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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Had a new #flashfiction story published the other day in the latest Cosmic Daffodil Journal. It's called Befores, and it's a little (okay, a lot) bleak, but I hope people like it. static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08...

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's been ages, but I have a new story published today. "Befores" is on p47 of the fab new edition of Cosmic Daffodil Journal. You can read it here: static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08...

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've not written much or had anything at all published over the last two years, but hurrah, the hiatus is over. My bleak lil story 'Befores' will form part of the next edition of the wonderful Cosmic Daffodil Journal - coming soon!

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you all have the best day, whatever that looks like for you.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Had my first mince pie of the year just now. I refuse to feel guilty about that.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Features like this are weird. I used to work in the food hall at M&S, but I wouldn't use that fact to presume a position of authority on what the best sandwiches ever are.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Finally! Wordle 1,393 1/6 #wordle 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

When you get invested in a TV show, series one ends on a cliffhanger, then you find out it's not getting a series 2.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Oh my, this week's episode of Severance though...

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I actually wrote stories! Two of them! And submitted them! Wonders will never cease. I'm excitedly awaiting the rejections.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Goodbye Sadie. Your flame burned short, but so bright. The mice and birds round here won't miss you at all, but we will. Sleep well.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Well, this one's gonna stay with me for ages. The most disturbing, dark, brilliant book I've read in a good while.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Wrote a story for the first time in, oh, six or seven months. I'm not saying it's good, mind you, but it's great to get back to it.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Look at the difference in covers between autobiographies by men and those by women. Look how tedious and serious the men's books are, with their grey and black colour schemes. I'm not afraid to read a book with a bit of fucking orange on the cover. But presumably publishers think most men are. Sigh.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Each year, the Christmas decorations go up in my local Spar and they think, 'sod it, break out the Easter chocolate'. I sigh inwardly each time, curse their ridiculousness, and then buy Mini Eggs.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

There's a McDonald's radio ad for Happy Meals, which talks tells you (or your kid most likely) can choose to get a Grinch toy or book with it. It ends with the words "Choice of toy or book is between book or toy." This is a weird sentence. It baffles me. What is its purpose?

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Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Does anyone here play Two Words? I need more Two Words friends. You can find me there at the name of Dave100. twowords2.page.link/share

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Two Words with Susie Dent

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Hello new BlueSky followers! I almost never post here (or anywhere else at the moment, really), but it's lovely to have you.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Excited to receive my copy of Hunger, this awesome anthology from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social, featuring my story A Clownward Spiral and loads of other amazing tales. Every copy sold raises money for food banks, a fantastic cause - get yours here: www.amazon.co.uk/Hunger-antho...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Cat : I am old and tired and need rest Me: you can rest after I give you this antibiotic Cat: I am young and spry and can jump to the top of the armoire

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Currently adapting some old micro fiction into game-making app Downpour. downpour.games/~Dave/fun-wi...

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"Fun With Calculators - a very short story" by Dave

A Downpour game by Dave

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

We took Teengoth on a Prison Tour. They gave her 25 years without parole. Oh, well.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Lovely to feature in the beautiful final edition of @ellipsiszine.bsky.social with loads of incredible writers.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

With the Iron Claw in cinemas and Wrestlemania on the horizon, I'm excited that my wrestling-themed story Jobber has gone live at such a timely moment. Thanks Mr Bull for publishing it!

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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Our swansong zine is now available to preorder (digital editions can be downloaded instantly) Subscriber and preorder issues will be posted out over the coming weeks. Copies from £3 www.ellipsiszine.com/fourteen/

Ellipsis Zine 14 cover - a close up of a swan's wing

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

My story Still Life will be in this, alongside work from a host of flash superstars. Should be an amazing swansong for Ellipsis Zine!

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Chuffed to have this funny story about science, life, love and Labradors up @bullshitlit.bsky.social today! www.bullshitlit.com/post/a-story...

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

A story I wrote seven years ago (!) has finally found a home! The Pig That Watched The Apocalypse is now live at The Odd Magazine. A cool way to start the year! theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity27/odd-s…

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Happy New Year, Blueskyers! (Is that what we're called?)

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

There needs to be a word for the particular sorrow felt in that moment in the days post-Christmas when you realise there's no blue cheese left.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Not sure what time of year it even is now.

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Chuffed to have Squadron, a story about evil killer swans on the rampage, accepted by @urbanpigspress.bsky.social! Keep an eye out for it. #flashfiction

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Stuck on 99 followers. Who's going to be lucky number 100?!

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

One of the cool things about Ellipsis Zine is that they take reprints. So back from the internet graveyard is this, one of my personal faves, my comic horror story about a maniacal man-eating printer! #flashfiction

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

100% recommended, but I'll never be able to go near any puppet ever again. #books

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David Cook @davidcook.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Excited to have my wrestling-themed story 'Jobber' accepted by BULL for publication later in the year!

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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

'Places I Find My Daughter and Myself' CNF by Stephanie Carty I find my daughter under things. Curled asleep cat-like under the mattress. Humming in the linen box with the lid closed. Sitting cross-legged beneath a nest of coats in my wardrobe... www.ellipsiszine.com/places-i-fin...

A yound girl, under the cover of a bed, playing on a laptop.

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