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Author of challenging creative fiction that respects your intellect. dynamiccreed.com Founder/editor of Dog Throat Journal, #flash #fiction, @dogthroat.com / dogthroat.com #stay #blessed #WritingCommunity victordavid.com/books

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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 17h
Okay, rolling out our Best Of The Net @bestofthenet.bsky.social nominations. Here they go. Check em out, and thanks everyone for helping make DTJ a great place for great reads! #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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Best Of The Net Nominations by Victor D Sandiego
Here at DTJ HQ we announce our nominations for Best Of The Net
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 30/09/2026
Here we go. Rolling our Best Small Fictions nominations into a short article. #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction @bigjosh84.bsky.social @hayleym29.bsky.social @barlowcrassmont.bsky.social @rachelsavagewrites.bsky.social @eireneeleni.bsky.social
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Best Small Fictions Nominations by Victor D Sandiego
Dog Throat Journal is pleased to announce our nominations for Best Small Fictions
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 29/09/2026
If I understand what happened to the Best Small Fictions schedule correctly, these nominations we made earlier are combined with the most recent. Thanks again everybody! @rachelsavagewrites.bsky.social @hayleym29.bsky.social @hayleym29.bsky.social #writingcommunity
Best Small Fictions, When Harvey Arrives, The Night Mothman Crashed…, Delivery, Archaeology, Any Day Now
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 29/09/2026
Thanks everyone who's helped make DTJ a lovely fun and interesting place in 2026. We're pleased to announce our Best Small Fictions nominations! @bigjosh84.bsky.social @eireneeleni.bsky.social #writingcommunity Best to all and #stay #blessed
Best New Fictions Nominations, Basking in the Glory of Self-Defeat
After Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, Vacation, Coke Bottle Wizard, and
Where Falling Stars Land
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 23/09/2026
Crap move by Amazon to now require that you be logged in to read reviews of a book. Same thing they did with IMDB a while back for movies. You can leave feedback about it, but probably in vain b/c they're in one of the later enshittification phases. #writingcommunity I miss open internet.
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 28/08/2026
Hey hey, hello. Our first ever voting experiment was a wonderful success. Thank you everyone who participated. The winning piece as selected by you is: "After Godzilla Eats Las Vegas", one of my personal weirdy favs, too. Congrats to Amelia Pozniak! #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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After Godzilla Eats Las Vegas by Amelia Pozniak
It was 6pm and the time for doing had passed... short fiction by Amelia Pozniak
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 24/08/2026
Okay, there you have it, friends. Last day of voting. Help a fellow author win. Participation is free and easy. And fun! #writingcommunity #writing #stay #blessed vote.dogthroat.com
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Your chance to help an author win a cash prize. Participation is free.
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 11/08/2026
Here's a chance to support other authors. Give them a shot at winning $100. Everybody wants to do that, right? Of course. Check it out. #writingcommunity #writing #stay #blessed
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 06/08/2026
Her's an awesome story for you by Trilety Wade. Take a look/see. "A roadkill doe, fresh with gut milk and warm blood, stopped the men in their tracks.." #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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You Can't Have the Cream Without the Meat by Trilety Wade
She saw everyone as a moral decapitee... flash fiction by Trilety Wade
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Caves and secrets waters too deep plunge us into sweet chaos Painful coincidence you do not know me but for an instant knew you were missing me Split apart two halves of one whole Water falls from my eyes and I wonder, where does it go? #vss365 #chaos #poetry #writing #art #FranzMarc #cubism
Franz Marc, The Waterfall, 1912
Genre painting, Cubism
Oil on Canvas 
Private collection. 

A painting of nude female figures that appear to depict harmony between humans and the natural world. The vivid palette presents a serene yet vivid energy provided by blue and white splashes from the waterfall and the artfully posed women.
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 05/08/2026
Hello Everybody, here's some Wednesday blues for you by Adrian S. Potter. "When you were born, I became cerulean with light.." #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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The Blues Notes by Adrian S. Potter
An album release listening party of your bite-marked soul by Adrian S. Potter
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 31/07/2026
Well, I love bugs, even if they're wicked.
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 30/07/2026
Oh, I loved this one by @malformed-poetry.bsky.social www.sublunaryreview.com/home/ryegrass
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ryegrass — Sublunary Review
A poem by Malachy Moran
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 30/07/2026
End of July almost here. Get cracking.
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 30/07/2026
"Modern fiction has become too safe, too simple, too afraid to challenge intelligent readers." Yep. www.hasalynxpress.com/post/why-mod...
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Why Modern Fiction Fails Deep Thinkers—When Books No Longer Challenge Your Mind
Introduction: Fiction Should Make You Smarter, Not FrustratedYou’ve always believed that reading expands the mind—that books should push boundaries, introduce new ideas, and challenge the way you thin...
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
BLUESKY BOOK CLUB FANS! We've chosen the first book that we'll be reading. "Everything Will Swallow You" by the mighty Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social . First meeting at the end of August, so plenty of time to read the book DETAILS HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/bluesky-book...
Front cover of Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 11/07/2026
Latest from DTJ HQ, by Abraham Aondoana. Take a read / see. "The walls remained, blackened by the weather and the sun, shamefully exposed, as if the house could feel any shame and was embarrassed to be a house.." - Abraham Aondoana #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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Proverbs for Burning Things by Abraham Aondoana
Micro fiction from Abraham Aondoana
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 07/07/2026
I was born on the same day in a slightly different year.
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 25/06/2026
New story out today from Amelia Pozniak. Come and get it! "He followed me from the last rest stop to the gas station. Shoeless, it was distracting. I tried to lose him three times.." #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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After Godzilla Eats Las Vegas by Amelia Pozniak
It was 6pm and the time for doing had passed... short fiction by Amelia Pozniak
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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Submissions are open at trampset! Read our guidelines and send us your best work. We pay $30 via PayPal. Anybody can use our free submission category. Tips and quick response revenues pay our writers, editors and site costs ✍️ We've missed you all! www.trampset.org/submissions
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submit to trampset | literary journal submissions
Submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations to trampset. Read guidelines and share your best work with our literary journal.
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spaldingwriting.bsky.social @spaldingwriting.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Congratulations to current Spalding MFA student Raluca Comanelea on the publication of her flash fiction "Of Love" in the Spring 2026 issue of Digging Press. Read it here: diggingpress.com/2026/05/07/f...
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 08/06/2026
For our latest piece, we have Kumar Sen with Almost Becoming "One opened onto a life that fit me too well, like a coat that had been worn thin at the elbows.." #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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Almost Becoming by Kumar Sen
Only when a choice begins to form...Almost Becoming by Kumar Sen
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 05/06/2026
In this story by Salvatore Difalco, a man walks, not knowing why or where. "But where were all the people? Maybe this is like one of those things, he thought, but he could not more clearly define what one of those things were..." - Salvatore Difalco #writing #micro #writingcommunity #fiction
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Archaeology by Salvatore Difalco
It lingered in the air as a possibility... flash fiction by Salvatore Difalco
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 29/05/2026
Take a #rift. Fill it with dances of dogs and the smell of cactus. Seal it with a promise to see your brother as brother, sister as sister. They belong to all of us. Leave dividers to wither their rage. Call clouds sunny and hurricanes breezy. Buy a new hat. Slap the world silly. Rejoice. #vss365
Desert landscape, photo by Robert Murray
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 29/05/2026
In this hybrid piece, Jacob Hatfield reminds us that "And the dog you get is good for a day, but God does he turn.." #writing #micro #fiction #writingcommunity @jamesjacobhatfield.bsky.social
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Track 10 of Lucy Dacus’ Home Video by Jacob Hatfield
And the dog you get is good for a day... Track 10 of Lucy Dacus’ Home Video by Jacob Hatfield
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 25/05/2026
Hey! One of my favorite pieces, Barlow Crassmont letting us know that "My shame has branded me with a scarlet letter linked to my passport.." #writing #micro #fiction #writingcommunity @barlowcrassmont.bsky.social
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Any Day Now by Barlow Crassmont
From modern dating to when the apocalypse strikes... Any Day Now by Barlow Crassmont
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 21/05/2026
In case you're wondering, I changed the Dog Throat icon to Chulo. He's one my three dogs, and the leader of the pack. He loves to run in the hills and is friendly to everybody. Here's all three of them after a hike, somehow lined up by size.. Victor David @victordavid.com
Three dogs in the back of the car
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 19/05/2026
"A gull with its beak open collided with a bit of Diane, the bit lodging itself against the gull’s tongue.." - Laton Carter #writing #micro #fiction #writingcommunity
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A Thousand Dianes by Laton Carter
Imelda Marcos was not a dictator, but she knew some... A Thousand Dianes by Laton Carter
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thedrevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I can stop writing now. There's no higher praise I can hope for than this: "If [Drevlow's] thoughts on love and sex and life sit somewhere between a dumpster behind a Domino's, time on the toilet, and a dog's dick, well, that's just honesty." cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/drevlows-tra...
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Drevlow's Trash Poems
I don't know if the world knew it needed a book of poetry about trash, but it did, and Ben Drevlow was just the author to write it. Amid the detritus of our daily lives of waste–crumpled...
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 07/05/2026
Chris Lawrence @chrislarry33.bsky.social has new work up today where we are "circling back on the roadmap for my decommissioning". Thank you Chris! #fiction #writing
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Following Up: My Decommissioning (3rd Attempt) by Chris Lawrence
About pivot options, excluding erasure... Following Up: My Decommissioning (3rd Attempt) by Chris Lawrence
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 06/05/2026
Poster that says submissions are open for Dog Throat Journal. Last submission period before summer break.
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 01/05/2026
Damn. Every time I hop into the mouth of the library #lion over on 47th, he growls his granite and says my attitude hurts his teeth. Fucking carved beast. Leaves me with no choice but to walk down to the beach - or maybe grab a banned #book from the government and find wisdom in its ashes. #vss365.
Banned books
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 29/04/2026
Shit. Where have I been? Stumbling through a wasteland apparently where an ex-cop looks up from his bottle, and the bus driver groans. Thank you Amethyst Review for taking on this piece. #writing #fiction #writingcommunity
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Incomplete Salvation In The Tall Gray Afternoon – a story by Victor D Sandiego
Incomplete Salvation In The Tall Gray Afternoon A bus of wounded dreams comes to a stop by the liquor store to discharge its waste and open its doors for more. A tall entangled man boards, his long…
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 29/04/2026
Hey! Brad Rose @moomoocamus.bsky.social is at it again!
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 23/04/2026
Today we not one but two new micros from Louella Lester, one of which deals with what happens after "another six cigarettes and three large tumblers of scotch" Thank you, Louella! #fiction #flash #micro #writingcommunity #stay #blessed
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Two Micro Fictions by Louella Lester
Hissing and growling that drunk right out of the picture... Two Micro Fictions by Louella Lester
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 16/04/2026
Kicking off today with a coke bottle. Wizard, that is. "If the keeper wills it." Thank you A.J.! #flash #fiction #writing dogthroat.com/post/coke-bo...
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Coke Bottle Wizard by A.J. Williamson
At the gas station off the road when I summoned him... Coke Bottle Wizard by A.J. Williamson
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 12/04/2026
"If you must, think only of those outside the gardens who live in fear of illumination – as if illumination might force a shuttered window of their vision and guide them from the poverty of their thoughts." #writing #writingCommunity
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The Desert Gardens
I came to know this stillness, this symphony of natural breathing
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 08/04/2026
Once resurrected from the fire, I bought a new lung free of smoke and cinders with a loan from the mob #bank and coughed my thanks every day until I had no more blessings to spit into the collection platter. #vss365
Burning building
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 07/04/2026
"Whether you read The Defiant Light in one sitting or slowly over several months, it is an essential read. Victor is adept at writing all sides of humanity, from destruction to joy or from good to evil, he builds worlds that last lifetimes." #writing #fiction www.amazon.com/Defiant-Ligh...
Cover of the book The Defiant Light by Victor D Sandiego
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 06/04/2026
All the bombs and #arms that fell from the sky that day planted themselves as plowshares in the earth, scarring the desert womb, but leaving behind a legacy of fruition that god willing may one day grow into peace. #vss365
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 06/04/2026
Here we have two micros by Matt Zambito for your micro dose of goodness "Sacrifice my right hand for burning family flags at half-mast" #flash #fiction #writing #writingcommunity
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Two Micro Fictions by Matt Zambito
For the receiving end of a good beating or the unleashing of one... Two Micro Fictions by Matt Zambito
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 26/03/2026
Fresh off the press today, a delightful story by Joseph Kerschbaum who shows us "the wrong words said like pipe bombs and the right words like handwritten letters never delivered." #fiction #flash #micro #writingcommunity #writing
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When is a Banana Split not a Banana Split? by Joseph Kerschbaum
They stand silent under the neon glow... When is a Banana Split not a Banana Split? by Joseph Kerschbaum
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 19/03/2026
We have new work by Tom Stevens that brings a somewhat frightful, even dreadful sense of the divine. This piece speaks to me in painful and articulate tongues.
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And Harken by Tom Stevens
Their terrible third arm, grasp the pulpit... And Harken by Tom Stevens
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 15/03/2026
Here is part 9 coming your way.
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To Make Outlaws of Verbs
The Thirteen Faces of Ruth Tarver. Part 9 of 13 short parts.
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 12/03/2026
I'm publishing a unique story on Dynamic Creed about a woman named Ruth Tarver. If you're the proper story type, you may need a couple aspirins. Otherwise, remember that it's fresh and fun and serious. We can all learn from Ruth. Warning: contains contradictions, upsets professors. #Writing #Fiction
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The Thirteen Faces of Ruth Tarver
The Thirteen Faces of Ruth Tarver - Introduction and Table of Contents
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 11/03/2026
Here's a piece that came our way recently that I really love.
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 04/03/2026
Hey did you know we have a Substack page in addition to our main web site? Maybe a little crazy because I'm up to my armpits in things to do, but it's fun putting some of your work up there in order to reach more people. Zappity.
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Welcome to Dog Throat Journal
Flash and micro fiction that howls at that damn trash truck
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Dog Throat Journal (Subs Open) @dogthroat.com · 03/03/2026
Up today, new work from Roy N. Mason who asks if these things are wonderful days of your life, or mourning of moments forever gone.
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Endings by Roy N. Mason
Mourning of moments forever gone... Endings by Roy N. Mason
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 03/03/2026
The Thirteen Faces of Ruth Tarver, part 7 of 13 short parts is up. Ruth and the Russian poet get out of prison by the west gate, and start to organize the insurrection. Fun. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fiction
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How Walls Became Hills and They Suffered
The Thirteen Faces of Ruth Tarver. Part 7 of 13 short parts.
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Victor Sandiego, creative fiction @victordavid.com · 03/03/2026
This is one of the most beautiful and whacked weird in a good way stories I've read in a long time. Take a look.
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