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@ricketywhite.bsky.social
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Wildly under-appreciated fiction writer / emo dad 👻 🖤🍸 www.ricketywhite.com

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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thanks Mike! Planning a 150,000 word novel about the fridge next… 💙
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
‘Tis true, MGS! I’m never not fettling with an icebox 😉 Thanks for sharing this story, my friend 💙
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I’m back with Chicago’s finest, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social today with a new story about a friendly yet slightly sinister kitchen appliance. Give it a read, it’s partly true. BUT WHICH PART, RICK?? Yes indeedy, you betcha…. 👻 🖤🍸 🧀
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hey! Thanks Pat. Good to hear from you man, hope all is well 💙
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Michael Grant Smith @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
No better way to start your weekend than to read Rick's brilliant story of time and yearning and cigarettes, it's over yonder at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. No one minds if you read it again and again.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Thanks so much for giving this one a read and a shout out, MGS! Massively appreciated 💙
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I have a new fiction in @doeshavepockets.bsky.social today called “2007: The Summer the Smoking Ban Came into Place.” If, like me, you’re a bit confused as to where the last (almost) two decades have gone then why not give it a read? 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 👻 🖤
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“Open with a joke and close with a list of all the other lists. The right lie at the right time is always as welcome as earworms.” The mind of Michael Grant Smith. Fascinating, rhythmical, unsettling but in a friendly, amiable sort of way ☺️ Lovely stuff as always, @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It really is. Cheers Mike 💙
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I’m not being dramatic, but I feel like this winter has aged me and I won’t survive another one.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Yeah, I’ll be in the anthology. It’s great that all the listed stories actually end up somewhere, one of the best things about the comp.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Congratulations to the BFF winners! Great stories, all. I’m a little sad to have fallen at the last but pleased to have made the SL on this occasion. Onwards we go! 👻 🍸 🖤
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Cheers Mike! 💙
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
OoooOoohhh still on the list 👀 Things are getting spicy now 🥵
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Haha, thanks Michael! I suppose that is the idea of a ‘contest’ isn’t it? Been a while since I’ve tasted the dust of the coliseum, and all that. You know what? I’m gonna bloody well do it 💪🏼
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
*pleasure to make the list Don’t hold that against me judges 👀
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Well, well, well, looks like Old Rickety’s still got it! Always a please to make the BFF list! 🥳
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hello, hello, hello. I have a new story, ‘The Sow’ in Issue of 30 of Jet Fuel Review. If you like short stories and you want to know what a lady wolverine is called then give it a read, thanks 🙏🏼 🐭 🖤 www.jetfuelreview.com/rick-white-f...
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The Sow ​
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Totally missed this at the time, I think I’m about a month behind on everything in life! Thank you, Michael 💙
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Cheers Dave! Hope it’s all going well mate, good to see you on here! 🩵
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I have a new story in @MaudlinHouse today documenting the absurdity and horror of a typical working day, “A More Radiant Glow” is live now, please give it a read. 👻 🖤🍸 maudlinhouse.net/a-more-radia...
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A More Radiant Glow
John sat uncomfortably in a chair which must surely have been designed for discomfort, since it served no other purpose. It was eleven forty-seven a.m., or maybe two-eighteen p.m. or twenty past the h...
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I’ve always loved @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social writing, but there’s just something about this piece that really resonates deeply with me. Like he’s turned the bass up to 11, the bass in all four chambers of my heart, that is 🖤 💫 Also, the last line is an all-timer…
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Hahaha, she rules this house with an iron fist, and a truckload of booze. Kids amiright? 🥃 🍻
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Got a telling off from my four-year old daughter last night: “Daddy, if I see you drinking one more beer then you’re not gonna be allowed any more beers, just some wine.”
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Michael Grant Smith @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you haven't read Rick's latest published story, why are you even on this Earth? Producing carbon dioxide? Boosting consumer spending metrics? Please immerse yourself in "Kevin" ASAP. Thank you.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Thanks MGS! Great to see you over here 👋🏻
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Thanks so much, Mike! Really appreciate you giving it a read 💙
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Delighted to receive an acceptance this morning from @mallorysmart.bsky.social at the incomparable @maudlinhouse.bsky.social — “A More Radiant Glow” will be my fourth publication with MH, what a fine bunch of folk they are! 🔥 🖤🍸👻
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
They say every writer has one story about a pivotal career change in the life of a dolphin and this is mine! “Kevin” recently published in the Gorko Gazette 🐬 thegorkogazette.com/2025/09/12/k...
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It’s impossible to talk about the 2009 Sea World Dolphin Adventures Squad without mentioning Kevin.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I can’t imagine a world in which I just get paid to write, like it’s my actual job, get up, crack on. Maybe I even have an assistant to help with admin and stuff. Incredible. I mean, I still wouldn’t actually DO any writing, but what a thought.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Foolproof pancake recipe: 18 eggs, 5 litres unpasteurised goat milk, half a bag of gypsum multi-purpose finishing plaster, pinch of salt. You’re welcome. Also you will need to wait a year as pancake day was yesterday. Always happy to help
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thanks Mike 🙏🏼 great to see you on here! I’d been clinging on to the other place for dear life but I think it’s completely done now.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Oh jeez that is horrendous. It’s making me grind my teeth just thinking about it 😖
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
One thing that particularly winds me up in corporate-speak is people who say, “in terms of…” before saying anything at all. E.g: “Where’s my fucking coffee, Rick…?” “So, in terms of where’s your fucking coffee…” Anyone else notice this?
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New story up @maudlinhouse.bsky.social today. It’s about birth, death, raving, and all the tiny moments in between which make up a life. Hope you’ll give it a read. 🙏🏼 🪩 🖤 maudlinhouse.net/if-you-shoul...
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If you should meet God at the all-night petrol station don’t forget to buy some blue rizla
I. The ancient Chinese art of feng shui has among its principles that one should never place a mirror in front of a bed, the reason being that while a person sleeps, the soul leaves the body to travel...
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Cheers mate ☺️
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Been archived I think. Try this! roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/...
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"Mise en Place" by Rick White
1I’m trying to remember the last time I actually spoke to Craig. I’ve got a text on my phone which reads: Mate! At a wedding and I think we’ve got a real-life jilting on our hands, no shit! Followed by another, ten minutes later saying: Oh no wait, she’s turned up :-( That was five years ago. I never replied, probably preoccupied with some other thing of great importance which I’ve long-since forgotten and, looking at it now, I feel a sharp pang of guilt for my old friend, sitting on his pew, ig
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
3 year old: “daddy look it’s morning!” **3-year-old gleefully throws open curtains to reveal the sky, black as pitch.** #monday
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
This year’s been a disaster for me. I got fired from my job, haven’t published any new writing, and a spider crawled on my pillow. But I’m clawing my way out of the deep, dark well. Which is all any of us can really do, I think. Hi to everyone on here 👋🏻
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Are we all trying this again now?
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Happy New Year everyone. Wishing you all a happy & creative 2024. What better way to start your writing year than by reading my latest newsletter which is called "What I Wish I'd Known When I Started Writing" & is full of advice from writing superstars: #FlashFiction #WritingCraft #AmWriting
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What I Wish I'd Known When I Started Writing
So. We’ve made it to the future. We’ve arrived in 2024. I’ve checked it and rechecked it and the calendar is defiant. This is definitely the year we’re now inhabiting. Big milestones like New ...
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
New story “Mise en Place” up at @rfpress.bsky.social it’s about old friends, ex-wives, cooking, cocaine, anxiety, death, Pomeranians, all the good stuff you love, basically. Please check it out! 🙏🏼 👻 🖤 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/mise-en...
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"Mise en Place" by Rick White
1 I’m trying to remember the last time I actually spoke to Craig. I’ve got a text on my phone which reads: Mate! At a wedding and I think we’ve got a real-life jilting on our hands, no shit! Fol...
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Good heavens! What? You ask. Amazon are currently offering a massive 7% off my double-figures selling debut short fiction collection, “Talking to Ghosts at Parties” be sure not to miss this incredible offer! www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Ghos...
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Talking To Ghosts At Parties: Amazon.co.uk: White, Rick, Dzido, Tomek, Taylor, Rob: 9781739735005: B...
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Cause of death: broken display. Reason given was that it was “almost a decade old” (it’s 8 years old) and therefore could not possibly have hoped to sustain its life. It was doomed before it even reached the hands of a genius. RIP laptop, we barely knew you 😔 🕊️
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Genius investigation concluded: “It’s broke mate. £371. Plus VAT”
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
A second genius has arrived and managed to get the charger in the hole
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
At the Apple “Genius Bar”. They’re just trying to find the right charger for my MacBook Air, so far they’ve tried two different ones which haven’t fit into the hole.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Cheers Dan! Good vibes so far.
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Rick White @ricketywhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Thanks Janice! Same to you!
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