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Author. Atmosphere/Climate physicist. Ret U.S. Air Force. #veteranwriters
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R. Morris @r-morris.bsky.social · Nov 21
"Pit of Despair" R. Morris
#VeteranWriters #FictionWriters #Authors #WritingCommunity

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“Pit of Despair”
by R. Morris – “Clear,” I say, pulling the 9mm out of the bullet-proofed barrel, re-holstering it on my right thigh before stepping across the safety line. A burst of 50 caliber fire echoes t…
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Ever heard of a Virga bomb? One just produced 111 mph winds in Texas and damage. My explanation www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
A Rare Virga Bomb Produces Damaging Winds In Texas - What Is That?
A rare virga bomb caused 111 mph winds in Texas. What is that anyway?
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April 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Did you hear that??? We have thunder snow in Albuquerque!!
January 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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SKOL!!! VIKINGS!!!!
January 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Monday means Aubrey is back on the blog with another all new #Review. #Books #ReadingLists

Kevin's Corner: Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Dangerous Women by Mark de Castrique kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2024/12/aubr...
Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Dangerous Women by Mark de Castrique
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December 17, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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#ShortStories #Anthology #Review

Kevin's Corner: Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Crimes Against Nature, Editor Robert Lopresti kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2024/11/aubr...
Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Crimes Against Nature, Editor Robert Lopresti
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December 13, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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My guest today is author and current @SMFSocy Derringer Awards Coordinator, Paula Messina, with her latest #Review. #ShortStories #GuestPost #Booksky

Kevin's Corner: Paula Messina Reviews: Silent Nights Editor Martin Edwards
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Paula Messina Reviews: Silent Nights Editor Martin Edwards
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December 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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#Book #News and More...

Mystery Melange - inreferencetomurder.typepad.com/my_weblog/20...
Mystery Melange
In the Short Mystery Fiction Society forums, Rob Lopresti posted news via Ira Matetsky of the Wolfe Pack that the Nero Award, presented each year to an author for the best American Mystery written in ...
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December 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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#GuestPost and series news from author Jeff Cohen aka E. J. Copperman.... #Mystery #Books

Jungle Red Writers: Don’t Blame the Author by E.J. Copperman, or his designee www.jungleredwriters.com/2024/12/dont...
Don’t Blame the Author by E.J. Copperman, or his designee
JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING : If you're a mystery reader, sooner or later you're going to know this pain: three or five or eight books into a seri...
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December 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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My #ShortStory, First Contact, appears in the #Anthology, Santa Rage: A Killer Claus Compendium (White City Press). The book is scheduled to be released Tuesday in paperback and eBook. Go get your copy! whitecitypress.com/product/sant...
December 8, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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A hungry heron grabs a little lunch snack....just another day along #Colorado 's Fountain Creek.

#FountainBook #Naturewriting #Birds #Wildlife #Rivers
November 25, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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#ShortStories #NewIssue #PublishingNews

The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Members Published in Black Cat Weekly #169 shortmystery.blogspot.com/2024/11/smfs...
SMFS Members Published in Black Cat Weekly #169
About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.
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November 24, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Fellow @SMFSocy list member Paula Messina is my guest today as she offers a #Book #Review.

Kevin's Corner: Paula Messina Reviews: Paula Messina Reviews: Case for Three Detectives: A Sergeant Beef Mystery by Leo Bruce kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2024/11/paul...
Paula Messina Reviews: Case for Three Detectives: A Sergeant Beef Mystery by Leo Bruce
Please welcome Paula Messina back to the blog today.....    Case for Three Detectives   By Paula Messina     Case for Three Detect...
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November 24, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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#ShortStory #PublishingNews #Online #Free Read

The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Member Publishing News: The One I Loved by Elizabeth Dearborn shortmystery.blogspot.com/2024/11/smfs...
SMFS Member Publishing News: The One I Loved by Elizabeth Dearborn
About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.
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November 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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I’m putting together an anthology of horror tales set during the Scientific Revolution. This is an open call that begins January 1. See below for details. Here’s the WIP cover if you’d like to know the mood of the project:
November 21, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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"Pit of Despair" R. Morris
#VeteranWriters #FictionWriters #Authors #WritingCommunity

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“Pit of Despair”
by R. Morris – “Clear,” I say, pulling the 9mm out of the bullet-proofed barrel, re-holstering it on my right thigh before stepping across the safety line. A burst of 50 caliber fire echoes t…
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November 21, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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I captured this little Western blue bird in some old pastureland in the Fountain watershed of #Colorado. He was one of many, eating and playing in the duff gathered at the base of the collapsing fence. #FountainBook #Birds #Wildlife
Mountain Blue bird sitting on a fence post, photo by Jim O'Donnell, Fountain Creek watershed, Colorado.
November 20, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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#Anthology #Review Today On My Blog. #ShortStories

Kevin's Corner: Short Story Wednesday Review: Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales by Minnesota's Premier Writers Compiled and Edited by the Minnesota Crime Wave
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Short Story Wednesday Review: Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales by Minnesota's Premier Writers Compiled and Edited by the Minnesota Crime Wave
From the archive…   Awhile back, I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the anthology The Silence of the Loons . Put out by the "...
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November 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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What a river can teach us: A new work of riparian activism | Books | taosnews.com www.taosnews.com/tempo/books/... || #NatureWriting #Rivers #FountainBook #NMwater #NMwx #COwater #COwx #Colorado
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November 18, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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In the effort to restore the Palouse Prairie, no project is too small.

Your lawn could host an endangered ecosystem - High Country News www.hcn.org/issues/56-11...
Your lawn could host an endangered ecosystem - High Country News
In the effort to restore the Palouse Prairie, no project is too small.
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November 18, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Lost 100,000 followers on X… maybe they came here…
November 18, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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Aubrey on the blog today with another all new #Review. #Anthology

Kevin's Corner: Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Crimes Against Nature, Editor Robert Lopresti
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Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Crimes Against Nature, Editor Robert Lopresti
With an unprecedented hurricane in the Appalachian Mountains that no one could have expected and wildfires in the West and rampant deforesta...
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November 19, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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Serena Jayne is at Punk Noir Magazine today with a piece of micro fiction that'll make you giggle: Roving Robot Vacuum Sucks Up Negative Energy... we all need one! punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/r...
Roving Robot Vacuum Sucks Up Negative Energy – by Serena Jayne
The five-hundred-dollar price point seems steep, but my ex-husband Harry paid nearly as much for an inflatable love doll. He named her Plastic Penny and brought her alive with some heinous combinat…
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November 17, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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#News
The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: SMFS Member Publishing News: Jim Thomsen's Photographs shortmystery.blogspot.com/2024/11/smfs...
SMFS Member Publishing News: Jim Thomsen's Photographs
About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.
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November 16, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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“Fountain Creek takes us on a fascinating tour of an abused and unassuming stream, fed by the effluent of cities and carrying with it centuries of human history. Jim O’Donnell reminds us that...water still flows and wildness persists.”

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Torrey House Press | FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell
From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, ...
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November 6, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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#AtmoFX Mystery....

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SMFS Members Published in Extreme Weather: Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Book #20
About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.
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November 16, 2024 at 12:01 AM