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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR (HarperCollins, 2024)

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR (HarperCollins, 2024)

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Check the date. I know ball. So happy for my dude KAT

A tweet from 2024 where I called Knicks would be in the finals

KAT hoisting the Larry O’ Brien trophy after winning an NBA championship

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I was honored to judge a memoir contest for Publishers Weekly! Here’s a quick Q&A about my own book—urgency, the subconscious, a tight scope, and what I’m working on now booklife.com/authors//aut...

Black and white photo of my handsome mug. Nonfiction - meets the book life judge. AKA me

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

What if the Timberwolves just… didn’t let Scott Foster past security

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Getting ready for the Rewind Book Fair on a lovely overcast Saturday

Black, navy, and yellow signage with little skulls and magazine racks holding my book. Me in a cream colored oversized hoodie. Friendly Fire, HarperCollins 2024

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I was hitting up my buddy who was on prescription pain meds after suffering an injury during a laser tag pro-am tourney & he was kinda out of it, slurring, & he said, “dude I’m so high right now, I feel like a minnow at the bottom of the ocean” & I was like “very funny bro, you’re such an Oxy-Moron”

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I know this is normal and even common but one of my fav stories no longer exists on the World Wide Web and I’m devastated! Any lit mags taking flash reprints these days?

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Messing around with an 8-bit style delay and some synths. Stick around for the major cat cameo

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What’s always a loaded time for me, leading up to the 9 year anniversary of the shooting—it’s brain injury awareness week. I was invited back to my Alma Mater to see the academic work of neurology students who were assigned my book for a project. 1/3

Me in front of some neurology posters that used my book as source material

Four brain stickers in fun garish color schemes. One reads “brainbow”

Me and the students and the great Dr. Roxanne Prichard who has championed my book relentlessly.

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Roxanne Prichard, PhD @roxanneprichard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In honor of #BrainAwarenessWeek, students @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social created a Brain Injury & Recovery exhibit inspired by alum Paul Rousseau’s memoir of surviving a gunshot wound to the head: Friendly Fire. @paulwrites7.bsky.social @danafoundation.bsky.social

People examining posters about brain injury in a library. Flyers from the breed injury alliance of Minnesota are present in the foreground as are yellow and purple flowers.

A female professor stands in front of a poster about the exhibit. The poster includes statistics about the frequency of brain, injuries, and QR codes to additional resource resources.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

MALARKEY RULES FOREVER BUY THEIR BOOKS

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Really juiced for this. Always wanted to join forces with Malarky and my fav dude @danielmiller.bsky.social is providing all the art. Too cool. NEVER NOTHING ships in October. Buy all the books!

Email from Malarky Books

Never Nothing by Paul Rousseau
A tiny collection of poetry about growing up in the suburbs where everyone is always depressed.
Paul Rousseau is a writer with an invisible
disability and author of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir (HarperCollins, 2024). His work has also appeared in Wigleaf, Catapult, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, and Roxane Gay's The Audacity. You can read his stories and essays at Paul-Rousseau.com.
Follow @Paulwrites7 on bluesky and @Paulwrites47 on IG.

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Really juiced for this. Always wanted to join forces with Malarky and my fav dude @danielmiller.bsky.social is providing all the art. Too cool. NEVER NOTHING ships in October. Buy all the books!

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau, @paulwrites7.bsky.social and @lyfaulk.bsky.social. malarkeybooks.com/news/2026/1/...

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5 Poetry EPs — Malarkey

Sometime last year I was feeling regretful that we weren’t going to publish any poetry collections in 2026 or 2027 and I got to thinking about what we could to get some more poems in our lineup. A few...

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🧵So 2025 was a lot, but not without good things. On 1/14, I launched WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON. It's a book that helped me work out the kind of person I want to be during interesting times. tinyurl.com/23u99mae

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We Lived on the Horizon

The acclaimed author of the “dazzling” (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Book of Speculation returns with an engrossing new no...

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

People always ask to buy my little skeletons but they work very hard and are not for sale

A magazine rack of friendly fire with a crosslegged skeleton reading a book

My booth at the twin cities book fest with many skulls and yellow font and stuff about surviving a gun shot to the head

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A chapter of my memoir actually takes place at this book fair venue which is a fun little synchronicity!

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This weekend—the twin cities book event of the year. Come to union depot in St. Paul. I’ll be at table 317 offering you know what. Make it happen!

Rousseau, Paul table 317 at twin cities book fest

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Hunting ghosts this weekend with a team of paranormal investigators and let me tell you dreams really do come true

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

My appearance kicks off Season 3 of the Lived to Tell Podcast, where Caitlin and I discuss the events and fallout of my memoir, FRIENDLY FIRE. “Paul was unintentionally shot in the head by his best friend. What happened after would change Paul’s life forever.”

gray background black outline of a brain from sideview. PAUL is white front, bold. A quote "The bullet bounced off my head" Episode 30 October 22. @Livedtotellpod Wherever you get your podcasts.

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Am in Spokane for a concert and found this amazing indie where I of course picked up a copy of @ambersparks.bsky.social’ new book!!

The facade of auntie’s books in Spokane Washington downtown

The new hardback arrivals section at Auntie’s bookstore in Spokane Washington featuring amber sparks’ book happy people don’t live here

Happy people don’t live here by amber sparks
Red cover with ghostly black font. An old candle and a key ring with pine lake sanitarium printed on

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Neighbor’s haunted trail is pretty good

Four zombie figures by vats of toxic waste. One is crawling from the barrel with a gas mask on. They wear white hazmat garb that is caked with blood.

A rabbit/humanoid figure with bloody ears holding a hammer in each hand. Wearing white coveralls spattered with blood.

Two clown figures—one in a pink dress and one in blue. Perhaps bridesmaids? Faces are discolored, rotten, insidious contortion of smiles.

Little girl zombie with weirdly adult demonic face. White coat and hat. Walking her zombie coyote like a dog by a blood spattered and timeworn fence.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Going on tour next week! Come say hi please don’t make me read to myself and that one guy who’s actually got earbuds in

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Happy to announce I’m an exhibitor at Rain Taxi’s 25th annual Twin Cities Book Festival. I’ll be slinging copies of my memoir, Friendly Fire. The participating author list is also bonkers good. November 8th at the Saint Paul Union Depot (a location featured in my book!). Give it a gander

Illustrated ceiling of the Saint Paul union depot "find me at rain taxi's twin cities book fest" in large blue and purple font. "nov. 8 Union depot" in yellow font along the bottom

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Here’s what’s pulling us this weekend

The 261 steam engine next to a food distribution plant

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Love visiting book clubs that read friendly fire!!

A beer, my book, and a name tag that says “hello my name is friendly fire”

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Friendly Fire turns 1 today! Grateful for every unexpected happening and all the book’s lovely readers.

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

psst: if you’d like email notice about our next submission period (very soon), please join our NEW mailing list! sign-up link is under the “Future” tab on our website!

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Future

Guidelines hex publishes flash literary fiction and prose poetry with speculative elements. We welcome the surreal, the weird, and the uncanny. Scare us, surprise us, take us to space. Show us how ...

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If you haven’t read the pieces in this issue, you’re seriously missing out. Also, selfishly, read my piece!!

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The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Issue Fifty-Four is here! Explore new poetry, prose, and art at the link in our bio. 🌺

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Hell of a way to close a paragraph!

The ritual of the fall had started, as if the proximity of death activated reserves of extraordinary energy in these trees that, instead of continuing to support life, allowed them to celebrate dying.

From the Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Teenage cringe and angst? Team Vampire VS. Team Werewolf? Tarot card readings and monumental blizzards? Slow dancing and guitar strumming? Both kissing and distinctly not-kissing? READ ME: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 15/08/2025