Pretty sure my kid only loves a food until I buy a 136 pack of it at Costco
Adam Shaw
@adamshaw502.bsky.social
writer, dad, wannabe hockey player www.theshawspot.com
Getting *wild* while my wife and kid are out of town for the weekend (patching asphalt in my driveway then seeing The Odyssey)
friendfiction: the hottest, most fun genre goin'! loved this piece. not only because “I” pop in for a kind of cameo, tho that certainly helps
Adam Shaw@adamshaw502.bsky.social · 2w agoI have a new story in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social that I collabed with Anthony Verdi on that's kinda/maybe/totally a sort of friendfiction set at the @publishedbyjake.bsky.social AWP offsite. Featuring a jukebox! And Neil Diamond!
I have a new story in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social that I collabed with Anthony Verdi on that's kinda/maybe/totally a sort of friendfiction set at the @publishedbyjake.bsky.social AWP offsite. Featuring a jukebox! And Neil Diamond!
A Kind of Panic — Icebreakers Lit
Fiction & Visual art by Anthony Verdi & adam shaw
icebreakerslit.com
I have a new story in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social that I collabed with Anthony Verdi on that's kinda/maybe/totally a sort of friendfiction set at the @publishedbyjake.bsky.social AWP offsite. Featuring a jukebox! And Neil Diamond!
A Kind of Panic — Icebreakers Lit
Fiction & Visual art by Anthony Verdi & adam shaw
icebreakerslit.com
I hate to do this but I must do this. Please share. Details on the website. Thank you. gofund.me/936db73ca
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My brother challenged me on vacation to see which of us could stay on this inflatable flamingo the longest and man, it’s over for y’all if I learn to concentrate this hard on my writing
When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Need a word for when you get home from the store and open your fridge and remember the one thing you were trying to remember at the store
read this on my lunch today, and man, what a treat! absolutely love love loved this one.
HAD@havehashad.com · 4w agosuper excited to have Jeanine Walker back under the skulls, with this beaut'! "I watched it and I thought, how stupid being in love makes people act. A grown adult acting like this! Spinning around like a child and like a child falling down..." https://www.havehashad.com/zkuz9
NEW BOOK PREORDERS my new collection Laterals is now open for preorders I like to describe these poems as “sports adjacent” — there is sports in every poem but they’re about understanding the self through sports 406press.com/product/late...
Laterals - .406 Press
Pre-order available now. Publishing on September 9.
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Getting some mixed messages from the university’s emergency alert system this week.
Today my kid came home from a week at her grandparents’ and ran across the yard and jumped and gave me the biggest hug and it was the best thing ever
Cape Verde keeper is in his 40s, so there's a chance he's on bluesky
Drinking a Budweiser in my garage and watching Switzerland-Algeria, might possibly be living my best life, not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing
Really stoked to see that the Dodo Eraser reading I took part in is now uploaded to Youtube, along with 7 more readings from the series! Was thrilled to read alongside such great writers here!!! If interested, my pieces start at 1:17:00, and I was clearly not paying attention to how I was framed
Dodo Eraser #7 (4/28/26): Bethany Cutkomp, Jameson Draper, Daniel Miller, Travis Shosa + 3 more
YouTube video by Dodo Eraser
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Fever Clowns, a collection of stories where the painted faces are just as scared of you as you are of them. Out 9/15/26 through Anxiety Press.
Your kid waking you up early to cuddle is lowkey one of the best feelings in the world
Just read a PDF of this and was really wowed by it! Can’t wait to try to urge you all to preorder it and read it and love it too!
Adam Shaw@adamshaw502.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have a book coming out! COZY will drop later this year from the awesome folks at @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Centered around the deaths of my parents, it’s an exploration of how grief and discomfort intertwine and push us forward. More soon. 🖤
Wrote this in Aaron’s Jackass workshop a few years ago that I might think about way too often because of how fun it was
Aaron Burch@aaronburch.bsky.social · 2mo ago(re)read this knockout @adamshaw502.bsky.social essay last night
So stoked for this!
Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · last mo.Very happy to finally be able to share the news that my next novel, REVEAL!, will be published by @quirkbooks.bsky.social in Spring 2028. It is a fun, wild, weird book. Incredibly grateful to my agent @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for making this happen.
the solstice is almost upon us! You know what that means! a new @identitytheory.bsky.social micro issue is coming!!!
I have a book coming out! COZY will drop later this year from the awesome folks at @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Centered around the deaths of my parents, it’s an exploration of how grief and discomfort intertwine and push us forward. More soon. 🖤
I’ve got new li’l chap of poems available to order share.google/OD7Yw1iZdRkZ...
Extended Play, by John Waddy Bullion
Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Less a collection of poems than an accumulation of riffs, John Waddy Bullion’s Extended Play mines the history of popular music for odd scraps of t...
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Taking my kid on a Disney cruise next week to get to the bottom of this
Adam Shaw@adamshaw502.bsky.social · 2mo agoHe’s a very serious writer, some say
