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Andrew Bertaina

2 months

Thrilled to have my debut collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place, out today from @autofocuslit ! You can order it below.

THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACING - Andrew Bertaina — Autofocus Literary

ABOUT THE BOOK Andrew Bertaina is going through a mid-life crisis: failed marriage, child-rearing, self-doubt, ennui, the works. Naturally, Bertaina does what any of us would do; he draws inspiration...

www.autofocuslit.com

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3 months

Virginia Woolf on style and rhythm

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1 year

This incredible passage in the middle of a relatively mundane Alice Munro story and then the narrator suddenly breaks into this thought.

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3 years

Really excited to get a CNF acceptance from The Threepenny Review. A lovely start to the year.

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Andrew Bertaina

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1 year

I am really excited to be joining the MFA program at American University as a Visiting Writer for the upcoming academic year. I can't wait to work with the wonderful undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in the Creative Writing department.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

1 year

Really excited announce I have a collection of essays coming out in 2024 with @autofocuslit !

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@andrewbertaina

2 years

Excited to see that my essay, Rules for writing an essay, is listed as a notable in Best American Essays 2022. Thanks to the wonderful people @forge_litmag for publishing it!

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2 years

Today is my birthday. This is 42 and all that.

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@andrewbertaina

2 years

I am thrilled to have an essay up at The Threepenny Review.

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@andrewbertaina

2 months

Alice Munro

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

6 months

I'll bite: Teaching a course on speculative fiction. I already have the book list etc. but I'm curious what books/novellas you'd add? I am keeping the reading to 200 pages a week, so I went with mostly shorter books.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Happy to join the team at @PitheadChapel as an assistant fiction editor.

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1 year

It is my birthday. 43 turns

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

My first book, a collection of short stories, One Person Away From You, Moon city short fiction award winner is available My mom called it one of her top five books of late fall 2021. Get it while it’s hot!

One Person Away From You

Stories Andrew Bertaina 184 pages 978-0-913785-86-7 (paper) August 2021

www.uapress.com

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

But look at that last bit of light.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

Help. Trying to decide on my new author photo! 🙃

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

10 months

Really excited to announce that I’ll have a collection of flash, Dinner in the Afterlife, coming out with @EmergeJournal in 2025!

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

5 months

44 today. Woke up to a really loving text from my teen and am on a nature walk. Already a good start.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

1 year

@NateB_Panic Accurate. I just listened to a great podcast about this. In particular, the role that the child tax credit and ban on evictions played in decreasing poverty in America. It's dispiriting to see these policies disappear :/

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2 years

Business of the day

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@andrewbertaina

2 months

Me: Oh! My author website has been blocking messages for a bit. Lemme see how many agents have reached out to me! My inbox: ❤️

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

4 months

My mid-life crisis collection of essays is now available for pre-order @autofocuslit , parenting, identity, divorce, travel, eating spouses! It’s all there. Thank you to @wheaton3000 and @wheatofthemomnt for shepherding these out!

Autofocus Literary

@autofocuslit

4 months

@andrewbertaina ’s essay collection, THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE, is now available for PREORDER! We will make you wait only 2 months. Here is his cover! Find out more at

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

It’s a dream come true to have my debut collection coming out later this year @MoonCityPress ! We are thrilled to announce that @andrewbertaina of Washington, D.C. has been named winner of the 2020 Moon City Short Fiction Award for his collection One Person Away From You.

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Andrew Bertaina

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8 months

New writing desk for our basement. Will I ever write at it? Probably not. Will I ever paint it a nice deep blue like I claim I will? Probably not. But hey! Desk

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2 years

I brought you some flowers

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Andrew Bertaina

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10 months

I have a new story, The English Professor, up @gonelawn .

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Andrew Bertaina

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1 year

My dream is to open a bookshop and bakery on the coast someday. The only thing holding me back is reality.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

1 year

Damn, now that’s an ending to a collection by Alice Munro

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

8 months

Really thrilled to get a pushcart nomination from the lovely folks @trampset for my story, fishing with father.

Fishing with Father

by Andrew Bertaina

trampset.org

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

9 months

Really excited to see my essay, Time Passes, which appeared @Post_Road listed as a notable essay for 2022 in best American essays. This piece appears in my upcoming collection, the body is a temporary gathering place, from @autofocuslit

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 months

My hot take is that Threepenny Review has the best model for editorial. They are high-profile and respond very quickly. It should be industry norm as opposed to 10-12 month waits. Also, mags should post numbers on solicitation vs. slush. Save some dollars for people.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Draft stage is complete, working towards a final edit. But really, can you ever say a story is truly done?

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 months

It’s here!!! My editor @autofocuslit has an essay in his wonderful collection about a writer doing an unboxing video on Twitter. Thus, I hope he one day memorializes me.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

1 year

I try not to complain here. But my God, the job world is not the friendliest to parents. My career has been challenging since the birth of my two children, largely because I have been involved in caring for and parenting my children, which is often deemed as antithetical to work.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

My book has a cover!! Thank you to Mike and Shen Chen Hsieh for their work on this!

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@MCzyzniejewski

3 years

Here's a sneak peak at the cover of @andrewbertaina 's forthcoming story collection, One Person Away From You, forthcoming in June from @MoonCityPress as the winner of the 2020 Moon City Short Fiction Award. Design by Shen Chen Hsieh.

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1 year

Excited to get an acceptance from the @LAReview for a short story.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

6 months

Goal is to build up my Tik-Tok following this year. I am going to start with my daily skin care routine and then slowly pivot to close readings of Joyce without anyone ever noticing.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

8 months

Woke up to a leaf storm 😳

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

It’s my birthday. Forty-one!

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

I read from my book. No one booed. I call it a rousing success

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

My essay collection was a semi-finalist at Autumn House Press :). Congrats to the winner, Emily Pifer and to @wendywimmer for her forthcoming book in fiction. I look forward to reading both!

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

8 months

Thank you so much to @gonelawn , for this pushcart nomination for my story, The English Professor. Congrats to the other nominees!!

Gone Lawn, a journal of word-things

@gonelawn

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

Happy to have my story, fly fishing with god, included in the longlist @wigleaf . Thank you to the editors at @okaydonkeymag for running it!

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 months

Thrilled to get an acceptance from @PitheadChapel for a short CNF.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

9 months

Thrilled to get an acceptance from @cimarronreview , for an essay that meditates on uncertainty, which is included in my upcoming collection from @autofocuslit .

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Thrilled to get an acceptance for two flash pieces upcoming @nocontactmag .

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

I am thrilled to have a new flash piece, "Fly Fishing with God," up @okaydonkeymag

Fly Fishing with God by Andrew Bertaina

In the first lonesome years after college, the man used to fly fish with God. They’d met through a friend of a friend, a mutual interest sort of thing. God didn’t have a car, and the man did. God w…

okaydonkeymag.com

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Andrew Bertaina

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2 years

I have a new micro, “flowering” up today @CeaseCowsMag .

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

Arrived home to streets covered in yellow 😍

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

5 months

Excited to have new flash fiction up at The Heavy Feather Review!

Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “That Year in the Valley” by Andrew Bertaina

I hated everything that year we lived in the valley. The small house with moss-covered shingles, the way the mice scurried beneath the floorboards at night, and the way the rain fell in sheets ever…

heavyfeatherreview.org

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

4 months

Let’s see if the author of this collection I’ve been reading can stick the landing

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

1 year

August is such a strange month, the changing of the light, and the sudden overwhelming feeling of things beginning and ending at the same time as they remain the same, a sort of perpetual renewal of that sameness.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 months

One month from today!! Many years and heartaches in the making Preorder below

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5 months

Thrilled to get an acceptance from @IdentityTheory for a piece about creation, God, and sloths copulating.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Happy to get an acceptance from @okaydonkeymag for a story about god and fly fishing and eating poetry.

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Andrew Bertaina

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3 years

I did a meme.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

Thrilled to get an acceptance from the lovely folks @trampset :).

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Andrew Bertaina

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1 year

Thrilled to get a short story acceptance from @TheSchooner .

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Andrew Bertaina

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1 month

Mom drops this text Me: 😅

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

11 months

I, a forty-three year -old man, just started to regularly use moisturizer on my face. When I told my twelve, she said, "You have to cleanse before you moisturize or it doesn't do anything at all!" Please be with me in my ignornace There is so much left to learn about skin care

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Andrew Bertaina

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5 months

Current read for my speculative fiction course

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Andrew Bertaina

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1 month

Further updates with mom and the book

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Yay! My book is available for pre-order and due out August 1st!!

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

5 months

Happy to get an acceptance from @jmwwjournal for a little CNF piece about my love of descriptive writing.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

Really excited to have my story, The Historian, included alongside so many other writers I admire in best micro fiction 2022

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Thinking of upping my authenticity by using this as my author photo instead.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

I was super excited when I found out I won the @MoonCityPress fiction award in January, and it’s almost surreal that I’ll have the final copy of my book in a week!!

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

7 months

Went to grab a drink with a friend and he didn’t even compliment my new wool sweater. Luckily I am wearing it for the next fifteen days, so he’ll have more chances

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Andrew Bertaina

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3 years

Warm fuzzies from web site email :)

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 months

Quick note on a past post. I'm excited to be returning to American University next year to continue working with students in the creative writing program. I loved talking craft, stories, essays, and opportunities with students last year, and I'm excited to continue!

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Excited to have my story, The Historian, from @nocontactmag chosen for the anthology. Thank you to @taniahershman . Glad to be in such good company!

Best Microfiction

@bestmicrofic

3 years

The 2022 winners list is up! ❤️🦜🍀 There were so many great stories this year! We loved reading each and every one. Thank you to @taniahershman our judge for this year’s anthology:

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

4 months

Thrilled to be included here!

Witness Magazine

@witnessmag

4 months

We received news that @PushcartPrize editors nominated pieces from our Spring & Winter issues for the next Pushcart volume: “Van Lady” ( @vidacelina ), “In This Version of the Story” ( @andrewbertaina ), & “Just Call” ( @wilsonmsims ). Congrats 🥳 Just Call:

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

So…cathedral rock in Sedona is okay. 🙃

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Really thrilled to have my essay nominated for Best of the Net by the lovely folks @forge_litmag . Congrats to the other nominees!!

The Forge Literary Magazine

@forge_litmag

3 years

📢 Our 2021 Best of the Net nominations are... You are AWESOME! 🌟

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3 years

In these bleak months, a yearly pleasure to pose in front of this random house and pretend the Christmas lights are our own.

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3 years

I am really excited to have been selected as the keynote speaker for an upcoming writing conference. A bit nervous about what to say but also really thrilled!

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3 years

Maggie Nelson in the believer

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Andrew Bertaina

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3 years

Really thrilled to have my story "Fly Fishing with God" nominated for the Pushcart by the wonderful @okaydonkeymag :). Congrats to the other nominees!

Fly Fishing with God by Andrew Bertaina

In the first lonesome years after college, the man used to fly fish with God. They’d met through a friend of a friend, a mutual interest sort of thing. God didn’t have a car, and the man did. God w…

okaydonkeymag.com

Okay Donkey Mag/Press

@okaydonkeymag

3 years

Hi folks! It's December 1st, which means it's Pushcart nomination day! Give a round of applause to all our fiction and poetry nominees: @andrewbertaina , @AimeeParkison , @anna_hundert , @doubtfulljoy , Kathleen Hellen and @RodriguezSoniaA ! Check 'em out here:

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8 months

We got there. Happy 13 to this love

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3 years

My wonderful uncle passed today. He had a good life, and I am happy to have had him as a part of my life. He was the lynch pin at having family parties at his house. He met my aunt, his wife of 50 plus years in the peace corps. He will be missed.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 months

Thrilled to get an acceptance from @thirtywestph for an essay about reading your Goodreads reviews 🙃

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 months

Had a great event @kramerbooks last night. Thanks to all who gave time and came out. My collection has been out for two weeks, and it has been really amazing to feel so supported by friends, family, and the writing community. 🥹

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

5 months

Got an acceptance from @GordonSquareRev . Shit day. But thank God people like my little micros about the absurdity of writers.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

3 years

Winter field. Birds of prey.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

5 months

Just passed a dude on the way to my kid’s basketball game saying, “she wrote only one novel, the god of small things, and then a bunch of essays.” It’s like AWP out here in real life!

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Andrew Bertaina

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2 years

AWP 🙃. Lots of great books by lots of great people.

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Andrew Bertaina

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3 years

This family beat me to my meditation rock yesterday

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2 months

Writing desk. Not that either of us actually writes at it but just imagine if we did.

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1 year

Evening hours

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Andrew Bertaina

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3 years

Underlining in books, abhorrent practice that should be banned or sign of an astute reader?

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

1 year

I have a new story, the second coming, in the current edition of @TheSchooner ! So thrilled to be included in this great magazine. Special thanks to @indigojackal for choosing this end of the world story.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

1 year

Sent my full novella to exactly one person. She said it made her cry and restored her faith in humanity. Gonna never show it to anyone else and assume that would have been the public reception.

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

2 years

Lately, I've just been drafting really long stories. which is a good career move. First, they aren't even close to novel length, which everyone likes/wants. And they have the added benefit of being too long for most literary journals. So, just for fun, I guess :)

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@andrewbertaina

4 months

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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina

26 days

Thrilled to have a short essay, Divorce Travel, up today at the wonderful @PitheadChapel

Divorce Travel

Andrew Bertaina After the divorce was final, he took a long train ride from Washington, DC up through the Hudson River Valley, endless bays, light falling in bars through the train’s windows in s…

pitheadchapel.com

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Andrew Bertaina

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4 years

He’s eight today, but neither one of us had changed a bit ;)

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Andrew Bertaina

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3 months

The first rose in our garden

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Andrew Bertaina

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1 year

New short story, The Way They used to be, up @lareview today.

The Way They Used to Be by Andrew Bertaina - The Los Angeles Review

At first, the man thought nothing of the brick on the Egyptian Cotton sheets on top of the bed he shared with his wife. It was small and almost innocuous a brick is an odd thing to put in one’s bed,...

losangelesreview.org

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