and now they’re bailing by twilight (at quite a lick, this tractor zipping around the field like an excited dog)

Toby Miller@tobytram.bsky.social · last wk.

Had to wrap my shirt around my head* to stop the grain triggering my asthma, and then fell over leaping a dry river bed to creep up on this beast, but I am fond of the in and out of the corporeal realm supernatural heft of a harvester at dusk. *of course then my phone won’t recognise me to unlock

Happy 60th Birthday Revolver, and in a months time Star Trek the original series

I really like, no, honestly I LOVE these stories I wrote over the years, so I'm selling them for a cost-covering £4 (inc UK p&p) to get them read: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117... They're on Amazon, too. Either way, I really hope one or two more of you get to see 'em. #booksky #amwriting #books

'Positive and Negative' by Nick Black ,⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories book | eBay UK

“Dystopian, anarchic, witty, subversive – a Nick Black story is instantly recognisable and never to be forgotten. This collection of his flash fiction zings with energy and knife-sharp voices that both disturb and disarm, but there is also a haunting gentleness that will linger with you long after you put the book down.

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Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book of short stories, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE is now available directly from me, via eBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117... or through Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg... #books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction

When the hordes are at the door, whispering support isn't enough. IF YOU BUILD IT WITH LEGO, THEY WILL COME by @fuzzynick.bsky.social Nick Black Please read, please share, please enjoy. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #microfiction #LEGO #LGBTQ #library #libraries #booksky

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 7d ago

'Somehow they’ve learnt that Frances, who runs our Lego Club, once upon a time was Francis (who ran our Lego Club) and now they’re outside...' My antfascist, anti-mob, 🌈🧡 little LEGO Club story is now up at www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/if-y... via @ellipsiszine.bsky.social #amwriting #libraries

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Jacob van Hulsdonck, still-life painter of Antwerp. Here, from around 1620, wild strawberries in a wan-li bowl. And a carnation.

good morning

The very first appearance of one of the members of the Rolling Stones on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine was on 10th August 1968. #RollingStone

Did you know @kiklodge.bsky.social has a new collection incoming? How lucky we all are! What a thing of beauty, too - that illustration!!! Pre-order here www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

The Bully in My Pillow | Stanchion

A man walks into a bar with an Erection Taser™ his girlfriend has made him wear. A grieving mother clings to the memory of her son’s imaginary friend. A Foley artist recreates the soundtrack of his sp...

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I saw this in my 20s and wasn't a fan. Now I'm in my 50s, it knocked my horseshoes off.

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tonight's film

I really like, no, honestly I LOVE these stories I wrote over the years, so I'm selling them for a cost-covering £4 (inc UK p&p) to get them read: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117... They're on Amazon, too. Either way, I really hope one or two more of you get to see 'em. #booksky #amwriting #books

'Positive and Negative' by Nick Black ,⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories book | eBay UK

“Dystopian, anarchic, witty, subversive – a Nick Black story is instantly recognisable and never to be forgotten. This collection of his flash fiction zings with energy and knife-sharp voices that both disturb and disarm, but there is also a haunting gentleness that will linger with you long after you put the book down.

ebay.co.uk

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My odd, sweet, sad, funny, dark, bright ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-reviewed book of short stories, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE is now available directly from me, via eBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26752117... or through Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Neg... #books #booksky 📚💙 #amwriting #shortstories #flashfiction

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 7d ago

'Somehow they’ve learnt that Frances, who runs our Lego Club, once upon a time was Francis (who ran our Lego Club) and now they’re outside...' My antfascist, anti-mob, 🌈🧡 little LEGO Club story is now up at www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/if-y... via @ellipsiszine.bsky.social #amwriting #libraries

Brilliant live album! #hurrayfortheriffraff

Live Forever, by Hurray For The Riff Raff

14 track album

hftrr.bandcamp.com

I realised after posting that, unless you too had just watched that episode of RESIDENT ALIEN and were hearing those words to the tune of 'Don't You Forget About Me', it's utterly meaningless. It's almost like I feel so close to y'all, I forget you're not experiencing exactly what I'm experiencing.

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Don't chew/Your bread without me" #ResidentAlien @simplemindsmusic.bsky.social

Finally saw 'OBSESSION' yesterday. The customer support scenes are genius.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Dakota Fanning is incredible in this film, raw, real & preternaturally mature against one of Tom Cruise's rare attempts (only attempt?) to play an ordinary Joe. Even younger, she's also amazing in Tony Scott's MAN ON FIRE, the emotional core at the ❤️ of Denzel Washington's soul searching mayhem.

Hot on the heels of the Spider-Man sequel (Spider-Man 2, 2004) I watched the Steven Spielberg alien invasion movie (War of the Worlds, 2005) letterboxd.com/marie_philli...

A ★★★★½ review of War of the Worlds (2005)

I remember that I very much did not want to see this film when it came out, but I can’t remember why. Maybe the reviews were bad, or maybe it was in the stretch of time when I disdained Tom Cruise. An...

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When Roxie, a relationship-averse former basketball player, falls for her neighbor Chris, her intimacy avoidance & his deep insecurities form an explosive combination — and a vindictive ex-lover lights a match. My debut Shoot Your Shot @evernightpub.bsky.social books2read.com/shoot-your-s... 📚💙

The results are out! Congratulations to the winners - your stories sound amazing and I'm incredibly chuffed to have a story on the shortlist and in this year's print anthology alongside you. Huge thanks to the BSSA team for all your hard work 🙏. www.bathshortstoryaward.org

THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD

International Short Story Competition

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Resident Alien is a punch to the gut while you’re laughing.

Less than six months before his death, Buster Keaton filmed the industrial-safety short The Scribe (1966), his final on-screen performance. He was still funny right to the end

HBD Martin Sheen, who turns 86 today. He's always pretty much great in everything he does, but I particularly like him in psycho roles: Larry Peerce's "The Incident" (1967), Terrence Malick's "Badlands" (1973) and Nicolas Gessner's "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976)

'Third Best Fighter in the Year' non-fiction from Garrie Fletcher Coverack Close, a training ground, a spectacle, a gym, the bench set down upon the faded grass. My shapeless arms tremble with the anticipation of failure, as Dad urges me on... Read more: www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/thir...

The school shop ‘Going to School’ 1959 Artist: Harry Wingfield

I tried!

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 3w ago

I very much admire people who can write well about music. Here's a not especially good but at least enthusiastic blurb from me, from www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... #Raye

Why aren't more articles being written called Why is Raye the greatest thing to hit pop music since like possibly I don't know forever.

I said here a couple of days ago I'd gladly write a 33 1/3 book on her new album. I'd almost certainly also be able to get an interview or two with her and wouldn't ask the same old questions. Oh I forgot; she isn't the "right" kind of pop star, apparently, not one of the media's "chosen" ones...

Tonight's film

'It’s like last Summer all over again, many of the same faces, only then it was our ‘bring your own dish’ picnic for Refugee Week that had them burning bins out front.' Anger, humour, fear, resistance, restraint, ignorance, thuggery, innocence... in this brilliance @fuzzynick.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Nick Black@fuzzynick.bsky.social · 7d ago

'Somehow they’ve learnt that Frances, who runs our Lego Club, once upon a time was Francis (who ran our Lego Club) and now they’re outside...' My antfascist, anti-mob, 🌈🧡 little LEGO Club story is now up at www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/if-y... via @ellipsiszine.bsky.social #amwriting #libraries

"Your mom let me know there’d be televisions looping your favorite sitcoms, so I skipped the memorial. 'A series finale,' she called it." A moving and utterly original micro by @willmusgrove.bsky.social

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 2d ago

👇👇👇 Listen to Will reading his story: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/micro...