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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Victorian couple trying not to laugh while they get their photograph taken. via Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies

Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This short story collection is Killer. See The Tree, How Big It's Grown is living in my head rent free. Find a copy and read it.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So excited to announce that I have been accepted to an MFA program in University of Missouri St Louis starting in the fall.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

@rid9way.bsky.social Just finished a galley of Dooneen my local bookstore sent over. Great stuff man. Nice to read a great Dublin novel again. Best of luck. I'll be posting reviews.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I've been down lately. All the changes here have me feeling every inch of my immigrant status. But today, out on my walk in my suburban American neighborhood, I found a 2025 copy of Granta in a little free library, and suddenly the world is a little brighter. @grantamag.bsky.social #shortstory

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I love this book. Find a copy and read it.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Can someone explain why so many literary journals and agents still do so much social media on Twitter? Every time I go there I'm confronted by screeds of hate, lies, and vitriol. Please, publishing industry, remove yourself from the hatersphere. #publishing #agents #literary #journals #writing

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Delighted my short story was long listed at Frazzled Lit. Looking forward to submitting more.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Agreed. But we shouldn't let it die in literature. People need to be reminded, fairly regularly it seems, that much of the good old days actually sucked pretty hard.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Second short story in my collection finished. Really happy with this one. I'm very much enjoying the process of writing these. It's a wonderful distraction before I dive headlong into the third novel. I also feel I learn as much from a 2000 word short story as half a novel. #amwriting #shortstory

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

So it looks like Evan will be joining you next year! He's super excited, and was delighted to meet you last summer. As parents, we couldn't be happier with his choice.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

After you stop using the Duolingo app, it becomes that psycho ex that stalked you across your digital landscape, pestering for attention and validation like it has a serious personality disorder. Go get your own life, Owl. #LanguageLearning #french

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My twin boys have been accepted to four courses each at UCD in Dublin for next year! I could not be more proud. #UCD #dublin

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

After telling an editor that I'm not a short story writer, I challenged myself to write one this weekend. Not only did I enjoy the process, I'm really proud of the result. I learned so much about precision in language and getting small sentences to do many things at once. #writing #fiction #editing

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

That is peak arseholery. Rare to have two examples in such close proximity.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Would this fit? Part psyc thriller, part historical fiction, part folk/rural noir with horror elements. Nelly learns her dead mother left her money, but it legally belongs to her husband. So she encourages him to defy ancient folklore hoping a curse will kill him before he learns her secret.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

SWALLOW ALL THE LIGHT An isolated farmhouse A secret inheritance A trapped wife plotting to kill her husband with an ancient Irish curse. Nelly Malloy unleashes an ecological disaster when she encourages her husband to import sick rabbits into Ireland in 1953. #PitDark #A #LH

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I live in Missouri, for which I expect to serve less time in purgatory. It's very humid in the summer here, and sandpaper dry in winter, neither of which suits Irish skin.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Beautiful. My sister and brother are touring Japan right now playing a traditional Irish and Japanese fusion set. Really makes me want to spend some time in that part of the world.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

There's a bar in Ste. Genevieve Missouri that was ripped out of a paddle steamer as it sank into the Mississippi in the 1880s and reassembled in a local restaurant. Worth a visit too.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Okay, sorry, thank you. I didn't know if this rule had transferred from twitter. I'll not do this again.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

What about this: In a land where folklore warns that nature kills those who harm it, Nelly Malloy encourages her husband to import myxomatosis to cull Ireland's rabbit overpopulation, hoping his death will unlock a secret inheritance and a new life. But the land remembers everything.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I just found a Frustrated Writers group on Instagram. That could be a long lonely tunnel into a dark place. Yep. Not clicking on that. #writing #unpublished #querying #frustratedwriter #story

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I made a small donation. You are a fantastic writer and I know the course will be better for you being there. Wish I could go too, but alas, I'm stuck stateside for now.

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Jean @jeano.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I don't write long hand, as the result is indecipherable. But I share her irritation.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I guess living in the U.S., I'm desperate for something to save us.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Yes, I'm a fan of Butler, but her last book was published in 2005 I think. I'm talking about something new that captures the imagination of modern readers. Something like Prophet Song, although, to me, that seemed more a narration of political and social apocalypse rather than offering a solution.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I agree. But I think we need more novels that discuss these threats in the world we live in too, not just those a few steps removed from ours by fantasy or dystopian devices. People need to read a "real" person confronting a "real" authoritarian government bought by real oligarchs and corporations.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Are you still looking for dark folk stories? In a community where locals believe nature avenges those who harm it, a woman's fight against patriarchy and class causes ecological disaster. Irish setting, 1950s, a woman seeking agency by using superstitions against her husband.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Had a dream last night that I was trying to buy a cottage in Ireland, but couldn't understand the rules, or anything people said when trying to explain them. I had to ask them to repeat themselves over&over to both our discomfort. Is my mind trying to tell me I've spent too long in the USA? #dreams

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Thanks so much for offering, I really appreciate it.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Please do. I'll take all the help I can get!

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

My new manuscript, Swallow All the Light is finally ready to query. In a community where locals believe nature avenges those who harm it, a woman's battle against patriarchy and class leads to ecological disaster. #amwriting #irishfiction #ireland #historicalfiction #folklore #book #amquerying

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

@jessicaberg.bsky.social Hello Jessica. Can I ask if you know when you'll reopen for queries? I have an Irish rural noir that is a good match. Thanks, Liam.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Am I the only one that finds chickpea skin revolting? Why don't they come skinned in the can? If you don't peel them, that's gross, whole thing looks like a mess of peeled blisters: disgusting when they come loose in your food.

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Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Clarity, dear reader, is key. Take this abomination, for instance. How was this giraffe dissected? Horizontally? Vertically? The arse end of the beast or the full neck, chest, shoulders, and fore legs. I can't think of a less dividable animal than a giraffe! Try using a whole rhino next time.

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