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vide<p>Chapter 100</p><p>Burning ourselves in two. If I can remember being there I don't need to keep the admission tickets. What about the other letters I should burn? Not today, it's raining in my brain. So tense for such a long time. And the climax is laughter, she wrote. A sequence of pink envelopes from Ania in Poland, the correspondence starting in 1987 and ceasing abruptly in 1992. Keeping. How do you bury a ghost? You're eight thousand miles away with good intentions. Secretly undermining slavery or something. Why even open this box? A record not so much of the trifling content but more so a testament to the sturdy notebooks, the fashion of the day. </p><p>T is at the door in a trenchcoat cloaking a one-piece Speedo zip-up.<br>Pert knocks are swaying the muted yellow and gun metal grey of fernand leger whose frame taps in time.<br>Bare pale inpatient damp calves<br>run from the black hem<br>her Beatty Park morning swim<br>my chlorine perfumed submersion into her<br>the discipline of swimming<br>the furious strokes</p><p>The obverse coaster blank read simply "bled Flintstone" in running Bic blue and as my bare foot flipped it from the floor bound mattress I was certain for a second the handwriting was Justine's.</p><p>sitting side by side <br>something in the morning that was very nearly <br>heavy with anticipation <br>but then in the large pale Falcon <br>your teasing overtake came undone <br>and witness-like, I watched two flung passengers <br>- perhaps one was me<br>spring and shake themselves to be <br>whilst you face down in the watery ditch<br>lay immobile until kicked<br>then gasping and gravel cheeked<br>rejoined to ignite once again <br>my infatuation </p><p>"Writing <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a></p>
Mark Tedesco, author<p>Now on sale for $2.99: "Onward: A Life on a Sailboat" <br><a href="https://a.co/d/3hhJkxE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">a.co/d/3hhJkxE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biography</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/memoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memoi</span></a></p>
Standard Ebooks<p>NEW RELEASE!<br>The Secret of the Caves (1929) by Franklin W. Dixon</p><p>What better way to spend the summer holidays than venturing into the mysterious Honeycomb Caves, rumoured to hide secret treasures?<br>Although danger surrounds the caves, the Hardy Boys press on. But with a criminal lurking nearby, eerie sounds being heard, a looming storm, and a steep path ahead, will they make it back? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/childrensbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>childrensbooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> </p><p>Find it here: <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/franklin-w-dixon/the-secret-of-the-caves" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">standardebooks.org/ebooks/fran</span><span class="invisible">klin-w-dixon/the-secret-of-the-caves</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs</p><p><a href="https://blog.tendollaradventure.com/automating-story-logic-with-llms/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.tendollaradventure.com/au</span><span class="invisible">tomating-story-logic-with-llms/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automating</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Interactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interactive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Logic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Generation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Generation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storytelling</span></a></p>
Fictionable<p>Helga Schubert reflects on beginnings and endings in On Getting Up, translated from German by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks:</p><p><a href="https://www.fictionable.world/stories/on-getting-up-helga-schubert-translated-by-aaron-sayne-and-lillian-m-banks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fictionable.world/stories/on-g</span><span class="invisible">etting-up-helga-schubert-translated-by-aaron-sayne-and-lillian-m-banks</span></a></p><p>Image: Scott Walsh</p><p><a href="https://lor.sh/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>translation</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShortStories</span></a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
Books from Europe<p>Andrus Kivirähk - The Man Who Spoke Snakish</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/estonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>estonia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-man-who-spoke-snakish" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">groveatlantic.com/book/the-man</span><span class="invisible">-who-spoke-snakish</span></a></p>
Nick Wang<p>One more thing, if you don't already know, women and minorities had to fight hard for their rights and representation.</p><p>This is why I seek out women and minority authors and historical books about them. Recently read the Nora Beady books <a href="https://www.audreyblakebooks.com/home/books" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">audreyblakebooks.com/home/books</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/booksky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>booksky</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 31, 1809: Nikolai Gogol, the Russian-Ukrainian novelist, was born. Gogol was one of the first authors to use surrealism and absurdism (see “The Nose,” “The Overcoat,” and “Nevsky Prospekt.”) Many of his works satirized Russian political corruption, like “Dead Souls,” and the “Government Inspector.” He influenced several generations of writers, including Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Nabakov, Kafka and Flannery O’Connor. The gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, took their name from him.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gogol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gogol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kafka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kafka</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dostoevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dostoevsky</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/courruptiohn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courruptiohn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punk</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Patrick W. Marsh<p>One of my favorite short stories from the Greenland Diaries. I love a conversation with a monster. Adds so much complexity to their character. Enjoy.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horrorfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrorfiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shortstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shortstory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a></p><p><a href="https://patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/small-talks-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.</span><span class="invisible">com/2025/03/31/small-talks-2/</span></a></p>
Ben Werdmuller<p>"We can’t stay. While I stand on the bluff, my shoes dirtied by the marsh, escape pods are being readied." Revisiting a short story of mine from a few years ago: <a href="https://werd.io/2021/a-beautiful-day-on-colony-12" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">werd.io/2021/a-beautiful-day-o</span><span class="invisible">n-colony-12</span></a> <a href="https://werd.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a></p>
Ben Werdmuller<p>"We can’t stay. While I stand on the bluff, my shoes dirtied by the marsh, escape pods are being readied." Revisiting a short story of mine from a few years ago: <a href="https://werd.io/2021/a-beautiful-day-on-colony-12" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">werd.io/2021/a-beaut...</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23fiction" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a><br><br><a href="https://werd.io/2021/a-beautiful-day-on-colony-12" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A beautiful day on Colony 12</a></p>