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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m trying something new. I’ve written a novella that is a bureaucratic psychological horror story. It is called, “The Sorter”. I am going to post one chapter each week on Substack for free. Let me know what you all think… joshuasaxontheowl.substack.com/p/the-sorter...

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The Sorter

By Joshua Saxon

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Don’t act coy with me, dad or whatever your real name is… get the leash!”

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We really need a 4K remaster of Zhang Yimou’s “Hero”.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The trap of nostalgia is that you mourn a place that never fully existed and yet believe it did, and you use it as evidence against yourself that “now” is diminished. Sometimes nostalgia is just grief in disguise. Sometimes it’s a signal that you miss slowness, belonging, innocence, or possibility.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare for you tonight. Pleasant dreams friends. #poetry #shakespeare #sonnet18 #love #inspirational

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The world did not need me, and I did not want the world.” — Silence: The Red Ascesis books2read.com/u/mdpDKX

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’d love to see a David Fincher directed adaptation of Iain Banks’ “The Wasp Factory”.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Briony is right up there, I mean right up there with 1.Darth Vader 2.Anton Chigurhr 3.Nurse Rachett 4.The Boy from Kids...

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I got my first colonoscopy today. It wasn’t the pain in the ass I thought it would be. The prep drink was the worst part. Man, I love propofol. Best sleep ever. Can I have that every night?

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I reclaim negation for all writers. It is not for ai, not for bad writers, it is for all! It is not useless, nor is it a sign of AI, it is a sign of a writer nullifying something. Write your favorite negation in the comments. I used a ton of it in my debut novel.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m amazed at these Katmai fat bears. These bears chonk up by the day and they’re hundreds of pounds and they’re still snatching salmon out of the air with their bear hands! Meanwhile I dropped a packet of chicken I was pulling out of the freezer today and it smashed into my toes. #mammal

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy book birthday to my book. The only one I think I’ll ever write. It wasn’t until I started writing that I realized how personal the process was and I think it’s just not for me. But if you’ve ever felt the weight of exhaustion, then this book will not lie to you. books2read.com/u/mdpDKX

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s not that you’re using em-dashes, it’s not that you’re using negation, it’s not that you’re using anything in a patterned way. It’s that you’re using software built on the theft of others’ copyrighted works. It is not, nor will it ever be a creative process. This matters.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This movie was seriously slept on. It was one of my favorite sci-fi films in quite a long time. I was baffled as to why it did not get a wider amount of recognition.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m gonna start a gofundme but it’ll be for a subwoofer. Prices are crazy!

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Writing is deeply personal and I was not expecting to feel like I did. Not bad, not good, exposed. I hope everyone understands the deeply personal nature of the novel. It is steeped in my own desire to end my life. It is more autobiographical novel layered onto science fiction.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I realized that with the publication of my first novel next week, I don’t like writing for the readers. I feel like I’m laying too much of myself out on display for everyone and it makes me nervous. I will continue to write for myself to satisfy the creative need but I’m not going to publish.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sonnet 29 for you tonight, from the bard, William Shakespeare. #Shakespeare #sonnet29 #poetry #inspirational

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My voice has been compared to Richard Burton. I have a face for radio.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wife and I finally watched “Project Hail Mary”. It was cute, calorie free cinema. Enjoyable with no aftertaste. Not bitter, not sweet, vanilla.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“This is not a journey toward glory. This is not a journey toward meaning. This is a journey toward completion.” Earth called it exploration. He called it a release from the burden of living. Mars called it nothing at all. A novel of ascetic negation. Coming in two weeks. books2read.com/u/mdpDKX

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thinking of writing a book about Henry V or Henry of Monmouth.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anybody want to buy me the folio society edition of The Wasp Factory?

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I was selected because I did not ask to come back. Because I did not require the idea of home in order to function. I sought a completion to the exhaustion of the demand of living." books2read.com/u/mdpDKX

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A woman and her daughter are caught up in the Ottoman Massacre of Chios in 1822. Written from various vantage points the novel recounts the days before and the years following the event. Currently seeking a historical fiction #literaryagent for this novel. #historicalfiction #history #greece

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The worst part about having a great idea for a story and then writing it is finding out another author had it already and published it and then having to move on. Back to the drawing board.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"A lifespan is a narrative trick. It allows present misery to be excused by future resolution. It turns suffering into investment." books2read.com/u/mdpDKX

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Earth teaches that suffering must escalate to be meaningful. Here, suffering plateaued. It became background. It did not demand interpretation. It simply occupied space. I realized then that the most deceptive illusion about the body is that it is ever central.” books2read.com/u/mdpDKX

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I hate that “not x. Not y. But z” phrasing has become synonymous with AI. I use it all over my debut novel as both a function of the ascetic stripping of the narrator but also because it is a beautiful way to describe rejection with unmitigated clarity. I despise AI’s corruption of our language.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“This planet did not promise me meaning or release. It allowed me to stop asking for it.” books2read.com/u/mdpDKX

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the hardest things to do with my debut novel was to design a repetitive sentence and language structure that would allow me to strip it bare acting as a mirror to the ascetic stripping away the narrator goes through until only the bones of language are left to communicate anything at the end.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’ve decided to step away from writing. It’s too much stress and I find I’m not satisfied with anything I do and it’s depressing me. Bad for my mental health.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Are you ready for the start of the adventure? The inimitable Brian Lumley’s first book in his Dreamlands Series: Hero of Dreams narrated by yours truly and available now on #Audible and #AudibleUK. Produced by @crossroadpress.bsky.social. Get your copy today! www.audible.com/pd/Hero-of-D...

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Hero of Dreams

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Something vital is missing from David Hero's comfortable, ordinary existence. one day is much like the next, simple, predictable... boring. But the nights! ...

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Registry had invested in ergonomic adequacy several years before Jakob’s arrival, following a period in which an occupational health consultant’s report had suggested that the chairs then in use were the source of a disproportionate number of lower-back complaints.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Why are so many of the writing patterns I learned while learning about writing now considered AI indicators?!

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The building had a lobby of grey marble that produced, in winter, a cold that seemed to belong to the building rather than to the season outside. Two guards sat at a desk near the entrance. They nodded when he showed his identification card. He nodded back.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

He was aware that something happened on those floors - people moved through the lobby with the focused, unhurried expression of people who believed their work mattered - but he had formed no particular curiosity about what it was.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Opening of my new WIP: Jakob Moser had been a processor at the Registry for eleven years when he first encountered something he could not process. The Registry occupied the upper floors of a building whose lower floors he had never visited.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s the exhaustion of being alive to deal with life. It’s ridiculous. It’s pointless. Life is pointless. Why do we put ourselves through this everyday? There’s no need. We should be done with this all. Together. No suffering. No continuation. No impositions. Just blissful non-existence. Exit bag.

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

But is there some kind of drug in the sugar and salt?!!!

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What drug does the FritoLay company put in Doritos to make them so irresistible?!!!

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Also delicious! Also glorious!

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Joshua Saxon @saxonaudio.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not one. Not two. Three microwaved golden potatoes. They were topped with butter, salt, and pepper. They were glorious.

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