Today, I mailed out the first postcards for #FirstClassFiction. Over the course of a year, I'll be sending out 25 postcards, each with a unique story or poem. Each postcard is individually numbered, and has a serialized sticker.

Some writers for these stories/poems will include @atgonzalez, @amin, @asakiyume, and @superball. The first postcard has a poem by @NylaWoethief

You can subscribe at https://nantucketlit.com/postcards.html #nantucketLit #postcards #physicalMedia

A decidedly unwise purchase: an Olivetti Lettera 22. I've seen the Lettera 22 described as one of the finest typewriters ever made, and now I see why. This machine is a distinct pleasure to type with. Mine has a Spanish-layout keyboard, with n-tildes, accents, and umlauts.

This one has a rare chrome/silver finish. I got some jewelry-polishing cloth to use with it.

I've been using this one to write a new short story.

An abandoned dog track in Peoria, Colorado. This is one hour east of downtown Denver along I-70.

Peoria is one of Colorado's "non-towns": a place that's on the official state maps, but there isn't really a town there.

Photo taken with a Kodak disposable camera, black-and-white, 400 ISO.

A working payphone in Longmont, Colorado. Location: 17th & Pace. It takes incoming calls. The phone number is (303) 772-9759. https://workingpayphones.com/#longmont

Photo taken with a Kodak disposable camera, black-and-white, 400 ISO.

Doggo. Kodak black-and-white disposable camera, 400 ISO.

I've been following the Libreboot project for a few years. Libreboot is a free-software BIOS for certain computers. You can run a computer that's free and secure, top to bottom.

These are three MacBooks that I have installed the latest Libreboot on (25.06). They are all from 2007. As long as you're not editing video, making Zoom calls, or sequencing the human genome, this is all the computer you'll need.

Enjoy a new issue of #QuarterUp, our online #pinball and #retroArcade newsletter.

https://nantucketlit.com/quarterup-8

In this issue, AT Gonzalez gives a preview of this month's Houston Arcade Expo. He also interviews Luke "Launch" Tran, a fixture of Houston's fighting game community. Lee Tursi covers Namco's ill-fated ShiftyLook, an attempt to popularize their more obscure titles. Andres Alcoser writes about the rivalry and legacy of two arcade cabinets: the Taito Vewlix and the Namco Noir.

Photos by Sam Gonzalez and Miller Burruss.

Comments are welcome!

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I think this was the first grown-up story I read that really scared me. I can still summon the tension I felt while reading it many years ago. Walking across town on a dark night, and wondering if each shadow, every echo of a footstep, might be the killer out hunting for you...

The Whole Town's Sleeping, by Ray Bradbury. It can be found in the outstanding short story collection Bradbury Stories.

For your weekend reading, please enjoy Overscan: Stories From Beyond the Screen's Edge. This is an anthology of fantasy and sf from writers using Nantucket Lit.

https://nantucketlit.com/overscanbook

It's also a book for the #fediverse, featuring stories by Fedi writers including myself, Benjamin Hollon, AT Gonzalez, and Seth Patterson. Pixel art by @dinchenix@mastodon.art

New blog post: my weekend at INIT HELLO, a new Apple II convention in Baltimore. I met a lot of good people, and shared my upcoming anthology Overscan. https://nantucketlit.com/blog/2025/08/2025-08-01_init_hello_2025.html #INITHELLO Photo by Sam Knutson