John Waddy Bullion

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Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs. www.johnwaddybullion.com

Copies of my books THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS and EXTENDED PLAY
Great Point
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Black and white photo of me at a literary reading. I have my back to the audience and am not speaking into the microphone.
Statue of Thomas Jefferson writing a prose poem or something
Flyer for a reading taking place at 7pm this evening (July 10th) at One to One Print Shop in Columbia, Missouri. THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF *STRANGERS* WITH READINGS BY... JOHN WADDY BULLION BETHANY CUTKOMP DAREN DEAN COLIN BRIGHTWELL ABBY MANZELLA CODY SHRUM DANIEL MILLER 710•7PM ONE TO ONE PRINTSHOP
A yellow sign with black letters reading LIQUOR GUNS & AMMO. The sign hangs from a red brick wall.
Reading William H Gass’s The Tunnel at a pool
A Lee Harvey Oswald bobblehead (head is facing backwards)
Flyer for a literary event in Columbia, Missouri, on July 10th. The text reads: THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF *STRANGERS* WITH READINGS BY... JOHN WADDY BULLION BETHANY CUTKOMP DAREN DEAN COLIN BRIGHTWELL ABBY MANZELLA CODY SHRUM DANIEL MILLER 710•7PM ONE TO ONE PRINTSHOP
the movie theater in Garland that has only been playing the movie SPENCER since 2021
Flyer for a literary reading on July 10th in Columbia, MO THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF *STRANGERS* WITH READINGS BY... JOHN WADDY BULLION BETHANY CUTKOMP DAREN DEAN COLIN BRIGHTWELL ABBY MANZELLA CODY SHRUM DANIEL MILLER 710•7PM ONE TO ONE PRINTSHOP
A kindle screen reading COZY Essays Adam Shaw Cowboy Jamboree Press good grit lit.
Jack Bullion 41 reviews • 13 followers ***** May 31, 2026 Lee Abbott has New Mexico. Claire Vaye Watkins has Nevada. Rick Bass and Jim Harrison have Montana. With The Lowest Basin: Arizona Stories, Jonathan Danielson has staked his claim on the Grand Canyon State, delivering a collection as haunting, strange, and unforgettable as the terrain itself. Across a landscape that clings to its people like dust from the last haboob that blew through, sons wrestle with what they've inherited from fathers, old grudges erupt into violent confrontations, and long-held ambitions collide with hard realities. Through it all, Danielson captures a place populated by dreamers and schemers (who more often than not turn out to be the same person), where reinvention and ruin exist side by side beneath an unforgiving desert sky.
Colonial country club (Charles Schwab Challenge)
A sign that says PANCAKE in the Waffle House style
A hand holding up a copy of my book This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers
My last name misspelled “Bullioon”
Screenshot of a five-star Goodreads review of Patrick Trotti's QUIET HOURS: In rehab, “quiet hours” are the wee small pockets of time at the end of another long and psychologically taxing day—a time for meditation and relaxation and sleep, but one that often leaves recovering addicts alone with their own roiling thoughts. In his startling and memorable new collection Quiet Hours, Patrick Trotti explores the dark corners of these thoughts and emotions, in stories redolent with the scent of booze, smoke, and sex. Many of these pieces unfold as pas-de-deux between two characters, with the actions and often catastrophic decisions of each reverberating and echoing within the other: in “Spare,” a man and a woman sit uneasy in their sobriety after an AA meeting; in “Dive,” a robbery at a dive bar turns disastrous; in “Turbulence,” an estranged couple embark on an ill-fated flight in a desperate attempt to save their marriage. From this orbit of addicts and thieves, burnouts and hard cases, Trotti mines moments of glittering emotional clarity and blind hope, writing with clear-eyed empathy while steadily ratcheting up the tension, setting his characters on collision courses with monolithic moments of choice that demand not that they do “the next right thing,” but the first.
A flyer for the online Dodo Eraser reading tonight from 7-9pm
A painting of a bulldog reading a book called “How to Pick Up Bitches”
A goodreads review from someone named Courtney: “Read for work”
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
Sheldon Lee Compton’s omnibus The Collected Stories published by Cowboy Jamboree Press
Catherine Lacey reading from BIOGRAPHY OF X at Frontera Fest
Frontera Fest at The Wild Detectives in Dallas
Marshawn Lynch only cares if the mid is still selling Sports and Racing - NFL Topic Archived
MIDWA TRAVEL PLAZA TRUCK STOP MISSOURI
The cover of Ryan Ridge’s American Homes on a Kindle
Selena memorial
The exterior of the Bilbo Baggins Pub, Shreveport, LA
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers by John Waddy Bullion — A wonderful collection of short-stories from JWB. Enjoyed this one from start to finish. Great characters written with a keen eye for detail and plenty of empathy, writing that pops; I was chuckling away through this whole short collection.
Fort Worth’s beautiful Beaux Arts post office
Three Cowboy Jamboree books: Blue Bob, TWWNROOS, and Red Headed Writing
THE WALLS ARE CLOSINGIN ON US by Joshua Trent Brown I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU by Spencer Fleury NECRONAUTS by RYAN HABERMEYER MSHORT RELIEF by BEN SHAHON CHARM CITY 3 DELIVER THY PIGS by Joey Hedger LEONARD! by John Crawford WHITE PEOPLE ON VACATION by Alex Miller PLAY THE DEVIL by SCOTT LAUDATI
FUELCITY sign reading Regular Diesel CAR WASH TACOS!
Dewitt/Gridneff’s Your Name Here
me doing an interactive reading in the form of bar trivia while wearing an Elvis Grbac Ravens jersey
An Elvis Grbac Ravens jersey! But what could it mean?
Holding up copies of my book to entice marathon runners
A flyer for the Cowboy Jamboree/Malarkey Books reading that will take place on Thursday, March 5th, at Golden West Cafe in Baltimore
Dean Martin’s A Winter Romance
The TCU guy from Tin Cup with a poorly photoshopped Guinness
Martin Scorsese saying “great and watchable”
Yeah Kyuss
TCU vs Arkansas at Globe Life Field
A flyer for an upcoming AWP off site reading featuring John Waddy Bullion
TWO BIBSON GEEFEATERS I didn't realize that the shirtless old man was my grandfather until I'd been playing Frisbee with him for about a month. We'd been meeting in the afternoons at Sewell Park, on a slope of bright green grass the locals referred to as "Bikini Hill" to honor the hordes of scantily clad coeds that were strewn up and down its gentle incline during the endless Texas summer. Bikini Hill hugged the banks of the San Marcos River, which boasted water so thrillingly clear you could just about count all the beer cans and sunglasses nestled at the bottom. But the park's main
3/5, 7:00pm AWP BALTIMORE Golden West Cafe Cowboy Jamboree Malarkey Books &friends Come see me and some really talented folks read things to you
A copilot meeting summary that reads: [name redacted] asked you about your recent book reading, showing interest in your activities outside of the meeting. This mention was part of a lighthearted exchange before the main discussion
Monkey and Dog Books with John Waddy Bullion Saturday, January 31st at 2:30 pm. Plan to join us in store for an afternoon with Texas author John Waddy Bullion!
Ringo reading a book
Monkey and Dog Books with John Waddy Bullion Saturday, January 31st at 2:30 pm. Plan to join us in store for an afternoon with Texas author John Waddy Bullion!