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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Stop in for an evening of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to celebrate the virtual launch of volume 10 of the Best Spiritual Literature anthology on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 7 PM Eastern. Registration for the online reading is free: secure.givelively.org/.../best-spi....

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social "The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My office door decoration this year.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"On the Nature of Good and Evil" in Harvard Review 62: "A man rises up a saint in the morning and lays down a sinner. Or the other way around: he lays down like an angel and something takes a hold of him and - BAM! - up jumps the devil come morning." secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustor...

Harvard Review 62 literary journals with cranberry colored background.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

"On the Nature of Good and Evil" out now in Harvard Review 62: "A man rises up a saint in the morning and lays down a sinner. Or the other way around: he lays down like an angel and something takes a hold of him and - BAM! - up jumps the devil come morning." secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustor...

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Remembering the great Cuttyhunk Island Writers Residency from last fall. #AddtoBlacksky

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Have your first story published in the past year? Please consider the PEN/Dau Prize for Emerging Writers. pen.org/program/pen-...

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

I knew I had read an Isaac Bashevis Singer story where an old man ruminates about life's meaning, but I couldn't remember the title. Then I remembered I had heard Ed Asner reading it. Dug thru my stuff and found this from 1987! Singer's "Pigeons". I pulled out an old cassette player and voila!

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Kurt was real. Ashbury was fake. He was super nice when I ran into him on the Upper East Side in the early 2000s and went over to introduce myself.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I second Todd's approach. I try to focus on the part I can control which is the work, not people's response to it and I keep this on my monitor as a reminder.

Two quotes about focusing on the writing and not people's response to it. One from the Bhagavad Gita, the other from Tao Te Ching.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Thaddeus McComber, shepherd without a flock.

Pius male reverend standing near a park on a sunny day.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Inspired by Emily Flake's Joke in a Box course

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

An interview with the great cartoonist Emily Flake.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

I highly recommend the Cuttyhunk Island Writers Residency on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. Smart instructors, talented writers, a beautiful environment, and good food! www.cuttyhunkislandresidency.com/writer

A stony New England shore in the foreground and a serene sea and beautiful blue sky.

Mature horseshoe crab shell and tail on rocks.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Luther's "Anyone Who Had A Heart" has been running thru my head all morning and I'm reminded that best master classes are works that succeed on their own terms. Bachrach and David and Luther hold a masterclass with this song.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

An infamous prison farm. A great river in flood. A mysterious religious colony. Through them all, 13-year- old Samuel searches for his father in a Father Quest of antiquity updated to early-20th c. Mississippi.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Our 9 year old and I are working on our first watercolor together.

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