Book & a Booze Thirsty Thursday The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje & a Ranch Watch with Lime 🍋‍🟩 This’ll be a long one. 1st this is my favorite book in a while. Something mysterious is happening in this collection of historical pastiche, news clips,

I can’t read when it rains. My gums leak like a vampire before dawn. The world watches me from the bottom of a swimming pool. All the fables start at work. Don’t ask the driver in the yellow bus where to go. He will tell your story in reverse.

world hunger ⁦Steve Gergley⁩ is everywhere I turn. Haunting every corner with his mysterious words. Showing me a world I have never seen but somehow know everything about… worldhungermag.com/1325-2/

Here we go again, more great stuff from that guy on X who keeps writing great stuff and the world is just a little bit weirder and definitely a little bit better for it.

Looking for a few short stories this weekend? Here's 4 you can read right here!

Book and a Booze charity edition. I went to a fund raiser at a library tonight and when it got slow I found Tom McAllister’s How to be Safe on the shelf and started to read. A rollicking blast of genre-bending gamesmanship. Really worth checking out.

We live in the most interesting time-line for what fiction can be. A time-line where prose and verse have absorbed all manner of genre and form to become this new creature. Almost a new era of the traveling minstrel or the wandering bard. Not just this story

Anthony Di Angelo - Author Knight Rider was one of the highlights of the 80s An adult picture book about a man holding his wife hostage in Maine while she uses the sounds of the 80s and 70s horror movies he watches to plan her escape. a.co/d/3oa1Uaw

scaffold #106 is out now, so take a read of this interesting and thought-provoking new micro by @hobartpulp editor, Uzodinma Okehi! scaffoldlit.com/microwritings/…

althiesure* by uzodinma okehi — scaffold literary magazine It’s Sunday It’s Scaffold Lit scaffoldlit.com/microwritings/…

Check out the newest collection of stories by Jay Bechtol and then check out all the other great stories in the MPTSP V11 thread and then come back next week for a new collection of stories by Glenn Orgias ⬇️

Goes to bed telling himself, Don’t open X again until you finish the 9 & 1/2 Weeks thing… Five hundred words later… Begins reading micro flash on X while making eggs…

Poetry with a Spritz Dark Energy by Frederick Feirstein & a Pimm’s Cup Pimm’s cup is a delicious almost Spritzer dark and lushes like a secret garden which this cover vibed 1.5 oz Pimm’s # 1 Filler ginger ale Often this is best with a cucumber 🥒 Today felt 🍓

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Share your favorite “found horror” #FridayVibes #fridaythethirteenth scary internet horror tiktok.com/t/ZTjGAnjpG/

The end is where we start from —R

HAD :: Dad Drives Me Around My Hometown by Jillian Luft Just killin’ it with this one on Father’s Day. Just thinking about that end of 95 and the other end of 95. How many stories one road can hold? Bisecting. Criss-crossing. North/south. Truth. havehashad.com/hadposts/dad-d…

Tony Martinez de las Rivas

Strawberry-Rhubarb Days with a small chapbook of devotional poetry and a close-reading of Mark chapter 1 Strawberry Rhubarb Pie 1 & 1/2 oz Botanist 1/4 oz Cointreau 1/4 oz vanilla de Madagascar 1/4 oz brown sugar syrup 3 strawberries Two dashes Rhubarb Bitters

What is the best way to share your substack? open.substack.com/pub/deserthorr…