Pete
@phenryward.bsky.social
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Books, art, theatre. I mainly use social media to tell people that I liked the thing they made.
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New to actually-finishing-and-submitting, and while I had my first acceptance last week, this story with @bristolnoir.bsky.social is my first publication. Something of a milestone.

It's an anti-fascist thriller probably best described as a 'Masque of the Red Harvest'. If you read it let me know!
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The Crow’s Portion by Pete Ward

#Noir #ShortStory #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #goodreads

www.bristolnoir.co.uk/the-crows-po...
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Ironically, this skeet got ignored, but I can sense in this indifference an almost miraculous confirmation. God has ordained this indifference; God does not want this terrible joke divulged on earth.
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New bar set for how writers handle poor sales
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New bar set for how writers handle poor sales
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Anyway, thinking about other works that have that "The Almighty Went For Cigarettes and Never Came Back" feel to them. Somebody mentioned NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, I'd throw THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE in there too but I don't think it has to be just horror.
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BLOOD MERIDIAN or THE WEST IS A GODLESS HELL YET STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL
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Maybe unnecessary to say anything beyond Gaspar Noe, but I found Climax dangerously, infectiously Godless
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The explanatory afterword (or worse, preface) is an odd encumbrance I've seen in some recent fiction that rarely improves the work.
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It's excellent - I scheduled it with One Eyed Monster as a housemate double bill and while OEM has some decent gags, there was a faint whiplash at the quality and purpose of Teeth
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This is great, thanks.
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First experience tonight of both the amazing HAXAN and the very excellent AUTOHAUs - thanks to Screen B14, @hareandhounds.bsky.social for putting together
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It's so good. On demand on Channel 4 in the UK.
Pairs well with Rian Johnson's BRICK
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As a starting-out writer, I'm taking two positive, "Nearly buddy" rejections in a week as 50% of an acceptance.
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Just watched this and it's so good. Not sure how Bronson Pinchot's performance comes through in the original, but he's terrifying here: becomes quite Carnival of Souls-y after photocopying
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If you haven't seen this before I'd highly recommend it - it's a totally transformative piece of work - frames are photocopied onto paper then rescanned, but also torn, screwed up and otherwise animated - that creates a truly uncanny atmosphere.
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First watch of today is The Timekeepers of Eternity, the utterly incredible experimental re-edit of 1996’s miniseries The Langoliers. It takes a film that was (apologies to all involved) extremely mid and elevates it into something truly remarkable
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Really liked this, thanks.
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I think all the time about the Punisher comics where he unwittingly became black as a way of evading enemies (woke after plastic surgery to find the doctor had taken executive decisions) and lost his mind about how he was treated by everyone from cops to cabbies
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Yeah that's pretty much as I felt - some of which is the usual 'this could have been 75 pages shorter' problem - but I liked its unpleasantness, its human messiness.
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Oh man wrong Changeling, sorry. I stand by my assessment of the other one (Lavalle)
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There's definitely some half-hearted picking to be done, but he chose not to make things neat and that's commendable.
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Literal Larry the Cover Designer: "No, it's okay, don't tell me what happens in the book, I've got this."
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Thanks, I hate it (complementary). Pairs well with your Wicker Avenue story
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Thomas Chateauton Williams

Also, 'clavicle' to 'dick-line' is such a funny example of different approaches to a joke
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#reclaimtheEm-dash
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Completely agree - maybe no other man has had so much opportunity to meaningfully intervene in the last twenty years of politics and technology on behalf of the better angels he purports to represent. He's done nothing with that access other than get richer and attempt to evade responsiblity.
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Oh you've got to name the story!
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Yep. But I tried a different computer, which did the trick. We'll just chalk this up to the caprice of tech demons.
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Dammit, because I've got some paranoid strangeness *and* uncanny dream logic for you