Mike Prask

Love Maxwell (So Long, See You Tomorrow; They Came Like Swallows). Need to dig into his short stories...

I read Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat a few years ago, back-to-back, after not having read him since high school and Grapes of Wrath? Absolutely loved them both, for all the reasons you said above.

Photo of the Wisconsin Dells logo (a yellow tube over a bright blue background, w the words “Wisconsin dells: the water park capital of the world”)

someone should put together an anthology of horror stories set in Wisconsin Dells (“The Water Park Capital of the World”)

Some Food for Funerals by Nick Farriella The night before your cousin’s funeral you should eat fried chicken; it comes in striped paper buckets covered by sheets of tin foil with tiny holes poked through the center and rubber bands around th...

Keeping this going for the same reasons - never read this by Nick Farriella but can always get behind some food-and-grief writing

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Haven't had to resort to that but will file it away. We're usually home and standing on the porch looking annoyed gets the same effect.

Same situation, support your thesis.

Flip side: very few things are as potentially entertaining as walking our kids down and watching everything you described from a safe distance

Is the baseball equivalent of this calling the shallow pop-up between 2nd and RF (or SS and LF)? Or just hitting the cutoff man?

My younger kids, both off school today, just told me their favorite way to make warm drinks cool was to put ice in them, with an air like I might tell school to excuse them and their brilliance the rest of 4th and 7th grades, or at least the week.

One more here for writers' hockeysky (Caps and Ovi chapter)!

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

Also, there wasn’t someone walking by who could take the picture and let Lyle Lovett be in it?

Behold the brilliance that is this scene. This is one of my favorite scenes.

Robert Redford waving in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Terriers

[Affecting A Maryland Accent] "Whoa! Go O's!" | Defector BALTIMORE — With two outs in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday night, the Dodgers leading the Orioles 3-0, all I was thinking about was Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The L.A. ace looked poised to wrap a no-hi...

A baseball game this spectacular will do strange things to you. defector.com/affecting-a-...

It's not the most crucial part of the novel, but the scene where the neighbors' party music transitions from "Night Moves" to Big Star is such a delight

Can't believe I slept on solo Janovitz this long but this song and album were a perfect listen for today

XRAY Submissions XRAY Literary Magazine submissions are open for fiction and creative nonfiction up to 7500 words. Pitch interviews & essays.

it's tha 1st of tha month, which means that subs are open for...

short stories
flash
micros
creative nonfiction

until we reach our monthly cap. thank u !

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You don’t even have to write anything

It’s a 30 sec multiple choice survey

The fact that we must differentiate the First from the Second Defenestration of Prague remains an all time flex of that lovely city

Great interview by @housleydave.bsky.social about a book I absolutely loved and now just want to go read again. Check them both out!

Happy 50th anniversary to BORN TO RUN, all-time classic album and close personal confidante for most of my life. I wrote this once about the bridge to "Backstreets," one of my favorite pieces of music ever.

It's been a long time (20 yrs?) since I read any Vonnegut, but I remember this being up there in my list. Looking forward to it

I'm about to do a book club re-read of Cat's Cradle (but it's been so long it may qualify as a 1st time). What did you think?

Sun easing down over the baseball diamond

Car stereo playing Right Back to It by Waxahatchee

Watching my son's baseball practice to the right car stereo tunes wasn't the worst way to end the day

This is just so mean.

Night Rescue “One of the goats is out."

It was very exciting to have a new story published in JAKE on Monday. Turns out it's still exciting later in the week...check out "Night Rescue" if you get a chance

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I can still smell that glorious, plastic Toys R Us smell when you'd walk thru the doors with a little money in your pocket, even 40 or so years later

That's beautiful.

Night Rescue “One of the goats is out."

An evening story for the evening crowd in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social today...the latest in my Bluff Country series.

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