Matthew Hurst
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A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem's worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale?
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
Just heard a trail for Ray Winstone's BBC podcast. Apparently ye's so terrifying he can make 'where-ever you get your podcasts' sound like a threat.
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Just heard a trail for Ray Winstone's BBC podcast. Apparently ye's so terrifying he can make 'where-ever you get your podcasts' sound like a threat.
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting Greg the geezer
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting Greg the geezer
Episode 2 of the Fuppery Newsletter is now live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters. Get started while there’s hardly any catching up needed.
#readingcommunity #books #crime
#readingcommunity #books #crime
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Episode 2 of the Fuppery Newsletter is now live - a twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told (eventually) in the medium of 1980s village newsletters. Get started while there’s hardly any catching up needed.
#readingcommunity #books #crime
#readingcommunity #books #crime
Traitors - 'Deal Or No Deal' for the 21st century: https://matthewhurst.micro.blog/2025/11/09/traitors-deal-or-no-deal.html
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Traitors - 'Deal Or No Deal' for the 21st century: https://matthewhurst.micro.blog/2025/11/09/traitors-deal-or-no-deal.html
Read: Putin’s People by Catherine Belton 📚TLDR: Putin helped the KGB steal all Russia’s money, oligarchs stole it from the KGB and set up Putin as leader, Putin stole the money from the oligarchs. Putin wins. Authoritative, heavily researched and so so so so detailed. #booksky #bookstodon
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Read: Putin’s People by Catherine Belton 📚TLDR: Putin helped the KGB steal all Russia’s money, oligarchs stole it from the KGB and set up Putin as leader, Putin stole the money from the oligarchs. Putin wins. Authoritative, heavily researched and so so so so detailed. #booksky #bookstodon
Read: You Killed Me First by John Marrs 📚More gloriously fucked up suburban homicide from John Marrs. At one point I feared it might veer into supernatural tropes, but thankfully it was just psychosis. #booksky #bookstodon
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Read: You Killed Me First by John Marrs 📚More gloriously fucked up suburban homicide from John Marrs. At one point I feared it might veer into supernatural tropes, but thankfully it was just psychosis. #booksky #bookstodon
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem’s worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale? My first short story to hit the streets:
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem’s worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale? My first short story to hit the streets:
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/s…
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem's worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale?
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A squid-fishing ship goes silent in the Pacific & gangster’s fixer Liu discovers the problem's worse, and weirder, than he could possibly imagine - but will he escape to tell the tale?
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
My first short story to hit the streets is here.
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/11/squi... #horror #horrorlit
It’s tomorrow - the first proper episode of my twisted, funny retro serial murder mystery based loosely on my childhood, For a sneak peak of the secret files already release: fupperynewsletter.substack.com/s/dossiers
Unapologetic promo - you can sign up there too #booksky
#mysterybooksky #thriller
Unapologetic promo - you can sign up there too #booksky
#mysterybooksky #thriller
Dossiers | Fuppery Newsletter | Matthew Hurst | Substack
My mother's secret files, and other things from The Box. Click to read Fuppery Newsletter, a Substack publication. Launched 14 days ago.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It’s tomorrow - the first proper episode of my twisted, funny retro serial murder mystery based loosely on my childhood, For a sneak peak of the secret files already release: fupperynewsletter.substack.com/s/dossiers
Unapologetic promo - you can sign up there too #booksky
#mysterybooksky #thriller
Unapologetic promo - you can sign up there too #booksky
#mysterybooksky #thriller
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/fuppery…
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/fuppery…
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier…
That bloody Asda radio advert with (a) the word ‘woyser’ used unironically and (b) colleague used as a synonym for ‘employee’ which it isn’t, whatever their human resources droids would like to think.
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
That bloody Asda radio advert with (a) the word ‘woyser’ used unironically and (b) colleague used as a synonym for ‘employee’ which it isn’t, whatever their human resources droids would like to think.
Someone on here just told me to ‘let that sink in’.
I went to the front door but there was nothing waiting there. No toilet, no bath and definitely no sink. If you see a poor homeless sink, shivering in the October chill, please let me know.
I went to the front door but there was nothing waiting there. No toilet, no bath and definitely no sink. If you see a poor homeless sink, shivering in the October chill, please let me know.
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Someone on here just told me to ‘let that sink in’.
I went to the front door but there was nothing waiting there. No toilet, no bath and definitely no sink. If you see a poor homeless sink, shivering in the October chill, please let me know.
I went to the front door but there was nothing waiting there. No toilet, no bath and definitely no sink. If you see a poor homeless sink, shivering in the October chill, please let me know.
Waving around the next snippet warming up to my twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.https://open.substack.com/pub/fupperynewsletter/p/dossier-entry-2-the-director
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Waving around the next snippet warming up to my twisted, funny retro fictional serial murder mystery told in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.https://open.substack.com/pub/fupperynewsletter/p/dossier-entry-2-the-director
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
October 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Latest in the (fictonal) weird shit my mother wrote about her village - This is prep for the actual serial next week. Kind of tipping the jigsaw pieces out and wondering where they all go) #booksky #writing #iamwriting open.substack.com/pub/fuppe…
Read: The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak 📚Modern day CIA spy-daughter investigates what her CIA spy-father got up to in the cold war. Top flight blend of character, suspense and world. Audiobook marred by a narrator with only a passing acquaintance with many common English words. #bookstodon
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Read: The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak 📚Modern day CIA spy-daughter investigates what her CIA spy-father got up to in the cold war. Top flight blend of character, suspense and world. Audiobook marred by a narrator with only a passing acquaintance with many common English words. #bookstodon
Warming up to the Fuppery Newsletter proper (starting Nov 5 which is worryingly close) my mother's 'dossier' about people in the (ficitonal) village. Think more like green crayon rantings, really. #writing #iamwriting
fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier-en...
fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier-en...
Dossier entry 1 - the police
Fuppery Newsletter - a twisted, funny retro serial murder mystery told in the medium of 1980s village newsletters.
fupperynewsletter.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Warming up to the Fuppery Newsletter proper (starting Nov 5 which is worryingly close) my mother's 'dossier' about people in the (ficitonal) village. Think more like green crayon rantings, really. #writing #iamwriting
fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier-en...
fupperynewsletter.substack.com/p/dossier-en...
It begins. The first instalment of my twisted, funny retro serial murder mystery told in the medium of 1980s village newsletters has just gone up on substack. fupperynewsletter.substack.com
#writingcommunity #writing #amwriting
#writingcommunity #writing #amwriting
Fuppery Newsletter | Substack
A twisted, funny retro murder mystery based loosely on my childhood, told through the medium of the village newsletter. Click to read Fuppery Newsletter, a Substack publication. Launched 15 minutes ag...
fupperynewsletter.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It begins. The first instalment of my twisted, funny retro serial murder mystery told in the medium of 1980s village newsletters has just gone up on substack. fupperynewsletter.substack.com
#writingcommunity #writing #amwriting
#writingcommunity #writing #amwriting
Woohoo. Another short story accepted today. I say short. 9000 words…. More as we get it.
#amwriting #HorrorSky #WriterSky
#amwriting #HorrorSky #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Woohoo. Another short story accepted today. I say short. 9000 words…. More as we get it.
#amwriting #HorrorSky #WriterSky
#amwriting #HorrorSky #WriterSky
Good audiobook, terrible reader. So far she’s mispronounced antipodean, MI6 (as M16, twice), frequent, Grosvenor and idyll. Does nobody check this stuff? #bookstodon #booksky
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Good audiobook, terrible reader. So far she’s mispronounced antipodean, MI6 (as M16, twice), frequent, Grosvenor and idyll. Does nobody check this stuff? #bookstodon #booksky
Little writing prompt left on our front lawn one morning…
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Little writing prompt left on our front lawn one morning…
Read: All That Man Is by David Szalay 📚A highly regarded slice of seedy short stories about men, mostly down at heel and incuriously baffled by their world of fried chicken shops and unreliable acquaintances. Perceptive, atmospheric and humane but I’d like a bit more plot. #booksky #bookstodon
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Read: All That Man Is by David Szalay 📚A highly regarded slice of seedy short stories about men, mostly down at heel and incuriously baffled by their world of fried chicken shops and unreliable acquaintances. Perceptive, atmospheric and humane but I’d like a bit more plot. #booksky #bookstodon
Read: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚Good, but not quite up to the hype. Lit types called it a thriller, but it lacks suspense and there are longeurs about human evolution which aren’t really part of the genre. It’s a thriller if you don’t normally read them, I suppose. #booksky #bookstodon
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Read: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚Good, but not quite up to the hype. Lit types called it a thriller, but it lacks suspense and there are longeurs about human evolution which aren’t really part of the genre. It’s a thriller if you don’t normally read them, I suppose. #booksky #bookstodon
Podcast guests: please stop with the ‘great question’ response. 1. They’re hardly ever great questions. 2. We know you just mean ‘ohhhh pick me, I can answer that one’. 3. It’s patronising. Just answer the question. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
October 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Podcast guests: please stop with the ‘great question’ response. 1. They’re hardly ever great questions. 2. We know you just mean ‘ohhhh pick me, I can answer that one’. 3. It’s patronising. Just answer the question. Thank you for your attention to this matter.