Title card for article: A Love Letter to my Home Town. Features a sailboat sailing past a bridge and the setting sun.

Screencap of article. Intro reads: There’s this idea that if you want to disappear you should do it somewhere small or remote. Yet it’s in the city that nobody cares about you. There’s more people than you could ever hope to know and they’re too busy with their own lives to bother with yours. It’s as communities get smaller that you see more of the same characters and because there’s fewer they’re more interesting. Conformity becomes the easiest path, especially if your difference makes others insecure.

This week we’ve got travel editor Rachael Boardman’s love letter to her home town.

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#Sailing #BayOfQuinte #LakeOntario #GreatLakes #YGK #CanCon #HomePort #IndieAuthor #Magazine #Fence #Nomad #DigitalNomad #HomeTown

Title card for article: Reason Greater Napanee is Greater #7: The Napanee River, by Brenda Hogg, featuring a drawing of the napanee town sign. Sign reads: Greater Napanee, Population 16,000, three interchanges, Greater for Many Reasons.

Screencap of article. Intro reads: Greater Napanee is greater for many reasons and #7 is The Napanee River. It’s beautiful! You don’t have to go as far as France or Brockville to see a beautiful waterfront, we have one right here in our own back yard! And when you’re on a boat you get to spy on all those richie-riches like William and Kate! Haha! I see you, Kate!

We’ve got another one from Napanee Correspondent Brenda Hogg. I hope you enjoy reason number seven Greater Napanee is greater: The Napanee River.

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#Napanee #BayofQuinte #BellevilleOntario #YGK #PrinceEdwardCounty #FridayReads #indieauthor #CanCon #Ontario

Is anyone talking about combining rail with the 401? Central Canada is literally designed around it and there's vast swaths of space on the shoulders and the median for most of it's length. Surely there's space for two passenger rail tracks, elevated or buried when needed.
@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social

About Us - County Fence Bi-Annual Audio Version Here Greetings, loyal readers, from the quietly bustling copper and fiberoptic network that connects each and every one of us. I never thought I would live to see the day that my humble ...

Since we're gaining an audience...
For those interested in the story behind Eastern Ontario's oldest and most prestigious boundary and fencing publication, have a poke around the website beginning with the about page.
You'll love it, it's a way of life.

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Apparently I have 176 followers here.
I haven't been paying much attention to Bluesky, it was more a reluctant hedge against the future. The County Fence digitization program was designed around the bird site before it was bought out and I wasn't sure where to go next. Maybe this is working.

“Fountain of Youth,” by Cranach the Elder, and maybe also the younger. A medieval painting featuring a public bath where old women shuffle in on one side and emerge on the other as young damsels.

Screencap of article. Intro reads: Last year I broke my leg climbing down a gully on a story. I have no way to prove this but it felt like it broke easier, took longer to heal, and a younger version of myself probably wouldn’t have slipped in the first place. Yes, I know I’ve been on this planet for eight decades now — nearly a century. Yet this was the first time I felt old.

This week Jules Octavian reflects on his life and thinks about his own mortality.

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#FountainOfYouth #RadicalLifeExtension #AgingGracefully #LifesWork #FridayReads #WeekendReads #AdviceToMyYoungerSelf #SilverFox #Napanee #YGK #BayOfQuinte

This is Hank. He is incredibly invested in this plumbing project that does not require him in the slightest. 13/10 (TT: compound_interest_)

“Land as Muse,” a white on black drawing of a nude woman represented by farmer’s fields and the undulations of the landscape by Jules Octavian.

Screencap of article. Intro reads: So the term ‘gold digger’ has been mentioned a few times here at County Fence HQ lately and, I have to say, it’s not something I’ve put much thought into over the years. Yet it’s turned into something surprisingly interesting to think about. Greg, in fact, has been referring to himself as a trophy husband since ‘the incident.’ He’s rather tickled about it since he’s never seen himself as particularly desirable in that sense.

Gold Diggers & Trophy Wives by Rachael Boardman, the latest in the feud between Brenda and Rachael.

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#TrophyHusband #EasternOntario #CanCon #YGK #YGKArts #PECArts #Quinte #Ottawa #Perth #Brockville #Gananoque #Napanee #HastingsCounty #BayOfQuinte

Title card for article: Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza Part Two featuring a white on black line-drawing of a woman in an eighties business suit looking like she’s spent the afternoon crawling through dense bush.

Screencap of article. Intro reads: In partial answer to Walter’s question, you can create art all day long but the real question is whether you can get paid for it. In the case of Hollywood of the North, I’m not sure I can. I’ve been a little down in the dumps lately. I don’t have anything that’s going to be marketable on the horizon for a while. I’m struggling to market Naked Dream, which I suppose isn’t that surprising since I’m trying to do so with a regional fencing publication, and the only other project I’ve got ready to sell, more or less, is Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza —or— An Exercise in Over-Confidence. Something so weird and specifically regional I don’t think anyone’s going to bite.

Gregaro McKool is back with more thoughts on art, why he does it, and what the hell he's going to do with his deeply niche screenplay.

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#writingcommunity #CanCon #writinglife #screenplay #screenwriter #FridayFiction #WeekendReads #SpeculativeFiction

Title card for article: Reason Greater Napanee is Greater #3: Real Men, by Brenda Hogg, featuring a drawing of the napanee town sign. Sign reads: Greater Napanee, Population 16,000, three interchanges, Greater for Many Reasons.

This week…well…this is the week Brenda looses it.
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#YGKArts #BayOfQuinte #PECArts #Napanee #CanCon

Gunkholing - County Fence Bi-Annual Jules Octavian’s piece about the weekend that got Brenda so hot under the collar.

Jules Octavian’s piece about the weekend that got Brenda so hot under the collar.

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#FridayReads #FridayNight #WeekendReads #FridayVibes #FictionFriday #indieauthor #CanCon #EasternON #Sailing #Sailboats #SailingLife #Gunkholing

A lot of people lost their minds over this.

Title card for article: Gregaro McKool's Socialist Extravaganza. White on black line drawing of a dishevelled woman with a messy Edwardian pompadour haircut and a torn 70's skirt suit trying to keep her composure.

Screencap of article. Intro reads: Since my last article I’ve been busy. Feature length screenplay busy. That’s right, County Fence has it’s first movie: Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza —or— An Exercise in Over-Confidence. I recently re-watched A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the Hollywood bio-pic about Doug Kenney and The National Lampoon. As the newly minted literary editor of Eastern Ontario’s oldest and most prestigious boundary and fencing publication, I have to admit I found it pretty inspiring. Shortly after I finished my last story I told Jules about the movie while we made a significant dent in his scotch collection.

County Fence has our very first feature-length script: Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza —or— An Exercise in Over-Confidence.
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#Screenwriting #CanCon #Movie #Dreams #BigDreams #Pitch #MoviePitch #WritingLife #Writer #IndieMovie #IndieWriter #IndieAuthor

Art Versus Commerce - County Fence Bi-Annual Once again we find Art Editor Walter Liu scratching his head as he wonders what makes someone an artist and why they’d want that in the first place.

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#Art #Writing #Writers #Artists #WritingLife #Muse

Sailing Yacht Atlanta - County Fence Bi-Annual This week we join travel editor Rachael Boardman as she reflects on her first time sailing — fortunately with able skipper Jules Octavian.

join travel editor Rachael Boardman as she reflects on her first time sailing — fortunately with able skipper Jules Octavian.

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#Sailing #GreatLakes #VanLife #CanCon #CanLit #Writing #LakeOntario #BayOfQuinte #Cruising

White on black title card for "How Do You Live?" by Jules Octavian. Features a drawing of a great blue heron standing among some reeds.

Screencap of the article. First paragraph reads: It’s been a half century that I’ve been the voice of boundaries and fencing in rural Eastern Ontario and for the first time in some while it seems like I might have someone to pass that torch onto.

Our fearless editor-in-chief, Jules Octavian, reflects on a life well-lived, the spaces in-between, and planting trees without expecting shade.

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#EasternOntario #VanLife #Sailing #CanCon #Bespoke #Ontario

The Brownlow School - County Fence Bi-Annual Literary editor Gregaro McKool wonders what his home town of Brownlow Ontario is for.

This week your loyal literary editor himself tries to parse out what it is he loves about his home town of Brownlow, Ontario.

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#CanCon #HastingsCounty #BayOfQuinte #CanadianFilm #Ontario #Canada #movies #screenwriting #EasternOntario #Tariffs #Socialism

Title card for Rachael Boardman's story "Jules Octavian Loves You." White on black drawing of a heart using the waterways of Eastern Ontario.

Screencap of the story "Jules Octavian Loves You." First paragraph reads: Jules Octavian is hopelessly in love with you, Eastern Ontario. And when I say Jules Octavian is in love with you, what I really mean is that you should be very flattered. Jules is no ordinary gentleman. He is a gentleman and that is unique enough. He’s not just painfully stylish, he’s wise and patient too. He knows his love is unrequited but also that it’s because you don’t believe in yourself. Maybe, one day, you will.

Jules told Rachael to write a love letter to Eastern Ontario...and that's sort of what she did.

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#Ontario #RuralOntario #CanCon #EasternOntario #Love #Romance #Colonialism #YGK #KingstonOntario #YGKArts #PECArts #PrinceEdwardCounty

Title card for 'River's Place' by Walter Liu. White on black line drawing of a dilapidated log cabin with a shipping container addition and a greenhouse made of old screen doors.

Screenshot of article. First paragraph reads: River’s ‘studio’ is straight-up the kind of place my parents warned me about. They’d tell me that they didn’t immigrate to Canada so I could hang out at grow ops on the rez without cell service. Yet last week I parked my car beside a cornfield, said goodbye for what I hoped was not the last time, and started walking down an ancient stone fence marking the edge of said cornfield.

This week Walter meets a girl.

County Fence is Eastern Ontario's oldest and most prestigious boundary and fencing publication.

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#books #writing #reading #ON #Author #Writer #Readers #FridayReads #DreamPunk #WeekendReads #EasternON #YGK #colonialism #HopePunk

Reason Greater Napanee is Greater #2: Real Men - County Fence Bi-Annual Audio Version Here Greater Napanee is greater for many reasons and if Avril is #1 then our men are #2. That’s right, I said it: Greater Napanee has real men. Our independent country spirit raises them...

Napanee correspondent Brenda Hogg's got another reason why Greater Napanee is greater: real men.

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#masculinity #Napanee #EasternOntario #IndieAuthor #writing #CanCon

Title card for "Gentrification" featuring a white on black picture of a woman peeking over a generic privacy fence.

Screenshot of article "Gentrification." First paragraph reads: The greying privacy fence behind Brenda Hogg’s white aluminum-sided wartime home may look like nearly every other house on the street but what lays behind is an artist, or so our art editor Walter Liu tells me after the dust up at the gallery the other week.

After Walter’s piece on Napanee Correspondent Brenda Hogg, Jules Octavian decided to see for himself what lies behind her early-2000’s big-box store privacy fence.

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#FridayReads #indieauthor #literaryfiction #colonialism #cancon #easternontario #ontario #rural

Title card for 'The Art Show,' consisting of white on black line drawing of a Harley Davidson motorcycle over a giant molar.

Screencap of the article. First paragraph reads: So I guess it’s not as hard to find out what’s going on around here as I made out in my first article, I just don’t know how to look. That’s what the local arts scene told me, anyway. Or rather they told Jules who told me. In any case, it got me an invitation to a show that I still have no idea how I would have known about. I guess if you know you know and I just don’t, which is a me problem. Or so I’m told. Anyway, I thought I’d give it a fair shake.

Since art editor Walter Liu couldn’t find the local art scene the local art scene found him. And they’re not so sure they like what they found.

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#books #writing #Reading #Comedy #Author #Writer #IndieAuthor #FridayReads #WeekendReads #Motorcycle #ArtShow #Art

Title card for story "Home Port" featuring a white on black line-drawing of the stern of a sailboat. Transom reads: Atlanta -- Brownlow, ON.

Screenshot of the article. First paragraph reads: I’ve been trying to get away from Brownlow for nearly two-decades, half my life. Now I wonder if the thing I’ve been trying to get away from has been with me the entire time.

Travel editor Rachael Boardman grew up in Brownlow but left as soon as she could — this week she weighs whether or not to return. countyfencemagazine.com/home-port/

#Home #HomeTown #Rural #SmallTown #Gentrification #Sailing

Cover of Gregaro McKool's 'That Naked Dream' featuring an inverted drawing of the author with women falling from his head.

Back cover of Gregaro McKool's 'That Naked Dream.' In Gregaro McKool's surrealist interpretation of the classic naked dream fifteen impossibly beautiful women go on a darkly funny quest across realities in search of homes that may never have existed in the first place because an educated white dude decided to write some socially-conscious erotic fiction.

Gregaro McKool reflects on writing a novel he didn’t expect to write and finding his voice in the process.

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#fictionfriday #indieauthor #harukimurakami #literaryfiction #metafiction

Everyone's Got Cholera - County Fence Bi-Annual Audio Version Here Cornelius Krieghoff was the first artist to capture the Canadian landscape in oil paint. That’s what my Canadian Art History teacher told me in art school, anyway. She also told us ...

Art editor Walter Liu explores propaganda and the immigrant experience as he reviews the early Canadian artist Cornelius Krieghoff in his piece entitled “Everyone’s Got Cholera.”

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#CanadianArt #Propaganda #Colonialism #books #cancon #reading #IndieAuthor

Feel that, Bobandy? The winds of shit are stirring.

Thank ya kindly!

Hey @inventingreality.bsky.social -- wondering if I could be part of your litfic starter pack? New to bluesky -- sorry if I'm doing it wrong.

The Haunting of Ginnie Cook - County Fence Bi-Annual Audio Version Here There’s much more to the roads of rural Ontario than meets the eye. What appears to be a post-war highway project may have a history dating back to the ice age and initially have mo...

In his latest fence review, ‘The Haunting of Ginnie Cook,’ our fearless editor in chief, Jules Octavian, explores the boundaries of an old friend’s new home.

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#cycletouring #fuckcars #waroncars #hikontario #walkability

Reason Greater Napanee is Greater #11: Tim Hortons - County Fence Bi-Annual Audio Version Here Greater Napanee is greater for many reasons and #11 is our downtown Tim Hortons! That’s right! You may not realize it but back in 1993 Tim Horton’s coffee was an urban drink and Nap...

Today we’ve got Napanee Correspondent Brenda Hogg’s #11 reason why Greater Napanee is greater: the downtown Tim Hortons.

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#Napanee #TimHortons #CoffeeReads #DoubleDouble #BayOfQuinte