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I Wore Another Man's Shoes

Watch now | A multimedia One Minute Wit story

Feb 9 • Mark Starlin

My Wish For You Today

Feb 5 • Mark Starlin

A Year Of Good Reading Ahead

A vintage poster story

Feb 3 • Mark Starlin

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Cloud Storage Worries

Watch now | A multimedia One Minute Wit story

Feb 2 • Mark Starlin

Gold Rush • The Wizard

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 12/Conclusion

Jan 31 • Mark Starlin

Most Popular

How To Make $50,000 This Year Writing Fiction

Jan 2, 2025 • Mark Starlin

See You Later, Dad

Oct 7, 2024 • Mark Starlin

An Act Of Treason

Jul 4, 2023 • Mark Starlin

Famous Writer Writing Advice Proven Untrustworthy

Aug 28, 2023 • Mark Starlin

Fiction

A Year Of Good Reading Ahead

A vintage poster story

Feb 3 • Mark Starlin

Tiny Tales Collection • 2

A handful of 50 and 100-word stories

Jan 24 • Mark Starlin

That's How Intergalactic Space Travel Goes

Jan 16 • Mark Starlin

Tiny Tales Collection • 1

A handful of 50-Word Stories

Jan 6 • Mark Starlin

Extraordinary People Of Earth

I was recruited

Jan 1 • Mark Starlin

Sometimes, Things Work Too Well

Stock Photo Stories

Dec 26, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Mark Starlin Writes!

Mark Starlin Writes!

A laugh, a smile, or even a tear. It's all here.

Books

Baron Britpop Blastfurnace Trilogy

The Problem With Phiddleberries

Recommendations

Mark Starlin Music!

Mark Starlin

Along the Hudson

Justin Deming

K.C. Knouse

Sharron Bassano

Kent’s Substack

Kent Peterson

Serials

Gold Rush • The Wizard

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 12/Conclusion

Jan 31 • Mark Starlin

Gold Rush • A New Plan

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 11

Jan 29

Gold Rush • Edinburgh

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 10

Jan 27

Gold Rush • Wellingham’s Descendants

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 9

Jan 25

Gold Rush • The Paris Bookstore

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 8

Jan 23 • Mark Starlin

Gold Rush • The Adventure Continues

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 7

Jan 21

Gold Rush • Sutter’s Mill

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 6

Jan 19

Gold Rush • The Gold Fields

A Professor Chalkdust and Miss Lucy Adventure • Part 5

Jan 17

Music

Writing

Advice From Old Folks On How To Live Longer • 14

Wally "Gator" Windswept-Age: 90

Dec 5, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Essay Titles Guaranteed To Get You Noticed On Substack

Including topics to write about

Nov 12, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Why I Write And Read Fiction

A short essay (oh, the irony!)

Sep 26, 2025 • Mark Starlin

The Baron Britpop Blastfurnace Trilogy Sails Into Port

Come aboard, mateys.

Sep 7, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Royalty-Free Novel First Lines • 2

More attention-getting openers to hurl you on your way to writing fame and fortune

Sep 2, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Reflections On Five Years Of Writing On Substack

The good and the bad

Aug 27, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Writing Baron Britpop Blastfurnace

Epilogue: How I accidentally wrote an adventure trilogy

Jun 24, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Royalty-Free Novel First Lines

Attention-getting openers to hurl you on your way to writing fame and fortune

Jan 24, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Comics/Doodles

When Whales Exaggerate

Sayings Of Renown by Captain Peanut Butter

Jan 14 • Mark Starlin

Climbing The Corporate Ladder

Two Old Guys On A Park Bench

Dec 12, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Winter Olympics Idea

Nov 21, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Dolphins Are No Dummies

Jude, The Animal Expert Dude

Oct 3, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Missed Opportunities

Sep 17, 2025 • Mark Starlin

What Do You Miss Most About Being Young?

Jul 5, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Historical Figures Chatting In Heaven • 2

Amelia Earhart & Orville Wright

Apr 17, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Aug 24, 2024 • Mark Starlin

Random

"Retire? Won't You Get Bored?"

Nope. I have a plan.

Nov 4, 2025 • Mark Starlin

The Renaissance Bee Gees

What if the Bee Gees had existed 400 years earlier?

Oct 31, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Mark Starlin Music!

My New Substack

Oct 28, 2025 • Mark Starlin

My experiences with Grandparent nicknames

Oct 24, 2025 • Mark Starlin

You Can’t Stop Time

Jun 22, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Ten Questions About Me!

And ten different questions for you

May 27, 2025 • Mark Starlin

I Hope You Had A Mom

A Mother's Day tribute

May 11, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Old Guy Proclamation

Listen up Whippersnappers!

Mar 29, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Poetry

There Once Was A Mighty Tree

Sep 26, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Mountains Too Tall

Jun 6, 2025 • Mark Starlin

May 26, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Upside Down Man

Stock Photo Poetry

May 4, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Holy • A Song For Easter

Or poem, if you prefer

Apr 20, 2025 • Mark Starlin

I Went Back Home

Mar 26, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Does Autumn Remember Spring?

Oct 23, 2024 • Mark Starlin

Choosing A Pet Name

Poetry Of Questionable Quality

Sep 6, 2024 • Mark Starlin

Britpop

The Baron Britpop Blastfurnace Trilogy Sails Into Port

Come aboard, mateys.

Sep 7, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Writing Baron Britpop Blastfurnace

Epilogue: How I accidentally wrote an adventure trilogy

Jun 24, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Captain Peanut Butter • Chapter 36

May 20, 2025 • Mark Starlin

To Philadelphia

Captain Peanut Butter • Chapter 35

Apr 22, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Fargone

Splog Entry: Silhouettia

Space Traveler Fargone

Sep 6, 2025 • Mark Starlin

Space Traveler Fargone • Episode 31

Jan 12, 2022 • Mark Starlin

Space Traveler Fargone • Episode 30

Jan 5, 2022 • Mark Starlin

Becky’s Ranch

Space Traveler Fargone • Episode 29

Dec 29, 2021 • Mark Starlin

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