Jon Doughboy

Two recent little stories out ICYMI Sail Girl @UrbanPigsPress Oh, the places you’ll go @scaffoldlitmag scaffoldlit.com/microwritings/… urbanpigspress.co.uk/2025/07/22/sai…

This morning @damon_hubbs brings us the fourth @UrbanPigsPress Castaways feature Out past the breakwater at Provincetown pill-like lights pinkish reddish blueish an outcast of glittering stars urbanpigspress.co.uk/2025/07/28/the…

The Area Writer is stomping down Bernhard Alley. He’s gnawing on cold Wiener schnitzel. He chews with rhythmic grunts. He stomps and chews ceaselessly, stomps and chews and grunts

Our town has no doctor. A traveling healer visits my yurt when illness strikes. He examines my story and warns me “the diaristic impulse is like ptosis. Your field of vision narrows. You mistake the back of your eyelid for the world. Your prose droops.” Advice as strong medicine

Your story is 70% scenes. Your plot runs on characters. But none of it works without PROSE. If you’re tight, anxious, inflamed, or exhausted, there’s a high chance you’re prose deficient. Let’s break it down

Thrilled to be back in @scaffoldlitmag, thanks @GergleySteve!

Is it that chainlink fence? No. Give me a hint. No. Is it I don’t know. The sky? No. MOTHER OF HENS by @MrZoris ↓

The Area Writer fell asleep behind a dumpster on Walser Way. A stray dog peed on his shoes. He chooses to take this as an act of tender attention

The Area Writer is walking down Carver Street to the local K-Mart. His orifices are packed with working class grit. He’s a tough one. Watch out, wimps. Make way

In the early morning hours critters curious about my yurt come round. Raccoons and bears. I read my latest autofiction aloud to drive them off. Even scavengers aren’t satisfied by such meager offerings

The authenticity regime is reinforced and legitimized by the autofiction industrial complex and the lived experience illuminati. They don’t want you to have an imagination, to write outside your narrow identity. Surrender yourself to prose ppfideas.com/episodes/the-h…

scaffold #124 premieres tomorrow morning at 6 am, but before then, take a read of the most recent nautical-themed story in @UrbanPigsPress by scaffold #123 writer, and one of the most creative and prolific hobbyist scribblers in the game, @doughboywrites! urbanpigspress.co.uk/2025/07/22/sai…

BRUISER READING NEXT WEEK IN BALTIMORE COME DO IT

Both delightful, but "Sail Girl," wow.

My yurt is a third place for prose to congregate. My yurt is solving the male loneliness epidemic, saving democracy, and breathing life into literature’s corpse