Nick Black

Today I got a rejection and a full request within minutes. Keep going, is the point!

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY MEETS SLUGGO DOWNTOWN NANCY: LO. SLUGGO... WANT TO JOIN ME? SLUGGO: NIX- - I'LL BET YER GOIN' SHOPPIN' AND WANT ME TO CARRY YER BUNDLES! P2- NANCY: OH, NO - - I'M JUST GOING WINDOW-SHOPPING TODAY SLUGGO: OKAY - - THEN I'LL JOIN YA P3- SIGN IN SHOP WINDOW- HOUSE FURNISHINGS NANCY: HAVE YOU GOT THAT WINDOW MY AUNT FRITZI ORDERED? P4- SLUGGO : WINDOW - SHOPPING, BAH! SLUGGO IS CARRYING A VERY LARGE WINDOW ON HIS BACK WHILE NANCY WALKS AHEAD

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 6,1945

Cover of the short story collection 'Positive and Negative' by @fuzzynick Nick Black.

The short story collection 'Positive and Negative' by Nick Black on a shelf of books awaiting collection.

My book's turned up as a library reservation. 🥳

Rubbing shoulders with Alexander Baron and Jane Austen even!

#amwriting #booksky 📚💙 #library #libraries #books #shortstories

YouTube video by Earl Guthrie Little Feat "Long Distance Love" OGWT November 18, 1975

Little Feat - 'Long Distance Love'

Better on the album but sharing this version because they look SO TRANSCENDENTALLY STONED, I'm amazed they got through the performance/remembered they were performing a song. The drummer's even got a black eye!

youtu.be/xeHlrS-FLH4 #LittleFeat

YouTube video by UFO - Topic Profession of Violence (2009 Remaster)

I had this album in my early teens and always found this track deeply, powerfully atmospheric and affecting. Played it for the first time in forever yesterday - still goosebumps

youtu.be/e-D_vX0do5k?...

A friend commented "You'd think a major publisher would at least get her first name right".

Purple night clouds and lightning above mountains and lit-up roads.

Sample story from 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' by @fuzzynick.bsky.social Nick Black (see post above.) #amwriting #booksky 📚💙

'The Night We Drove Old Terry Down' (via the late great lit mag Jellyfish Review) jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/t...

My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright stories, published in the UK, US & Eire, are now in a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg... or from me for only £4 to cover postage (UK)/cheap as I can elsewhere. Please PM me for more info. #books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting

Have a wonderful publication day, Jan! Ordered my copy this evening.

It's publication day for Hostile Environments tomorrow, brought to you by the publishing legends that are @northodoxpress.bsky.social and I'm going to be on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire reading a flash from it called A Fairytale Ending. Tune in from 6pm tomorrow to have a listen.

Stoked to introduce my new collection, Hostile Environments from the publishing legend that is @northodoxpress.bsky.social Stuffed with dark-edged prize-winning tales from places like
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social & @molotovlitzine.bsky.social & loads of new ones too.

I love his book on US crime writers, 'Into The Badlands', one of my most read and reread books, AND clearly remember that summer (including my mum sleeping outside on the flat tarmacked roof outside my brother's and my room...) so very much looking forward to this.

Book: 'Heatwave. The summer of 1976, Britain at Boiling Point' by Jon L Williams

This is a brilliant book about a febrile few months beyond ladybird plagues and Radio 1 roadshows.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1 - NANCY VISITS SLUGGO AT HIS NEW JOB NANCY:I JUST DROPPED IN FOR A LITTLE VISIT SLUGGO:: ALWAYS GLAD TO SEE YOU NANCY P2- SLUGGO’S BOSS: SLUGGO! GET TO WORK- - YOU CAN CONTINUE YOUR ROMANCE LATER P3- NANCY STARTS TO LEAVE SLUGGO: DON’T GO NANCY P4-SLUGGO’S LOOKS IN AND SEES SLUGGO WORKING AT HIS DESK AND NANCY IS SITTING IN A FILING CABINET DRAWER LABEL ON FILING CABINET- UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 6,1946

@dlgladwin.bsky.social

Curtis Mayfield celebrates 1971 and 1972, in some excellent flares.

Loving this Curtis Mayfield calendar, found in my secondhand copy of his 1971 LP 'Roots'.

Poster for YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Off to see this at the BFI.

Oh, I know! I've read "All Passion Spent" and her's and VW's letters to each other - wonderful writer! - but not this.

😂

Originally published in The Argyle Literary Magazine
@theargylelitmag.bsky.social, now at Blood+Honey
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social, in search of new readers.

I really hope you enjoy it! x

#amwriting 📚💙 #WritingCommunity @davidestringel.bsky.social

Photo courtesy of @squaremeal.bsky.social

FYI, through-the-roof beautiful (❤️🧠) to the very last line.

#amreading #Booksky 📚💙 #SarahPerry #Enlightenment

Poster for the 2015 movie 'BAJIRAO MASTANI'

Poster for the 2015 movie 'BAJIRAO MASTANI'

BAJIRAO MASTANI (2015)

Superlative! Made me think of those great Chinese epics around the turn of the century like 'Hero', 'House of Flying Daggers', 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' (with less airborne fighting, more singing & dancing.) Enjoyed *enormously*

#amwatching #cinema #PriyankaChopra

Yep, that tracks...😉🤣

an illustration of a person in a Victorian tea dress holding their hand up and hovering a big fleshy blob in the air

rituals around the house

God, I love The Human League

Moth against a striped decking backdrop

Howdy!

A friend commented "You'd think a major publisher would at least get her first name right".

YouTube video by UFO - Topic Profession of Violence (2009 Remaster)

I had this album in my early teens and always found this track deeply, powerfully atmospheric and affecting. Played it for the first time in forever yesterday - still goosebumps

youtu.be/e-D_vX0do5k?...

Brightly-coloured interior of a motel, including: white and turquoise chequered flooring, spiral staircase, wood-panelled walls, red and yellow kitchen

Wood-panelled bar, including art of B-52s, Peggy Lee and Etta James

Dining table, with fruit bowl full of plastic fruit and vegetables

Lounge area with yellow sofas, wallpaper depicting a forest scene, and a bright orange wall on which a framed painting of some puffins hangs

I spend a lot of time thinking about when Kate Pierson from the B-52s put her motel up for sale (furniture included)