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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's a short work. It's been translated a number of times from the Old English. No need for a summary. Read the whole thing.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In the detective stakes am moving on from The Widow Had a Gun (50) - which I admit I bought for the cover, though it wasn't a bad read - to Say Goodbye When I'm Gone (2020) by Stephen J Golds.

Two book covers are shown. The two mentioned in the text.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have a 505 word short story up at Discretionary Love. The link is here: www.discretionarylove.com/the-permit/ Hope my Bluesky Writer Pals are getting stuff in print or virtual print.

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The Permit, Discretionary Love

Elizabeth was just the tiniest bit bored when Brandon Lewis came in through the French Windows, shook off his companion, and made a bee-line towards her...

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Did the same thing the other day, just went to a bookshop with a café inside it instead.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I agree with eek. As long as you ask the duck, I think you should be covered.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The United States team is historically one of the most diasporic squads in the tournament, heavily featuring players born in England, players raised across dual heritages, and a massive cultural overlap with South American and Colombian-American communities.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thought I had read everything by him, but don't recognize that title.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Maybe it was more like a 'time out' than a real suspension.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Well, another short story has gotten out of control and is reaching for the stars. The working title is: The Year of the (pain-in-the) Ass. Prophetic? I'm now up to Notebook 8 and 28,000 words. I gotta make a late New Year's Resolution about these short stories, let me tell ya!

Photo shows a notebook. It is on a counter in a coffee shop. We are looking out through the window at a zebra crossing. A man is sitting out there (drinking coffee, no doubt). A couple of people have just about crossed. Two bikes, stand next to the zebra.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Well, you know, the ship IS sinking. They simply ain't got time for a second take!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Yes, but, then, you're an Orloff, you can do that sort of thing. I'd still rather have a full-to-the-brim inbox, than visit your castle again.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

There's more fiction in documentary films than in feature films, if you ask me.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One of the Welsh castles I visited as a kid.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Yes, it is a good one. That and Deliverance are still the best films of that type. The newish Netflix movie, War Machine pales in comparison (and it isn't even that bad).

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Writing b-sides. Sounds like the perfect job.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In the detective stakes, just started reading this novel from 1951. The 13th book in a series about photographer Kent Murdock. The prose might be a bit, well, prosaic, but I just love the cover to bits!

The cover of a detective novel called The Widow Had a Gun. The front cover has a blue background and on the right hand side, you have the top half of a woman's head. She has blue eyes, back hair and is wearing a veil.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Great poster, but I seem to recall giving that film, like, one star out of four. Hope you're enjoying it more than I did!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Snapped yesterday, out at a harbour café in town, multi-tasking. Yes, me, multi-tasking, a rare sight so enjoy it while you can. I'm both reading a best-seller (another rare sight) AND sending a coded message to my better half: You make a difference.

A photo of me in a deckchair at a harbour café. I'm reading a best-seller (Beach Read) and holding up a post-card which reads, in Danish, You make a difference. I'm well wrapped up in a tweed jacket, wearing my old Ray-bans.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

At what point does the dog gate-crash the novel?

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Mill Creek! That rings some awful bad bells!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sometimes you gotta take it straight, no chaser!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A swinging ski-lodge! Sounds like you can't go wrong with this one.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I have a short story up at Café Lit today. The story is called The Fellowship. Negroni is the drink to go with it (writers are supposed to pick a drink to go with the story). This link should take you directly to the story. www.cafelitmagazine.uk/2026/04/the-...

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The Fellowship by Anthony Kane Evans, Negroni

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Acceptance from Café Lit this morning. Now is a good time to send to them as they don't get too many subs during the holidays and the way they work is that they pick a story a day from those sent to them that day (providing it is up to scratch) and schedule it for publication.

Photo is off a comic panel in which a man jumps from the ladder of a helicopter onto the peak of a mountain. This speech bubble reads; Made it ... - the comic panel is from Return to Romance: The Strange Love Stories of Ogden Whitney (New York Review Comics; 2019), a fun selection of Whitney's stories from the 1959-63.

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Meghan Leigh Paulk @paulkwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Punk Noir concludes series "Find What You Love and Let It Kill You," featuring fortunate(?) souls facing the void, committed to their love of choice. Authors include @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social, @epiphanyferrell.bsky.social, and yours truly. Enjoy!! punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

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Punk Noir Press

The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Thanks for the mention, Meghan. I was hoping to read this issue (and the last) today, but it'll have to be tomorrow. Look forward to reading yours!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I have a micro-fiction, The Snap Decision (about 300 words), in the latest issue of Punk Noir Magazine. You need to scroll a bit to get to mine, though I'm sure all the stories are worth reading. I hope to read the mag over the week-end. punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

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Punk Noir Press

The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Actually, I watched maybe the first five or seven minutes on YouTube, but the sound wasn't good enough otherwise I might have lasted a tad longer. I thought the credits seq. with the caricatured characters was quite entertaining.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Pipsi - one half of the book club we got going in the house - is enjoying the spring sunshine so much that he is neglecting our reading, even though two books we got on the go (Evelyn Waugh's Scoop and Carlotta Dale's The Parrots Come Again) both have bird-life in them.

Photo shows my budgie - yellow head, turquoise plumage - sitting on a branch at the top of a tree-like plant by the dining room window. Sunlight streaming in through the bay window.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just unsubscribed from about 7 lit mags today. Nothing personal, just that my inbox has reached the tipping point (I believe the Yanks have diagnosed this condition as inbox overwhelm). It's like every time we writers send off a story, we sign up for emails from the mag, naturally enough.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Really like The Whip and the Body. Not seen this version of Wuthering Heights (a fav novel), how does it play? The oddest version I've seen, is prob. Buñuel's, which is set in Mexican desert.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Formatting. Do you just want a basic internet-friendly format or do you prefer that Shunn fellow's template?

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

One of his best books, I think. Also, seems more serious than some of his works, sometimes, but at other times, very typical of his style. The old BBC TV series gives you the impression that the book is going to be more serious than it actually is. I'm currently reading Scoop for the 3rd time.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Seems like a great way to get to grips with that labyrinthine subway.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

For my English writer friends, or friends who are resident in England, remember, the BBC Short Story Award is open now but closes soon. Free Entry. Big prizes! Last time I entered (some years back), I was long-listed. Though, that story simply cannot find a publisher!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Oh, wow! Big-time fan then. On a minor note, I've now finally got to grips with Mr Shunn's fabulous template. At least I hope I have, I've just formatted a book! So, you can expect me to bug you with a sub sometime this year providing our word limits cohere!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If you're re-reading it, then I guess it must be good. I've only read one Brewer. It was okay, but a bit forumulaic (from 58).

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Abridged! Hope they haven't left out too many clues or too much juicy pulp prose. Or too many shoes.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Reading some funny old Romance comics from 59-63. Written and drawn by Ogden Whitney. They are the last thing I read at night, after a spot of Zen.

Comic book panel. Text reads: And even when they passed each other in the corridors ...

We see a young man and woman passing one another in the corridor. Both looking away from one another. Both with noses turned up in the air. Both saying; Hmfff!

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Oh, the opening of Moby Dick is hilarious! But this is a great book, for sure. I kind of think of it more in existential terms. There was a pretty good Brit movie made in 1970, which, even though it updated the story, worked quite well, I thought.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Kristian tends to be more active on Facebook. Looks like he posts once a month over here. So, if you have a FB account, maybe you could try to contact him over there.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

One of Jane Austen's best, I think. At least this one and Emma are my favourites.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

You worked damned hard to get hold of that Holy Grail. So hard that it was bound to be a disappointment. Like most Holy Grails perhaps?

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