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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 18h

"White water fell through the gap. Chunks of the dam swirled in dirty foam and whirled downriver. Before long the water above and below the dam was calm and level. After a while it was like there had never been anything there at all." @thmsbrns.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Issue #14 of my column MOANS FROM THE CONDIMENT FRIDGE @mrbullbull.bsky.social , titled DOUBLE FEATURE This issue is about the drive-in I went to with my father, why decades later I didn't attend his funeral. It's old movies and complicated relationships Link below: mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I chose to remember my father for who he truly was: a thief; a grifter; a veteran of the Vietnam War, but also, a lover of books; music; and movies." @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"It’s so cute when she tries to saw me in half. The way her arms wobble holding that vigorous blade longer than her body, her glee at that first cut, how she laughs at my screams when she finally hits bone." @benjaminstarr.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...

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Short Story Shoutout @short-story-shout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hoping to climb in the bucking chute and take a ride with 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞? Then check out what 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐞 has to say about her experience coming out of the gate… “𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑...” @mrbullbull.bsky.social #booksky #fiction #litfic

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Short Story Shoutout Q&A with Caroline Giudice

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"We treated everything like it was either righteous or evil, and often we preferred the evil because it felt righteous." - Lilia Fetini mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Shimmy was going to do psychedelics in Australia, he’d said, lying down for his own funeral. Then the tunnel-monkeys had burst up from down under and all the red in his eyes had sprayed out from his neck-tunnel. 'Whoa!'" - Adi Dvir mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Now we're finally back to teaching kids those old fables about how sometimes, yes, you did need someone smaller than you & that it isn’t the dwarf’s fault if they had a bobblehead stuck on tiny bodies with little legs that didn’t bend." - Lilia Mahfouz mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kumar Sen had a new piece in @mrbullbull.bsky.social yesterday, so I decided I'd go back and read this earlier #FlashInTheFeed first, as a treat. So good, even on the second and third readings! mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"My father says a man should know how to hold a knife but what he means is not the knife, not really, it’s the holding, the way your wrist doesn’t shake even when everything else does." - Kumar Sen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I asked bb what kind of dick energy I give off. He said, 'Unconcerned,' as in, 'Your dick could be two inches or a foot long and you’d still be smokin’ weed and bustin’ nuts.'" - Soeun Seo mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"They gave me a new name. A room. A list of prayers. Tasks to complete. Floors to scrub. Windows to polish. Bread to bake. Fasts to keep. I did everything without question. I believed obedience would cleanse me." - Aurelian Razvan Dinu mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Mistakes are always made with a dull blade." @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"After twenty years of nursing, lying’s as automatic as 'Happy Holidays,' every December. It’s how I survive the medical trenches. 'It’s only a pinch.' 'The doctor’ll be here soon.' 'He didn’t suffer.'" @andreamarcusa.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Old train cars are scattered across the yard, most off the tracks, all at random angles as if they were just play things a giant toddler had tossed like die." @merrillshanejones.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Kimmy insisted that we should date. That it would be in my best interests. The bleak landscape of rebuttal was like a diarrheal flush in my mind. I couldn’t say no. So suddenly we were a thing." - Jay Passer mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I was wearing his jacket & feeling good & thought about when my grandfather'll die & whether my mom'll be relieved. Whether she’ll feel light & whether I’ll regret not asking him anything or not telling him anything. But he doesn’t really ask." Ben Gambuzza mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The old-timers on the ward, in lucid moments between their shock treatments, tell her those endless red lines will itch for the rest of her life." @lmbayley.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Dr. Elliston has a magnificent smile. I say this as a man who has cataloged smiles the way some men catalog stamps—by rarity, by value, by the degree of sincerity they’re willing to counterfeit. His is warm enough to pass. Cold enough to keep." - Camelia Peebles mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Maw had teeth once. I seen ‘em in pictures, before her hair turned to cloud cover & she stopped doling out that thin-lipped smile. She weren’t no soap & shampoo beauty but she looked like she ready to be someone." Emma Phillips mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"First rule about 'court,' on any hockey team, is to never talk about 'court' outside of the locker room. In “court,” we fined each other for being different than each other. In 'court,' I got fined one dollar every week for having a bush." - Sage Marshall mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"I was greeted only by the cold, wide hall with a single white light flickering shakily in the distance. As if the building had decided to empty itself completely in order to fully confront me with the degree of my parental failure." - Emma Panasiuk mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"He didn’t let go of the money. I knew he wasn’t trying to take it back but he also wasn’t giving it up. So we just stood there as two good men in the shade of the trees beneath the setting sun. Nothing but twenty-four dollars between us." - Justis Ward mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Amy Allen @amyavt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Excited to share my piece “Stopgap” which is written from the perspective of a young boy who’s just lost his father. Working with Ben at @mrbullbull.bsky.social has been amazing from start to finish.

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Ethan’s the only kid in the third grade with a dead dad. Some of his friends have two dads and his friend Henry’s got two moms, but no one’s got only one."- Amy Allen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"No one has died. They’re not watching fund-raising ads for organizations trying to save the last elephants and tigers of the world. He’s simply… moved." New #FlashInTheFeed by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social ! Yay! mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Jorgen is standing on the side of the road crying.” Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving me a place to explore the other half of humanity. mrbullbull.com/newbull/

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Michelle Furnace Brosius @michellefb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is stunning, @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social "He is unaware that anything has changed, though to Agatha it feels almost physical. She is a newborn porcupine whose spines only harden after several hours in the world." So many sentences I kept returning to. Fantastic story!

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"She tells herself that it’s okay for men to cry. It’s something everyone should be encouraging, not just paying lip service to. But seeing Jorgen cry, a repulsion crawls like heartburn up out of her stomach into her esophagus." - Elizabeth Rosen mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Short Story Shoutout @short-story-shout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Get to know a lit pub: 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐠 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Up to three pieces of FLASH (up to 999 words each), or one of FICTION (1,000 - 3,500 words) @mrbullbull.bsky.social #booksky #shortstory #shortstories #fiction Check out 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐞’s excellent “Van Cleef” for a taste:

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"Van Cleef" by Caroline Giudice / BULL Lit Mag

A study in expectations.

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Michelle Furnace Brosius @michellefb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@mrbullbull.bsky.social Thank you so much for giving my story Pancake its home! mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas... Proud to be part of the community #flashfiction #writing

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Four of my family members have died in the past 18 months. I didn’t cry when they died. It only felt real when Norm Macdonald died." - Richard Pounder mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Realization Norm Macdonald

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@mrbullbull.bsky.social this piece by @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social needs to be nominated for something. Seriously. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Y'all rock. Thanks so much. And yes, this story rocks as well.

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I made sure I kept a straight face when Pastor Mukiga fixed his eyes on my mom and told her that my demons were now gone. Those demons pushing me to see a man as a woman and to crave what the church called abomination." - Feyisayo Anjorin mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Don’t touch it,” Tim-Tim said, and grabbed the backs of Robbie’s and Derek’s t-shirts. “It didn’t want to get found.” This piece by @michellefb.bsky.social is so measured, so polished, so good. OMG. #FlashInTheFeed from @mrbullbull.bsky.social

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"'I decided,' he said, 'I’m either going to be famous, or I’m going to kill myself.' She raised an eyebrow. 'Does it have to be that black and white?' 'Yes,' he said, not looking at her. “And I’m going to buy you a house.'” - Melissa Feuerstein mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“The boy speaks into Mr Onion’s orange-brown softness, *you’ll be ok*, then passes Mr Onions to his mother, eyes averted.” “She says with her eyes: *he’s a good boy really …*” @belindarowe.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"He used to whisper prayers to Pancake at night. Please make my mom better. Please help her get another job so I don’t have to live across the country with Dad and his new kid. Please don’t leave me." - Michelle Furnace Brosius @michellefb.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Gum doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried spearmint, watermelon, cinnamon. The flavor is fine, but the texture never feels right, like a child running peanut butter fingers along my tongue." - Chelsea Nelthropp mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"I found Gatsby floating on a lounge chair in his marble pool. After a brutally hot summer, that beautiful first day of September offered the first hint of fall. But Gatsby wasn’t soaking up rays. He was soaking up lead, a slug in his gut." @normanbirnbach.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Okay, you know what? One more for the #archivechallenge. Because of this line by @chelseahannac.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social : I’m not about to die in the middle of deciding which emoji most properly conveys “holy shit it’s the end.” Apocalypse, amirite? mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"You’re on a mission to destroy or be destroyed, whichever comes first, but you keep telling yourself it’ll be okay, on the other side there’s a place where you can become someone new again, someone softer this time." - Billie J. Daniel mrbullbull.com/newbull/micr...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"He couldn’t describe what he felt. Anger? Frustration? Envy? He tried to imagine what Gabrielle and the guy looked like in bed. He hated it. The thought of her pussy not being the exclusive threshold of his budding manhood." - Aurore Phipps mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"This song is pointless. Don’t get ideas. It’s not about you. You’re just a vanishing-point muse. No honouring with stifling platitudes, your stupid hair, or the fairy silver necklace with the tiny bear hanging off it. Craft jewellery is mocking." - Tom Harvey mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So happy to have a new story up here. Thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for being a top-class collaborative editor, and to @smokelong.bsky.social fitness for support with the first draft. Maybe listen to the quoted #jackieleven song while reading? www.youtube.com/watch?v=91_F...

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Jackie Leven - Call Mother a Lonely Field (Official Audio)

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