Wigleaf Longlist 2022! Stories now/soon in SmokeLong, HAD, Peatsmoke, Emerge Journal, Bending Genres, Rejection Letters. Many novels! A Substack! https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/ Software Engineering during the day. he/him https://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3klhr57lljt2eI love to search for online products and then, before clicking, replace the query parameters with fanciful key-value pairs15 Feb 2024 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3klhr57lljt2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kj7mkjughc2qWhat Denis Johnson book should I read first?17 Jan 2024 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj7mkjughc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3khc4rszapi2gAll beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position. - John Ashbery24 Dec 2023 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3khc4rszapi2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kgqv7y3tts24Has there been any analysis done on prevalence of first-person narration vs. third-person narration over time? (Maybe @tedunderwood.me knows?)17 Dec 2023 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgqv7y3tts24https://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kgjnui546i24An erotic thriller set in the publishing industry titled MUCH TO ADMIRE14 Dec 2023 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgjnui546i24https://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kfvvh2kae32anaïve people spell naïve naive06 Dec 2023 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfvvh2kae32ahttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kfkruf6woi2xA potentially vapid question (for @benwurgaft.bsky.social): Are puns more like wild animals that we momentarily trap, or are they like domesticated animals (and if so, what are their wild forebears)?02 Dec 2023 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfkruf6woi2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kf2otyfo4g2q4 famous folks I’ve met and 1 lie Michael J. Fox Cory Booker Samantha Bee Colm Toibin Laurie Anderson [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Nov 2023 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kf2otyfo4g2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kd6akzh66i2nMy story, "The Only Way Out," is in the new @emergejournal.bsky.social -- please take a look at it and all the fabulous other pieces! https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-only-way-out/02 Nov 2023 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd6akzh66i2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kbsrv73g532sMy story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke: https://www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-flash/david-yourdon Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too! Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback15 Oct 2023 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbsrv73g532shttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kbsrv73g532sMy story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke: https://www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-flash/david-yourdon Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too! Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback15 Oct 2023 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbsrv73g532shttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kbqgozml2r2nThree dramatists from the little free library. Which one did he go with?14 Oct 2023 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbqgozml2r2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kbq7sfo4ti2fThere’s a nice thing that happens about 80% of the way through writing a novel. The ideas start playing with each other, unsupervised.14 Oct 2023 18:35 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbq7sfo4ti2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kbo6ycvoqd2tThe greatest.13 Oct 2023 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbo6ycvoqd2thttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kbmuzylsrh26You know you have a nature kid when it's forest school day, and they say "I'm really excited to see my ______" and the next word isn't "friends," it's "toads."13 Oct 2023 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbmuzylsrh26https://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kbgotexgof2mOnce upon a time, I made music (with @evankindley.bsky.social ): https://thepathways.bandcamp.com/track/productivity10 Oct 2023 23:38 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbgotexgof2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidyourdon.bsky.social/post/3kafkiwguum2dA novel written in 1978 by my (late) father. Excited to communicate with him.27 Sep 2023 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:ryr3mcrxtvd6mbhygsfcltxi/app.bsky.feed.post/3kafkiwguum2d