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Eric Notaro
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Occasionally published fiction writer. Avid reader. Long time D&D nerd.
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My mom slipped him a piece of apple pie, so now he's waiting for lightning to strike twice.
Finn (brindle chesie-hound mix) lies across the couch stares intently.
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Trying out homemade bagels for the Thanksgiving pregame/breakfast fare.
A row of 16 homemade everything and garlic bagels lined out on a cooling rack.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"I'm not cloning Hitler! Get outta here!"
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I always figured it would be some variation on this.
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Not a bad way to spend a Sunday... unless you need to get up for any reason.
A brindle dog laying across the couch with his big head nestled into my side and lap.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The thinker.
A brown and black brindle mutt lying on a bench couch, his head propped up on the wooden armrest and looking off to the side with a wistful look.
October 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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We just call Finn "Finn the Dog."
Brown brindle mutt with floppy ears, his head resting on a wooden armrest, wistfully. Brown brindle mutt laying on a bench couch, his head resting on the wooden armrest, looking more alert off to the side.
September 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Reverend Lovejoy prounouncing: "GOD HAS SENT THIS FIERY KILL-ROCK TO SHOW US HIS LOVE."
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Me 20 years ago: "I wish the Bush Administration and I agreed om something."
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Elder Fredrick William Evans wrote several works tying Shaker belief to the desires of the reform eras of their day. He was seen as a more liberal-minded Shaker compared to others in the sect.
A black and white photo of FW Evans.
August 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Mutts are great until they pin you to the couch.
A brindle mutt lying down on the couch, his big pittie-hound head is on top of my hand and part of my arm.
August 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Went to mow my lawn today and encountered this little one. Had to shoot it away from the open garage door so it didn't get trapped in there.
A little toad amidst some plants
July 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime.

#20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers and the publisher's name.

Publisher: @catranslation.bsky.social

10/20
#litfic
The Voices of Adrianna by Elvira Navarro
July 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I like the artwork on this one and her prior book.
Cover of Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods by Jennifer Kabat. A green mountainous landscape bisected by a torrent of cool colors with a pointilistic pattern.
July 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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While this all provided a primary source window into the era, there was a particular detail that caught my attention. Near the end of his account, he shares letters he received in the aftermath of the trial (hatemail, functionally). They vary from threats to mere denunciation, but one caught my eye.
Boston, October 3, 1845. For the words "Why did you not kill the scoundrel Sir." "These words of yours show that you are utterly regardless human life. That you love human blood. That uou are a villain in fact and an open enemy to the rights of man. Your charge to the twelve Enemies of our common race shows you to be a brutal monster. I the writer have information which I would not dare to be let known. I tell you plainly that their is an association of 7 that have sworn by the hearth stones of their fithers that his rotten Patroon carcase shall disapear from amongst men. Your Blood when you think not, we have 3 ways to do it, we will accomplish tlie job. MOLLY MAGUIRE & REBCKA.
July 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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The Mario Party.
July 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Same vibe.
June 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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June 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Got em.
A brindled mutt with retriever and hound features with his paws outstretched on the carpet, a toy between them. His head is perked up and cocked inquisitively.
May 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Principal Skinner contemplating whether he is out of touch or if it is the children who are wrong.
May 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Today's haul for #IndependentBookStoreDay
A stack of seven books. From top to bottom: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco King Philip's War by Eric B. Schultz & Michael J. Douglas The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun (translated by Rosenthal Dawood) Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
April 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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A rainy day in New Hampshire, but a good day for books. #IndependentBookStoreDay
The front entrance of Toadstool Books in Peterborough, NH
April 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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(Joking aside--anchovy paste)
A panel from an SMBC comics where a smiling man with heavily dilated pupils brings a pill to his mouth. A thought bubble above his head reads "Thanks, amphetamines!"
April 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM