Rick White
@ricketywhite.bsky.social
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Wildly under-appreciated fiction writer / emo dad 👻 🖤🍸 https://www.ricketywhite.com/
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Cheers Dave! Hope it’s all going well mate, good to see you on here! 🩵
I’ve always loved @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social writing, but there’s just something about this piece that really resonates deeply with me. Like he’s turned the bass up to 11, the bass in all four chambers of my heart, that is 🖤 💫

Also, the last line is an all-timer…
Feels great to be back after a 3-day sub-orbital test flight (details are classified but I can tell you they'd run out of monkeys) and learn my essay-flash-doodle "The Lesser Feats of Atlas" is up at The Airgonaut. I'm home again but still weightless!

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Hahaha, she rules this house with an iron fist, and a truckload of booze. Kids amiright? 🥃 🍻
Got a telling off from my four-year old daughter last night:

“Daddy, if I see you drinking one more beer then you’re not gonna be allowed any more beers, just some wine.”
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If you haven't read Rick's latest published story, why are you even on this Earth? Producing carbon dioxide? Boosting consumer spending metrics? Please immerse yourself in "Kevin" ASAP. Thank you.
They say every writer has one story about a pivotal career change in the life of a dolphin and this is mine! “Kevin” recently published in the Gorko Gazette 🐬 thegorkogazette.com/2025/09/12/k...
New content every morning!
It’s impossible to talk about the 2009 Sea World Dolphin Adventures Squad without mentioning Kevin.
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Thanks MGS! Great to see you over here 👋🏻
Thanks so much, Mike! Really appreciate you giving it a read 💙
Delighted to receive an acceptance this morning from @mallorysmart.bsky.social at the incomparable @maudlinhouse.bsky.social — “A More Radiant Glow” will be my fourth publication with MH, what a fine bunch of folk they are! 🔥 🖤🍸👻
They say every writer has one story about a pivotal career change in the life of a dolphin and this is mine! “Kevin” recently published in the Gorko Gazette 🐬 thegorkogazette.com/2025/09/12/k...
New content every morning!
It’s impossible to talk about the 2009 Sea World Dolphin Adventures Squad without mentioning Kevin.
thegorkogazette.com
I can’t imagine a world in which I just get paid to write, like it’s my actual job, get up, crack on. Maybe I even have an assistant to help with admin and stuff. Incredible. I mean, I still wouldn’t actually DO any writing, but what a thought.
Foolproof pancake recipe: 18 eggs, 5 litres unpasteurised goat milk, half a bag of gypsum multi-purpose finishing plaster, pinch of salt.

You’re welcome.

Also you will need to wait a year as pancake day was yesterday. Always happy to help
Thanks Mike 🙏🏼 great to see you on here! I’d been clinging on to the other place for dear life but I think it’s completely done now.
One thing that particularly winds me up in corporate-speak is people who say, “in terms of…” before saying anything at all. E.g:

“Where’s my fucking coffee, Rick…?”

“So, in terms of where’s your fucking coffee…”

Anyone else notice this?
3 year old: “daddy look it’s morning!”

**3-year-old gleefully throws open curtains to reveal the sky, black as pitch.**

#monday
This year’s been a disaster for me. I got fired from my job, haven’t published any new writing, and a spider crawled on my pillow. But I’m clawing my way out of the deep, dark well. Which is all any of us can really do, I think. Hi to everyone on here 👋🏻
Are we all trying this again now?
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Happy New Year everyone. Wishing you all a happy & creative 2024.

What better way to start your writing year than by reading my latest newsletter which is called "What I Wish I'd Known When I Started Writing" & is full of advice from writing superstars:

#FlashFiction #WritingCraft #AmWriting
What I Wish I'd Known When I Started Writing
So. We’ve made it to the future. We’ve arrived in 2024. I’ve checked it and rechecked it and the calendar is defiant. This is definitely the year we’re now inhabiting. Big milestones like New ...
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Cause of death: broken display. Reason given was that it was “almost a decade old” (it’s 8 years old) and therefore could not possibly have hoped to sustain its life. It was doomed before it even reached the hands of a genius. RIP laptop, we barely knew you 😔 🕊️