David Joy

David Joy

@davidjoy.bsky.social

Half-assed author of novels. Full-assed wanderer of woods. Born looking lonesome, on’ry, and mean. Also, I fucking cuss a lot.

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I read David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew a year ago and was moved. The author's recent appeal on Instagram has reinforced the impression. It is prescient and timely, taken during an era when we are told to ignore the truth and turn from history. It hits! Read it soon. @davidjoy.bsky.social

Last night I was talking to a mother who lives with rocks tied to her ankles and treads water every minute of every day with wild ones crawling over her shoulders and bowling pins juggled by her hands. She was beat. “Even God had a day of rest,” I said. “And that must be how they know he was a man.”

You know what happens when you make a banana pudding for fifteen people but you single and don’t fucks with nobody? You eat a fifteen person banana pudding all by your self!

Especially with the real fucked up stuff. All, “He told me that when Thad Broom cut the soles off that man’s feet and made him walk to his own grave, he said, ‘I wrote that just for you, my one true love.’”

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