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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This week's short story is Imprecision. Time travel with watches and a secret society. books2read.com/u/476d2R

Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week's short story, more science fiction. End Enlightenment is about an attempted assassination and class struggles in the future. books2read.com/u/31EeKM

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This week's short story is Happy Rebirthday, a science fiction tale of the future when your mind is uploaded to the stars. books2read.com/u/bQMR06 #BookSky

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week's short story is Survival By Starlight. Another dog story, but this one is science fiction. books2read.com/u/boL6y0

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This week's short story is Saturday In The Park With Cerberus. A light coming of age fantasy. books2read.com/u/bxolrD

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Beautiful picture of that bridge. I share one from my visit 2 years ago.

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ASU little free library, a donation

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This week's short story is Going Home. The story trigger was a chalk message I saw on the pavement, multiple times and locations, on my bike ride home. Contemporary and portal fantasy. books2read.com/u/3yB21v

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This week's short story is Dangerous Frontier Magic. There is magic under the earth in the American frontier as accessible as gold! Magic sold in the form of potions, elixirs, and tonics, and the peddlers who sell them to the townfolk in the Old West. books2read.com/u/brNykM

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This week's short story is Passing On. Fantasy, magic, a benevolent drum in the Minnesota farmland. books2read.com/u/mdgnDl

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This week's short story is Cat Noir. Great, simple cover. I like how it turned out. A story about a feral cat named Cleo. This is a crime story. And it is noir. Gritty. Cleo is the protagonist, but I must give a reader beware: Cleo does go through some abuse by a human. books2read.com/u/bM6ZPX

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This week's short story is horror. A run into terror. So beware. books2read.com/u/4j8rGk

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This week's short story, Ghost Lighter Than Aluminum, has a ghost, bicycles, and a love story. books2read.com/u/388a5w

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This week's short story involves a cursed sword and sword swallowers. books2read.com/u/4E6wvo

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This week's short story is A Vulture Waits. Another Guillermo Tavarez crime story, the first, in fact. Short and suspenseful. Originally published in Fiction River: Justice edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. books2read.com/u/4A96ap

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This week's short story. Magnitude And Insignificance. A tale of a very short invasion by a toy-sized alien species. Originally published in Snot-Nosed Aliens edited by Dean Wesley Smith. books2read.com/u/bwMOWa

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's another short story for the week. Walking Nonexistent was originally published in the anthology, No Secrets Better Kept, edited by Dayle Dermatis. This story is both surreal and dream-like. I found the perfect art for the cover, too. books2read.com/u/bQ07wd

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Dispatch From The Other Side originally appeared in The Golden Door edited by Jamie Ferguson. My story involves a mysterious and infamous postcard and a young protagonist who lost his family crossing the southern border when he was just a baby. There's a slight science fiction element to it.

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This week's short story is a Guillermo Tavarez story. I have several short stories with this character. No novel yet. Twisted But Never Broken first appeared in Fiction River: Dark & Deadly Passions. Dark crime fiction. books2read.com/u/3n6ydK

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This week's short story is Confessional. It's both a crime story and a ghost story. A haunted bathroom stall. Originally appeared in my crime fiction collection, The Devil Is In The Dust. And reprinted in Pulphouse. books2read.com/u/bwMV8v

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This week's short story is Ready Mundane. The graveyard shift, a breach between worlds, and the shattered innocence of a mundane. Originally appeared in Wandering Monsters: Boundary Shock Quarterly #16. books2read.com/u/b65zJ6

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This week's short story considers the goofy idea of using time travel for tree care. I had too much fun writing it. books2read.com/u/bQ0Ja6

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This little spider on my laptop has a great idea for a story and wants me to write it.

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This week's short story is "Scurvy And Forgiveness." A wacky and dangerous tale of unexpected modern-day pirates. books2read.com/u/boKEZ0

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Uncomfortable Shoes" is a short story originally published in Pulphouse. Wanted to write about a shoeshine stand with a shoeshiner who can see a customer's future. Got that plus a romance. I choose to believe the shoeshiner made the right choice in the end and everything worked out all right.

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This week's short story is "Lucy and the Underworld." This dark fantasy tale is dream-like from the point of view of a search and rescue dog years after the apocalypse. Lucy does what a search and rescue dog does—keeps searching, unrelenting. books2read.com/u/ba8PQ6

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This week's short story is a trip down the rabbit hole in the form of a dryer. Another one originally published in Pulphouse. books2read.com/u/3kREpR

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This week's short story is Machine In The Ghost. A story created by reversing the first and last words in the phrase "ghost in the machine." What came out is a weird science fiction story with ghosts and the inexplicable. Originally published in Pulphouse several years ago. books2read.com/u/4AqVBK

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This weeks short story is Reunion Seeking. Originally appeared in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine a few years back. A story about a question and trauma from a school shooting. books2read.com/u/4AqDwo

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This week's short story is Eternal Flame. A lonely dragon in a broken world seeking more of her kind. books2read.com/u/mdZxew

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This week's short story is Knock On Wood. A story about staring out the front door peephole and madness. books2read.com/u/3ndykK

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This week's short story I found perfect and wonderful art. Dog Steps was originally published in Pulphouse. Dog is written in the spirit of the television show, The Littlest Hobo, and other literature classics featuring dogs. But, rest assured, it is NOT like Old Yeller. books2read.com/u/38onga

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This week's short story is Blind Eclipse. Set during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in a movie theater in Minnesota. I drew inspiration from The Grand Theater (and it's history) in Crookston, the town I grew up in. books2read.com/u/baYGkv

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This week's short story is Lending The Truth. It's the flipside of Knowledge Blooms, which I published a few weeks ago. Pure fantasy about those little lending libraries, light and hopeful. Lending The Truth has a little lending library, but this one is haunted. books2read.com/u/m0yr6l

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This week's short story. We Know Who We are is a crime story (kleptomania) and all character. books2read.com/u/m29Lgk

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This week's short story is The Sudden Room. This has big Twilight Zone feel, like Rod Serling might suddenly appear. A story about a room that suddenly appears in a home and the woman who must face the reality of what's behind that door. books2read.com/u/4jkkdD

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Knowledge Blooms, originally published in Pulphouse, and now uploaded to online stores. Link in the comments. This fantasy story is very short but fun, where little lending libraries sprout up around town in the middle of the night. books2read.com/u/brnJ6k

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Best pic of the blood moon I could take with my phone this morning.

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This week's short story is a crime story with a dog! books2read.com/u/mgQx5q

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This week's short story release. Thriller with a touch of humor. books2read.com/u/mqdnv2

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This week's short story uploaded. I really liked the art I found for this one. Had the right kind of weirdness I was looking for. A tale of alternate lives intersecting at a mortuary at the edge of the universe. books2read.com/u/mYwDPG

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Uploaded another short story. books2read.com/u/mgQjM6

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Edinburgh, Sep 2024, we came across the gallows being prepped for filming for Frankenstein. Security guard dropped a hint about what movie it was for. Our friend Graham took the picture of me with the gallows in the background. You never know what you might find during a walking tour of Edinburgh.

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Rob Vagle @robvagle.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Our wedding invitation from 17 yrs ago was in newspaper form. My brother-in-law did the layout work. But the ideas and content was a group effort. Makes me smile whenever I see it.