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Sheldon Birnie

@badguybirnie.bsky.social

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Readin, ‘ritin, rock n roll

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@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:13 PM

Beautiful day in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to wrap up with some live music and bowling, you guys 🎳 🍻 🤠

@janefrench.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:43 PMReposted by @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Trust me: this is a great suggestion

@justinwriter.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:12 PMReposted by @badguybirnie.bsky.social

This occupies its own genre. There are some surreal/weird fiction elements, but they’re all grounded around blue collar characters just trying to survive. Great stuff, bud.

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:13 PM

👽 🙏 🍻

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:13 PM

👽 🙏 🍻

@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:49 PMReposted by @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Check out Sheldon's collection Where the Pavement Turns to Sand from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social here: malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement

Sheldon Birnie is a writer, dad, and beer league hockey player from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of the short story collections Where the Pavement Turns to Sand (2023) and More Strange Visions (forthcoming), both from Malarkey Books.
@fusionfragment.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:49 PMReposted by @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Saros SF #6 story preview! The issue kicks off with "Wristwatch" by @badguybirnie.bsky.social where, in between ginos and apples and filthy dangles, the boys happily sign their humanity away for the latest gadgets. Our hero feels differently.

sarossf.com/issue-6/

"Wristwatch" by Sheldon Birnie: beer league hockey / everything's computer / touching grass

Me, I don’t say anything. Not at first, anyhow. Just shake my head, raise my eyebrows to my buddy Neil sitting next to me, which gets a laugh. Ernie and Max, though, they don’t pay no mind. They’re geeking out over their biometric wristwatches like they’re the best things since sliced frickin bread. With the data they’re collecting, the behaviour they’re modifying as a result of the information the computer’s feeding back to them, they’ll live forever.
@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:36 PMReposted by @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Might I suggest something seasonally appropriate and rather left of the dial?

bookshop.org/p/books/wher...

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:06 PM

Finished S3, but could not get past first couple eps of S4, though I too loved those first 2 seasons. It lost the juice at some point, for me anyway

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:00 PM

🖤

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:36 PM

Might I suggest something seasonally appropriate and rather left of the dial?

bookshop.org/p/books/wher...

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 8:15 PMReposted by @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Seasonal reminder that you too can enjoy these weird western Canadian tales, just ask your friendly local independent bookseller or library for a copy! 🎃 👻 👽 📚

Where the Pavement Turns to Sand by me, Sheldon Birnie, and some pumpkins
@spacecowboybooks.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:17 PMReposted by @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Fuck Amazon!

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 8:15 PM

Seasonal reminder that you too can enjoy these weird western Canadian tales, just ask your friendly local independent bookseller or library for a copy! 🎃 👻 👽 📚

Where the Pavement Turns to Sand by me, Sheldon Birnie, and some pumpkins
@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 4:01 PM

Something Wicked This Way Comes

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:28 AM

Love to hear it bud!

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 11:50 PM

I also think if this one frequently

“Everything he says is true.”

youtu.be/uBF0KnMByfk

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 11:44 PM

youtu.be/mh-0gE-sSNE

@badguybirnie.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 11:42 PM

This one also comes up pretty much every holiday dinner….

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