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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for reading and sharing @pdforan.bsky.social @woodardwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday

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South 85 Journal @south85journal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! The Fall/Winter 2026 issue of South 85 is LIVE!! Amazing responses to our open-ended prompt of city | country & we're excited about our new ekphrasis section! Oh, and the featured photographs are 🔥! All the riches here: www.south85journal.com/table-of-con...

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

The front cover to the book Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery, but Deborah and James Howe. A white and black rabbit with red eyes and fangs stares out at the reader.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

During the first week of classes, one of my students this semester saw me in the hall and said, "Hi, Benjamin Buttons." I laughed and assumed that was the end of it. Somehow, though, this has become a thing. Nearly a month later, a random student saw me today and said, "Hey, buttons."

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Read through copyedits of an upcoming story today. Looking forward to seeing the final journal soon.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What a great typo in an email I just received:

Greeting that reads "Hi Processor Woodard"

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OK, last time sharing my new little micro over at @fictivedream.bsky.social! Got 45 seconds? Give it a read!

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICYMI today we're delighted to welcome Benjamin Woodard with his story Figment @woodardwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/09/21/microfiction-74

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Loved this perfect, devilish little story.

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"He was still deep in mourning, after all, and despite being over 40, he still needed parents." Sometimes your wife and therapists don't give you quite the right advice... I'm with Brock on this one. #FlashInTheFeed #Microfiction from @woodardwriter.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Brock spotted empty beer cans on Paul and Diane’s driveway, a blight that would never sully the property of his teetotaling parents." Figment by Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/09/21/m...

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sifting through boxes in the basement. As it turns out, everything had a trading card set in the '80s and '90s. I just found some Growing Pains cards.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Labor Day story acceptance makes this a good holiday.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Day 1 of the semester (15th academic year teaching!) and I am ready for a nap.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 26/08/2026

Why, Timothy!

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another semester, another paragraph added to my AI policy. I really need to simplify: "Use it and fail."

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Mini notebooks purchased. Silly stickers secured. Ready for my intro creative writing students to make these little booklets their own for our course.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you've never read an issue of Stanchion, order one today. They're beautiful little objects, and I'm sad that the magazine is coming to a close.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Two important discoveries from the last few hours:

Paperback book: Welcome Back, Kotter: The Sweathog Newshawks

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Mowing the lawn at 9am on a Sunday, the Trainspotting soundtrack propelling me along, like a good member of the Oregon Trail generation.

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Trainspotting 1996

Alt: Trainspotting 1996

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tonight, our trivia team name is Jammin on the One Wish Willow.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's finally here! National Ice Cream Day!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

What if this sepia sky is really just to let us know we're some future person's memory of the olden days?

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

NBCC member Benjamin Woodard reviewed Deborah Levy's "My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein" for On the Seawall:

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on My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, a fiction by Deborah Levy – On the Seawall

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Pleased to write about Deborah Levy's latest, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, for the new edition of On the Seawall. As always, my thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for letting me be part of the gang. www.ronslate.com/on-my-year-i...

Front cover of Levy's book. Green background with a center image of illustrated cats framed by light yellow lines and columns.

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The July quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published, featuring Jeffrey Levine's essay on @joriegraham.bsky.social's KILLING SPREE @wwnorton.com / www.ronslate.com

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

Karoline Leavitt inthe $400m flying bribe slash natsec nightmare

A shelf of fake books, some titled “Library”

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That vote was too close. Also, support trans kids, because the courts (in a separate vote) just made their lives even harder.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Received a lovely story acceptance today. I'd been in a dry spell with submitting since late last year, so it feels nice to be back on the horse.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Once again, my cat did not give me anything for Father's Day. Lousy freeloader.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This coffee shop has played the same, slowed down version of "I Want You Back" three times in under an hour. It's a new type of hell.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Windows open. Cool breeze coming in. Listening to some little kid singing her heart out somewhere in the neighborhood.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Bond villain becomes world's first trillionaire.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Chatted with my friend, Melanie Pappadis Faranello, about her debut story collection, Everybody Needs Something, for Cleaver Magazine. www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversati...

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Melanie Pappadis Faranello • Interviews

Melanie Pappadis Faranello has authored numerous stories and essays that have appeared in Swamp Pink, Electric Literature, and more.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Chatted with my friend, Melanie Pappadis Faranello, about her debut story collection, Everybody Needs Something, for Cleaver Magazine. www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversati...

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Melanie Pappadis Faranello • Interviews

Melanie Pappadis Faranello has authored numerous stories and essays that have appeared in Swamp Pink, Electric Literature, and more.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This guy would have failed my first-year writing course. This is freshman-level stuff. "... he defended his methods by arguing that he included a hyperlink to the pieces that inspired his own, or named the author whose words he replicated in his own writing." www.npr.org/2026/05/17/n...

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New York Magazine reviewing work of writer facing plagiarism allegations

The high-profile writer, who has written a forthcoming book about New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is being investigated by the magazine after being called out for copying the work of other writers.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Grades submitted. Emails sent. Summer is here and I'm ready for a nap.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If you're under 25, it seems as if anyone can be referred to as "bro."

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