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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here is a glimpse at my spooky little personal essay in @prairieschooner.bsky.social featuring a ghost, and a sometimes sociopathic homeschooler... #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #writesky #writers #poetry #booksky

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here I am in the Fall '26 Prairie Schooner! 📚❤️ #author #authors #WIP #writingcommunity #amwriting In this essay, I plunge myself into what, in hindsight, looks more and more like homelessness, then move to NYC and take a job at this place in the 2000s:

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

key biscayne again. you hear more of them than you can see... 🌿🐊 #florida #nature #photography

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

last tuesday was walking around the southern end of Key Biscayne and saw this Spotted Eagle Ray cruising toward the lighthouse 🌿🦑🌊🐠🐙🦀 #florida #nature #photography

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

you would not believe how fast I jumped off the tram and ran away from the tour group to see, up close, this american crocodile (correct me if I'm wrong?) 12 ft long, living wild and free in the brakish waters of Fairchild Botanical Garden in Miami, FL #photography #nature #florida #crocodile 🌿🦑🐊

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A photo to go with my 1980s South Florida pilot whale essay. My dad paid $55k for that house. Pretty close to Lion Country Safari. If I remember right, it lacked a staircase to the second floor... #filmphotography #writingcommunity #writing #florida #amwriting #writesky #writers #poetry #booksky

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

big, bright fog bank on a sunny day made St Joseph Peninsula feel like the literal end of the earth #florida #nature #gulfofmexico 🦑

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

i never do selfies, heres a selfie in Naples which is a community i feel deeply ambivalent about except for those who give all their $ to local wildlife. more golf courses per capita than anywhere, it is, like so much of FL, two places at once: also the gateway to Corkscrew, big cypress, 10k islands

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I feel like a lot of people must know this specific strangler fig in SWFL... 🌿 #florida #photography #nature

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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

abc.net.au

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

here I am in @chicagoqreview.bsky.social over on fb if you like spending your online time swimming in the hellmoutb of AI slop (I do sometimes, I'm not judging!) #author #WIP #amwriting #whales #florida 🦑🌿 📚❤️ www.facebook.com/ChicagoQuart...

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

a little coastal bird sploot over here at Merritt Island NWR #nature #photography #florida 🪶🦑🌿

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm pretty sure the people that illustrated "The Triassic" in my dinosaur encyclopedias from the 1980s were just drawing the nature coast of Florida... 🐊🦑 #photography #nature

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

here I am in @chicagoqreview.bsky.social the owl hooteth! the serpent hisseth! and I remember passive aggressively scalding someone at a new age church 😹 CQR: www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2025/10/02/a... buy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTM7N3DK 📚❤️ #author #authors #WIP #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

some juicy self promotion--here's a glimpse of my coming essay for @chicagoqreview.bsky.social in which feature jacarandas, pilot whales, the Florida intracoastal, positive thinking as self-erasure, dance moves from 1989, and the Kantian sublime 📚❤️ #author #authors #WIP #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

rescued by-catch from the northern gulf of mexico at the Gulf Specimen Aquarium 🌿🦑🐡🌎 #photography #nature

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

manatees behind the scenes at Zoo Tampa; the largest nonprofit (re NOT SeaWorld) manatee critical care facility in the country FYI more pics and vids of all sorts over at IG @benstagram81 🌿🦑🐡🌎 #nature #photography #addme

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

LIVING chestnut turban snails Honeymoon Island, FL 🐙🦑🦀🌿 #invertID #nature #Photography #thismyart #addme

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Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

fearless pied-billed grebe chasing a baby alligator away in the salt marsh. and what would she even do if she caught up with it?? (the link is to an old academic paper accusing grebes of aggressive "duck-ramming") tinyurl.com/bddcauu4 #photography #nature #myart #addme #acsky #acwri 🌿🪶🐊🦑 🍎🌏🧪

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