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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Gogol plus running, you can’t go wrong. Emily Nemens in The Common: www.thecommononline.org/the-back-mee...
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The Back Meets the Nose
EMILY NEMENS <br> Unable to run, she walked across reclaimed meadows in her new town, watching hawks dive from the sky. She finished writing a book while sprawled on her belly. She had lost something ...
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Delayed in posting this, but if you’re interested in reading about cows, islands, and a big religious festival in the middle of the Atlantic, the issue of the Queen‘s Quarterly with my piece in it is out now and independent booksellers and the big chain. Third photo: Spring 2026 issue in the wild
Opening paragraphs of an essay about the AzoresPhoto of a church covered in lightsThe Queen’s Quarterly in a magazine rack
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"This story checked all my boxes, written as a series of investment analyst reports on a new relationship. It’s funny, sweet and very clever" High praise for @mccmolly.bsky.social's flash fiction piece "Hubbell Securities: New Listing Alert"! www.turnandwork.com/weekly-short...
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The Shortlist for May 1, 2026 - Turn and Work
Stories by Jon Fain, Marcia Yudkin, Emily Rinkema, Julia Strayer, Kelly Pedro, Linda M. Bayley, Frank Jackson, Jamey Gallagher, Chloe N. Clark, Molly McCarron, and Amy DeBellis
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Thanks to @turnandwork.com for featuring my flash fiction “New Listing Alert” on their shortlist this week! Check out the full list at the link below and get to know PAUL at mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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Hubbell Securities: New Listing Alert | MrBullBull
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving my equity research report flash fiction a home (and a cool photo)
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Jay Birds Robbie Craig n.d.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Still thinking about The Surrogate, on for another week at @crowstheatre.bsky.social. Lots to think about, lots of laughs, and a lot of heart. I wasn’t the only one wiping away tears when the lights came up.
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 17/03/2026
“Tawdry” comes from “St. Audrey’s lace.” At fairs honoring the Anglo-Saxon saint Audrey, vendors sold cheap lace necklaces to pilgrims. The phrase St. Audrey’s lace slurred into tawdry lace, and eventually tawdry—meaning cheap, showy finery. #etymology
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s a start @shawnmicallef.bsky.social - and @dylanreid.bsky.social ’s handiwork, after I tried valiantly in what turned out to be the wrong spot
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
New year, new additions to my map of little free libraries in the east end of Toronto (for this project: roughly Broadview to Woodbine, O'Connor to the lake) -- now over 100 identified! www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
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Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs - Google My Maps
Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I couldn’t even turn on the sound until the last strikeout.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My dad died a month ago. Among his photos I found some he’d taken on the shoots of movies and TV he‘d worked on as a sound recordist/mixer — including some nice ones of the late Graham Greene while filming Clearcut, the 1991 indigenous horror movie that was featured at that year‘s TIFF.
A photo of Canadian actor Graham Greene during the filming of 1991’s Clearcut
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
How did I get this far in life without knowing about "corn sweat" and its contribution to stifling humidity? www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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Corn sweat will intensify a heat wave this week
Corn sweat and a heat dome will bring dangerous heat and humidity to the central United States this week.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The oven has been turned off. #dlws
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Slightly regretting that I didn’t pick up this 1979 album from my neighbour’s lawn when I had the chance.
Image of Popes John Paul I and II and title “Habemus Papam”Description of album contents, including interviews with journalists and the announcement of a new Pope
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Saw a few movies at this space on Gerrard during its last revival as a cinema, including what ended up being a private viewing (me and spouse) of the great Turkish film Winter Sleep. Great to hear it's coming back to life as a music venue. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
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This Toronto theatre has lain dormant for years. Here’s why a young musician spent everything he had to revive it
Kinkade Davis plans to open the space, now called the Mercy on Gerrard, this spring.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thanks to @patrickcain.bsky.social for this great overview of the Don River naturalization project in Toronto Today - excited to learn some of the parkland will be open this summer: www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...
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How a new waterfront park in Toronto was dug into existence
Inside the Don Mouth Naturalization Project — an engineering feat that re-routed a river and created a new shoreline park Torontonians can enjoy this summer
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
For no apparent reason when I slipped on ear buds on the way out the door for a frigid run early this morning they were streaming Renaissance polyphony off Apple Music. I was about to switch to a podcast when I realized it was, in fact, exactly what I needed to start this February day.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Les Éboulements, Charlevoix County A.Y. Jackson 1924
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Breakfast with Marmalade Joseph Plaskett 1976
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
North Shore, St Lawrence Dr. Maurice Hall Haycock 1947
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
My annual photo of books I read over the past year *and still have a copy of in my house*: a really odd stack this year of an early 20th C travelogue of Canada, War and Peace, Natalia Ginzburg, and a fascinating history of East Germany. I read a lot more fiction, too, not pictured!
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
@dylanreid.bsky.social
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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"Ghost Apples" in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County, Michigan - An unusual phenomenon when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, the apple turns mushy and eventually slips out, leaving the icy shell still hanging on the tree. ❄️🍏Photos by Andrew Sietsema 🤗 #folklore
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Afternoon tea in the lobby of the Royal York hotel yesterday: more women, girls, glitter and sequins than I have ever seen, PLUS hockey fans on their way to the game, AND a huge number of men in kilts and women in gowns on their way to the St Andrew’s ball above = a fun Toronto evening.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
I have a short story out -- during Short Story Month, apparently, and just as everyone is thinking about short stories because of the loss of short story queen, Alice Munro. It's about being Canadian, cross-border travel, Latin vocab, and friendship: saranacreview.org/issue19/fict...
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Fiction by Molly McCarron — Saranac Review
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
What links bubble era Tokyo, one of the best comedy scenes in this century, and one of my favourite songs, in my latest Song of the Day (or week or month), which I should rebrand as The Fortnightly Song: mollymccarron.substack.com/p/listen-to-...
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Listen to the girl
For relaxing times
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
So proud of the @spacing.bsky.social gang, and especially of @dylanreid.bsky.social for his work as executive editor of this issue! A really great anniversary package that speaks to Toronto’s recent past, the present, and the future, and captures the best of the magazine.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Liked this melancholy homecoming story by Rachel Sargent (only on the other place) in Gulf Coast (ditto) about how small events change everything: gulfcoastmag.org/online/36.2-...
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What Comes After
I was twenty-seven when I saw him again, at a birthday party for my sister that uncomfortably straddled the line between our broke college years and some recently adopted bourgeois values. There were ...
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
"I start with an emotion and then I try to find out what story can kind of accomodate that emotion" - from this great interview with Ling Ma.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
In which I am discombobulated by the appearance of real spring in March, and write about a seasonally-appropriate jazz singer.
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Spring awakening
The singer with a name out of a Roald Dahl novel
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
While I wait for the snow to melt off the garden again…
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Finally, my years of semi-successful gardening have made it into something I've written! Grateful to @emergejournal.bsky.social for publishing this piece: emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...
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Current Issue | Issue 29
Emerge Literary Journal: 2024   Editor's Note Some say the new year is a fresh start — a chance to look back and reflect on our past and a time to plan for our future. Walking into 2024 feels a bi...
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Delighted to see one of my favourite podcasts, @backlisted.bsky.social, taking on The Stone Angel in their customary humorous, curious way. I was a latecomer to this book and had no idea it was so funny and cutting (as well as sad -- it has everything going on). A great discussion.
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Canada has produced plenty of winter songs, but surprisingly not many about freezing cold temperatures as such. @mccmolly.bsky.social writes about a delightful one, though, not surprisingly from Montreal. #music #IlFaitFroid #songs mollymccarron.substack.com/p/il-fait-fr...
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Il fait froid
Quelle jouissance!
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
My stack of 2023 reads represents books I read over the last year *that are still in the house* - which, absent library books and anything I’ve shared onwards (I’m an active donor to neighbourhood library boxes), makes it a pretty random pile!
A stack of books
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Christmas tree at my father-in-law’s retirement residence, festooned with empty Moderna vials.
Vaccine vials hanging on a tree
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
The new issue of the /temz/ review is out, with a powerhouse prose selection including a great little flash, "Dear Reader", from @carolinehung.bsky.social, and "Tinted Windows", a fantastic fiction debut from Yasmeen Mohssenzadh: www.thetemzreview.com/issue-25.html
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Issue 25
Eric Abalajon "values are values: ten iterations"
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Periodic update to my map of little free libraries in east Toronto - roughly Broadview to Woodbine, O'Connor to the lake. A few additions since the summer. Other updates welcome! www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
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Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs - Google My Maps
Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
"Writing a story about a sentient refrigerator can be fun, and a story like that might be fun to read, but if fun is the only goal, you’d be better off chugging a beer and jumping into a pool with your clothes on. No book can compete with that." boydwords.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/o...
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One Question Interview: Nathan Whitlock
Nathan Whitlock is the author of the novels A Week of This and Congratulations On Everything. Nathan’s writing has appeared in places such as the New York Review of Books, the Walrus, Chatelaine, T�...
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Lovely essay from Electric Lit's The Commuter on, among other things, the loneliness of grieving for a friend: electricliterature.com/replying-all...
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You Can't Unsubscribe From Grief - Electric Literature
"Replying All on the Death Announcement Email," creative nonfiction by Jenessa Abrams
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
From the must-eat list at a local “sugar water cafe”, some Brontë-inspired snacks.
An ad for some small dishes labeled “Jane Eyre’s six signs”
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Every year I look forward to the Moroccan clementines showing up in the grocery store in darkest November. Great story here about why eastern Canada eats clementines while to the west it's mandarins, among other things. www.thestar.com/business/her...
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Here’s how to find the perfect box of clementines this season. Experts say it’s an art – and m...
Squeeze, stare and smell all you want, it’s not going to help you pick the best box. The real trick, experts say, doesn’t involve your senses at all.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Is snow-hail a thing? Is that’s what’s falling right now??
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Really interesting food shortage story, especially for any lovers of South Indian food like dosas. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Non-basmati white rice availability in Canada has dwindled, causing a surge in prices
Idli and pongal are two rice varieties Canadians may have trouble finding, or will end up paying extra for, as a result of India’s export ban due to crop damage in July
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Dark at 4:30 and pounding with rain. The essence of November.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Fave recent Toronto little free library find was this 1958 British edition of Nadine Gordimer short stories, which someone bought at a Cape Town bookstore and left a ripped-out a magazine ad for 1950 Studebaker inside. (Not sure how the timing works…) And really enjoyed the book.
Title page of Six Feet of the CountrySticker from Cape Town bookstorePartial page of ad for Studebaker South African sales agent
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
It's dark, it's cold, but I'm Feeling Good while listening to melancholy music this November: open.substack.com/pub/mollymcc...
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Elliott Smith season
Music to hibernate by
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Last group of trick-or-treaters included a respirator and rain gear wearing self-identifying “bathroom explorer”
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