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R. Hunter Whitworth

@rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bryce Young is going to be fine
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Prock Burdy
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cowardly field goal. Heels deserve to lose
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sarcophagus (and other situations) a.co/d/0aHaTyjN
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Amazon.com
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Book's coming!
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In a bedroom, locked. Whispers, soft. Refusal, and then surrender
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Beneath the city, two hearts beat. Soul engines running through a night so tender
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
All Bill Belichick needed to do was to get rid of Mike Lombardi and take over defensive playcalling from his son
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 27/08/2026
North Carolina
This old man is going home
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
*Clarence wails the truth on the sax*
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just one look, one whisper, and they're gone
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners, desperate as the night moves on
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Outside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the DJ plays
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@alexkirshner.com Prisoners of the moment will say it's Bill, prisoners of the past will say Torbush, but everything bad happening at UNC right now is Butch Davis' fault, and he is the worst in-game coach I have ever seen at any level of football.
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The parking lot provisionaries dance to the latest craze
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock n roll bands
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Kids flash guitars just like switchblades, hustling for the record machine
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The street's alive, secret debts are paid, contacts made they vanish unseen
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Until the local cops' cherry tops rips this holy night
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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
THE CAPTAIN'S BEEN DRINKING, a new novel from @thedrevlow.bsky.social will be out August 18th from CJ Press. Preorder the ebook now. Paperback and ebook available on the day. Dig it: a.co/d/04NbbwGB
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought in the alley
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Well the midnight gangs assembled and picked their rendezvous for the night
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
As we take our stand Down in Jungleland
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
From the churches to the jails, tonight all is silence in the world
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And the kids around here look just like shadows: always quiet, holding hands
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Well the maximum lawmen run down Flamingo chasing the Rat and the Barefoot Girl
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Rat pulls into town, rolls up his pants, and together they take a stab at romance and disappear down Flamingo Lane
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge, drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Call me a prude but I'm ready for one episode of House of the Dragon that doesn't have attempted rape
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wrote about the Odyssey last year, and the very relevant (maybe lost?) virtue of humility: www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-th...
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The humility of Odysseus — Dappled Things
Somewhat counter-culturally for the time, Odysseus is the story of a man bent groundward, burying his pride alongside his winnowing fan.
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
dodoeraser.org/2026/07/03/t... Shot story with Dodo Eraser
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Tom Light’s Ghost and Other Banjo Invocations
I drank too much at a chess tournament once and woke up the next day with a black eye and a trophy, and no memory of how I’d gotten either. Like anyone else, I have openings and defenses I’m famili…
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Wonderwall has always been a great song. It was dumb that it got turned into a joke
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Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We pair every story with a song and call it the Story Track. Here is this week’s: Although the lyrics of Lucinda Williams’s “Side of the Road” aren’t an obvious match (sometimes the Story Track is more about the vibe), the woman in Williams’s song reminds me a lot of Whitworth’s protagonist.
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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Mainland China calls it “呆呆向前冲” pronounced Dai Dai Xiang Qian Zhong and meaning “Dumb Guy Charges Ahead”
Screen shot from Chinese culture website Douban showing 呆呆向前冲
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Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Have you read our story of the week yet? R. Hunter Whitworth’s fiction has appeared, among other places, in the Chicago Quarterly Review, the Threepenny Review, Driftwood Press, the Saturday Evening Post, and in the Cincinnati Review. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/r-hu...
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Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Story of the Week - Season 1 finale! @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social’s “Graveyard of the Atlantic” is filled with characters and images that misrepresent reality. The beach house guests live in a fantasy world with performative rituals of wealth and beauty. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/r-hu...
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R. Hunter Whitworth - Graveyard of the Atlantic — Brown Hound Press
It’s the secret dream of a certain kind of man to have his face on a series of billboards along Highway 17 heading towards the sea, and in the case of Paradise Dave–the current one, not the original–e...
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Never give up, always have fun" -Bussi
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
CANESCANESCANESCANESCANES
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Took way longer than I care to admit www.82-0.com/share?id=WQ2...
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Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
For the record, Homer's Odyssey is much more concerned with being cool/interesting than it is with historical accuracy...also for the record: www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-th...
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The humility of Odysseus — Dappled Things
Somewhat counter-culturally for the time, Odysseus is the story of a man bent groundward, burying his pride alongside his winnowing fan.
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Danhausen and Minihausen are the tag team tailor-made to be likely on when the non wrestling fan in your life comes in the room
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/04/2026
After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.
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Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next
After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Diego Pavia: CFL hero?
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@edsbs.bsky.social Couldn't find Furman in the menu. Minus fees, this goes out to the number of points Bill allowed TCU to score against my beloved Heels. Tacticsl genius, they will be underestimating us in Dublin for sure. 4D Chess. Maybe even 5D
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R. Hunter Whitworth @rhunterwhitworth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Once again trying to explain the deep, deathly serious significance of Cody Rhodes' entrance to my laughing wife
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