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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really enjoying this book. House of Bone and Rain had been on my list for a long time, and it's every bit as good as I'd hoped.

My hand holding a hardcover copy of House of Bone and rain by Gabino Iglesias. The title is printed over a green sky with a house beneath between palm trees, with the author's name in white over purple ground with a shadowy skull.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My historical horror short "Letters of the Lens Grinder" was one of these, and I am thrilled to say it will be in the upcoming book from @edgeandbusby.com , Witnessed: An Anthology of Literary Horror. March 2027! #writer #horror

From Edge & Busby's Instagram, on a maroon background: Witnessed, 646 submissions. Who needs sleep? Winners announced December 1

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking at my laptop near the end of my work day (this was Friday, right?), I realized that my list of recently used folders did not include the one containing my creative writing project. I shall rectify this situation immediately.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Evening dog walk past the Cohocton.

Working down on the small and shallow River from above because I'm on a bridge. Some colored streaks the clouds ahead because of sunset coming green grass in the bank to the left, trees on the Bank to right. A long bar of brown and dead grass is on the right side of the river.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Four chapters drafted means I'm at least acquainted with my protagonist. Time for me to figure out who the hell he really is. Writing on another calm autumn morning. Parenting and teaching tasks to follow, but not yet.

A sheet of paper laying beneath My green ink pen on my glass patio table, green mug and French press to the right. Brown fence and trees out of focus behind.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been writing the same goshdarn chapter for a month, but tonight I finally finished the initial rough edit of it. I hereby declare it "drafted."

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What I'm up to today. (I rode once and loved it. Kids looped back to immediately ride again.)

An upside down roller coaster in a loop on a yellow track. Specifically, the Steel Curtain at Kennywood in Pittsburgh.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the 21st century disappointment of awakening to a phone charger slightly out of alignment

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Editing. Embracing the season.

My laptop and a bottle of Sam Adams Oktoberfest on my glass patio table, Brown fence and green trees out of focus in background.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy to know my story of Irish miners and murder in 1876 is still in the running. #writer

Announcement image reads:

Short Story Contest
History Through Fiction
Long listed!
History Through Fiction Short Story Contest
Short list Announcement coming October 15

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Poking at this chapter I'm nearly done writing, listening to 16 work on Creston's saxophone sonata in the other room. Peaceful evening time.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Proud dad moment of my weekend: went to the local theater with my wife and our teenagers to see Buddy, and 16 lost it at this moment (image on right) and said "Night of the Hunter! Night of the Hunter!" Parenting win. #filmsky

To left, the shot in Night of the Hunter where John looks out from the barn and sees Harry Powell on his horse in the distance against the sunrise. To right, Buddy the unicorn on a hill against the sunrise in color.
Thanks to Reddit user ArabellaWretched for posting this side by side image.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I write. Toby barks at the squirrels for me. (He wears a whiffle ball harness so he can't squeeze through our fence to chase one.)

My laptop next to my green Coffee mug and French press on my glass patio table, round fence and trees. Blurred in background

Gray and white morkie Toby looking upward from the boards of my deck. Hang white with a ball attached to his side from a green harness

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reading this among some other 9/11 poems tomorrow with the kids. Have waded through a lot of the poetry published about it to prep for this—pretty interesting literary moment www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47868/...

poetryfoundation.org

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100

Praise the kitchen radio, dial clicked even before the dial on the oven, so that music and Spanish rose before bread. Praise Manhattan from a hundred and…

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I taught the first class of my Creative Writing Workshop this morning. Eleven high school students, their desks pulled into a circle, talking about a book they admire and what they hope to write this semester, sure made me feel better about the world for a little while. #teacher

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I survived the first day of school. (By longstanding personal custom, Day One requires tweed.) #teacher

A photo of me from chest up wearing a gray tweed jacket over a black T-shirt in front of trees. There is clear gray dominating my beard though the hair on my head remains Brown. I'm wearing glasses and smiling-ish

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Writing in the cool morning with coffee and scones before taking out my kayak on Keuka Lake. And then, this afternoon, the last couple hours of classroom setup. Students walk in at 8 am tomorrow. Hope all observing Labor Day have a happy one. I think I will.

My dark green coffee mug to the right of my laptop and a plastic package with cranberry scones to the right of that, with french press behind, all sitting in my glass patio table in front of the brown fence out of focus with trees behind.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A short story acceptance is a nice way to start a day. #writer

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After months of playing in fits and starts when time permitted, I finally beat the Act III boss of Silksong this evening and completed the game (96%), and until my daughter told me, I had no idea that today was the release anniversary.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hey remember when I had a poem in Threepenny one year ago today

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our current dogs completely ignore thunder, which is nice, mostly. But two years on, every storm still leaves me missing Glinda, my sweet cowardly beagle.

Me laying down in a green sweatshirt, holding brown and white Glinda on my chest. Brown and black beagle Norton lays on my legs.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My daughter's saxophone lesson meant waiting in a coffee shop and writing for me. After much research and setup, this chapter is finally coming to the blood. Haven't written violence in a good while. I'm having fun :)

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Norton and Toby making it a bit hard to get up at the moment... #dogsofbluesky

Beagle at left with his brown and white face, his paws extended toward me over my gray shorts. Morkie Toby's fuzzy head is beside Norton.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Among other delights, we discovered popovers on our trip to Acadia National Park this summer. Tea, popovers, and Mrs. Marple on Britbox for the evening.

A metal tray with six popovers on our scratched up wooden table. A jam jar with blue label to left, glass and tarnished silver teapot to right, vase with flowers including dahlias behind the tray.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I will miss my summer writing mornings on the deck when they're gone. Enjoying another while I can. Good morning, all.

My laptop next to a blueberry muffin, dull green coffee mug, and dish of blueberries on my glass patio table. Brown fencing, Green trees in background

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In two weeks, I teach. Today, I paddled. Canandaigua Lake.

The orange nose of my kayak to left foreground in the clear Lake, with greenland and the distance beneath Blue sky and clouds. Some short Willow in mid-ground to the right on an outcrop of land.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Classes start after Labor Day for me, but I went into school today and started setting up my desk. Hello, friends. #teacher

A red and pink Furby, a black and orange stapler, and a bearded sock puppet intended to look like me holding a green paper coffee mug sitting on my worn wooden teacher desk.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was assigned to read Invisible Cities in college and understood it not a lick, as my old annotations attest. But I'm older now and have lived a little more, at least, and what a captivating and wonderful text it is.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a white paperback with a walled city seeming to grow from an instrument on a table.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Themed wedding this afternoon. I officiated.

Me dressed in a red monk robe and holding a staff, hood over my face.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good morning and bright things to all.

View from Mount Gorham, Acadia National Park. A Sunbeam steaks down the ocean to left by an island. In foreground, a bit of the rock outcrop I stand on and a pine to right.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

About 750 words this morning and still going, which is (for me) an extremely quick writing pace. A good Saturday morning and good coffee to all.

My laptop on a cream colored table beside a black mug that reads "William & Sons Coffee Co." The shop's door to the street out of focus in background.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I thought I might write a bit more of my novel-in-progress today and didn't, but I did write the wedding ceremony I'll perform next week and got the bride's and groom's thumbs up.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Tobias, Mop to Gentleman: A Grooming Story #dogsofbluesky

Maltese and Yorkie Toby with long gray hair.

Same dog but with short black hair and a tan muzzle and legs.
Does not actually look like the same dog.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've been doing curriculum work for three hours already and my kid just sent this pic and sometimes life isn't fair and always dogs are cute. #dogsofbluesky

Her arm on black and brown beagle Norton, snuggled on a gray blanket.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Not that I've viewed that many pro shots of musicals I've seen on stage, but Hadestown was the best, and it's not close.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Watched The Shawshank Redemption with 13 for the first time. Had been a while. It felt good to watch a film with such sincere belief in the human spirit.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It was a lovely day to celebrate 13's birthday with a hike. Stony Brook State Park.

A waterfall gathering into a pool in a gorge in mid ground. The stone gorge face and trees to left and right, with stone steps to the right of the pool in foreground

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I finished programming light cues for a community theatre production of The Wizard of Oz. Hopefully the director is satisfied (particularly because she's my wife).

Two monitors look over a black light board with lots of buttons and dials and switches, oh my. Stage visible below in distance.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My nascent novel stalled because of an inconvenient fact of geography I realized, so I'm spending this morning reading, probably finishing a beta read I have greatly enjoyed.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A short story of mine made its way into the world this morning thanks to the wonderful folks of Drift & Dribble Miscellany.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A short story of mine made its way into the world this morning thanks to the wonderful folks of Drift & Dribble Miscellany.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Going to a grad party this afternoon and then taking my kid to a summer camp, but first, enjoying some coffee, toast, and writing in the first morning of fresh air in a while. May we all enjoy its kind soon.

Green ceramic mug next to glass paint with toast and my French pressed next to the laptop of my glass patio table, brown fence and green trees blurred in background behind

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dear Canadians, If there has been "willful negligence" that contributed to the wildfires, far more of it was perpetrated by my country, which failed to support any climate accord. Sane people know this. I am sorry for the damage, smoke, and cross-border fools you are dealing with. -a NY resident

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