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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 · 29/06/2026
I only tried it once, years ago, but it was pretty good.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I saw some emerging from a building on Church St with banners and flags before 9 am!
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The lower ones were marble and quite nice in the sun.
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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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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I may be misremembering but I think there is a plaque, but it’s on the other side of Gerrard.
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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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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Loving it!
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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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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
From the hallway to car rental at Halifax Stanfield Airport. I thought maybe the offspring tree just hadn‘t been decorated yet, but after two days it was still just there, like an afterthought.
Two fake Christmas trees, a large one with frosted needles and a small green one.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Hoping our Fit lasts until Honda comes to its senses and starts selling them in Canada again (I think the Jazz, which is the Euro name for it, may live on?)
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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 · 28/09/2025
Ah, @dylanreid.bsky.social and I were wondering what that big ship was!
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I remembered this as soon as I heard it! Definitely an earworm
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
In my neighbourhood - you’re making it easy! Will stop by.
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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 · 06/08/2025
There’s at least two of us, after all…
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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 · 08/07/2025
Really enjoyed this!
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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 · 04/04/2025
I never knew that was the original Sick Kids! Was it then OCA for a while after that?
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good chance to bring out the “wintry mix” term I’ve seen used from time to time.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The private viewing reminded me of going to see a matinee in an upstairs cinema - "Barrikadnaya" - in 1990s St. Petersburg, where, since I was the only customer, they were discussing whether to bother starting the projector. I persisted.
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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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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Free HBO!
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Coming here to say that! Moose and Beaver!
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
He sounds like a local merchant rather than a cartoon character. Who knew there were Pillsbury scones? And what is “Easter bake”??
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I had forgotten about a bunch of what is captured in here by the time I read it: www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...
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These Days Are Numbered - Dundurn
With over 2,300 books in print, Dundurn Press is recognized for producing high quality, award-winning books across multiple genres.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Les Éboulements, Charlevoix County A.Y. Jackson 1924
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I actually love these bungalows with the little garages. Were a bunch in East York, disappearing one by one.
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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
I am a frequent gatherer from and donor to little free libraries, and user of the public library, so many books pass through during the year.
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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 · 26/11/2024
This looks delightful. Recommend following it up with the fantastic Leacock-award winner Molly of the Mall, set in the same place: bookshop.newestpress.com/products/mol...
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Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear
Available as an audiobook on Audible, Hoopla, OverDrive, Audiobooks.com, Scribd, eStories, Libro FM, Kobo, Google, and Apple. ABOUT THIS BOOK Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor’s life is strikingly dif...
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Workshop attendee!
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I read my first last year and then picked up a stack of others at a lawn sale this summer. Might be good for dreary winter months.
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Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thanks Jenn!
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