonathan Ames (interviewed by @frank212.bsky.social) mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 10d

You will want to read this for sure.
RIP Dad.
All of this is true. The events took place last January.
And thank you to Bull for publishing this.

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 10d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 10d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 11d

"Our corporate crusader would not allow his lactose intolerance to ruin his lunch. This was the only time he had to himself, the only part of his life that he didn’t necessarily enjoy so much as not suffer through. This was his only freedom." - m.e. gamlem mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 12d

"Socrates, Nietzsche, Freud... Noah knew about the phallic stage while the rest of us were still in the phallic stage." - Daniel Abiva Hunt mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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