Robert Vaughan
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com
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Robert Vaughan
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
· Oct 14
All new @bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 47 is now live! Our Sept/ Oct issue is filled with hybrid CNF, flash and poetry, an incredible feat! Congratulations to all our Bending Genres editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #writer #writerslife #writerscommunity
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LKMkhZ
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/LKMkhZ
David Carter 4/3/63- 11/20/25
R.I.P. dear friend. Smooth travels through the universe. In the words of Marianne Faithfull, ""Remember when we saw our bodies/ as perfect, untouchable things/ seashells on shelves/ silvery souvenirs/ that nothing could mar?" I will always love you. ❤️
R.I.P. dear friend. Smooth travels through the universe. In the words of Marianne Faithfull, ""Remember when we saw our bodies/ as perfect, untouchable things/ seashells on shelves/ silvery souvenirs/ that nothing could mar?" I will always love you. ❤️
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
David Carter 4/3/63- 11/20/25
R.I.P. dear friend. Smooth travels through the universe. In the words of Marianne Faithfull, ""Remember when we saw our bodies/ as perfect, untouchable things/ seashells on shelves/ silvery souvenirs/ that nothing could mar?" I will always love you. ❤️
R.I.P. dear friend. Smooth travels through the universe. In the words of Marianne Faithfull, ""Remember when we saw our bodies/ as perfect, untouchable things/ seashells on shelves/ silvery souvenirs/ that nothing could mar?" I will always love you. ❤️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Send @bendinggenres.bsky.social some LOVE. It really does make a difference to our editorial team!
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The coolest memoir you'll read this year just landed. Get your hands on Burke De Boer's SONGS OF THE CYBERSPACE CATTLE DRIVE and thank us later. Out now from CJ Press: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/songs-of-the...
Songs of the Cyberspace Cattle Drive
Songs of the Cyberspace Cattle Drive by Burke De Boer See all formats and editions "Speaks for all of us country folks who left a piece of ourselves back home when we moved off to the...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The coolest memoir you'll read this year just landed. Get your hands on Burke De Boer's SONGS OF THE CYBERSPACE CATTLE DRIVE and thank us later. Out now from CJ Press: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/songs-of-the...
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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great blue heron
my camera blinks
my camera blinks
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
great blue heron
my camera blinks
my camera blinks
Thanks so much, @pdforan.bsky.social!!!
“And I was determined to not say a word about it to moshpit Melody or her third husband, Mitch. Not how they bathed every houseguest in their unctuousness, not how roses were the gift of the divine …”
@rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-roses-we...
@rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-roses-we...
The Roses Were Really Something - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Simon HUMLER on Unsplash by Robert Vaughan I hadn’t noticed them when we arrived, too caught up in running into Melody who’d fucked half of her co-workers and the entire neighboring Waukesha ...
gooseberry-pie.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thanks so much, @pdforan.bsky.social!!!
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“… (perhaps ‘feature’ isn’t the right word) …”
“… there was no way, Karen felt, that Elizabeth Taylor’s driver’s license would describe her eyes as ‘violet.’”
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...
“… there was no way, Karen felt, that Elizabeth Taylor’s driver’s license would describe her eyes as ‘violet.’”
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...
Karen’s Features
bendinggenres.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“… (perhaps ‘feature’ isn’t the right word) …”
“… there was no way, Karen felt, that Elizabeth Taylor’s driver’s license would describe her eyes as ‘violet.’”
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...
“… there was no way, Karen felt, that Elizabeth Taylor’s driver’s license would describe her eyes as ‘violet.’”
@kimmagowan.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...
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“These gifts were not gestures of kindness, but windows she opened in order to say: *I hope you get help.*”
@jamybond.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/estranged/
@jamybond.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/estranged/
Estranged
bendinggenres.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“These gifts were not gestures of kindness, but windows she opened in order to say: *I hope you get help.*”
@jamybond.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/estranged/
@jamybond.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/estranged/
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“Your father is living in a far-off town called LIAR, and you are wearing a T-shirt from last year’s sleepaway camp, the last summer you will remember even having a father, and …”
@francinewitte.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/if-your-home...
@francinewitte.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/if-your-home...
If your hometown is HURT
bendinggenres.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“Your father is living in a far-off town called LIAR, and you are wearing a T-shirt from last year’s sleepaway camp, the last summer you will remember even having a father, and …”
@francinewitte.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/if-your-home...
@francinewitte.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/if-your-home...
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“You must start with something small and easier to manage, like melancholy.”
@seanthomasd.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/what-is-the-...
@seanthomasd.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/what-is-the-...
What is the Recipe for Joy?
bendinggenres.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“You must start with something small and easier to manage, like melancholy.”
@seanthomasd.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/what-is-the-...
@seanthomasd.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/what-is-the-...
Top 5 movie genres are:
-It wouldn't come out
-He had no idea she was a man
-Life was better when
-It's over now
-I had no idea you were ____?
-It wouldn't come out
-He had no idea she was a man
-Life was better when
-It's over now
-I had no idea you were ____?
Top 5 movie genres are:
-Let’s put on a show!
-Getting the gang back together for one final heist
-She is coming for her own and you best believe she’s gonna get it.
-Life is terrible but also achingly beautiful and also there are angels
-One perfect day
-Let’s put on a show!
-Getting the gang back together for one final heist
-She is coming for her own and you best believe she’s gonna get it.
-Life is terrible but also achingly beautiful and also there are angels
-One perfect day
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Top 5 movie genres are:
-It wouldn't come out
-He had no idea she was a man
-Life was better when
-It's over now
-I had no idea you were ____?
-It wouldn't come out
-He had no idea she was a man
-Life was better when
-It's over now
-I had no idea you were ____?
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Still a couple of spots available for this if you're keen. Should be a brilliant event. @claudiamonpere.bsky.social is amazing and has so much wisdom. And @dawnsteffler.bsky.social shows what she can do with emotions in her wonderful @bathflashaward.bsky.social winning story. Not to be missed!
Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Still a couple of spots available for this if you're keen. Should be a brilliant event. @claudiamonpere.bsky.social is amazing and has so much wisdom. And @dawnsteffler.bsky.social shows what she can do with emotions in her wonderful @bathflashaward.bsky.social winning story. Not to be missed!
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Bloomin’ brilliant theme and editorial team for the 2026 @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology 👏 Submissions open 1 December. How exciting! 🥳
We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Bloomin’ brilliant theme and editorial team for the 2026 @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology 👏 Submissions open 1 December. How exciting! 🥳
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Adding some color to gloomy November
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Adding some color to gloomy November
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had a fabulous time hosting @writesloud.bsky.social at Obodo Serendipity Books (Stratford, CT) for her reading and our book chat!
Go buy "First Kicking, Then Not" @stanchion.bsky.social
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Go buy "First Kicking, Then Not" @stanchion.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
had a fabulous time hosting @writesloud.bsky.social at Obodo Serendipity Books (Stratford, CT) for her reading and our book chat!
Go buy "First Kicking, Then Not" @stanchion.bsky.social
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Go buy "First Kicking, Then Not" @stanchion.bsky.social
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Get you ONE OF THESE (or more!!!)
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Get you ONE OF THESE (or more!!!)
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#alaskasky from Denali, 64°N, never seen so much pink and red
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
#alaskasky from Denali, 64°N, never seen so much pink and red
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Truly grateful for this wonderful review of THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social included on the @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog today.
On our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @kristintenor.bsky.social This is How They Mourn. And a nod to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for inspiring our new BG logo with her bald cypress hybrid tree photo:
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
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November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Truly grateful for this wonderful review of THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social included on the @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog today.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this collection by @kristintenor.bsky.social Highly recommend!
On our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @kristintenor.bsky.social This is How They Mourn. And a nod to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for inspiring our new BG logo with her bald cypress hybrid tree photo:
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
bendinggenres.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed this collection by @kristintenor.bsky.social Highly recommend!
On our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @kristintenor.bsky.social This is How They Mourn. And a nod to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for inspiring our new BG logo with her bald cypress hybrid tree photo:
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
bendinggenres.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @kristintenor.bsky.social This is How They Mourn. And a nod to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for inspiring our new BG logo with her bald cypress hybrid tree photo:
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
bendinggenres.com/review-of-kr...
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two new little micro #littlepoemsunday poems today from Adrian Dallas Frandle!
https://www.havehashad.com/rmxas
https://www.havehashad.com/rmxas
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
two new little micro #littlepoemsunday poems today from Adrian Dallas Frandle!
https://www.havehashad.com/rmxas
https://www.havehashad.com/rmxas
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"Okay, so this man used to be a YouTuber, but then he made a video where he went to a Japanese suicide forest, and people got mad at him. He sucks. Then he pivoted to like, boxing? And he has a brother who also sucks."
Explaining to Your Parents Why Certain Celebrities Are Famous
This lady’s video went viral after she tasted kombucha and made a weird face, and now she has a podcast and a YouTube talk show. It’s just like a n...
buff.ly
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Okay, so this man used to be a YouTuber, but then he made a video where he went to a Japanese suicide forest, and people got mad at him. He sucks. Then he pivoted to like, boxing? And he has a brother who also sucks."
post you from a different era. This is me and Andrea (bestie) from my first time around, 1980s, in NYC!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
post you from a different era. This is me and Andrea (bestie) from my first time around, 1980s, in NYC!!!
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2024 Overview 🧵:
In 2024, I published 42 books:
28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book
14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)
#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating
1/?
In 2024, I published 42 books:
28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book
14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)
#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating
1/?
December 30, 2024 at 2:36 PM
2024 Overview 🧵:
In 2024, I published 42 books:
28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book
14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)
#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating
1/?
In 2024, I published 42 books:
28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book
14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)
#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating
1/?