Reposted by Colin BrightwellRock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026NEW ON PATREON: Roger and Rob talk to author Colin Brightwell about his stories, their inspiration, and the overall writing process. Patreon memberships start at $5/month. Your support helps us pay our authors and keep the magazine going: bit.ly/4wLXH5V 085
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I blabber on about things with Roger and Rob for an hour. We had fun! Support a great mag and give it a listen! 010
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026static.klipy.comFBI Agent Harris: We're Gonna Win! SopranosALT: FBI Agent Harris: We're Gonna Win! Sopranos 010
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I had to say this weird work pledge of allegiance every Monday for a year when I worked campus landscaping. I finally found a place for it in some fiction, word for word. Wonder if I’ll get a defamation suit. Some people take grass cutting real serious. 150
Reposted by Colin BrightwellWalter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft. 62506654
Reposted by Colin BrightwellRock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026ANTHONY NOMINATIONS ARE OUT! And RHP's represented well, big thanks to the BCon voters who helped make this happen. Congrats to @curtisippolito.bsky.social @cwblackwell.bsky.social and @richienarvaez.bsky.social on their noms, big thanks to the contributors for OFUW! #bouchercon2026 073
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Adam over at Cowboy Jamboree has been putting out troves of great indie lit from a variety of voices. I think he’s doing incredible work to showcase that indie publishers are as legit as the Big 5, and should be taken seriously with a wide reach. Fucking rad, man. 140
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Just wrote 1700 words to knock out a first draft of a story I started back in January. I ain’t even mad if it’s crap! 000
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Hey this is the second time I’ve written about a song from Weezer’s Blue Album because reasons. Enjoy! 000
Reposted by Colin BrightwellHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼 200135563588
Reposted by Colin BrightwellLiterary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Here’s your first look at Bad Intentions, our crime fiction anthology inspired by Warren Zevon & edited by @kmwriter01.bsky.social . Fifteen writers. Fifteen stories. No clean getaways. Great work & huge thanks to @frankvatel312.bsky.social for absolutely nailing the cover design. Coming July 7. 05328
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Forgot how much I love this messy, amazing novel 100
Reposted by Colin BrightwellTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 09/05/2026Get on the road to ruin and become a writer 8863248
Reposted by Colin BrightwellLiterary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Coming 7.07.2026 The shit will hit the fan...... 811334
Reposted by Colin BrightwellCowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Willie Nelson turns 93 today. Give yourself the gift of Cowboy Jamboree's RED HEADED WRITING, incited by all things Willie: a.co/d/05YltWWg 0136
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I’m always impressed with how rapid fire King’s prose is. Can’t put him down when you get into it. 100
Reposted by Colin BrightwellXander Berkeley @xanderberkeley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Is there a Doctor in the house?? 4584
Reposted by Colin BrightwellLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 27/03/2026God this shit is so fucking pathetic. Ruin your life in a normal way. "I talked to the computer too much and went crazy." Listen to yourself. Gamble or do heroin anything but this. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comMarriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusionOne minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter 431378220
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026First words of the year up at Revolution John revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/m...revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.comMarch 9, 2026: Fiction by Colin BrightwellAt the grocery store, I told Mrs. Wendell to mind her own goddamn business when Dennis saw an alien mascot on a cereal box and started yelling that the Regulars were infiltrating our breakfast food… 000
Reposted by Colin BrightwellTurn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 20/02/2026The Shortlist, Feb 20: Five lights-out flash fiction stories. Lila-Rose Beckford in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social @amykdebellis.bsky.social in Root Smoke @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social E Ce Miller in @hfr.bsky.social @cbwell.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Links:turnandwork.comThe Shortlist for February 20 - Turn & WorkFiction from 363
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026The direct correlation Stephen King mass market paperbacks had on me starting to write is immeasurable. They were cheap enough for my weekly allowance, and I could take them anywhere. This is such a bummer. 010
Reposted by Colin BrightwellLawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 24/01/2026Of course the NRA is reeaalllly quiet. (Because they like fascism.) 061
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026What started as a simple little funny-ish crime story about two brothers shop-lifting at self-checkout counters is nowhere close to being done at 3300 words and I guess some things just grow legs and run. 020
Reposted by Colin BrightwellRock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 24/12/2025COMING FROM RHP PRESS IN 2026: "A Woman's Guide to True Crime," a searing story collection from the amazing @marythor.bsky.social. You don't want to miss this one. 0124
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Closing out 2025 with this lil short story from BULL. Happy holidays! 1134
Reposted by Colin BrightwellJames Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 14/12/2025I want to fly a plane past these guys' houses trailing a banner saying 'IDEAS ARE THE EASY BIT' 24110
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Uh oh. It’s the time of year where my seasonal depression mixes with my writer’s block!!!! :) 020
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Getting real into Charles Dickens for no particular reason whatsoever 000
Reposted by Colin BrightwellKirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 06/12/2025never gonna get old to see people sharing my lil book 092
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 15/10/2025It was a pleasure writing something for an anthology edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social - even more so that it was picked for publication. I wrote it from a place of anger because this is something worth being angry for. I hope you get a copy TODAY and see the amazing work Curtis cultivated here! 174
Reposted by Colin BrightwellCurtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 30/09/2025If you’re excited about On Fire and Under Water, join us tonight and help us celebrate! Come hang with @pujaguha.bsky.social, @rjbrash.bsky.social, @cbwell.bsky.social, and me as @darkwaterspodcast.bsky.social hosts. Register here: tinyurl.com/mr3be5ue 076
Reposted by Colin BrightwellCurtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 28/09/2025This Tuesday, join @pujaguha.bsky.social, @rjbrash.bsky.social, @cbwell.bsky.social, and myself for a special live celebration of the launch of On Fire and Under Water with @darkwaterspodcast.bsky.social. Register and come listen to what inspired these authors’ stories as I play hype man.na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.comRock and a Hard Place-On Fire and Under WaterRegister now for Rock and a Hard Place-On Fire and Under Water on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 30, 2025, 07:00 PM CDT. 0126
Reposted by Colin BrightwellRob D. Smith @robdsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2025@rhppress.bsky.social will be open for submissions from Saturday, November 1st, until Saturday November 22nd! www.rockandahardplacemag.com/submissionsrockandahardplacemag.comSubmissions — Rock and a Hard Place PressSubmissions 0710
Reposted by Colin BrightwellRock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Some say the world will end in fire. Some say flood. In On Fire and Under Water, you get both. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social Listen to Jordan Harper and pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK 073
Reposted by Colin BrightwellCurtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 26/09/2025“Raw, brutal, tender, tragic-these are fifteen stories of people smashed flat by the Invisible Fist, people flailing and fighting against the huge and hidden violence at the center of our world. This is crime fiction that matters, crime fiction that is ready to face what comes next.” a.co/d/07DXe40 0147
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2025I’ve pretty much eschewed most social media these days, but I’ve chiming in to say that I’m writing a lot lately, taking it as serious as breathing, even after wrangling 7th graders all day. And it feels good to do so, in these times. 1000 word days, 300 word days, one sentence days. Progress. 120
Reposted by Colin BrightwellJonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 03/08/2025If you missed it, I had a chance to talk with @bryanharvey.bsky.social for part of his “Airport Beers” interview series about my collection, jerseys, cowboy hats, Arizona’s Pleasant Valley war, and a whole bunch of other stuff (including recommending @cbwell.bsky.social’s awesome new collection) 022
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The real story is that American Eagle jeans are absolute shit quality and you should buy almost any other kind of denim. 000
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025This season of It’s Always Sunny has been cooking with Frank, big time. 010
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Watching Big Trouble in Little China for the fourth time in a week. 010
Reposted by Colin BrightwellEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 25/05/2025You want to cure the male loneliness epidemic? Get all these soft gamer boys onto a boat with a grizzled, veteran sharker to hunt down the Great White who’s terrorizing the island. 2470182
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Two months of my collection NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN A FLYOVER STATE from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and it’s nice seeing reviews like this one. If any press or writer out there is open to an interview to discuss it, I’m trying to keep spreading the word. 063
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Big life decision that I’m open to advice for: Received an offer to teach 6th grade English through the same district I work in for way more money than I’m making now. Like way more. But need to take EDU courses over 2 years concurrent with teaching. Worried about how it’ll affect my writing.Ideas? 210
Reposted by Colin BrightwellCurtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This story answer the inevitable question of what happens to everyday people when only the rich can afford to thrive through climate change-destroyed neighborhoods. Colin brought it and you’re gonna love this one like me and the RHP team’ 151
