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 · 15/07/2026Thanks brother 😎 Spent the day writing 2400 words in a sitting as a gift to me 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
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“I love this thing, even if it does not love back.” 020
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 · 15/06/2026Goddamn I am tired of this take from comedians. It’s just blah blah blah at this point. 020
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 · 08/06/2026Now think how the Violent Bear it Away would be seen upon submission lol 010
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 👌🏼 200135483586
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I love when I can put my lil book in my shirt pocket 010
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I don’t think I’d be writing if I didn’t read this book at too young an age lol It’s a cool cover! My aunt gifted me her hardback edition when I was in middle school. Bullies destroyed it. 000
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 · 14/04/2026It’s good fun Stephen King. It’s desert horror and weird. Can’t say it’ll be his best but he’s like pizza. Even the bad stuff is always a little good and fun. 010
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 · 21/12/2025Thank you, Mr. PEN longlister!!! Congrats to you too! 020
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 · 14/12/2025media.tenor.comhomer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field . 020
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
