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Pat Foran

@pdforan.bsky.social

writer, editor, axolotl with a pretty good throwing arm Out now: Songs from the Blimp Ruins, a flash collection. Published by Silverbacked Punk: https://qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Inscribed copies available (message me). https://neutralspaces.co/patforan/

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Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 2w ago

"... The taffeta dress slides across a floor of metaphor— As in that shining surface of feeling. As in the blues got left at the bus stop". @catkinspoet.bsky.social in @okaydonkeymag.com okaydonkeymag.com/2026/07/31/o...

Ode to Serotonin by Cynthia Atkins

You’re the drooping wallflower finally asked to the dance. The taffeta dress slides across a floor of metaphor— As in that shining surface of feeling. As in the blues got left at the bus stop. Spry…

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Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 2w ago

"We dip, squeeze, wash, return. Calculate what we have shared and what we have kept to ourselves. In kissing scenes, never kiss. In food scenes, never eat. But..." and "what remains after a life" @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @thin-skin.bsky.social thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

She was One of Us  - Thin Skin

We know naked. We've done naked for a living. But tonight we are washing you. Tonight we are saying goodbye.We can’t be there tomorrow, on those hard wooden pews, in the church your family chose.   Bu...

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Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 2w ago

"...and resorts to 'I not' constructions with overwhelm." "She speaks as though Ava hears her, 'Come on, baby girl, come on.'” "'Please! I’ll be a mother, I’ll be a mother, I’ll be a mother, I’ll be a mother.'" April ♥️ @april-bradley.bsky.social in Cleaver www.cleavermagazine.com/the-promise-...

April Bradley: The Promise of Impossible Things • Cleaver Magazine

April Bradley is a Durham, North Carolina-based writer and therapist. Her writing appears in CRAFT Literary, Gone Lawn, and more.

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Thad DeVassie@thaddevassie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Opened the book mail today & went straight to the piece I was telling my wife about. I wanted her to read it. No, I wanted to read it to her, the way I heard @pdforan.bsky.social read it not long ago. So I did. And I cried the same way I did when Pat read it to us. This is a beautiful collection.

Cover of Pat Foran's book "Songs from the Blimp Ruins" containing 60 flash pieces that runs the gamut of emotions. My copy included this postcard that is sticking out of the book of a movie poster containing Sophia Loren.