Tobias Ryan

Hogtie Sequence from Berfrois

"The rope goes between my teeth. Before it’s hitched, attached from the back to the suspension line, she gently lifts my chin, as though to slit my throat and bleed me. She caresses me instead ..."

Hogtie Sequence

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beautiful

*GRAND

On Hubert Gonnet’s Le Grand scandale by Christy Magnin

more on Gonnet here:

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in progress ... Hubert Gonnet's LE GRANDE SCANDALE ...

nerd app is nerding

this is more abject than the most explicit post

"She slides closer; I see even less. I can just make out her head, thrown back. She’s under me, almost directly beneath me. She is cresting, and I smell the perfumed movements of her pleasure, spice and vetiver and underbrush ..."

Hogtie Sequence from Berfrois

"The rope goes between my teeth. Before it’s hitched, attached from the back to the suspension line, she gently lifts my chin, as though to slit my throat and bleed me. She caresses me instead ..."

Hogtie Sequence

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Hogtie Sequence from Berfrois

this story was out with Berfrois in 2022, but as their site's no longer up, am resharing on Substack ...

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Alexander Booth. Carnation. 2025. (Red cover, black script, abstract monotype within a black frame)

Paul Eluard. Répétitions. Dessins de Max Ernst. A Paris au sans pareil. [1922] (Red cover, black script, b/w collage of three hands two of which are threading an eye, within a black frame)

Reflections : Carnation / Répétitions

and coming up this week ...

— new fiction from @ericracher.bsky.social

— experimental writing from Sef

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

last week @ minor lits ...

— experimental poetry from @thoushallkill.bsky.social

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— Simon Wortham on Irmagard Keun

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Mine has lasted 30+ years

paying respects

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagiarism for her second. Banned by the Nazis ..."

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Le Brun

António Lobo Antunes
RIP

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham

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Scorn not his comorbidities

People should take advantage of this generous offer from Toby. Glantz is a disconcerting book, right down to the level of sentence structure, that thrusts you right into the contingency of the world, where the only certainty feels like a monolithic yet somehow inchoate sense of oppression.

Thank you, Liam!

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

"a nothing here, so absolute it’s like waves, automated
-collapsing-gone-backagain-repeat ..."

Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social

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Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

Two Poems — t.r. san ( @thoushallkill.bsky.social )

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call for submissions

PLAGIARI[S]M
edited by @benlibman.bsky.social

opens 16/03

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