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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Came back home after a little holiday to celebrate my 60th birthday and I found a package waiting for me. Inside were copies of the latest issue of NIGHTMARE ABBEY with my story 'Whipping Ghost' included 👻👻👻 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My weird Western THE SUNSET SUITE is a free ebook today and tomorrow (until the end of September 28th) 🤠 #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4KK4HFZ

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The Sunset Suite: a weird western

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just finished reading this. It's not quite like other Simenon books. It feels as if he took greater care to be more 'literary' and his prose as a result is somehow less fluid. But it's still magnificent, of course. In tone and style, Simenon's 'roman durs' often resemble the work of Camus #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To celebrate my 60th birthday, I have made ten of my ebooks free until September 28th #booksky *CTHULHU WANTS YOU *ARMS AGAINST A SEA *PASTEL WHIMSIES *STARFISH WISH *CREPUSCULARKS AND PHANTOMIMES *THE SUNSET SUITE *THE GHOST LOSER * BETTER THE DEVIL *SANGRIA IN THE SANGRAAL *THE BROTHEL CREEPER

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My two MEGAPACK collections from Wildside Press. Both are fairly hefty collections. 48 stories in total, which is about 4% of my total short story output to date. There will be a third volume at some point 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Publication Day... My first MEGAPACK® collection was published four years ago. There will be three in total. This is the second and I think it's the best of them. The nicest thing for me about the MEGAPACK® series is appearing alongside Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Fredric Brown, etc #booksky 🙂

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The story I wrote for the tribute anthology to Charlie Chaplin has been accepted. My tale concerns Chaplin when he was a Music Hall star. He played the Palace Theatre in Swansea. I took this photo of the venue. TRAMPS, SEDUCERS AND DICTATORS will be published by Bedford Square Publishers 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My second Fantastic MEGAPACK® collection, published by Wildside Press, should be out in a few days. I have just seen the cover and the interior. My first MEGAPACK® collection was published four years ago. Presumably the third will be out in 2030, assuming the human race is still around... #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Reached the 30,000 word mark on KNICK KNACK PADDY. Only 8000 words to go. The novella has gone off in a very absurd direction. I know that all the novellas in this series so far have been absurd but this one seems to want to outdo them :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Opposition to the RNLI is a Russian backed psyops and anyone who slanders or libels the RNLI is a cretinous stooge or a fucking traitor.

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

DABBLER IN DRABBLES OMNIBUS by Rhys Hughes, ebook FREE until September 12th. A drabble is a piece of fiction consisting of exactly 100 words. This book contains 1,000 of them. That's 100,000 words of fiction, compressed into a thousand tiny packages #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS8YXFDD

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Dabbler in Drabbles Omnibus: 1000 short stories

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reached the 20,000 word mark on KNICK KNACK PADDY, so only 18,000 words to go. I need to gird my loins to ask a writer I admire to consider writing an introduction for it. I did that three times last year, and I have done it once already this year, and it always feels unbearably cheeky :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I often hear the statement, "Reading is dead," but I am reading more now than ever before. So as far as I'm concerned, it's not dead. "Ah, but you aren't everyone," is the common retort to this. So what? I have absolutely no interest in being everyone. I am myself and that's good enough #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

LOVECRAFT'S CHIN is a free ebook until September 5th. The book has already annoyed Lovecraft devotees. It's easy to annoy them. That's why I won't be promoting this offer widely. But I know my Bluesky friends are more grown up than that, so here's the link 🙂 #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9X1DKFL

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Lovecraft's Chin: pretty monstrous ditties

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Unless I am quite mistaken, it appears that THE DANGLE CUSTARD has been accepted for publication and will be released before the end of the year. It will join the other 'Knick Knack' books as part of the permutational sequence 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am doing a poetry / fiction reading tonight in Swansea. These are the three books I will be reading from... My most recent poetry collection; my most recent short story collection; and my most recent novel 🙂:-) #booksky facebook.com/events/s/tal...

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

SLAP-ON-THE-WRIST STORIES, ebook FREE until August 29th A collection of experimental stories, including sequences of drabbles, mini-sagas, 69ers and 66ers. In the USA, the ebook edition can be obtained here: www.amazon.com/dp/B07WKJT68Z It is also free on all other Amazon platforms. #booksky

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Slap-on-the-Wrist Stories

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And here is one of the flash fictions from my recently completed CRESCENTS IN ASCENSION book. It is about bodhisattvas :-) #booksky medium.com/@Rhys_Hughes...

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The Final Bodhisattva

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Finished writing 'Crescents in Ascension'. I started writing it on the first day of February. Anyway, it's done now. It's another set of flash fictions linked by a frame tale, but the frame tale is embedded in the flash fictions themselves. 95 flash fictions in total :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Happy First Anniversary to a pair of my books, published exactly one year ago by Eibonvale Press. ROBOTS IN LOVE is one of my very few stories set in outer space. THAT OTHER EGYPT is a linked series of fictions themed on Egypt. Ten stories in total, though one is actually a play. #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Borderless Journal has today published a brief extract from my new novel THE BISCUIT THIEF. Hopefully this extract will encourage readers to consider buying the novel. The publisher is Telos Publishing 👻 #booksky borderlessjournal.com/2026/08/21/t...

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The Biscuit Thief by Rhys Hughes

Title: The Biscuit Thief Author: Rhys Hughes Publisher: Telos Publishing The bicycle was a new machine but it had been modelled on the penny farthings of old. It had a big front wheel and a small r…

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Many thanks to Dave Mitchell of Incunabula Press for arranging the show last night and for inviting me to do a reading. It's always a pleasure to read with a good PA system. I read extracts from the three Knick Knack novels and also poems from my Songs Gone Wrong book 🙂🎶🎵 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today I will be attempting to promote the three volumes of the "Knick Knack Trilogy" in an art gallery. I have no idea how that's going to work out, but I will find out in due course 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There are no such things as "influencers". There are wannabe manipulators, prancers, strutters, twonkies, twerps, gimps, dangle custards, chimpbuckets, nincompoops, bunny grunters, plonkers, laminated gunkflaps and juddering blubberhacks. But influencers don't exist.

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Last day to get all three ebooks of the "Knick Knack Trilogy" for FREE #booksky Oddity O'Clock www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDSGCNNT Trumpet Face www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... The Unfair Dinkum www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Oddity O'Clock (The Knick Knack Trilogy)

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Finished writing THE DANGLE CUSTARD, the fourth volume in the expanding "Knick Knack Trilogy" (which is now a permutational trilogy) and emailed it to my publisher. Also emailed it to the author I am hoping will write an introduction for it :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

FREE ebooks ahoy! #booksky Four days remaining to get all three volumes of the "Knick Knack Trilogy" for free. Here's the third volume. It links to the other two... www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDSGCNNT

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Oddity O'Clock (The Knick Knack Trilogy)

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The third part of the Knick Knack Trilogy is a free ebook until August 16th. The other two parts are free ebooks too. #booksky Get the ebook here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDSGCNNT The other volumes are: Trumpet Face www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... The Unfair Dinkum www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Oddity O'Clock (The Knick Knack Trilogy)

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Starting tomorrow, all three volumes in my "Knick Knack Trilogy" will be free ebooks for a few days... 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have embarked on a mission to read all the short fiction of J.G. Ballard. This will involve re-reading many stories, but others will be new to me, including the story I have just finished, 'Myths of the Near Future', both a self-parody and a genuine expansion of Ballardian obsessions #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Arrived all the way from Brazil yesterday, courtesy of Raphus Press. An anthology of stories based on Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Nizari Order of Assassins, including my story 'Caliph of Chaos', written very much under the influence of Barthelme 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Maithreyi made biscuits for me, and unlike the ghost in my new novel, I didn't have to steal any of them 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Four years after my first Megapack was published by Wildside Press, I am proofreading the second collection. The second Megapack doesn't have a cover yet. So here's the cover of the first (again) :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My most recent poetry book, SONGS GONE WRONG, published a couple of weeks ago, has a few poems that reference bananas. This one, for instance 🍌🍌🍌🍌 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy Publication Day! #booksky One year ago I finished writing ODDITY O'CLOCK and today it has been officially published. The "KNICK KNACK TRILOGY" is complete! * TRUMPET FACE, intro by Michael Moorcock. * THE UNFAIR DINKUM, intro by Brian Evenson. * ODDITY O'CLOCK, intro by Paul Di Filippo.

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

TALLEST STORIES - ebook FREE until August 6th. #booksky A collection of linked fantasy stories arranged in three sets, all centred around a pub called 'The Tall Story', a tavern crammed with eccentric and sometimes supernatural characters. www.amazon.com/Tallest-Stor...

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Exactly five years ago, my first poetry book was published. What I mean is that it wasn't self-published (unlike three previous poetry books). BUNNY QUEUE didn't do very well despite being trad published. I don't think any of my poetry books have done well. I guess that's not unusual... 🐰🐰🐰 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Copies of my new novel (published yesterday) make a nice mosaic 🙂👻 This is THE BISCUIT THIEF from Telos Publishing... #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

THE BISCUIT THIEF was officially published today! I will talk more about it in the coming days. In the meantime, I'll just say it's a speculative romp through an ironic version of the 1970s, complete with adventures in both time and space, not to mention the ghostly dimension 👻😊🎶🎵✨️ #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two more days until the official launch of my novel THE BISCUIT THIEF. I am really hoping that this one somehow catches the attention of a readership because I really reckon it's amusing. Difficult to have any clear perception of one's own work from the inside, of course! :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bill Oddie RIP. My new poetry book contains riffs on popular songs and Oddie's 'Funky Gibbon' is one of the songs 🎶🎵 I loved The Goodies when I was young #BillOddie

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Last day to get the ebook edition of SONGS GONE WRONG for free 🙂 #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9XVTR78

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Unboxing video (again). This is a book I am especially pleased with. I mean, all my books are books I am especially pleased with, but this is one I am particularly especially pleased with... 🙂🎶🎵 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Maithreyi and myself did a reading today as part of the UNESCO City of Literature celebrations in Aberystwyth. Maithreyi read from her poetry book, SKINNY DIPPING IN TIGER COUNTRY, and I read from two books: poems from SONGS GONE WRONG, and flash fictions from IMAGINARY HOTHEADS 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The ebook edition of SONGS GONE WRONG is a free ebook for four days. I put this poetry collection together mostly for my own benefit, so I will be better organised at poetry readings. It is slanted towards poems I am comfortable reading aloud in public 🙂 #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9XVTR78

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

An unboxing video for SONGS GONE WRONG, copies of which turned up today. This is my book of performance poetry and I will be reading from it at the Ystwyth Books sponsored event on Saturday in Aberystwyth, as part of the ongoing UNESCO City of Literature celebrations 🙂🎵🎶 #booksky

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