“There was a time I wouldn’t have gotten pleasure from being undesirable, but now I saw it as a superpower.”

Norman mailer.

Bainbridge Islanders! Come out Tuesday evening to EagleHarborBook for a discussion between yours truly and thomas kohnstamm, author of The Great Seattle Novel.

“No, no, be a businessman! The American dream! Leave teaching to the women.”

“I’m starting to think Thoreau might have been full of shit. If we aren’t living for others, maybe we aren’t really living.”

It’s easy when you have great material to work with.

Hey crime fiction authors! This is a great anthology run by great people. Start typing though. They’ll get slammed with submissions and some of us might be trying to make our debut over there…

“I hadn’t figured on getting into a brawl with some human traffickers or shooting a gecko. I still felt bad about that. Little guy was minding his own business and then blam, he lost his head. That seems to be the way it goes in life.” Craig Terlson

“But at the end of the day, life is just a series of personal preferences. If you prefer not to work, nothing will ever compel you to do so.” James Maxwell 🔪 Witching Metal Prod.

“His hand clutched his chest, and when he let go, a streak of gore came loose in thick coagulated chunks like cheese pulled off a pizza.” James Maxwell 🔪 Witching Metal Prod.

“I stumbled to the door, undid the useless chain, and was greeted by a fast punch to the face. There was no time for stars or cartoon birds, so I tilted back and then steadied myself.” Craig Terlson

Just did the math: Cal Raleigh has logged 2.6 miles in home run trots so far this season. That’ll take some off the plumper off your dumper. Anybody think he’ll get to five by season’s end? #bigdumper #Mariners

This novel is amazing, and tells the story of the sort of people who so rarely get the spotlight in a good story. The Great American Grays Harbor Novel. Thanks for hiring me, Shaun!

“Sure, I could enjoy an icy brew and chomp on tacos by the ocean. But all around me there was human sewage that made my guts burn.” Craig Terlson

“It was a sense of something being torn away, removed from all else—the violence of the ocean swallowed humanity and spat it out like a lone surfboard washed up on the rocks. If I said that aloud to anyone, they’d think I was a prophet. Or an asshole. The difference was subtle.”

Great propulsive pulpy read!

Yes, says this mailman. “If you think your carrier doesn’t notice when you order a sex toy,” he writes, “you’re wrong.” nytimes.com/2025/07/21/boo…

Most HR by a catcher: 1. Cal Raleigh (2025), 49 2. Salvador Perez (2021), 48 3. Johnny Bench (1970), 45