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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We need to get back to a time when more parents were naming their babies "Detlef Schrempf".

Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from the surrounding darkness." ~Carson McCullers, "The Orphanage" #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“I could have been nothing so easily.” ~Larry Brown, “The Crying” from ‘Tiny Love’ #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My alarm woke me up this morning from a dream I was having about how tired I was.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm trying to write a novel about the human condition using nothing but cuss words, and I'm not gonna lie -- it has not been easy thus far.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"And how can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?" ~Carson McCullers, 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m what you might call a post-party doula.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Congrats, Athens. We finally did it.

Smartphone weather reading of 100% humidity.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“Night was the time.” ~Carson McCullers, ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the date when the fictional events occur in Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," which was published in Collier's Weekly in 1950. You can hear Leonard Nimoy reading the story here.

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August 4, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains | Ray Bradbury & Leonard Nimoy | OEW Institute

YouTube video by OEW Institute

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Barbenheimer doesn't feel like it was three whole years ago.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Every year, the kids had to take a big exam that let the state know just how badly I was doing my job." ~Ottessa Moshfegh, 'Bettering Myself' #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The ophthalmologist dilated my eyes this morning, so now I'm huddling in my darkened office looking like 🥹 but in a weird, kind of scary way.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.” ~Claire Keegan, ‘Foster’ #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How am I only now discovering Claire Keegan??

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“It is easy to charm a person who talks too much: all you have to do is listen.” ~Patrick Radden Keefe, ‘London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth’ #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My dentist’s office waiting room is just casually bouncing to some Roy Ayers this morning—I will DEFINITELY be referring family members and friends to this place.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well, it turns out I'm allergic to the only drug the treats the parasite, so I'm boiling everything now: lettuce, potatoes, Oreos, bananas, oranges, Coca-Cola, Nerds Gummy Clusters, ice cubes...

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“I have chosen this thing to do, away from my family, the doors closed, characters who form in my head and move to the paper, black symbols on a white sheet, no more than that.” ~Larry Brown, ‘On Fire’ #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“The details bloomed all at once, not the way a story usually unfolded, but beginning, middle, and end all at the same time, the way stories happened to God.” ~Gus Moreno, ‘This Thing Between Us’ #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Manhattan does not lie in an earthquake zone, but there is always the possibility of nuclear war. Short of that, nothing you can imagine would alter the publishing schedule.” ~Jay McInerney, ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ #SundaySentence (s)

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's taken years of practice, but I've finally mastered 'lucid screaming,' in which I'm in complete control of whatever I'm screaming about.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Overheard at an Athens, GA restaurant counter yesterday: Worker: "How's it going?" Customer: "Well, I just got out of jail, so pretty good, I guess."

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

'Old Yeller' is an incredibly sad movie. 'Old Shouter,' while also sad, is somehow less so.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So, Obama’s deal with Iran, but more expensive for the US? 🤔

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Today I learned that Squidward was in his 40s during the show. It makes sense somehow (me being in my own 40s now), but I guess I'd never really thought about it before.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Wait, so Sigourney isn't even her real first name??

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm giving a reading this Friday with some other Athens writers. Come see us at Rec Room Books at 6:30!

Flier for a reading with seven readers scheduled for Friday, June 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Rec Room Books, 297 1/2 E Broad Street in Athens, Georgia.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Not much lowkey slaps these days, and I'm feeling pretty mid about it.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Athens, Georgia will soon have a professional indoor (American) football team, and in the vein of celebrating the Athens music scene à la the Rock Lobsters in pro hockey, I’m really hoping that this new team is called the Shiny Happy People.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I was sitting on my balcony just now with Mouse, and a guy I don’t know was walking in with a bunch of groceries said, “That seems like a really chill cat!” And I said, “Yeah, he is. His name’s Mouse.” “Hey, Mouse,” the guy said. And yeah, I’m very lucky.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm wanting to make the Kool-Aid pineapple slices now.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

YouTube keeps recommending that I watch the Met Gala live. Why would I want anything to do with an event that costs $100k to attend? Why?? How out of touch does a society have to be to think I care about any of this??

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“To be declared a genius at one thing is to begin to believe you are a genius at everything.” ~Noah Hawley, “What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat” from ‘The Atlantic’ #SundaySentence

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My barber this morning: "Sorry for blowing all the cut hair off you all the time. I just hate hair so much."

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sorry I can't hang out tonight. I've got too many situations to monitor.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Costco annual membership: $65 or $5.42/mo. Eating only Costco hot dogs every month (4 hd's/day at $1.50/hd): $180/mo. $185.42 for food per month for the rest of my life. I think I've figured this out, y'all.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My daily self-care routine has me exhausted.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I'm loving that "popesplaining" is now a word.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I just read a typo in the word "caffeine" making it "coffeine," and now I'm thinking that, well, maybe that's how we should be spelling it.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Earlier today, I watched an Instagram Reel that was teaching me how to jump start a car's dead battery with a piece of rope, but only if I pushed my car off a cliff first, and I think I might have a lawsuit on my hands.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My 77-year-old dad, over dinner tonight: “I think I’m going to become an influencer, but I need to decide what kind.” Me: “You should be a looksmaxxer.” My dad: “No, I’ve already achieved that.”

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I just got a rejection for a short story I submitted to a journal four years ago.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I’m again being invited to random, anonymous local orgies on MeetUp. The US is truly in free fall.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’m living through a genocide-threatening president, a wider than ever wealth gap, and a criminally awful administration, and yet I’m also trying to manage a writers’ workshop for locals in an allegedly haunted 200-year-old house. Honestly, bring on the ghost. Please. We need it now.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So it’s Taco Tuesday? I mean, 1. phew, but 2. what a horrifically dangerous jackass we have in charge.

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