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"There was talk about how the corpse, back when it was a man named Steve, wasn’t particularly full of life. How he didn’t particularly light up a room when he entered it. In fact, no one ever noticed when he was in the room." - Joseph Linscott mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
October 5, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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"Everyone was recording the man floating in the water. When this was over, they’d be forced to see their filming had only created the most bizarre public porno anyone had ever seen: Homeless Bull Finishes Himself in Front of Thirsty Crowd at Local Park." - DJ Garcia mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
October 4, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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"You could willfully misread the assignment & become a butter man: sit patiently & hold your head still while your sculpted likeness is brought to pale unpasteurized life at the Minnesota State Fair. But... is that who you really want to be?" @mattleibel.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...
October 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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"At the sink, Devin shoveled week-old pink unicorn cake into his mouth with a toddler’s spoon. Treacly sweet, it nuked his taste buds, leaving a pudding-like mouthfeel. It was terrible. He took another bite." - Kyle Joseph Kennedy mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
October 2, 2026 at 1:47 PM
margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social
My first published story set in #LimerickCity had to feature Georgian Limerick.
I love the quiet, steady pacing of this story, as Oskar navigates the city, forever a stranger in his new home but no longer belonging to where he came from either.

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Oskar is woken by the slamming of doors as people from the floors below him leave for work. The noise echoes up the wide staircase of the Georgian building to where he lies under two duvets in a bed that isn’t quite long enough for his six-foot-three frame. When he returns to the main room, he pulls open the heavy orange curtains beside his bed so he can roll his morning cigarette, but he doesn’t light it until he has a cup of black coffee beside him on the windowsill. There isn’t much to see but he likes to start his day here, looking at the sky and clouds, and the patchwork of added-on toilets, kitchens and fire escapes that jut out from the rear of the other Georgian buildings around him. The pleasing symmetrical facades they present to the city dissolve ungainly into clutter at their rears, where there are fewer eyes to see or care. Oskar has no idea who owns the house. He pays his rent in cash every week at the front desk of a property management company three streets over. He doesn’t mention the fact that the bathroom window will no longer close fully because the lintel is subsiding or that only one ring on the electric cooker works. In turn, they take his money and never mention raising the rent, which he knows is lower than anywhere else in the city.
October 1, 2026 at 8:58 PM
margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social
I've been living in Limerick for a very long time but the city has only crept into my stories in recent years. I'm not sure you'll all thank me for it when you read this!

I'm thrilled to have Two Choices published with @mrbullbull.bsky.social today.

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Oskar is woken by the slamming of doors as people from the floors below him leave for work. The noise echoes up the wide staircase of the Georgian building to where he lies under two duvets in a bed that isn’t quite long enough for his six-foot-three frame. When the sun eventually comes out from behind the grey clouds, Oskar decides to go to the city park. It is the one place in the city where there are always more foreigners than Irish people. Like him, they mostly live in cramped city centre apartments with no back gardens or space for children to run around in. The park is their meeting place, their cricket and football field, their access to the sun, their refuge.
October 1, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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"No one at the garage cares who he is. He’s simply Oskar, who does oil changes, checks spark plugs, changes bulbs and belts, all the jobs the real mechanics don’t want to bother with. They don’t know, or care to know, where Slovenia is." @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
October 1, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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"Her hands on her hips and thrust forward like that. Of course I loved her. And I didn't too. Maybe it was envy. It was hard to tell the difference that night." - Eric Potter @ericpotter.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
September 30, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Tu Sangre en Mi Cuerpo by @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social — I’m many levels of invested in the stories of this family: mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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September 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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"White water fell through the gap. Chunks of the dam swirled in dirty foam and whirled downriver. Before long the water above and below the dam was calm and level. After a while it was like there had never been anything there at all." @thmsbrns.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
September 29, 2026 at 10:20 AM
frank212.bsky.social
Issue #14 of my column MOANS FROM THE CONDIMENT FRIDGE @mrbullbull.bsky.social , titled DOUBLE FEATURE

This issue is about the drive-in I went to with my father, why decades later I didn't attend his funeral. It's old movies and complicated relationships

Link below:

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September 28, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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"I chose to remember my father for who he truly was: a thief; a grifter; a veteran of the Vietnam War, but also, a lover of books; music; and movies." @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...
September 28, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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"It’s so cute when she tries to saw me in half. The way her arms wobble holding that vigorous blade longer than her body, her glee at that first cut, how she laughs at my screams when she finally hits bone." @benjaminstarr.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...
September 26, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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"We treated everything like it was either righteous or evil, and often we preferred the evil because it felt righteous."
- Lilia Fetini
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September 25, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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"Shimmy was going to do psychedelics in Australia, he’d said, lying down for his own funeral. Then the tunnel-monkeys had burst up from down under and all the red in his eyes had sprayed out from his neck-tunnel. 'Whoa!'" - Adi Dvir mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
September 24, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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"Now we're finally back to teaching kids those old fables about how sometimes, yes, you did need someone smaller than you & that it isn’t the dwarf’s fault if they had a bobblehead stuck on tiny bodies with little legs that didn’t bend." - Lilia Mahfouz mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
September 23, 2026 at 11:46 AM
lmbayley.bsky.social
Kumar Sen had a new piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social yesterday, so I decided I'd go back and read this earlier #FlashInTheFeed first, as a treat. So good, even on the second and third readings!

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September 23, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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"My father says a man should know how to hold a knife but what he means is not the knife, not really, it’s the holding, the way your wrist doesn’t shake even when everything else does." - Kumar Sen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
September 22, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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"I asked bb what kind of dick energy I give off. He said, 'Unconcerned,' as in, 'Your dick could be two inches or a foot long and you’d still be smokin’ weed and bustin’ nuts.'" - Soeun Seo mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
September 21, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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"They gave me a new name. A room. A list of prayers. Tasks to complete. Floors to scrub. Windows to polish. Bread to bake. Fasts to keep. I did everything without question. I believed obedience would cleanse me." - Aurelian Razvan Dinu mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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September 20, 2026 at 11:42 AM
andreamarcusa.bsky.social
Thank you @MISTERBULLBULL for featuring "Floaters" in your publication.
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September 20, 2026 at 2:48 AM
andreamarcusa.bsky.social
Thank you Bullit for featuring this story, "Floaters" mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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September 19, 2026 at 10:37 PM
lmbayley.bsky.social
Are you all paying attention to what @mrbullbull.bsky.social 's putting out these days? It's one hit after another, day after day.

Go read some amazing writing here:

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September 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
mrbullbull.bsky.social
"Mistakes are always made with a dull blade."
@caitlinohalloran.bsky.social
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September 19, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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"After twenty years of nursing, lying’s as automatic as 'Happy Holidays,' every December. It’s how I survive the medical trenches. 'It’s only a pinch.' 'The doctor’ll be here soon.' 'He didn’t suffer.'"
@andreamarcusa.bsky.social
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September 18, 2026 at 11:45 AM