R. Gatwood
@iwantanewhead.bsky.social
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R. Gatwood (iwantanewhead.wordpress.com) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system. Short fiction in 3:AM Magazine, Apex Magazine, and elsewhere.
![[tweet from Nanoism] Hamelin is quiet. Our grown-up world runs more efficiently than ever. Once I thought I saw a rat and my heart leapt—but it was only a mole.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreihz5chzmlxyy4r4eqqr23vqqr4xgucsxrt7vjydktkbioe4krxfue)
![[Tweet from Nanoism] Call me Victor. I don't deserve the name of Frankenstein. My creature, my son—let him take that from me. I have given him nothing else.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreifte2jte2wn425ynfipynnn45za2uoddt2kcq7sbcm4w5x3sznvdm)
![[tweet from trapezemag] He fumbled through lab notes. "Nausea"—check. "Hallucinations"—yep. "The host body autocannibalizes"—huh? Then his eye sockets ate his eyes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreidqahnkqhsb7nn5wlritiprsqkzexp4xaxy4n5bmfdd7lbj2gln3q)
![[tweet from Nanoism] Call me Victor. I don't deserve the name of Frankenstein. My creature, my son—let him take that from me. I have given him nothing else.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreicnfirftgrm4pqe2oieog2cplzhuypcfrknzcpjvepifxcbmpvcwi)
![class. This lack of credentials didn't give him any qualms, he warned us and we soon learned frsthand, about imposing his exacting standards of writing on the students who had fallen into his care. He had strong opinions on syntax, grammar, and sentence- and paragraph- and scene-level flow; also, of course, on breathless polysyndeton,
fragmentation and nonlinearity as achieved by footnotes and endnotes and parenthetical asides, and strategically deployed erudition; et a whole lot of cetera. My attempts to mimic Dan's favillating 141 prose
earned me furious green strikethroughs and once, in the margin, "Knock it off?" Another time:
"Stop being CLEVER!" -something he must have told himself when he was fighting his own outsized brain.
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![[tweet from Nanoism] Instantly he adds, "Forget I said that," and endures a moment of agonizing hope until she says,
"Okay."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreidf2ysdned3alhuzan4qhfhfqcznfndg63jswc53ig5yckjhv7s64)
![[Tweet from the Drabblecast] He feels no urge to howl, only to dither and doubt and qualify everything he says. Oh the horror: he's an as-it-were wolf. #twabble](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreigob6wrlntq42flymqdwuze2mh5ij6pdv4dzhyehgs2aosrl3wqgm)
![[tweet from Cuento Magazine] No affair, no break-up. Fair enough. #sixwordstories [Twitter handle: iwantanewhead]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreidfphzm3sybx2u5rjxrxms65yiucvfmvvidkgibkvlahuodxnelf4)
![[tweet from Seven by Twenty] Smooth, perfect snow. Urge to piss. // @iwantanewhead](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreiefmkjkc3uoieqnvu5j4n7yjd43kfnxfhgsk5vqfxkbaeyeqiyd3m)
![[tweet from Nanoism]
I never miss her. But sometimes I miss the man she thought I was.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreicj36ktuzyrhfdpvpzkhip3lkk5tch3fctqhmz3zhoyjtbgqgbufe)
![[tweet by R. Gatwood] I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus so I blackmailed them for more presents.
#vss](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreihydkm6gahj7ef6h4zxdb3l6ijjvcyb4fpouodu6x5hwzltft2eem)
![[tweet from Nanoism] Christmas Eve was the night Santa didn't come. I mean, he didn't come every night, but Christmas Eve was the night it mattered.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreid3hzx3dqiedckklnl5fusto426m2td6jybbn6acex2no7x2lufly)
