Paperbacks have slipped from ubiquitous/disposable to precious nostalgia.

Would love for Ellery Queen to start publishing these kinds of collections again, not least because I’d like to be in one.

A man punches another man because it makes him feel better. Artist unknown.

The greatest comics panel ever drawn.

Now You Can See As You See The World — Paul O'Connor Originally published by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, my short story “As You See The World” is now online and free to read at Fiction On The Web!

A street gang stole her pit bull, and Mía is going to steal him back -- whether her man-child boyfriend likes it or not.

"As You See The World" is now free to read online!

@charliefish.bsky.social

www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/now-you...

$1M Lego heist busted: What this odd toy crime says about the resale market and why such theft is more common than think Three California thieves are facing charges of possession of a stolen vehicle, cargo theft and conspiracy. They stole around $1 million worth of Legos.

“In another instance in October 2025, Santa Rosa Police Department detectives came across what looked like a crime scene, in Legos — beheaded figurines everywhere with heads "neatly organized by facial expression" and in rows.”

moneywise.com/news/news/le...

New York City, captured by
Robert Frank. 1959.

Ha! I got mine for a quarter!

this could go on for a while ...

Gaye onstage in a baby blue suit & red vest

Another great Marvin Gaye photo, by David Redfern

On stage at the Royal Albert Hall, 1976

“If they move, kill ‘em.”

Toshiro Mifune's famous reverse draw

That is the perfect metaphor. My first several queries are so tentative, so considered, so delicate.

Eventually you are pedaling down the street and hurling manuscripts at approximately the right doorstep.

Good luck out there!

Bucket list!

Strangers On A Train On A Train — Paul O'Connor A story of the wrong person at the right time.

My first story for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/strange...

Shove it into edible casings and you've got sausage cake sausage.

Livingroom saturated in green decor focused around a green Malm fireplace

Good Housekeeping, January 1975 #Malm

Thank you, Giles. I've put some whip cream on it just for you.

2025 By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor All the numbers from a full year of mystery writing.

2025 By The Numbers

All the numbers from a year of freelance crime writing -- submissions, rejections, publications, hours worked. Plus there's a pie chart! I know you're excited about the pie chart!

www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/2025-by...

Credit to the original poster Nervous-Fan2235 who posted this on r/OldSchoolCool on April 16th, 2026 at 5:01 AM UTC.

Charlie Chaplin on the sets of The Gold Rush in 1925. He was born 137 years ago today (16 April 1889).

Jackie Robinson GIF ALT: Jackie Robinson GIF

Happy #JackieRobinsonDay to those who celebrate #42

Love that picture. It sent me careening backwards in time to watch every Lino Ventura movie I could find.

Strangers On A Train On A Train — Paul O'Connor A story of the wrong person at the right time.

My first story for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/strange...

Fortunately the work is its own reward!

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | First Look Teaser YouTube video by GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

The world is falling apart but F YEAH NEW GODZILLA TRAILER

Godzilla Minus One was a goddamn achievement, and I've been dying for the sequel. HERE WE GO.

youtu.be/n-NDYWPXpKg?...

Real horrowshow.

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”

✒️ #JeanPaulSartre, French existentialist philosopher, political activist, and author (Nobel Prize in #Literature 1964, refused), #DOTD 15 April 1980. #Philosophy #Theatre

The Mad King - Michael A Stackpole's Ko-fi Shop The Mad King is a sword & sorcery fantasy novella featuring Neryon, a warlock whose life is governed by the whims of fate. In this first story he enco...

I don't often plug stuff here, but...

1) I do have to eat
2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year.

This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880