Daniel J. Cecil

@danieljcecil.bsky.social

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Writer of short stories and essays. Teacher of travel writing at Emerson and fiction @honinghouse.bsky.social Reader for @bestofthenet.bsky.social websites: www.writerdanieljcecil.com www.honinghouse.com Newsletter: https://danieljcecil.substack.com

A photo of the book cover of Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Yaroufakis
The Temptations celebrating Christmas joy in various forms, including giving a sick child, an aging white woman and children gifts.
A picture of the Fall 2025, issue 118 edition of the Greensboro Review. The cover is orange, with black lettering listing the names of all the contributors. There is also an illustration of an Egyptian goddess I think?
A picture taken at four in the morning of Joy Williams’ debut novel, State of Grace, which features a painting of a woman with black hair lounging on a couch.
A grey Canyon Grizl bike on a stand, ready for cleaning and maintenance. Mainly, a bike flex.
A beautiful, white rescue dog covered in black spotting named Dilla, sitting a field outside the entrance to a tent. She is enjoying sheer bliss.
A beautiful Snow Peak Amenity Dome tent made for the camper who likes to drop too much money on aesthetics, like moi.
Self portrait in a bathroom mirror at a pro basketball player’s houw. The mirror is hung so high you can only see my hat. I’m a Short King and no one can tell me otherwise.
A beautiful, speckled street dog called Dilla, named after the artist known for Donuts.
A text from Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher in which he says, quote: "Cobain found himself in 'a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, [where] all that is left is to imitate dead styles, to speak through the masks and with the voices of the styles in the imaginary museum'. Here, even success means failure, since to succeed would only mean that you were the new meat on which the system could feed."
A picture of a young woman wearing the Apple Pro augmented reality glasses, which look themselves like a ski mask.
James Franco is shirtless saying “Blow me away, my god!”
A picture of a pen held before a manuscript entitled Sleeping on the Wing.
The gray cover of Things Seem by Annie Ernaux.
A photo of the gold green cover of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion collection.
A cluster of white capped mushrooms with drooping caps.
Hilma’s watercolor of a morel mushroom.