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John Waddy Bullion

@johnwaddy.bsky.social

Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs. www.johnwaddybullion.com

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Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 4d ago

becoming a parent has turned out to be a great excuse to learn the entire alphabet. sometimes he’ll ask me what a letter is and i’m like well shit, bubba. let’s find out together

John Waddy Bullion@johnwaddy.bsky.social · 4d ago

Want a copy of TWWNROOS? $15 (shipping included!) Want a copy of Extended Play? $15 (shipping included!) Want both for the price of one? $15 (shipping included!) DM me your address if interested! I take PayPal/Venmo/Zelle.

Copies of my books THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS and EXTENDED PLAY
Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀@acekatana.bsky.social · 2w ago

Came across a DJ Screw tape that I’d never heard before that is all impeccable old school R&B/funk cuts expertly mixed and then in the middle of the tape I started disassociating like crazy because he was running the “Genius of Love” groove for eleven minutes under Ronald Reagan SNL skits

Fun Book Person@alexmiller77.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey! Colorado Review interviewed me about my story in their summer issue. Find out what I think about 90s-era Christian rock music, teenage loneliness, and "the experience of falling wildly in love" coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2026/07/a-co...

A Conversation with Alex Miller - Center for Literary Publishing | Colorado State University

Alex Miller discusses his story “We Who Sleep in the Dust of the Earth,” featured in the Summer 2026 issue of Colorado Review, with Assistant Managing Editor Abi Nelson. Alex Miller is a novelist and ...

coloradoreview.colostate.edu

Rob Wesley@eastwes.bsky.social · last mo.

Paraguay is likely to take a defensive approach. Frustrate France before attacking on the counter. France, of course, will have attempted to recover the "Eye of Lafayette", the legendary masonic coin that the Marquis de Lafayette brought with him here to Philadelphia in 1777, to call on its power.

John Waddy Bullion@johnwaddy.bsky.social · last mo.

I love being old and getting mad at things like the DJ on the pop music station who refuses to enunciate turning the sentence “how many hot dogs could you eat in ten minutes” into “hominy ha da cuh u e eh teh minny”

Aaron Burch@aaronburch.bsky.social · last mo.

July 2 story: “Up an’ Comers” by @johnwaddy.bsky.social Interesting reading this after yesterday’s David Simmons story. Both follow kids in schools, making me kinda doubledown in elementary school this week.

first page of story: John Waddy Bullion UP N' COMERS When I was in fourth grade, my school abruptly dropped physical education from its curriculum. Dr. Villanueva, our Older Group teacher, had read an article in a leading alt-ed journal over the summer which said that P.E. was bad because winning squads received "preferential treatment," so that fall she swapped out P.E. for "U.P.," which stood for Unstructured Playtime— basically, recess with more sitting around. My Up n' Comers classmates— the lazy, lumpen offspring of the town intelligentsia-used the free hour to play cards, read books, even take naps. But to me, it made no sense for us to be outside if we weren't going to do anything, because except for a brief cold snap at the end of September -the same week that my father, the Professor, had moved out of our house to shack up with his mistress-the weather that autumn had been unseasonably warm. Instead of the usual fall foliage, our streets were lined with trees that looked as brown, sick, and shriveled as spinach left wilting on a dinner plate. Swimming pools that had closed on Labor Day had reopened to great civic fanfare. And for the first time in the event's long and checkered history, organizers of the annual Campus Avenue Oktoberfest had reported more cases of heat exhaustion than arrests for minor-in-possession. When the heat index hit ninety-eight one afternoon two weeks before Halloween, Dr. Villanueva, who had always been prone to drastic decisions, panicked and informed us that we would have to cut U.P. short. I was just finishing a set of chin-ups on the monkey bars, and instead of completing my last rep, Thung there in mid-air as the members of Older Group waddled drowsily past me on their way back to the classroom, a sad THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS STORIES by JOHN WADDY BULLION
Aaron Burch@aaronburch.bsky.social · last mo.

July 1 story: “Frog Money” by David Simmons First day of second half of the year a good opportunity to get back into the daily short story rhythm I’d fallen out of. Pretty sure this was the story David read at the @neonpajamas.bsky.social reading we were both a part of at AWP.

photo of first page of story: FROG MONEY IN DUNDALK MIDDLE SCHOOL, the 8th graders have to dissect crabs because the admin smoked the frog money. Right before they're supposed to cut up the frogs, the science teacher's husband's brother's coworker drops off a bushel of blue crabs sick with chitinoclastic disease, spotted shells, not fit for eating. The streetlight sodium-yellow reek of piss fills the classroom. There is a saying in Baltimore: if it smells like ammo- nia, leave it alonia. The death scent. Once the crab has reached this state it is no longer safe to eat. Hell, some folks won't eat a crab unless it can bite them back, preferring the underwater spider to be alive until they can find a boiling pot of water to drop it into. The teacher has trouble getting the class to settle, partly because she's going through post-acute suboxone with-drawal, but mostly because a student named Bernard, with the voice of an angel, has diverted the attention of the entire class. Callinectes sapidus.