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Joseph P. Gillis
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I mask. Author: Can't Leave Penny a.co/d/gitJYOr artist, pastors will be blocked. Him his ally to all margins. 🚫hate author archiveofourown.org/users/Joseph_Gillis/works songwriting youtube.com/@thecavesofsugargrove
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> 💙📚 A dream, nightmarishly came to me. Twitter writing friends said such dreams are for the WIP. ? Can I write it? The nightmare still rattles me to my core. No dogs, no fence, no f'ing plagiarizing! The nightmare had it all. Readers have told me it's their favorite part. Hmm. I wrote it!

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> 💙📚 So conflict, eh? I read Breakfast of Champions many years ago. A scene where the MC is walking along a sidewalk. A fence is right near them. Somehow, in word, Mr. Vonnegut shocked me as a yard dog leapt at the fence, bowing the fence and barking angrily. Writing such a scene became a focus.>

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💙📚 When I wrote my debut, I dove into research. I read that without conflict there is no book. 1/3 into my first draft, a work devoted to giving characters to readers that were all the best sort. Maybe you know someone that is such a kind, gentle soul, you decided to memorialize such rare beauty.>

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2024, the year I watched all the Star Wars episodes for a second viewing, including Rogue One and Solo. then watched 2 to 9 in order including Solo and Rogue One. tonight the last hour of ep. nine completes it. While I've loved them all, I did sense Space Balls moments in the last three episodes.

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In 47 years living in this tiny subdivision and I have never seen one of these around here. We used to live near a creek, when I was younger, and in that time when I set my novel. They were common there. Not here. And dig this little critter!

A frog caught my eye as I stood Mom's beautiful tree back up after a gust of Helene knocked it over.
A close up of a critter that found brick and mortar a friendly respite from Helene remnants. It was doing a best impersonation of a critter not knowing I was there taking a touristy picture.

This frog, perhaps a toad, is not as long as a miniature light bulb on a Christmas tree's string of lights. It only slightly wider than the mortar between the bricks.

The color is grey legs and fore legs/arms and the body is not unlike army green and charcoal camouflage.

I chose, in that brief moment, to not lick the critter's back. 
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I’ve just finished The Past by Tessa Hadley, 2015, a brilliantly written story of family dynamics with gorgeous descriptions of the natural world 💙📚 https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1380012e-64b4-4641-a6b8-e8169e6d254c

Review by sarahmatthews - The Past
Review by sarahmatthews - The Past

The Past by Tessa Hadley Read on audioNarrator: Antonia BeamishVintagePub. 2015, 362pp___ I w...

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@literarybulletin.bsky.social Thank you! BookSky, this account is the real deal good folk BlueSky for you! 💙📚

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A book culled from the mind of an eleven year old! This book is a reader's adventure, science fiction like no other and an eleven year old's story that is tropeless because that young person kept it real. Well, as real as historical fiction can be. 🫶 💙📚 www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DB...

Can't Leave Penny: Gillis, Joseph P.: 9798334529656: Amazon.com: Books
Can't Leave Penny: Gillis, Joseph P.: 9798334529656: Amazon.com: Books

Can't Leave Penny [Gillis, Joseph P.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Can't Leave Penny

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Joseph P. Gillis
@josephpgillis.bsky.social
I mask. Author: Can't Leave Penny a.co/d/gitJYOr artist, pastors will be blocked. Him his ally to all margins. 🚫hate author archiveofourown.org/users/Joseph_Gillis/works songwriting youtube.com/@thecavesofsugargrove
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