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R W Owen
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Writer. Fiction in Literally Stories, Five on the Fifth, In Another Time, etc.

Typewriters, writing communities, cats, photography, and hiking

Member of AWP, NHWP, Pen Parentis

https://forgottennewengland.com/portfolio/published-short-fiction/
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New flash fiction in @crowkeys.bsky.social !
crowkeys.bsky.social Crow & Cross Keys || SUBS OPEN @crowkeys.bsky.social · Jun 20
We've been having strange dreams recently. Desolate pathways that lead nowhere, corridors that never end, disembodied voices telling to... Well, it's best we don't mention that. Have some flash instead. It's excellent.

"Liminal" by R.W. Owen

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A muted greyscale banner for flash fiction, Liminal by R.W. Owen published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a long-exposure of a road at night with light trails running down it.
June 20, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Inspiration doesn’t strike. It lingers. It waits for you to stop dismissing the ordinary.

What’s the most ordinary thing you wrote about recently?

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity
February 21, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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A chapter can live forever during the editing process.

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amediting
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Words, spoken to paper, will not wander lost.

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #typewriters
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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“In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn.”

Octavia E. Butler

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Coffee’s brewing. Bring ideas.

#5amwritersclub #photography
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The ink dries into these pages, breathing like woods before a frost. #5amwritersclub
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Writing in Fall

#5amwritersclub #typewriters #phitography
October 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Even falling leaves can become story.

#5amwritersclub #hiking #photography
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Good morning, #5amwritersclub! From 4,700 words to 10,000! I’m glad I listened to my critique group. #writingcommunity #amwriting
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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To whatever comes next in this story.

#5amwritersclub #writingprompt #photography
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Through ink, the commonplace startles.

#5amwritersclub #photography #hiking #fall
September 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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If each sentence brings an inch of change, enough of them, together, can move the world.

#5amwritersclub #photography #writingcommunity
September 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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I go to the woods not to live deliberately, but to write where silence outpaces the feed.

#5amwritersclub #hiking #photography
September 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”

Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years

#5amwritersclub #hiking #photography #1980s
September 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." Confucius

#5amwritersclub #hiking #photography
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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All those ideas for new short stories as I press on to finish this third draft of a novel

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #cats
September 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I got an acceptance for a flash fiction piece yesterday! Publishing later this month!

#5amwritersclub #typewriters #writingcommunity
September 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Holding onto summer while I edit drafts.

#5amwritersclub #booksky #amediting #photography
A vintage fan next to a novel as the sunlight streams in.
September 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Getting through that third draft feels like…

#5amwritersclub #photography #editing
August 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Ink ribbon ghosts, inspiration for this morning’s writing session.

#typewriters #5amwritersclub #writesky
August 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Night edits stutter.
At Mount Washington,
a typewriter, still.

#5amwritersclub #micropoetry #amwriting
August 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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So close. I’ve found a bit of an acceptance drought lately so I’ll celebrate a “good rejection” today.

#5amwritersclub #writers #writingcommunity #writesky #amquerying
August 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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My new flash fiction piece published today in Scrawl Place!

#writesky
#writingcommunity
#5amwritersclub

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Vosotras - Scrawl Place
SEGOVIA, Spain — A story by Ryan Owen, inspired by cold night on the town. Read it on Scrawl Place.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

Anne Lamott

Sometimes there’s real value in coming back to a draft after some time away.

#5amwritersclub
August 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM